Sol Calero
Sol Calero creates site-specific installations that work as spaces for gathering. She often uses opulent three-dimensional tableaus and has staged situations as far ranging as a school to a spa and a currency exchange office. Calero’s works are at once vibrant, bright, and playful, while also examining the political overtones of themes such as cultural representation, national identity, exoticism, and marginalization. Her Venezuelan background has influenced an interest in looking at cultural codes or clichés from the Latin American context that proliferate and change, as well as the way in which visual symbols can undergo transformation.
Born: 1982, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lives and works: Berlin.
Recent solo exhibitions: Bergen Assembly, Norway (2022); 1646, The Hague (2022); Crèvecoeur, Paris (2021); Copenhagen Contemporary (2020); Villa Arson, Nice, France (2020); Tate, Liverpool, UK (2019) and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2019). Recent group exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Bergen Kunsthall (2021); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2020) and La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019). Calero was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2017, which included an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin. She also co-runs a project space in Berlin with Christopher Kline called Kinderhook & Caracas.
Sol Calero creates site-specific installations that work as spaces for gathering. She often uses opulent three-dimensional tableaus and has staged situations as far ranging as a school to a spa and a currency exchange office. Calero’s works are at once vibrant, bright, and playful, while also examining the political overtones of themes such as cultural representation, national identity, exoticism, and marginalization. Her Venezuelan background has influenced an interest in looking at cultural codes or clichés from the Latin American context that proliferate and change, as well as the way in which visual symbols can undergo transformation.
Born: 1982, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lives and works: Berlin.
Recent solo exhibitions: Bergen Assembly, Norway (2022); 1646, The Hague (2022); Crèvecoeur, Paris (2021); Copenhagen Contemporary (2020); Villa Arson, Nice, France (2020); Tate, Liverpool, UK (2019) and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2019). Recent group exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Bergen Kunsthall (2021); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2020) and La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019). Calero was nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2017, which included an exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin. She also co-runs a project space in Berlin with Christopher Kline called Kinderhook & Caracas.
- Ventana encontrada, 2023acrylic on canvas
100×80×4,5 cm - Sol Calero, Untitled, 2023Tiles
270×330 cm
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Edition 1 of 3 - Sol Calero, Casa Arapicara, 2023acrylic paint on canvas
150×120×4,5 cm
SC413 - Sol Calero, Casa Arapicara, 2023Acrylic paint on canvas, wood, acrylic paint and tiles
300×270×4,5 cm
variable dimensions
SC413 - Sol Calero, Casa Iguatù, 2023Sol Calero
Casa Belo Jardim, 2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
150×120×4,5 cm
SC410 - Sol Calero, Casa Iguatù, 2023Acrylic paint on canvas, wood, acrylic paint and tiles
300×270×4,5 cm
variable dimensions
SC408 - Sol Calero, Casa Belo Jardim, 2023Acrylic paint on canvas
150×120×4,5 cm
SC410 - Sol Calero, Casa Belo Jardim, 2023Acrylic paint on canvas, wood, acrylic paint and tiles
300×270×4,5 cm
variable dimensions
SC410 - Sol Calero, Casa Encontrada, 2023acrylic paint on canvas
150×120×4,5 cm
SC412 - Sol Calero, SCCE2023 , 2023mixed media
180×90×36 cm
SC259 - Sol Calero, Maiz, 2018Wood, acrylic paint, gold leaf, mosaic, copper sheets, metal sheets, plastic pearls
68×23×21 cm
SC190 - Sol Calero, Correspondencia, 2021Watercolor and color pencil on paper
50×70 cm
SC285 - Sol Calero, Diseño de cenefa 1, 2021Watercolor and color pencil on paper
50×70 cm
SC282 - Sol Calero, Diseño de cenefa 2, 2021Watercolor and color pencil on paper
50×70 cm
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