Chilean Pavilion, Chile at Venice Biennale of Art - Chilean Pavilion, Arsenale - City of Venice
(Foto: © Ugo Carmeni)
Exhibition in progress from April 20th to November 26th 2024
The 60th Biennale Arte will open to the public on April 20. But on the 17th, 18th and 19th there will be the various events and collateral events that always enliven
suddenly Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place the day of opening to the public.
The title of the 60th edition of the Art Biennale is Foreigners Everywhere - Foreigners Everywhere.
The exhibition will be divided into between the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and the Arsenale, including 213 artists from 88 nations. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, 80 new productions.
Go to the page of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
Curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
The 2024 edition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale
– Adriano Pedrosa (born 1965) is a Brazilian curator. He is the artistic director of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP) and the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Chilean Pavilion, Chile at 59th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Chilean Pavilion is Cosmonación.
Artists: Valeria Montti Colque.
Curator: Andrea Pacheco González.
Commissioner: Florencia Loewenthal, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Chile.
Seat: Chilean Pavilion, Arsenale - Venice
Press Release of Chilean Pavilion, Chile Pavilion
“Valeria Montti Colque's artistic proposal evokes a space that is both ritual and political, capable of
connecting the immensity of a forest or mountain to the strength of a foreign community in the middle of one
city".
- Andrea Pacheco González (Curator)
Cosmonación is an invitation to reflect on the concepts of nation, exile, migration and diaspora. The project of
Valeria Montti Colque connects the public with contemporary debates regarding questions such as
"Who I am?" and "Where am I?", in the intricate process of "territorialization of existence" (Kusikidi, 2020) of
individuals who have different identities. The term "cosmonation" is borrowed from the anthropologist Michel
S. Laguerre, who states that diasporic communities do not interrupt relationships with their places
of origin, but remain linked to their ancestral lands in various ways, for example through practices
spiritual. In this way, they inhabit an extended and multilocalized nation, a "cosmonation" that unites
themselves geographically distant territories.
Cosmonación questions the concept of national representation - Montti Colque is the first
Chilean artist, born abroad, to represent Chile at the Venice Biennale - and proposes to enter
a cosmonational space where the visitor will find "a set of interconnected areas” (Laguerre, 2015).
These different places and identities are connected through “Mamita Montaña” (Mother Mountain), the hub
of the pavilion. It is an installation of a cumulative nature, more than five meters high, composed of
carpets decorated with various methods, including collage, watercolors, drawings on paper, printed fabrics, small
ceramic pieces and photographs. The installation is crowned with a ceramic head. "Mamita montaña"
represents a symbolic refuge for exiles and refugees, i.e. the inhabitants of a "community
imagined" (Anderson), a nation outside the nation, of which every member of the diaspora is a part.
Around this large sculpture, the Chilean pavilion “Cosmonación” will present other new works by Montii
Colque: a procession of ceramic figures representing deities or mythological beings. Also, pieces
textiles and video projections will create an immersive environment that will allow visitors to find themselves in a
symbolic border place where cultures meet, merge, dissolve and return.
Valeria Montti Colque was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1978, two years after her parents fled
by the Chilean military dictatorship. In his works, the artist invites us to get closer to a territory where we
they mix visual, symbolic and material elements of all the nations it "inhabits". His work is the result
of an existential connection with other communities, far and near, such as that of the Aymara (thanks to
his family ties with the Andean cosmovision) or of the descendants of African peoples. His actions, designs,
murals, sculptures and installations abound with unidentifiable beings, collage-bodies, mixed-race subjectivities
which materialize into animated objects that cross colorful landscapes, in constant transit, always in
voyage. The creation of this artistic world is the result of a fundamentally collaborative practice
in which other artists, family and friends actively participate.
VALERIA MONTTI COLQUE, ARTIST
Valeria Montti Colque is a Chilean-Swedish artist who experiments across a wide range of mediums
expressive and artistic supports. She graduated from the Royal Art Institute in Stockholm and has exhibited her work in
Sweden, Chile, Norway, Spain, Bolivia and Germany. In 2024, the Stockholm region has them
commissioned two works of art for the city's public transport stations, further expanding the
his practice for public spaces. One of his installations, Apu Mama Höjden, was acquired by
Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, becoming part of its collection. He participated in the third
edition of the Cairo Biennial, Something Else, Off, organized by cultural activist Moataz Nasr e
by curator Simon Njami. In 2020 he presented a solo exhibition at the Solidarity Museum
Salvador Allende in Santiago de Chile. In 2016 he collaborated with the art historian and writer Macarena
Dusant to the creation of an artist monograph entitled La Jardinera (Dokument Press). In the
June 2024, Valeria Montti Colque will present a new installation and performance project in one
public space, commissioned by the Public Art Agency Sweden for the Örebro OpenArt Biennial.
ANDREA PACHECO GONZÁLEZ, CURATOR
Andrea Pacheco González is a Chilean researcher and curator, resident in Madrid for over two decades. Has
holds a bachelor's degree in Social Communication, a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies and a PhD in
Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. His curatorial research was focused and committed
on topics such as migration, memory, historical narratives and decolonial perspectives. Was
responsible for the organization of the exhibitions at the MAC Quinta Normal, Museum of Contemporary Art of
Santiago de Chile, and guest curator of the Matadero Artistic Residency Center in Madrid. As a curator
independent, he has curated personal exhibitions with important Latin American artists such as Teresa Margolles. There
Dead meat never ends (Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum, Chile), Los Carpinteros. The thing
está candela (Museo Miguel Urrutia, Colombia), Dagoberto Rodriguez. Interior War (CAAM, Gran
Canaria, Spain), as well as other solo and group exhibitions. He is currently curating Déjà Vécu, an exhibition
solo exhibition by Asunción Molinos Gordo at the CA2M museum in Madrid, and co-curating Decentralized gaze. Art and
colonialism in the Thyssen collections at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
CAROLA CHACÓN ZULOAGA, PRODUCER
Carola Chacón Zuloaga has a degree in Art History and studied Theater Design at
the University of Chile. He has over eighteen years of professional experience in the manufacturing sectors
cultural and theatrical planning. Since 2016 he has been exhibition manager at the Art Museum
Contemporary MAC Quinta Normal in Santiago de Chile. He has worked for exhibitions nationally and
international. Since 2008 she has been a regular creative collaborator of the Chilean theater company Geografía
Teatral, designing costumes and sets, taking care of the artistic direction and content management.
BONNIERS KONSTHALL
Bonniers Konsthall is one of the leading institutions for contemporary art in Sweden. For the Pavilion
Chilean at the Biennale Arte 2024, Bonniers Konsthall will support the production of Valeria Montti's works
Colque. A version of the exhibition will be presented at Bonniers Konsthall in spring 2025, in
curated by Joanna Nordin, artistic director of Bonniers Konsthall, and Andrea Pacheco González.
www.bonnierskonsthall.se
Useful information for the visit
Hours:
Gardens from 10.00 to 19.00. Arsenale from 10.00 to 19.00 (from 10.00 to 20.00 on Friday and Saturday until September 30th). Closed on Mondays (except April 22, June 17, July 22, September 2, September 30, October 31, November 18).
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