Seba Calfuqueo

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Seba Calfuqueo (She/They, Santiago, Chile, 1991) is a visual artist and curator, living and working in Santiago, Chile. They are a member of the collective Mapuche Rangiñtulewfu and of Revista Yene. Calfuqueo has a BA and MA in Visual Arts from the Universidad de Chile.

 

Of Mapuche origin, Calfuqueo’s work draws on their cultural heritage as a starting point to critically reflect on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche individual in contemporary Chilean society. Their work includes installations, ceramics, performances, and videos, seeking to explore the cultural similarities and differences, as well as stereotypes, that exist at the intersection of indigenous and Western ways of thinking. They also aim to give visibility to issues of feminism and queer theory.

 

Calfuqueo’s work is included in important collections including at the Centre Pompidou (France), Museu MALBA (Argentina), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Spain), KADIST collection (France), Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul - MAC RS (Brazil), Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile), and MAC (Chile), among others. They participated in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, the 12th Bienal do Mercosul, and the 22nd Bienal Paiz (Guatemala)

 

Seba Calfuqueo received the Prêmio Municipalidad de Santiago in 2017 and the Prêmio Fundación FAVA in 2018. In 2021, they were awarded bt Eyebeam’s Fractal Fellowships and, in 2023, by the Fundación Ama Amoedo’a FAARA.

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Seba Calfuqueo

Seba Calfuqueo

(She/They, Santiago de Chile, 1991)

Visual Artist and Curator at Espacio 218. They live and work in Santiago de Chile. They are part of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and Yene Revista.

 

Of Mapuche Origin, their work recurs to their cultural heritage as a starting point in order to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject within contemporary Chilean society. Their work includes installation, ceramics, performance and video, with the aim of exploring the cultural similarities and differences between the crossing of indigenous and Western ways of thinking, as well as their stereotypes. Their goal is also to make the issues regarding feminism and queer theory visible.

 

Their work is part of the Centre Pompidou (France) Museo MALBA (Argentina), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), KADIST collection (France), Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul - MAC RS (Brazil), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile) and MAC (Chile). They participated in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 12th Bienal de Mercosur and 22th Bienal Paiz.

 

They are winner of the Municipalidad de Santiago Award in 2017 and Fundación FAVA Award in 2018. In 2021 they were awarded by Eyebeam’s Fractal Fellowships and in 2023 by Fundación Ama Amoedo’a FAARA.

SEBA CALFUQUEO

Santiago de Chile, 1991

 

BIENNALS

 

2024

60a. Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque, Curatorship: Adriano Pedrosa, Nucleo contemporaneo, Disobedience Archive, curated by Marco Scotini.

 

Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing, Curatorship: Chrissie Iles , Meg Onli, NY, USA.

 

2023 

Converge45, Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, Portland, EE.UU

Curatorship: Christian Viveros-Fauné

 

2021 

34 Bienal de São Paulo, Faz Escuro mas eu canto, São Paulo, Brazil

Curatorship: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Paulo Miyada, Carla Zaccagnini , Francesco Stocchi y Ruth Estévez

 

2021

22a. Bienal de Paiz, Guatemala

Curatorship: Alexia Tala

 

2020

12a. Bienial de Mercosur, “Femenino(s). Visualidades, acciones y afectos”, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Curatorship: Andrea Giunta

 

 2016  

9a. Bienal de la Paz, SIART-Bolivia 2016, Bolivia

 

COLLECTIONS

 

DENVER ART MUSEUM (DENVER, USA) / ACQUISITION: 2023

WORKS: NGÜRU KA WILLIÑ(VIDEO 3D, 2022) AND HEDOR(TWO CERAMICS PIECES)

 

CENTRE POMPIDOU (PARÍS, FRANCE) / ACQUISITION: 2023

WORKS: YOU WILL NEVER BE A WEYE (VIDEO PERFORMANCE, 2015), LOOKING FOR MARCELA CALFUQUEO (VIDEO, 2018) AND THE QUILAS (VIDEO PERFORMANCE, 2021)

 

 MALBA (BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA) / ACQUISITION: 2023

WORK: MIRAR (INSTALACIÓN FOTOGRÁFICA, 2019)

- THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA (MADRID, SPAIN) / ACQUISITION: 2022

WORKS: KO TA MAPUNGEY KA (AGUA TAMBIÉN ES TERRITORIO, VIDEO PERFORMANCE, 2020)

 

MUSEU DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEA DO RÍO GRANDE DO SUL (MAC RS, PORTO ALEGRE, BRASIL) / ACQUISITION: 2023

WORKS: MIRAR (INSTALACIÓN FOTOGRÁFICA, 2019)

 

MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES (MNBA, SANTIAGO, CHILE) / ACQUISITION: 2021

WORKS: WELU KUMPLIPE (Instalación y video, 2018)

 

MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO (MAC UCHILE, SANTIAGO, CHILE) / ACQUISITION: 2018

WORKS: VIVIENDA PREDETERMINADA (Instalación, 2016)

 

SOLO SHOWS

(2023) La voz del rio, Galeria Marilia razuk, São Paulo, Brasil

Curatorial text: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

 

(2023) KALFÜ KURA, Casa Belgrado, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

(2022) Fluir como cascadas, Nave, Santiago, Chile

 

(2020) Espejo de Agua / Esporas, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile

 

(2020) Ko ñi weychan, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Cristián Vargas Paillahueque

 

(2019) Lo otro está aquí, Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Perú

Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva

 

(2020) Tañi püllu ka kalul mew müley, Galería Mano de monja, Valparaíso, Chile

Curatorship: Nancy Mansilla Alvarado

 

(2018) Turbar, Galería D21, Santiago de Chile

Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva

 

(2018) KANGECHI, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile

Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva

 

(2018) Champurria, Itinerancia: Centro Cultural de Carahue, Ruka Küme mongeñ Trovolhue, Museo Regional de la Araucanía (Temuco) y Museo Mapuche de Cañete, Chile

 

(2018) Estuve tanto tiempo allá, que ahora estoy acá, Galería Biblioteca Viva Trébol, Talcahuano, Concepción, Chile

 

(2017) Estuve tanto tiempo allá, que ahora estoy acá, Galería PANAM, Santiago de Chile

 

(2017) Apümngeiñ, Nos aniquilaron, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Curatorship: Gloria Cortés

 

(2017) Edén, Residual, Valparaíso, Chile

 

(2016) Espacio Ajeno, Galería Bech, Santiago de Chile

 

(2016) Zonas en disputa, MAC Quinta Normal, Santiago de Chile

Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva

 

(2015) Donde no habito, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago de Chil

Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva

 

(2014) Orgullo y prejuicio, MAC Quinta normal, Santiago de Chile.

 

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

 

(2023) Mare Amoris | Sea of Love, UQ Art Museum, Australia

Curatorship: Peta Rake, Léuli Eshrāghi, Isabella Baker, Jocelyn Flynn.

 

(2023) Miradas sobre el Wallmapu. Colección MNBA, MNBA, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Cristián Vargas Paillahueque

 

(2023) 50 años, SUBTE, Montevideo, Uruguay

Curatorship: Ionit Behar, Jorge Soto y Martín Craciun

 

(2023) Tüfachi purun inchiñ-ngealu, MNBA, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Ange Cayuman

 

(2023) Vibrant Waters CCA Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Curatorship: Nada Rosa Schroer

 

(2023) Matrix Bodies”, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria

Curatorship: Frederike Sperling

 

(2023) El alma y la memoria, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia

Curatorship: Beatriz López

 

(2023) Our Connection to the Waters, Royal Greenwich Museums, London, UK.

Curatorship: The collective makers

 

(2023) When the Moon Waxes Red, Spazju Kreativ/Valletta, Malta

Curatorship: Maren Richter

 

(2023) Manjar: Nascente, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Curatorship: Bernardo Mosqueira, Catarina Duncan y Ana Clara Simões Lopes

 

(2022) Del cielo al agua y lo que está en el centro, MAC, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Joselyne Contreras y Valentina Montero

 

(2022) Árboles Torcidos, Centex / Galeria UCT, Valparaíso/Temuco, Chile

Curatorship: Maya Errázuriz

 

(2022) Paradojas de lo intímo, Galería Factoría Santa Rosa, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva

 

(2022) Y de pronto ya no había más orilla, Il Posto, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Gala Berger y Miguel López

 

(2022) Who tells a tale adds a tail, Latin America and contemporary art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, EE. UU.

Curatorship: Raphael Fonseca

 

(2022) Queer Earth and Liquid Matters, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

Curatorship:  Macarena Gómez-Barris, Jack Halberstam and Kostas Stasinopoulos

 

(2022) Reclaim the earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Curatorship: Daria de Beauvais

 

(2022) Rethinking Nature, Museo Madre, Napoli, Italy

Curatorship: Kathryn Weir and Ilaria Conti

 

(2022) Confluences, SBC Gallery

Curatorship: Gwynne Fulton

 

(2021) Raíz, Centro Arte Quito, Ecuador

Curatorship: Eduardo Carrera y Jorge Sánchez

 

(2021) Mutualismos, Plural Nodo Cultura, Bogota, Colombia

Curatorship: Anna Burckhardt y Juliana Steiner

 

(2021) Mapas nocturnos para pensar América Latina, Vigil González, Urubamba, Perú

Curatorship: Valentina Gutiérrez Turbay

 

(2021) La pisa del ñandu (o cómo transformamos los silencios), Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain

Curatorship: Río Parana (Duen Sacchi y Mag de Santo)

 

(2021) Getting Wet, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Curatorship: Laura Amann y Aziza Harmel

 

(2021) Kalül ñi tukulpan, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Cristián Vargas Paillahueque

 

(2021) EMAF: Possessed, Berlin, Germany

 

(2021) Understanding vital fluidity, KSTN, Berlin, Germany

 

(2021) Cuando el mundo cambia, preguntas sobre arte y feminismos, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Curatorship: Andrea Giunta

 

(2020) To re colect, Exhibición con la artista Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Strizzi, Cologne, Germany

Curatorship: Florian Müller

 

(2020) Love of my life, Vitrina lab, Miami, EE. UU

Curatorship: Omar Lopez-Chahoud

 

(2020) Al aire libre, Proyecto de exhibición online, Chile

Curatorship: Tiago de Abreu Pinto

 

(2020) Knowledge of Wounds, Performance Space, New York, EE. UU

Curatorship: S.J Norman y Joseph M. Pierce

 

(2020) Wansolwara: One Salt Water, UNSW Galleries, Sidney, Australia

Curatorship: Dr Léuli Eshrāghi

 

(2019) Canción Nacional, Centro cultural Montecarmelo, Santiago, Chile

 

(2019) Historias Feministas: Artistas después del 2000, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil

Curatorship: Isabella Rjeille

 

(2019) Relatos encarnados, II Posto, Santiago de Chile

Curatorship: Sophie Halart

 

(2019) Where the oceans meet, Museum of Art and Design (MOAD), Miami, United States

Curatorship:  Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, Gabriela Rangel, and Rina Carvajal

(2019) Power in resistance, Sur Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Curatorship: Tamara Toledo

 

(2019) Remembering What Is: Chile’s Recent History in Film and Art, Lund’s Konsthall, Sweden

Curatorship: Hans Carlsson

 

(2018) De aquí a la modernidad, Colección Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Gloría Cortés Aliaga

 

(2018) Memorias Reb/veladas, Museo de la Memoria y los derechos humanos, Santiago, Chile

 

(2018) Fermento, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

 

(2018) Performance art au Chili 1998-2018, Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Québec, Canada

Curatorship: Lynda Avendaño Santana

 

(2018) Deep Trash Escoria, Bethnal Green Working Men´s Club, London, UK

 

(2018) Zomo ñi Trekan, Galería Balmaceda Arte joven, Santiago, Chile

 

(2018) Húsares trágicos, Monumento Histórico Casas de los Carreras, El Monte y MAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo-Parque forestal, Santiago de Chile

 

(2018) Narativas/ Colección Pedro Montes, Centro Cultural El Tranque, Lo Barnechea, Santiago de Chile

 

(2018) Derivas chilenas experimentales 2.0, Proceso de Error, MAM Chiloé, Chile

 

(2018) PROGRESO, GALERÍA D21, Santiago de Chile

 

(2017) Premios municipales de Santiago, Posada del corregidor, Santiago de Chile

 

(2017) Constitución 1989, Galería d21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany

Curatorship: Montserrat Rojas Corradi

 

(2017) ANALCO PROJECT, Nomadics Screenings, Helsinki, Finland

 

(2017) Encuentro de las culturas indígenas, Horizontes comunes/Territorios anhelados, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile

 

(2017) 5to Concurso Universitario de Arte Joven, Balmaceda Arte Joven, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

 

(2017) Muros blandos, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile

Curatorship: Daniela Berger, Lily Hall y Mette Kjaergaard

 

(2017) No nos digan que hacer, Fotogalería Arcos, Santiago de Chile

Curatorship: Montserrat Rojas Corradi

 

(2017) Post 90, Colección MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile

Curatorship: Francisco Brugnoli

 

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View works. Seba Calfuqueo, Mulheres Mapuche protestando contra a central Ralco, 2023
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