SOL CALERO

b. 1982, Caracas, Venezuela

lives and works in Berlin since 2009.

 

 

Sol Calero’s colorful, site-specific environments blend an expanded painting practice with the vernacular architecture and cultural codes of Latin America and its diaspora. Her immersive, participatory installations have often taken the form of small businesses such as a hair salon, currency exchange booth, salsa dance school, travel agency, or restaurant, questioning aesthetic hierarchies and problematizing the perception of the exotic while engaging with local contexts. Combining materials and mediums—including furniture, textiles, mosaic, video, mural painting, and functional found objects—her projects delve into the illusion of the Caribbean as a paradise, disarming the viewer with a convivial, playful atmosphere while utilizing a transversal visual language to unfold conversations around migration, displacement, and identity.

 

In 2024, Sol Calero was invited to the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

 

Recent solo exhibitions: Parco d'arte Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2025); Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2024), Stavanger Art Museum, Norway (2023); 1646, The Hague (2022); Copenhagen Contemporary (2020); Villa Arson, Nice (2020); Tate Liverpool, UK (2019); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2019).

 

Recent group exhibitions: Oku-Noto Triennale, Japan (2023); Bergen Assembly, Norway (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2020) and La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019), Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (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.

 

She is part of the following collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Collection Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris; Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany; CA2M Collection, Madrid, Spain; Musée des Abattoirs/FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; CNAP – Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France; Museo Madre, Napoli; Hiscox Collection, London; Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio Di Cuneo, Italy.