Seba Calfuqueo
Visual artist and curator, lives and works in Santiago, Chile, and is a member of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfu and the magazine Yene. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Visual Arts from the University of 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 installa- tions, 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.
Her work is part of the collections of the TATE Modern (UK), Centre Pompidou (France), Denver Art Museum (USA), MALBA Museum (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).
She has participated as a guest artist in the Venice Biennale (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), 12th Bienal de Mercosur (2020), and 22nd Bienal Paiz (2020).
She won awards from the FAVA Foundation in 2018, Eye- beam’s Fractal Fellowships Program in 2020, Fundación Ama Amoedo’s FAARA in 2023, and the Cuervo Award at Zona Maco, in 2024.
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Imagen País, Ngerekafe (tejedor), inspirado en Ange Cayuman,, 2024 -
Mínimo común denominador, Series Pueblos de Abya Yala, 2024
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ÑIMIN, Tecnologias de la imagen, 2024
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Seba Calfuqueo Imagen País, Iyaelfe,cocinera inspirada en Margarita Caripan,, 2024
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Seba Calfuqueo Imagen País, Wentru Choikepurrufe, 2024
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Tejedor de la imagen, Tecnologias de la imagen, 2024
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Wanglen, Tecnologias de la imagen , 2024
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Berta y Nicolasa contra la instalación de Ralco frente a la moneda.(Palacio Presidencial), 2023
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Cementerio indígena bajo el agua hasta hoy en Ralco, 2023
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Central BeloMonte, 2022
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Central Itapu, 2022
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Central Ralco, 2022
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Devenir troncos, 2022
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TRAY TRAY KO, 2022
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Kowkülen (Liquid Being), 2020
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Mirar, 2019
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Buscando a Marcela Calfuqueo, 2018
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Seba Calfuqueo
Semilla 3 Sep - 18 Oct 2025Seba Calfuqueo, artista chilena de origem mapuche, abre a individual Semilla (Semente) na Galeria Marilia Razuk. Uma mostra panorâmica de trabalhos recentes da artista, na qual aborda uma ampla gama...Read more -
SALA DE JANTAR
exposição coletiva - ANEXO 27 May - 16 Aug 2025A partir de 27 de maio, a Galeria Marilia Razuk, inaugura uma programação de projetos para o seu espaço localizado no número 62 da Rua Jerônimo da Veiga, que passa...Read more -
A confissão, o diário e o retrato
Curadoria Ademar Britto 17 Aug - 5 Oct 2024ARTISTAS PARTICIPANTES José Leonilson, Johanna Calle, Guerreiro do Divino Amor, Maria Laet, Rafael Alonso, Seba Calfuqueo, Sergio Romagnolo, Panmela Castro, Vinicius Gerheim ABERTURA Sábado, 17 de Agosto de 2024 -...Read more -
SEBA CALFUQUEO: THE VOICE OF THE RIVER
17 Oct - 16 Dec 2023Seba Calfuqueo (1991) presents The Voice of the River , a solo exhibition in Sala 2 at Galeria Marilia Razuk, from the 21st of October to the 16th of December...Read more
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Sala de Jantar na Folha de São Paulo
July 8, 2025Matéria de Matheus Rocha sobre a exposição coletiva Sala de Jantar, para a Folha Ilustrada, julho de 2025.Read more -
Art Basel Miami 2024
Seba Calfuqueo - Solo Show September 25, 2024Seba Calfuqueo - Solo Show ARTNOVA - Stand N20 At Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach, FL 33139Read more -
DISOBEDIENCE ARCHIVE - 60TH VENICE BIENNALE SEBA CALFUQUEO
April 20 to November 24, 2024 March 15, 2024Seba Calfuqueo participates in the 2024 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose theme for this year is 'Even Better Than the...Read more -
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2024 SEBA CALFUQUEO
Opening March 20 March 14, 2024Seba Calfuqueo participates in the 2024 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose theme for this year is 'Even Better Than the...Read more -
SEBA CALFUQUEO IN HONG KONG
On display until April 1, 2024 February 16, 2024Seba Calfuqueo participates in the group exhibition 'Green Snake: Women-Centered Ecologies' at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong. 'Green Snake: Women-Centered Ecologies' focuses on the...Read more -
Seba Calfuqueo E Zé Carlos Garcia Na 22º Bienal Sesc Videobrasil
19.10.2023 - 25.02.2024 February 15, 202422ND SESC VIDEOBRASIL BIENNIAL Seba Calfuqueo and Zé Carlos Garcia participate in the 22nd SESC Videobrasil Biennial, Special 40 years / Memory is an Editing...Read more -
ARTISSIMA - SEBA CALFUQUEO
02.11.23 - 05.11.23 November 2, 2023ARTISSIMA SEBA CALFUQUEO (GALLERIE D`ITALIA | INTENSA SAN PAOLO) Curadoria Jacopo Crivelli Visconti PIAZZA SAN CARLO, TORINO, ITÁLIARead more
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
SOLO SHOWS
2025
ANTÜ ÑI KURAM [Sun’s Egg] MAMBO - Museu de Arte Moderna de Bogotá, Colombia. Curadoria (Curated by): Eugenio Viola y Juaniko Moreno
Semilla. Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo. Text by Eugênio Viola
2023
La voz del rio, Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, Brasil
Curatorial text: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
KALFÜ KURA, Casa Belgrado, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
Fluir como cascadas, Nave, Santiago, Chile
2020
Espejo de Agua / Esporas, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile
Ko ñi weychan, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Cristián Vargas Paillahueque
Tañi püllu ka kalul mew müley, Galería Mano de monja, Valparaíso, Chile
Curatorship: Nancy Mansilla Alvarado
2019
Lo otro está aquí, Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Perú
Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva
2018
Turbar, Galería D21, Santiago de Chile
Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva
KANGECHI, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile
Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva
Champurria, Itinerancia: Centro Cultural de Carahue, Ruka Küme mongeñ Trovolhue, Museo Regional de la Araucanía (Temuco) y Museo Mapuche de Cañete, Chile
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, Chile
Apümngeiñ, Nos aniquilaron, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Curatorship: Gloria Cortés
Edén, Residual, Valparaíso, Chile
2016
Espacio Ajeno, Galería Bech, Santiago de Chile
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.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Histórias LGBTQIA+, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateuabriand
Curatorship: Adriano Pedrosa, Julia-Bryan Wilson, André Mesquita, Leandro Muniz, Teo Teononio
2023
Mare Amoris | Sea of Love, UQ Art Museum, Australia
Curatorship: Peta Rake, Léuli Eshrāghi, Isabella Baker, Jocelyn Flynn.
Miradas sobre el Wallmapu. Colección MNBA, MNBA, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Cristián Vargas Paillahueque
50 años, SUBTE, Montevideo, Uruguay
Curatorship: Ionit Behar, Jorge Soto y Martín Craciun
Tüfachi purun inchiñ-ngealu, MNBA, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Ange Cayuman
Vibrant Waters CCA Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Curatorship: Nada Rosa Schroer
Matrix Bodies”, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria
Curatorship: Frederike Sperling
El alma y la memoria, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia
Curatorship: Beatriz López
Our Connection to the Waters, Royal Greenwich Museums, London, UK.
Curatorship: The collective makers
When the Moon Waxes Red, Spazju Kreativ/Valletta, Malta
Curatorship: Maren Richter
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
Árboles Torcidos, Centex / Galeria UCT, Valparaíso/Temuco, Chile
Curatorship: Maya Errázuriz
Paradojas de lo intímo, Galería Factoría Santa Rosa, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Mariairis Flores Leiva
Y de pronto ya no había más orilla, Il Posto, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Gala Berger y Miguel López
Who tells a tale adds a tail, Latin America and contemporary art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, EE. UU. Curatorship: Raphael Fonseca
Queer Earth and Liquid Matters, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
Curatorship: Macarena Gómez-Barris, Jack Halberstam and Kostas Stasinopoulos
Reclaim the earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Curatorship: Daria de Beauvais
Rethinking Nature, Museo Madre, Napoli, Italy
Curatorship: Kathryn Weir and Ilaria Conti
Confluences, SBC Gallery
Curatorship: Gwynne Fulton
2021
Raíz, Centro Arte Quito, Ecuador
Curatorship: Eduardo Carrera y Jorge Sánchez
Mutualismos, Plural Nodo Cultura, Bogota, Colombia
Curatorship: Anna Burckhardt y Juliana Steiner
Mapas nocturnos para pensar América Latina, Vigil González, Urubamba, Perú
Curatorship: Valentina Gutiérrez Turbay
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)
Getting Wet, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Curatorship: Laura Amann y Aziza Harmel
Kalül ñi tukulpan, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Cristián Vargas Paillahueque
EMAF: Possessed, Berlin, Germany
Understanding vital fluidity, KSTN, Berlin, Germany
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
Love of my life, Vitrina lab, Miami, EE. UU
Curatorship: Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Al aire libre, Proyecto de exhibición online, Chile
Curatorship: Tiago de Abreu Pinto
Knowledge of Wounds, Performance Space, New York, EE. UU
Curatorship: S.J Norman y Joseph M. Pierce
Wansolwara: One Salt Water, UNSW Galleries, Sidney, Australia
Curatorship: Dr Léuli Eshrāghi
Canción Nacional, Centro cultural Montecarmelo, Santiago, Chile
Historias Feministas: Artistas después del 2000, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
Curatorship: Isabella Rjeille
2019
Relatos encarnados, II Posto, Santiago de Chile
Curatorship: Sophie Halart
Where the oceans meet, Museum of Art and Design (MOAD), Miami, United States
Curatorship: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, Gabriela Rangel, and Rina Carvajal
Power in resistance, Sur Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curatorship: Tamara Toledo
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
Memorias Reb/veladas, Museo de la Memoria y los derechos humanos, Santiago, Chile
Fermento, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
Performance art au Chili 1998-2018, Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Québec, Canada
Curatorship: Lynda Avendaño Santana
Deep Trash Escoria, Bethnal Green Working Men´s Club, London, UK
Zomo ñi Trekan, Galería Balmaceda Arte joven, Santiago, Chile
Húsares trágicos, Monumento Histórico Casas de los Carreras, El Monte y MAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo-Parque forestal, Santiago de Chile
Narativas/ Colección Pedro Montes, Centro Cultural El Tranque, Lo Barnechea, Santiago de Chile
Derivas chilenas experimentales 2.0, Proceso de Error, MAM Chiloé, Chile
PROGRESO, GALERÍA D21, Santiago de Chile
2017
Premios municipales de Santiago, Posada del corregidor, Santiago de Chile
Constitución 1989, Galería d21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
Curatorship: Montserrat Rojas Corradi
ANALCO PROJECT, Nomadics Screenings, Helsinki, Finland
Encuentro de las culturas indígenas, Horizontes comunes/Territorios anhelados, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
5to Concurso Universitario de Arte Joven, Balmaceda Arte Joven, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
Muros blandos, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile
Curatorship: Daniela Berger, Lily Hall y Mette Kjaergaard
No nos digan que hacer, Fotogalería Arcos, Santiago de Chile
Curatorship: Montserrat Rojas Corradi
Post 90, Colección MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile
Curatorship: Francisco Brugnoli
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)