MARCO MONTIEL-SOTO, born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, living and working in Berlin, is a traveller and immigrant who constantly finds himself returning forward. During these expeditions, the route becomes imaginary and travel time elastic. His work and installations are a creolization of architectural structures, collected found objects, sounds compositions, videos, photographs, drawings, collages, texts, and maps. His work explores the intersections between political and poetic territories, homeland, traditions, economy, archaeology, religion, myths, death, cosmos, and chaos.
Solo exhibitions include Flowing down the river, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (2021); Mal de mar hacia un triste trópico: Notas sobre la otra isla, Caam, Centro Atlántico de arte moderno, Gran Canaria (2019); Paquete Chileno, Die Ecke, Santiago de Chile (2019); Arrivederci Maracaibo, Davide Gallo, Milano (2016); TOD IN DIE TROPISCHE ERDE: “Por favor no me dejen morir”. Noticias desde un limbo tropical, Maczul-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Maracaibo (2015); Point of No Return, Vesselroom Project, Berlin (2015); Arqueología en la memoria de las familias de San Antón, Lamosa, Cuenca (2015).
Group exhibitions include Le Biennali Invisibili, Goethe Zentrum. Baku (2021); Der Raub des Feuers: Von Prometheus zum Erdöl, Goethe institute. Tbilisi (2020); This is an intervention!, Kreuzberg. Berlin (2020); Baku speaking: 1900s-1940s, Yarat Contemporary art space. Baku (2019); IV Bienal de Montevideo, Travesías Atlánticas, Sodre. Montevideo (2019); The theft of fire: From Prometheus to Petroleum, Kapellhaus. Baku (2019); 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga (2018), 11o Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2018), Documenta 14, Every time a Ear Di Soun, Athens and Kassel (2017); JeJu Biennale, Tourism. Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju (2017); The Conundrum of Imagination on the paradigm of exploration and discovery, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2017); Onomatopeyas visuales de tiempos difíciles, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas (2017); Besides Colonisation, Galería JosédelaFuente, Santander (2017); Correspondencias de Ultramar, Sala Mendoza, Caracas (2017); The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse, S A V V Y Contemporary, Berlin (2016); Viaja y no lo escribas, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2016); Feelings of my thatched hut, Grimmuseum, Berlin (2016); We do the Voodoo, EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam (2016); Something Else – Off Biennale, Cairo (2015); Now & After, Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow (2015); The inclination of the Angle, Junefirst Gallery, Berlin (2015); Appropriating language #6, Maniere Noire, Berlin (2015) and Alusiones, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas (2015).
