Valeria Montti Colque Chilean-Swedish, b. 1978

Valeria Montti Colque (b.1978, lives and works in Stockholm) is a Chilean-Swedish artist who works in a variety of expressions and media. Her installations often take the form of characters, gods, and mythological figures, incorporating symbolic names from the Andean cosmovision and a mix of different languages. This amalgamation serves as a powerful statement about the artist’s multiple and mobile roots, drawing from her experiences as part of the Chilean and Latin American diaspora in Europe. Collaboration is fundamental to Valeria’s practice as other artists, family, and friends are part of the creation of her artistic world. She graduated from the Royal Art Institute in Stockholm and has exhibited extensively in Sweden, Chile, Norway, Spain, Bolivia, and Germany. 

Valeria was selected to represent Chile in the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, with the proposal “Cosmonación” by curator Andrea Pacheco. In 2023 she took part in the 3º edition of El Cairo Biennale, Something Else, Off, organized by cultural activist Moataz Nasr and curator Simon Njami. In 2022, the Stockholm region commissioned her to create two artworks for public transport stations in the city, further expanding her practice for public spaces. One of her installations, Apu Mama Höjden, was acquired by the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, becoming part of their collection.

In 2020 She had a solo exhibition at the Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum in Santiago, Chile. In 2016, she collaborated with art historian and writer Macarena Dusant to produce an artist monograph titled La Jardinera (Dokument Press) which addresses themes such as diaspora, love, grief, trauma, and gender power structures.