EDGAR CALEL
*1987, Chi Xot – San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala
Studierte an der Escuela Nacional de Arte Rafael Rodríguez Padilla. Er arbeitet mit einer Vielzahl von Medien und erforscht die Komplexität der indigenen Erfahrung, wie sie durch die Kaqchikel-Kosmovision der Maya, die Spiritualität, Rituale, Gemeinschaftspraktiken und den Glauben gesehen wird, im Gegensatz zu dem systematischen Rassismus und der Ausgrenzung, die die indigene Bevölkerung Guatemalas täglich erleidet.
Kürzlich hatte er seine erste Einzelausstellung Pa Ru Tun Che’ (From a Tree Top) bei Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, (2021); außerdem hat er an zahlreichen Gruppenausstellungen teilgenommen, darunter Is It Morning for You Yet? 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2022); The Crack Begins Within, 11. Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2020); Los Jardineros (The Gardeners), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City (2020); Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (2019); Virginia Pérez Ratton. Centroamérica: Deseo de lugar / Centra America, MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexiko-Stadt (2019).
Seine Werke sind Teil der ständigen Sammlungen der Tate, Großbritannien, des Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spanien, der National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, der Fundación TEOR/ética, San José, Costa Rica, des MADC Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José, Costa Rica, und des Kadist, San Francisco. Darüber hinaus hat er an künstlerischen Residenzen teilgenommen, darunter Tropical Papers (2021), Residencia Rua do Sol, Portugal (2019), und an der Lastro-Forschungsplattform, Brasilien (2015), unter anderem.
Edgar Calel
*1987, Chi Xot – San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala
Einzelausstellungen
2023
B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), Sculpture Center, New York, USA 2021 Pa ru tun che ́(From the Treetop), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Gruppenausstellungen / Projekte
2023
We dont’t want to live in a Universe, We want to live in a Pluriverse, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, Paris, France
2023 uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, 12th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, USA (Upcoming)
Soft and Weak Like Water, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
El suceso es en la Casa de Hierro, a la par de las Estrellas, en frente de la Playa, del otro lado del Chino Pobre (The Event Is at the Iron House, Next to the Stars, in Front of The
Beach, on the Other Side of the Poor Chinese), Casa de
Hierro, Guatemala City, Guatemala
The Night Dies by the Day, the Day Dies by the Night, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2022 A Parábola do Progresso, Sesc São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Is It Morning for You Yet?, 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburg, EEUU
La Imagen Quema: Perspectivas del videoarte en Guatemala (The Image Burns: Perspectives of video art in Guatemala), Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2021 República (Republic), La Nueva Fábrica, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Radical Empathies, Callirrhoë, Athens, Greece
Perdidos. En medio. Juntos: Universos de la materia (Lost. In the Middle. Together: Universes of Matter) , XXII
Paiz Art Biennale, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Alexia Tala y Gabriel Rodriguez Pellecer
La puerta del jardín (The Garden Gate), Pagoda Imaginaria Residencia, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by
Melanie Ford Lemus
Primeros Amaneceres en la Tierra (First Sunrises on Earth),
Proyectos Ultravioleta , Guatemala City, Guatemala
2020 11 Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany. Curated by María Berríos,
Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio
To Weave Blue // Poem to the Weaving, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, United States. Curated by Laura August
Los Jardineros (The Gardeners),Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Constelação de Saberes (Constellation of Knowledge), Espaço de Tecnologias e Artes do Sesc Avenida Paulista,
São Paulo, Brasil
2019 Manjar Re-conhecimento (Recognition of Manjar), Solar dos
Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Curated by Catarina Duncan and Denilson Baniwa
Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
This might be a place for hummingbirds, Gallerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Laberinto de los pájaros (Bird Maze), Uqbar, Berlin, Germany Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Centroamérica: deseo de lugar
(Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: desire for place), MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. Curated by Miguel A. López and María P. Malavasi Lachner Jun kai paj Ch ́ab ́el, Galeria Do Sol, Porto, Portugal
2018 Naturaleza incierta, o cómo se construye el paisaje desde Guatemala (Uncertain Nature, or how Landscape is Constructed From Guatemala) Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2017 Actos de transgresión (Acts of transgression), Cesc santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brasil. Curated by Luciara Ribeiro
2016 Lastro em Campo/ Percursos Ancestrais e Cotidianos (Field Ballast/ Ancestral and Daily Routes), Sesc Consolação, São Paulo, Brasil. Curadoria de Beatriz Lemos
2014 Transvisible: entre lo ya no y él aún no (Transvisible: between no more and not yet), XIX Paiz Art Biennale, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Cecila Fajardo Hill
2013 Y entonces? (And then?), The 9.99 gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2011 Sexta 2011: Triángulo CSC, Centro-Sur-Caribe, ExTeresa Arte Actual, Mexico City.
Hoja blanca / Weisses Blatt (White Sheet), Arte-Centro Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hoja Blanca / Weisses Blatt (White Sheet), Schmuck Inc, Zürich,
Switzerland
2010 +/- Esperanza (+/- Hope), MADC/Museum of Contemporary Art
and Design, San José, Costa Rica. Curated by Eder Castillo and Adan Vallecillo
Ver para Creer (Seeing is believing), XVII Art Paiz Bienal, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Tiempo y espacio (Time and Space), MARTE El Salvador Museum of Contemporary Art, San Salvador, El Salvador
2009 Estrategias para medir el universo (Strategies to measure the sun), Sol del Rio, Guatemala City, Guatemala
ValorartE VII Edición, National Gallery of the
Children’s Museum, San José, Costa Rica
2008 Pintura Emergente Centroamericana (Emerging Central American
Painting), PECA, San José, Costa Rica
2006 Mapas Blancos (White Maps), XV Art Paiz Bienal, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fellowships, grants, residencies, and prizes
2021 Tropical Papers, Virtual Residency, The Internet 2020 Residência Kayssa, São Paulo, Brasil
Residência Ateliê Xakra 88, Minas Gerais, Brasil 2019 Residence at Residência Rua do sol, Porto, Portugal 2018 Residence at Resiliência: Residência Artística, Silo – Arte e
Latitude Rural, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Organized by Cinthia
Mendonça 2016 Residência Lanchonete, Lanchonete Associação Espaço Cultural,
São Paulo, Brasil. Directed by Todd Lester Residência Ocupação São João, São Paulo, Brasil. Coordinated by Nazaré Brasil
2015 First Prize, Subasta-Exposición Juannio 2015, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Art residency carried out in Antigua Guatemala, Lastro Research
Platform (Brasil), Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala 2014 Residence at CABRA Project Art Residence Centroamérica – Brasil,
CEIA and Clovis Salgado Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais, Brasil 2011 Residence at Phronesis La Perla, Proyecto Demolición
Construcción, Córdoba, Argentina
2010 Residence at Residencia Taller imagen tiempo, directed by
Ernesto Salmerón, Jinotega, Nicaragua
2007 Espira la Espora; pintura Fase 2, Escuela Superior de Arte,
Managua Nicaragua
Publications
2023 (2023, April) Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), Sculpture Center
https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/13675/dgar-calel-b-a
lab-j-jaguar-stone
2022 Ticoulat, F, Dias Teixeira, M, Abdalla, Y, (2022), Eco-Lógicas Latinas, Act. (Pages 179 – 191) https://shopartctool.com/produtos/eco-logicas-latinas/ (2022, December) Power 100, the Annual Ranking of the Most
Influential People in Art, ArtReview https://artreview.com/power-100?year=2022
Laster, P. (2022, September 30) 9 Highlights from the 58th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/2022-carnegie-international/ Trouillot, T., Mohebbi, S. (2022, September 20)
Solidarity and Resistance: Sohrab Mohebbi on Curating the 58th Carnegie International, Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/sohrab-mohebbi-interview-2022 Hooper, J. (2022, September) In Celebration of Artists and
Their Truth, Carnegie, Museums of Pittsburg https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/fall-2022/in-celebr ation-of-artists-and-their-truth/
Davidson, L, (2022, August 10) A World Of Art Comes to Pittsburgh, Pittsburg Magazine https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/a-world-of-art-comes-to-pittsb urgh/
Estrada, M. (2022, July 9) It Matters What Stories We Tell,
Yet Another Art Blog
https://yetanotherartblog.com/2022/07/09/it-matters-what-stories- we-tell/
Uttam, U. (2022, June) On the rise at Art Basel in Basel,
Art Basel https://artbasel.com/news/statements-sector-emerging-artists-in-b asel?lang=fr
Gerlis, M. (2022, June 9) Art Basel Welcomes Newcomers
as Art-World Power Shifts, Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/61b55e0d-d9fd-4bf6-9c4b-494a27bf0d86
Shaw, A. (2022, May 20) Should Protest Art Become Big Business?, The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/20/should-protest-art-bec ome-big-business
2021 Broome, H. (2021, November 23) Custodianship & Mayan Cosmovision: A Conversation with Stefan Benchoam, Flash Art https://flash—art.com/2021/11/stefan-benchoam/
Abrams, A. R. (2021, October 22) Tate Has Brokered Its First-Ever Deal to Acquire ‘Custodianship’ of an Artwork in a Novel Agreement With a Mayan Artist and His Tribe, Artnet news https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tate-first-custodianship-maya N-2023933¡
Luke, B. (2021, October 15) Six of the best experimental works by emerging artists at Frieze London, The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/15/six-of-the-best-experi mental-works-by-emerging-artists-at-frieze-london
Solomon, T. (2021, August 23) ARTnews in Brief: Kavi Gupta
Now Represents Tomokazu Matsuyama—and More from August 23, 2021, ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news- august-2021-week-4-1234602177/
(2021) Edgar Calel cuestiona los fetichismos en torno a lo indígena (Edgar Calel Questions the Fetishisms around the Indigenous), Arte al día https://es.artealdia.com/Galerias/EDGAR-CALEL-CUESTIONA-LOS-FETIC HISMOS-EN-TORNO-A-LO-INDIGENA
Calel, E. (2021) Edgar Calel, Tropical Papers http://tropicalpapers.org/edgar-calel-2/
Daibert, R., Calel, E. (2021, February 18)
I Drag You With Me: Ancestry and Contemporary Practice,
Arts Everywhere
2020 (2020, October 8) The Best of Frieze London, Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2020/10/08/the-best-of-frieze-london -2020/
Alvizurez, Y.(2020, September 16)
Comalapense Édgar Calel expondrá sus pinturas en Brasil,
Prensa Libre. https://www.prensalibre.com/ciudades/chimaltenango/pintor-san-jua n-comalapa-edgar-calel-participara-exposicion-internacional-rio-d e-janeiro-brasil/
Lemos, B. (2020, September) Edgar a Calel (in collaboration with Fernando Pereira dos Santos), 11 Berlin biennale.
https://11.berlinbiennale.de/participants/edgar-calel-in-collabor ation-with-fernando-pereira-dos-santos
Ortiz, A.(2020, September 14)
Artistas guatemaltecos presentan obras en la 11a Bienal de Berlín, Prensa Libre. https://www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenario/artistas-guatemaltecos -pre-sentan-obras-en-la-11a-bienal-de-berlin/
(2020, September, 2) Mit Weiblicher Stimme, berliner zeitung Santofimio, C.J.(2020, September,8)
“To Me, Art Is a Place of Transit”, C& AMÉRICA LATINA
https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/a-arte-para-mim-e- um-espaco-edgar-calel-de-transito-edgar-calel/
Iñigo, M. (2020, April) Traces, Signs, and Symptoms of
the Untranslatable. E-flux. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/325859/traces-signs-and-sympto ms-of-the-untranslatable/
(2020, January 31) Requited Flame (RF) for Edgar Calel, Minus Plato. http://minusplato.com/2020/01/requited-flame-rf-for-edgar-calel.h tml
2019 Dàvila, S.E. (2019, December) Memoria del movimiento (ensaio visual), ResearchGate,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338642686_Memoria_del_mo vimiento_ensaio_visual
Silva, D. (2019, November 18) Artistas Guatemaltecos exponen
en Canadá. Azacuán. https://azacuan.com/titulares/artistas-guatemaltecos-exponen-en-c anada/
Vitoriá, V. (2019, August 26) Uns instantes de atençao para
Calel, Jornal de Noticias, 34. 2018 (2018) Edgar Calel, Resiliência.
https://resilience.silo.org.br/edgar-calel/
Garcia, M., Valdés, E., Ordóñez, M., Herrera, S. Morales, M., Cazali , R., Acevedo, A. (2018, January, 1)
Guatemala desde 33,000 km. Arte contemporáneo de 1960 al presente, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, MCASB, 171.
2017 Wellen. L.A. (2017) One Stone and the Rain, MFA,
The Core Program, 48-59. https://static.mfah.com/documents/2017corewellen.1401355971002808 1988.pdf?fbclid=IwAR26-CsGDkh_MXdaaOOPOHSq5KI5fVgVqixtI4Czn_vzJFq Q4MdkwbFxl9I
https://terremoto.mx/one-stone-and-the-rain
2015 Juracán Lemus, L. A. (2015, June 08) El objeto invisible (The
Unseen Object), Terremoto. https://terremoto.mx/en/revista/el-objeto-simbolico/ Salazar, J. (2015, June 5) Edgar Calel habla sobre su
obra gráfica, La Hora https://lahora.gt/edgar-calel-habla-sobre-su-obra-grafica/ Redacción La Hora (2015, May 12) Taller de Experimentación, La Hora, 26.
2014 Blondet, J. (2014 19 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Artnexus https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5 d641d3790cc21cf7c0a418c/95/19-bienal-de-arte-paiz
2012 Acevedo, A., Herrera S., Lorenzana, A., Olmo, S., Payeras, J. (2012. June, 2) XVIII Bienal Arte Paíz, Fundación Paiz, 94-97. https://issuu.com/paiz/docs/082013-libro18bienal-digital-single
Collections
Tate, UK
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
National Gallery of Canada, Canada
Fundación Teor/ética, San José, Costa Rica
MADC Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José, Costa Rica
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA
EDGAR CALEL
b. 1987, Chi Xot -San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala.
Studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Rafael Rodríguez Padilla. He works in a variety of media, exploring the complexities of the indigenous experience, as seen through the Mayan Kaqchikel cosmovision, spirituality, rituals, community practices, and beliefs, in juxtaposition with the systematic racism and exclusion that the indigenous people of Guatemala endure on a daily basis.
He recently had his first solo exhibition Pa Ru Tun Che´ (From a Tree Top) at Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, (2021); and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Is It Morning for You Yet?, 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2022); The Crack Begins Within, 11th Berlin Biennial, Berlin (2020); Los Jardineros (The Gardeners), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City (2020); Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (2019); Virginia Pérez Ratton. Centroamérica: Deseo de lugar / Centra America, MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2019).
His works are part of the permanent collections of Tate, UK; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario; Fundación TEOR/ética, San José, Costa Rica; MADC Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José, Costa Rica; and Kadist, San Francisco. Additionally, he has participated in artistic residencies including Tropical Papers (2021); Residencia Rua do Sol, Portugal (2019), and at Lastro research platform, Brazil, 2015), among others.
Edgar Calel
Bon in 1987, Chi Xot – San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala
Solo Exhibitions
2023
B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), Sculpture Center, New York, USA 2021 Pa ru tun che ́(From the Treetop), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Group Exhibitions / Projects
B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), Sculpture Center, New York, USA 2021 Pa ru tun che ́(From the Treetop), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Gruppenausstellungen / Projekte
2023
We dont’t want to live in a Universe, We want to live in a Pluriverse, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, Paris, France
2023 uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, 12th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, USA (Upcoming)
Soft and Weak Like Water, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
El suceso es en la Casa de Hierro, a la par de las Estrellas, en frente de la Playa, del otro lado del Chino Pobre (The Event Is at the Iron House, Next to the Stars, in Front of The
Beach, on the Other Side of the Poor Chinese), Casa de
Hierro, Guatemala City, Guatemala
The Night Dies by the Day, the Day Dies by the Night, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2022 A Parábola do Progresso, Sesc São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Is It Morning for You Yet?, 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburg, EEUU
La Imagen Quema: Perspectivas del videoarte en Guatemala (The Image Burns: Perspectives of video art in Guatemala), Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2021 República (Republic), La Nueva Fábrica, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Radical Empathies, Callirrhoë, Athens, Greece
Perdidos. En medio. Juntos: Universos de la materia (Lost. In the Middle. Together: Universes of Matter) , XXII
Paiz Art Biennale, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Alexia Tala y Gabriel Rodriguez Pellecer
La puerta del jardín (The Garden Gate), Pagoda Imaginaria Residencia, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by
Melanie Ford Lemus
Primeros Amaneceres en la Tierra (First Sunrises on Earth),
Proyectos Ultravioleta , Guatemala City, Guatemala
2020 11 Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany. Curated by María Berríos,
Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio
To Weave Blue // Poem to the Weaving, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, United States. Curated by Laura August
Los Jardineros (The Gardeners),Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Constelação de Saberes (Constellation of Knowledge), Espaço de Tecnologias e Artes do Sesc Avenida Paulista,
São Paulo, Brasil
2019 Manjar Re-conhecimento (Recognition of Manjar), Solar dos
Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Curated by Catarina Duncan and Denilson Baniwa
Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
This might be a place for hummingbirds, Gallerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Laberinto de los pájaros (Bird Maze), Uqbar, Berlin, Germany Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Centroamérica: deseo de lugar
(Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: desire for place), MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. Curated by Miguel A. López and María P. Malavasi Lachner Jun kai paj Ch ́ab ́el, Galeria Do Sol, Porto, Portugal
2018 Naturaleza incierta, o cómo se construye el paisaje desde Guatemala (Uncertain Nature, or how Landscape is Constructed From Guatemala) Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2017 Actos de transgresión (Acts of transgression), Cesc santo Amaro, São Paulo, Brasil. Curated by Luciara Ribeiro
2016 Lastro em Campo/ Percursos Ancestrais e Cotidianos (Field Ballast/ Ancestral and Daily Routes), Sesc Consolação, São Paulo, Brasil. Curadoria de Beatriz Lemos
2014 Transvisible: entre lo ya no y él aún no (Transvisible: between no more and not yet), XIX Paiz Art Biennale, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Curated by Cecila Fajardo Hill
2013 Y entonces? (And then?), The 9.99 gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2011 Sexta 2011: Triángulo CSC, Centro-Sur-Caribe, ExTeresa Arte Actual, Mexico City.
Hoja blanca / Weisses Blatt (White Sheet), Arte-Centro Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hoja Blanca / Weisses Blatt (White Sheet), Schmuck Inc, Zürich,
Switzerland
2010 +/- Esperanza (+/- Hope), MADC/Museum of Contemporary Art
and Design, San José, Costa Rica. Curated by Eder Castillo and Adan Vallecillo
Ver para Creer (Seeing is believing), XVII Art Paiz Bienal, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Tiempo y espacio (Time and Space), MARTE El Salvador Museum of Contemporary Art, San Salvador, El Salvador
2009 Estrategias para medir el universo (Strategies to measure the sun), Sol del Rio, Guatemala City, Guatemala
ValorartE VII Edición, National Gallery of the
Children’s Museum, San José, Costa Rica
2008 Pintura Emergente Centroamericana (Emerging Central American
Painting), PECA, San José, Costa Rica
2006 Mapas Blancos (White Maps), XV Art Paiz Bienal, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fellowships, grants, residencies, and prizes
2021 Tropical Papers, Virtual Residency, The Internet 2020 Residência Kayssa, São Paulo, Brasil
Residência Ateliê Xakra 88, Minas Gerais, Brasil 2019 Residence at Residência Rua do sol, Porto, Portugal 2018 Residence at Resiliência: Residência Artística, Silo – Arte e
Latitude Rural, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Organized by Cinthia
Mendonça 2016 Residência Lanchonete, Lanchonete Associação Espaço Cultural,
São Paulo, Brasil. Directed by Todd Lester Residência Ocupação São João, São Paulo, Brasil. Coordinated by Nazaré Brasil
2015 First Prize, Subasta-Exposición Juannio 2015, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Art residency carried out in Antigua Guatemala, Lastro Research
Platform (Brasil), Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala 2014 Residence at CABRA Project Art Residence Centroamérica – Brasil,
CEIA and Clovis Salgado Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais, Brasil 2011 Residence at Phronesis La Perla, Proyecto Demolición
Construcción, Córdoba, Argentina
2010 Residence at Residencia Taller imagen tiempo, directed by
Ernesto Salmerón, Jinotega, Nicaragua
2007 Espira la Espora; pintura Fase 2, Escuela Superior de Arte,
Managua Nicaragua
Publications
2023 (2023, April) Édgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), Sculpture Center
https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/13675/dgar-calel-b-a
lab-j-jaguar-stone
2022 Ticoulat, F, Dias Teixeira, M, Abdalla, Y, (2022), Eco-Lógicas Latinas, Act. (Pages 179 – 191) https://shopartctool.com/produtos/eco-logicas-latinas/ (2022, December) Power 100, the Annual Ranking of the Most
Influential People in Art, ArtReview https://artreview.com/power-100?year=2022
Laster, P. (2022, September 30) 9 Highlights from the 58th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/2022-carnegie-international/ Trouillot, T., Mohebbi, S. (2022, September 20)
Solidarity and Resistance: Sohrab Mohebbi on Curating the 58th Carnegie International, Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/sohrab-mohebbi-interview-2022 Hooper, J. (2022, September) In Celebration of Artists and
Their Truth, Carnegie, Museums of Pittsburg https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/fall-2022/in-celebr ation-of-artists-and-their-truth/
Davidson, L, (2022, August 10) A World Of Art Comes to Pittsburgh, Pittsburg Magazine https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/a-world-of-art-comes-to-pittsb urgh/
Estrada, M. (2022, July 9) It Matters What Stories We Tell,
Yet Another Art Blog
https://yetanotherartblog.com/2022/07/09/it-matters-what-stories- we-tell/
Uttam, U. (2022, June) On the rise at Art Basel in Basel,
Art Basel https://artbasel.com/news/statements-sector-emerging-artists-in-b asel?lang=fr
Gerlis, M. (2022, June 9) Art Basel Welcomes Newcomers
as Art-World Power Shifts, Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/61b55e0d-d9fd-4bf6-9c4b-494a27bf0d86
Shaw, A. (2022, May 20) Should Protest Art Become Big Business?, The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/20/should-protest-art-bec ome-big-business
2021 Broome, H. (2021, November 23) Custodianship & Mayan Cosmovision: A Conversation with Stefan Benchoam, Flash Art https://flash—art.com/2021/11/stefan-benchoam/
Abrams, A. R. (2021, October 22) Tate Has Brokered Its First-Ever Deal to Acquire ‘Custodianship’ of an Artwork in a Novel Agreement With a Mayan Artist and His Tribe, Artnet news https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tate-first-custodianship-maya N-2023933¡
Luke, B. (2021, October 15) Six of the best experimental works by emerging artists at Frieze London, The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/15/six-of-the-best-experi mental-works-by-emerging-artists-at-frieze-london
Solomon, T. (2021, August 23) ARTnews in Brief: Kavi Gupta
Now Represents Tomokazu Matsuyama—and More from August 23, 2021, ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news- august-2021-week-4-1234602177/
(2021) Edgar Calel cuestiona los fetichismos en torno a lo indígena (Edgar Calel Questions the Fetishisms around the Indigenous), Arte al día https://es.artealdia.com/Galerias/EDGAR-CALEL-CUESTIONA-LOS-FETIC HISMOS-EN-TORNO-A-LO-INDIGENA
Calel, E. (2021) Edgar Calel, Tropical Papers http://tropicalpapers.org/edgar-calel-2/
Daibert, R., Calel, E. (2021, February 18)
I Drag You With Me: Ancestry and Contemporary Practice,
Arts Everywhere
2020 (2020, October 8) The Best of Frieze London, Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2020/10/08/the-best-of-frieze-london -2020/
Alvizurez, Y.(2020, September 16)
Comalapense Édgar Calel expondrá sus pinturas en Brasil,
Prensa Libre. https://www.prensalibre.com/ciudades/chimaltenango/pintor-san-jua n-comalapa-edgar-calel-participara-exposicion-internacional-rio-d e-janeiro-brasil/
Lemos, B. (2020, September) Edgar a Calel (in collaboration with Fernando Pereira dos Santos), 11 Berlin biennale.
https://11.berlinbiennale.de/participants/edgar-calel-in-collabor ation-with-fernando-pereira-dos-santos
Ortiz, A.(2020, September 14)
Artistas guatemaltecos presentan obras en la 11a Bienal de Berlín, Prensa Libre. https://www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenario/artistas-guatemaltecos -pre-sentan-obras-en-la-11a-bienal-de-berlin/
(2020, September, 2) Mit Weiblicher Stimme, berliner zeitung Santofimio, C.J.(2020, September,8)
“To Me, Art Is a Place of Transit”, C& AMÉRICA LATINA
https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/a-arte-para-mim-e- um-espaco-edgar-calel-de-transito-edgar-calel/
Iñigo, M. (2020, April) Traces, Signs, and Symptoms of
the Untranslatable. E-flux. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/325859/traces-signs-and-sympto ms-of-the-untranslatable/
(2020, January 31) Requited Flame (RF) for Edgar Calel, Minus Plato. http://minusplato.com/2020/01/requited-flame-rf-for-edgar-calel.h tml
2019 Dàvila, S.E. (2019, December) Memoria del movimiento (ensaio visual), ResearchGate,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338642686_Memoria_del_mo vimiento_ensaio_visual
Silva, D. (2019, November 18) Artistas Guatemaltecos exponen
en Canadá. Azacuán. https://azacuan.com/titulares/artistas-guatemaltecos-exponen-en-c anada/
Vitoriá, V. (2019, August 26) Uns instantes de atençao para
Calel, Jornal de Noticias, 34. 2018 (2018) Edgar Calel, Resiliência.
https://resilience.silo.org.br/edgar-calel/
Garcia, M., Valdés, E., Ordóñez, M., Herrera, S. Morales, M., Cazali , R., Acevedo, A. (2018, January, 1)
Guatemala desde 33,000 km. Arte contemporáneo de 1960 al presente, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, MCASB, 171.
2017 Wellen. L.A. (2017) One Stone and the Rain, MFA,
The Core Program, 48-59. https://static.mfah.com/documents/2017corewellen.1401355971002808 1988.pdf?fbclid=IwAR26-CsGDkh_MXdaaOOPOHSq5KI5fVgVqixtI4Czn_vzJFq Q4MdkwbFxl9I
https://terremoto.mx/one-stone-and-the-rain
2015 Juracán Lemus, L. A. (2015, June 08) El objeto invisible (The
Unseen Object), Terremoto. https://terremoto.mx/en/revista/el-objeto-simbolico/ Salazar, J. (2015, June 5) Edgar Calel habla sobre su
obra gráfica, La Hora https://lahora.gt/edgar-calel-habla-sobre-su-obra-grafica/ Redacción La Hora (2015, May 12) Taller de Experimentación, La Hora, 26.
2014 Blondet, J. (2014 19 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Artnexus https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5 d641d3790cc21cf7c0a418c/95/19-bienal-de-arte-paiz
2012 Acevedo, A., Herrera S., Lorenzana, A., Olmo, S., Payeras, J. (2012. June, 2) XVIII Bienal Arte Paíz, Fundación Paiz, 94-97. https://issuu.com/paiz/docs/082013-libro18bienal-digital-single
Collections
Tate, UK
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
National Gallery of Canada, Canada
Fundación Teor/ética, San José, Costa Rica
MADC Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José, Costa Rica
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA
PREVIEW
Saturday, 26.8.2023
from 6 to 9 pm CEST
OPENING
Saturday, 2.9.2023
from 6 to 9 pm CEST
26 August 2023 – 23 September 2023
