Sofia Montenegro

Long-term residency

May 2023 - April 2025

Sofia Montenegro. Madrid, 1988

Sofia Montenegro develops her work between sound, image, text, and performance. She studied Fine Arts and Cultural Studies between Utrecht and Madrid, and an MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute. Her artistic practice incorporates diverse methodologies that link visibility to sound and action in a space, seeking other ways of unveiling and producing images in the present. Her works take the form of installations, listening and observation sessions, walks, collective encounters or performance.

She has presented her work in exhibitions, actions and performances at Can Felipa Arts Visuals (Barcelona), Bulegoa (Bilbao), MNCARS, LCE, El Chico (Madrid), Kunstraum Bethanien (Berlin), Hangar (Barcelona), Hablar en Arte (Madrid), La Escocesa (Barcelona), Bosque R.E.A.L., Getxoarte (Bilbao), Getxoarte (Bilbao), Ekkisens Art Space (Reykjavik), Laboral Centro de Arte (Gijón), Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid), W139 (Amsterdam), What Remains Gallery (Munich), Ron Mandos Galerie (Amsterdam), Kunstpodium T (Tilburg) and Teatro Pradillo, among others.

Recently she has been a resident at Futurama Alentejo, BilbaoArte, CRA Matadero Madrid and Artistas En Residencia in 2020, a programme of MACBA, CA2M and LCE. She has also participated in projects and residencies at Caixa Forum Barcelona, Addaya Centre d’Art Contemporani (Mallorca), Lugar a Dudas (Cali), Tbilisi Triennial and Kunstverein München.

She was awarded a prize at Generacion 2022 and has received creative grants from Comunidad de Madrid, Generalitat de Catalunya, INJUVE. She won the Jan Zumbrink Prize and the Piet Bakker Prize in the Netherlands. In 2010 he co-founded the MilesKm project, a platform for exploring possible alternative structures within art.