About- 1Carolina Pérez Pallares

CV - Carolina Pérez Pallares

*1980, Quito, Ecuador

Grew up in Ecuador and Chile

Education

• 2009–2010: Masterclass with Prof. Marijke van Warmerdam

• 2004–2009: Studies in Painting/Graphics, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany

• 2002–2004: German as a Foreign Language, TestDaF C1

• 2001–2002: Psychology, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Professional Experience

• 2019–2021: Artistic Director, Die Putte e.V., Neu-Ulm, Germany

• Since 2019: Founder and Curator (with Benjamin Appel) of On The Quiet

• 2024–present: Equal Opportunity Officer, Department of Art, Burg GiebichensteinUniversity of Art and Design, Halle, Germany

◦ Responsible for promoting diversity, equal opportunities, and inclusivepractices within the department

Teaching

• Since 2022: Artistic Staff, Painting/Graphics, Art Education Program, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle, Germany

• 2021: Teaching in the Painting Class (Prof. Schirin Kretschmann), Academy of FineArts Munich, Germany; 2 semesters; project: “Touch Away. If you want to cross theAtlantic swimming, you should consider the currents.”

Diploma Supervision / MentoringSince Winter Semester 2023/24

• Mentoring students over two semesters as Artistic Staff at Burg GiebichensteinUniversity of Art and Design, Halle

• Supporting both artistic practice and the written component of diploma projects

• Supervised students from the following programs:

• 5 students – Art Education• 4 students – Fine Arts / Painting • 1 student – JewelryDesign • 4 students – Textile Design • 5 students – Glass / Painting.

Solo Exhibitions ( Selection)

• 2026: The Guest, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, Germany

• 2025: Without Skills, Galerie b2_, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

• 2022: Die Farbe Teilt ihre ungerechte Haltung, Galerie b2_, Spinnerei Leipzig,Germany

• 2022: Undo Ending, Site-specific intervention with Benjamin Appel, MoritzkircheAugsburg, Germany

• 2019: Saving the Sky from My Weight, MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art,Santiago de Chile

• 2015: A Drop Lives Between a Circle and a Rectangle, with Benjamin Appel,Multiplerart Exhibition Space, Zürich, Switzerland

• 2014: Si las paredes no son rectas, entonces por qué el blanco no es un color?,CAC – Museum of Contemporary Arts, Quito, Ecuador

• 2014: A Leap into the Heart of Africa, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

• 2014: Missed View from the Balcony, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

• 2012: Am Ende bleibt nur ein Buchstabensalat, Project Room V8, Karlsruhe,Germany

• 2012: Und danach kam lange Zeit nichts mehr, Debutants’ Exhibition, StateAcademy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany

• 2011: It rains from raindrops, Project Space Contemporallye, Augsburg, Germany

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

• 2025: Artists of Galerie 04179, SpinnereiGalerien Leipzig

Guest exhibition at Wirkbau, Opening of Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025, Chemnitz.

•2024: It’s a Dinner not Work, Galerie b2_, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

• 2024: Cocktail to Go, Galerie Parkhaus, Darmstadt, Germany

• 2024: Chaco, Galerie Jochen Hempel, International Art Fair, Santiago de Chile

• 2023: Office, Galerie b2_, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

• 2023: On The Quiet, MAC Santiago de Chile

• 2023: Anything Left to Do, Galerie b2_, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

• 2022: WIN/WIN – Art Acquisitions by the Saxony State Cultural Foundation 2022,Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany

• 2022: From Leipzig to Karlsruhe You Should Pass via Mannheim, Einraumhaus Mannheim, Germany

• 2022: HERBERGE, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien, Norway

• 2022: On The Quiet, Salzburg Art Association, Austria

• 2022: Undo Ending, Moritzkirche Augsburg, Germany

• 2021: From Mannheim to Karlsruhe You Should Not Pass via Leipzig, Galerie b2_,Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

• 2021: Chow Chow, Galleries of Spinnerei, Werkschauhalle Leipzig, Germany

• 2021: No Lo Utilizamos, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile

• 2021: On The Quiet, Stadtgalerie Fruchthalle, Rastatt, Germany

• 2020: On The Quiet, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

• 2019: On The Quiet, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany

• 2018: Another Aleph – Chinese and German Contemporary Art Exhibition, MuseumXiameng, China

• 2018: Abstraction as Painterly Rhetoric – A Case Study between Germany andChina, Gallery PIFO, Beijing, China

• 2017: Action & Painting, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany

• 2017: Water, Clouds, Wind, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

• 2016: Hyden, Back Room Project Room, Karlsruhe, Germany

• 2015: Platzlegen, Art Space L6, Freiburg, Germany

• 2014: Wenn Weiß keine Farbe ist, warum sind dann die Wände gerade?, withBenjamin Appel, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany

• 2014: Flumen, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France

• 2014: Memory of Color, Belleville, Paris, France

• 2013: Circle of Friends, Project Room V8, Karlsruhe, Germany

• 2012: A Man Standing in the Forest, MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiagode Chile

• 2011: Mark Penzinger Publishers, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany

• 2010: TOP10, Forum Würth, Basel, Switzerland

Curatorial Projects (Selection)

• 2023 MAC Museum for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile – On The Quiet◦ Artists: Jamika Ajalon, Benjamin Appel, Art n More, Paul Bowler & GeorgWeißbach, Silvia Bächli, Ernst Caramelle, Eric Hattan, Schirin Kretschmann,Carolina Pérez Pallares, Marion Porten, Thomas Rentmeister, Manuela Ribadeneira, Tilo Schulz, Maya Schweizer

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares

• Stadt Galerie Fruchthalle, Rastatt, Germany – On The Quiet

◦ Same artists

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares

• 2022 Salzburg Art Association – On The Quiet

◦ Same artists

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares

• 2020 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany – On The Quiet Digital◦ Same artists

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel, Carolina Pérez Pallares, Dr. Sebastian Baden•

• We Don´t use it, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany – We Don’t Use It

◦ Artists: Benjamin Appel, John Bock, Harry Hachmeister, Ana Navas, HeideNord, Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, Carolina Pérez Pallares, ThomasRentmeister, Daniel Roth

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares

• MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile – No Lo Utilizamos

◦ Same artists as above

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares

• Die PUTTE e.V., Neu-Ulm, Germany – Fallen (solo exhibition by Thomas Geiger)

• Die PUTTE e.V., Neu-Ulm, Germany – Paste (solo exhibition by SchirinKretschmann)

• 2019 Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany – On The Quiet◦ Same artists

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares; Co-curator:Madeleine Frey

• Die PUTTE e.V., Neu-Ulm, Germany – Yoga To Go

◦ Artists: Ana Navas, Jacob Dalgreen, Simon Pfeffel

◦ Curated by Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares

Lectures – Talks – Workshops (Selection)

• 2024: On The Quiet project, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle an der Saale, Germany.

• 2023: Artist talk, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, as part of a faculty appointmentprocedure.

• 2022: Artist talk, Burg Giebichenstein, within the course Art Education / ArtPedagogy.

• 2022: Herberge, Spritten Kunsthall, Skien, Norway

• 2021: On The Quiet, Stadtgalerie Fruchthalle, Rastatt

• 2021: Discussion on the project On The Quiet with Sebastian Schmitt, Director,Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle, Rastatt.

• 2021: Conversation with Flasherito (Argentina) on art, Buenos Aires, and globalstrategies of self-organized practice as freelance artists, B2_ Galerie, SpinnereiLeipzig.

• 2021: Workshop “Touch Away. If you want to cross the Atlantic swimming, youshould consider the currents”, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, class of Kretschmann.

• 2021: Talk on the exhibition project On The Quiet, Carolina Pérez Pallares &Benjamin Appel, Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

• 2020: Talk on the project Kein Druck with Andreas Arndt, Die PUTTE e.V., Neu-Ulm(via Instagram & Facebook Live).

• 2020: Lecture and discussion on On The Quiet with Dr. Sebastian Baden &Benjamin Appel, Kunsthalle Mannheim (via Zoom).• 2020: Discussion on On The Quiet with Madeleine Frey, Schirin Kretschmann &Benjamin Appel, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen.

• 2020: Lecture and discussion on On The Quiet with Paola Nava & Benjamin Appel,MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile (viaZoom).

• 2019: Workshop & discussion on the exhibition project Yoga to go with SimonPfeffel, Die PUTTE e.V., Neu-Ulm.

• 2018: Public conversation on differences between Chinese and Western paintingwith Xinyuo, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China.

• 2017: Action & Painting, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen

• 2016: Water, Clouds, Wind, Kunsthalle Würth• 2015: But I Don’t Like the Maracuja, Centre Franco‑Allemand, Karlsruhe

• 2016: Lecture on the exhibition project Rompeflasche with Benjamin Appel, CACMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador.

• 2015: Project and artist talk on There‘s a corner sitting there wondering what Imissed with Benjamin Appel, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe.

• 2014: Artist talk on own work, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

• 2014: Artist talk on own work, Universidad Católica de Quito, Ecuador.

• 2014: Project and artist talk on the exhibition Si las paredes no son rectas,entonces porqué el blanco no es un color? with Benjamin Appel for design, art, andarchitecture students, CAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo / Universidad Católicade Quito, Ecuador.Publications

• 2014: Especially I Like the Papaya / I Particularly Like the Papaya, State Academyof Fine Arts Karlsruhe

• 2012: A Man Stands in the Forest, MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiagode Chile

• 2011: O.T. (Colours, Numbers, Sentences and Letters), Mark Pezinger Verlag.

Collections

• Würth Art Collection

• Art Collection of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg

• Art Collection of the City of Sindelfingen

• MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile

• Saxony State Cultural Foundation Collection

Awards & Fellowships

• 2022: Neustart Kultur Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany

• 2020: DenkZeit, Saxony State Cultural Foundation, Dresden

• 2017: Working Grant, Saxony State Cultural Foundation, Dresden

• 2016: ifa – Artist Exchange, Stuttgart, Germany

• 2013/14: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

• 2012: Debutants’ Prize, Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

• 2012: DAAD Project Grant – Un hombre habla en el bosque, MAC Santiago de Chile

• 2011: Graduate Fellowship, Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

Memberships & Engagement

• Member of Galerie b2_, Leipzig

• (since 2020) Member of the German Artists’ Association (Deutscher Künstlerbund)

• Teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle – “ArtisticPractice”

Languages

• Spanish – Native

• English – B1

• German – C1

Contact & Gallery

• Galerie b2_, Leipzig

• Email: caropp21@gmail.com

• Social Media: Instagram / LinkedIn