Chilean Contemporary Art, Landscape, Memory and Territory at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin

September 3–12, 2026

Opening + Sound Performance: September 3, 2026 · 19:00
Guided Tours: September 4, 5, 8 & 9 · 15:00–18:00
Closing + Plenary Session: September 12 · 19:00

Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33
10247 Berlin

Karne Kunst presents Miradas a Chile / Sichtweisen auf Chile, a group exhibition curated by Alejandra Atalah (Puente Berlin) bringing together the work of Claudia Adriazola Rodríguez, Bruno Giliberto, Gonzalo Reyes and Fede Taus at Bardo Projektraum in Berlin.

The exhibition begins with a deceptively simple question: What do we understand by landscape?

Who constructs a landscape? What transforms it? And how are territories shaped not only physically, but through the ways in which they have historically been observed, classified, mapped, named and organized?

Through four distinct artistic practices, Miradas a Chile proposes an imaginary journey across Chile. Rather than attempting to represent the country through a single image or geographical narrative, the exhibition approaches landscape as a cultural construction shaped by memory, distance, personal experience, technological mediation and historical ways of seeing.

From Berlin, Chile becomes something that can be revisited, questioned and reassembled.

About the Exhibition

Miradas a Chile / Sichtweisen auf Chile invites visitors to reflect on landscape as something more complex than a natural or geographical setting.

A landscape is never entirely neutral.

What we see is also conditioned by the ways territories have been represented and interpreted: through maps and borders, images and archives, political histories, systems of classification, collective narratives and personal memories.

The exhibition asks what happens when these landscapes are viewed from elsewhere.

For people living between countries, cultures and geographical references, looking back at a territory can involve both recognition and estrangement. Distance can sharpen certain memories while erasing others; it can transform familiar landscapes into images charged with longing, political meaning or uncertainty.

Through painting, photography, sound, installation and research-based artistic practices, the participating artists create different ways of approaching Chile as both physical territory and imagined geography.

Miradas a Chile therefore does not propose a definitive portrait of the country. Instead, it opens a space in which multiple ways of seeing can coexist.

Everyone has the right to look, to recognize themselves as part of a territory — or not to.

Landscape as Memory, Image and Territory

Across the exhibition, landscape becomes a site in which different temporalities intersect.

It can carry personal memory and collective history. It can emerge through the materiality of painting, through photographic archives, through digital technologies or through an image remembered from another place.

In this sense, Miradas a Chile approaches landscape as something continuously produced.

It is constructed through the relationship between bodies and territories, through movement and migration, and through the images societies create in order to understand the spaces they inhabit.

Viewed from Berlin, these questions acquire another dimension.

Chile is simultaneously present and distant: a territory remembered, reconstructed and interpreted through artistic practices developed across different geographies.

The exhibition creates a space for these perspectives to meet.

Artists

Claudia Adriazola Rodríguez

Claudia Adriazola Rodríguez, originally from Viña del Mar, is a visual artist and painter trained at the Universidad de Chile.

Over a career spanning more than thirty years, she has developed a body of work characterized by an ongoing exploration of Chilean landscape, memory and pictorial materiality.

Her paintings approach landscape not merely as representation, but as a field in which perception, recollection and material experience intersect.

Adriazola has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Chile and internationally.

Bruno Giliberto

Bruno Giliberto (1981, Santiago de Chile) is a photographer and researcher living and working between Santiago and Berlin.

Originally trained as an architect at the Universidad de Chile, he later completed a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona.

His practice combines large-format analogue photography, four-channel field sound recordings and archival research, developed through long-term photographic projects including MAREA and Rites.

Giliberto’s work investigates the relationship between landscape, memory, observation and the construction of visual knowledge. Rather than treating photography simply as documentation, his projects use the photographic image as a tool for sustained research into territories and their histories.

His work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago, and forms part of the collection of the Chilean State.

Gonzalo Reyes

Gonzalo Reyes is a visual artist trained at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Valparaíso. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2013.

His practice investigates how digital communication is redefining human relationships and our relationship with nature.

From the perspective of migration, Reyes questions physical location, immateriality and the systems through which environments are mediated and controlled.

He conceives binary code as an architecture of interaction mediated through light, in which algorithmic logic connects physical and virtual universes.

Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Reyes uses cyberspace as a medium through which contemporary forms of ubiquity, distance and presence can be explored.

FEDE TAUS

FEDE TAUS (1984, Santiago de Chile) is a painter and visual artist whose work explores the relationships between image, memory and cultural construction.

Using family photographic archives, found images and historical references, he examines how images participate in the formation of both individual and collective narratives.

His painting practice investigates the unstable boundaries between document, fiction and interpretation, asking how an image changes when it is remembered, reproduced, displaced or recontextualized.

Taus studied at the Universidad de Chile and completed a Master’s degree in Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig — Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, under the supervision of Alba D’Urbano.

He lives and works between Chile and Germany.

His work has been presented internationally at institutions and exhibition contexts including NordArt, MONOPOL Berlin and Hauskunst Mitte, and his practice has received support from the DAAD and the Free State of Saxony, among other institutions.

Curator

Alejandra Atalah

Alejandra Atalah is a Chilean cultural scientist, curator and cultural producer based in Berlin.

She studied Cultural Studies and Educational Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and specialized in Cultural Funding and Curatorial Studies at Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK).

Her practice brings together curatorial work, research and cultural production, with a particular interest in migration, identity, transnationalism and decolonial and intersectional perspectives.

Atalah has developed projects and exhibitions in Europe connecting artistic practices with interdisciplinary research and processes of cultural exchange.

For Miradas a Chile, her curatorial approach understands landscape not simply as what exists before our eyes, but as something continuously produced through histories of representation, perception and territorial organization.

Public Programme

Opening + Sound Performance

Thursday, September 3, 2026
19:00

Opening of Miradas a Chile / Sichtweisen auf Chile at Bardo Projektraum.

The evening introduces the exhibition and its participating artists through a public encounter accompanied by a sound performance.

Guided Tours

September 4, 5, 8 & 9, 2026
15:00–18:00

Guided encounters with the exhibition offering visitors the opportunity to explore the works and the curatorial questions surrounding landscape, territory, memory and representation.

Closing + Plenary Session

Saturday, September 12, 2026
19:00

Closing event and plenary session bringing together perspectives developed throughout the exhibition and opening a final collective conversation around the experience of looking at Chile from a distance.

Visit

Bardo Projektraum
Jessnerstraße 33
10247 Berlin

Exhibition: September 3–12, 2026

Opening: September 3 · 19:00
Closing: September 12 · 19:00

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Saturday
14:00–18:00

The exhibition can also be visited during the accompanying public programme.

Latin American Art and Caribbean Diasporic Practices in Berlin

Miradas a Chile / Sichtweisen auf Chile forms part of Karne Kunst’s sustained work with Latin American, Caribbean and diasporic artists, curators, researchers and cultural workers in Berlin.

Within this broader curatorial framework, Latin American and Caribbean artistic practices are not approached as fixed geographical or identity categories. Instead, Karne Kunst is interested in the ways artistic practices move between territories, languages, histories and systems of knowledge.

These perspectives are particularly significant in Berlin, a city shaped by migration and transnational cultural production but where Latin American and Caribbean artistic histories remain unevenly represented within institutional narratives of contemporary art.

Miradas a Chile contributes to this field through four Chilean artistic positions that address territory from markedly different perspectives: painting and material memory, analogue photography and archival research, digital mediation and technological systems, and the unstable relationship between image, document and cultural memory.

By bringing these practices together in Berlin, the exhibition creates connections between Chilean contemporary art, Latin American artistic research and the wider diasporic cultural landscape of the city.

Rather than presenting “Latin American art” as a homogeneous category, Karne Kunst understands it as a constellation of situated practices shaped by different histories, migrations, territories and aesthetic languages.

About Karne Kunst

Karne Kunst is a Berlin-based platform for contemporary art, artistic research and cultural production shaped by Latin American, Caribbean and diasporic perspectives.

Through exhibitions, residencies, publications, public programmes and international collaborations, Karne Kunst supports artists and cultural workers whose practices engage with migration, memory, bodies, territories, feminist thought and decolonial forms of knowledge.

About Bardo Projektraum

Bardo Projektraum is an independent contemporary art space in Berlin and the physical extension of Karne Kunst’s curatorial ecosystem.

Its programme brings together exhibitions, artistic research, experimental formats and public encounters, with particular attention to migrant, diasporic, feminist and historically underrepresented artistic positions.

Miradas a Chile / Sichtweisen auf Chile is presented by Karne Kunst gUG at Bardo Projektraum under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva @realmarce.

The exhibition is supported by the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes — Fondart Chile, 2026 call.

Bardo Projektraum is supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin under the artists direction of Marcela Villanueva.