Valeria Montti Colque

Valeria Montti Colque has roots in Chile. Her work emerges in collage form – where drawing, watercolor, textile, ceramics and recycled materials are intertwined into stories of transformation and belonging. In layer upon layer, each piece bears traces of time and care. Through large installations, painting and performance, Montti Colque creates worlds where the spiritual meets the rebellious, playful and poetic. She often returns to her works and allows them to change, grow, take new forms and be told anew.

Valeria Montti Colque’s work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally and is part of the Moderna Museet collection. In 2024, she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale with the project Cosmonación, curated by Andrea Pacheco González, and in 2025 presented a new version at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm. The work is now on display at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile. In the same year, she received the City of Stockholm’s Honorary Prize in Art. In 2025, Valeria Montti Colque also received the Sculpture Prize – K.A. Lind’s Honorary Prize from Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

For The Place That Holds Its Breath, Valeria Montti Colque is working on new site-specific works that explore the encounter between traditional tapestry painting and Colque’s own distinctive and bustling universe. The works are shown in an exhibition at the Tapestry Museum in Unnaryd that opens on National Day, June 6, 2026, and runs until the end of August.