claudia* sandoval romero
Santiago de Cali, Colombia
claudiasandovalromero@gmail.com
www.claudiasandovalromero.com

 

I am claudia* sandoval romero, an Austro-Colombian journalist, researcher and transdisciplinary artist.
At the heart of my proposal is a critical reflection on archives and counter-archives, care work and the pursuit of epistemological justice within the contact zones. I engage deeply with feminisms (*), horizontal pedagogies and practices of deScoloniality, driven by a commitment to expose power relations and open up spaces for erased voices to be heard.
My approach to art is nurtured by the driving force of creating pedagogical spaces of horizontal exchange, contributing to the urgent debates around loss, mourning and restitution for women and non-binary people (*) of the Global South—voices systematically erased from the symbolic, economic and social fields.
My practice spans photography, film/video and research, fusing sociological methods with collective creation.
I am currently pursuing my PhD in the sociology of art at the Academy of Fine Arts, supported by the DOC Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• Solidarität gegen Angst. Volkskundenmuseum. SOHO in Ottakring. 2024
• AltShift Degrowth Festival. With the collective abya yala deScolonial. 2024
• Vienna Biennale. SOHO in Ottakring. Workshop Cyanotypes as Archive of Resistance. 2024
• People's Summit. With the collective abya yala deScolonial. 2024
• Organization of the Conference and Exhibition in colaboration with Jens Kastner "InVisibilizations::InVisibilizaciones. De(s)coloniality and Art (by artists from Latin America in Vienna)". Akbild. 2024
• Cali Foto Fest. Imágenes y Heridas de lo Colonial. 2023
• Recovering and Re-embodying Life. DeScolonial Mothering*.
Mothering Communities. 2023
• Motherhood* in the Art World. Doing the Dirty Work. Wienwoche. 2022
• De-/Kolonisierung des Wissens at the University of Vienna. 2021
• Powerspots. With Elisa Quintero and Vars. 6. Bezirk. Vienna. 2021
• Gender: Ambivalente Un_Sichtbarkeiten | 8. Jahrestagung der ÖGGF an der Universität Wien 2021
• Strategies of Visibilization. Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory, Vienna. 2021
• Slow Wave Screening. IntAkt Künstlerinnen. WUK, Vienna. 2021
• Wienwoche. The Perfume. Vienna. 2020
• Wien Modern. Growth. Salon Souterrain. kültür gemma! fellowship, Vienna. 2019
• Participation in the frame of Wienwoche. kültür gemma! fellowship. Vienna. 2019
• Artvideo Festival "Para Verte Mejor". Popayán, Colombia. 2019
• Parallel. VBKÖ. Vienna. 2019
• Participation in the frame of the exhibition "Ebullición". KUNSTRAUM AM SCHAUPLATZ, Vienna. 2019
• RePRODUZIERE DICH! Soho in Ottakring. Vienna. 2018
• Foto Galeria. Cordoba, Argentina. 2016
• Participation in the frame of the exhibition “Mother of the Year”, Lentos Museum. Linz, Austria. 2015
• "Small“ Kunstraum Super, Wien, 2015
• Experimento Bio. Bilbao. Spain. 2014
• Monovar Salon. Spain. 2014
• Month of Photography with Sanja Lasic, Academy of Fine Arts. Vienna. 2014
• Kasseler Dokumentarfilm. Germany. 2013
• Winner of AI-AP, Latin-American Photography. New York, USA. 2013
• Probe aufs Exempel, Mumok. Vienna. 2013
• Hallway Gallery. With Sanja Lasic. Vienna. 2013
• Panel Discussion “The Collection”, 21er Haus. Vienna. 2012
• Bundesverband Bildender KünstlerInnen. Cologne, Germany. 2012
• Keine Zeit, 21er Haus. Vienna. 2012
• AI-AP, Latin-American Photography. New York, USA. 2012
• Espacio Enter. Canarias. Spain. 2012
• GAL, Universität für Angewandte Kunst. Vienna. 2012
• Swansea International Salon of Photography. England. 2011
• Photoclub. Poland. 2011
• Child salon. Poland. 2011
• GAL. Universität für Angewandte Kunst. Vienna. 2011
• Zajecar “Child” International Salon of Photography. Serbia. 2011
• Ausstellung -1/MinusEins im Exil. Wuppertal. Germany. 2010
• Rundgang, KHM. Cologne, Germany. 2010
• Latin-American Salon of Documentary Photography. Museum of Antioquia. Colombia. 2010
• VII Bienal of Art. Colombia. 2010
• BOR, International Salon of Photography. Serbia. 2010
• Map of Fictions Based on the Augusta Street. Sao Paulo. Brazil. 2010
• International Festival of Electronic LanguageFILE. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2009
• 59 Salão de Abril. Fortaleza, Brazil. 2008
• Exhibition at ADN Gallery. Santiago de Cali, Colombia. 2007
• Individual Exhibition at Afro Spot Gallery. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2006
• Exhibition of the posters Bogota. Bogota, Colombia. 2004
• Exhibition of Eurocine’s Posters. Bogota, Colombia. 2004
• II Salón Nacional de Fotografía, II place and honorary mention. Santiago de Cali, Colombia. 2003
• II Salón Atma of Photography, Museum of Modern Art. Santiago de Cali, Colombia. 2001
• Ventana 2000. Honorary mention. Santiago de Cali, Colombia. 2000
• Premios Nacionales de Arte, Museum of Modern Art. Santiago de Cali, Colombia. 2000

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2023 “Strategies of Visibilization: Searching for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Exhibitions, 1998–2018” in Meridians. Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Smith College: Duke University Press, p.169-179.
2019 “Brief Analysis on the History of the Museum and the Possible Nonwhite Museum”, in: Políticas Culturais em Revista. Bahia University. Brazil, 274-297-Based on preliminary research for my dissertation
2018 "Culture Industry: A Contemporary Revision of the Term of Theodor Adorno", in: Enhancing Art, Culture, and Design with Technological Integration. International Publisher of Information Science and Technology Research Edit. Hershey, US, 1-24 -Based on preliminary research for my dissertation
2011 "New Media Art and a Contemporary Revision of the Term ‘Culture Industry’ of Theodor Adorno", in: International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies, US, 1-13
2010 “For a Critical Perspective in Web Art’s Value”, in: Metaverse Creativity, University of Texas, Texas, US, 19-31
2010 “Places Localities and the Internet as a territory: Art and Politics”, in:
Technoethic Arts Magazine, Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, England, 239-244
2009 “New Media Art and Politics”, in: Magazine API, University of Murcia, Spain, 221-240
2009 “The Meaning of Creation Inside New Communication Technologies”, in: Magazine Rastros, University of the State of Santa Catarina, Brasil, P. 107-119
2009 “Fotografia e Novas Mídias: Criação Colaborativa no Brasil”, in: Revista Contemporânea, v.7, n.3: Visualidade e informação. Rio de Janeiro State University. Brasil, 120-129

PUBLICATIONS
2024 “De(s)colonial Vienna. Images from the Counter-Archive” in Cali Foto Fest. Santiago de Cali: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
2023“Recovering and Re-Embodying Life. DeScolonial Care Work” at Mothering* Communities of MPhil/PhD Art Barbara Mahlknecht. University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
2016 Postcards from Italy. Special Edition ReveLA Magazine.
2015 “El Día de los Inocentes y Diablo o ‘Krampus’”, in: Pluralis Revista, France (online)
2013 "Weiwei y el Romance con Occidente. Resumen de la 55 Bienal de Venecia”, in: Replicante Magazine, Mexico (online)
2013 Latin American Fotografia Spotlight: Claudia Sandoval Romero.
New York (online)
2013 Ensemble Magazine. Scholarship of ÖH, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2012 "The 13th Documenta of Kassel", in: Replicante Magazine, Mexico (online)
2011 "The suspension points of the 54 Venice Biennale", in: Replicante Magazine, Mexico (online)
2011 "The suspension points of the 54 Venice Biennale", in: Exclama Magazine, Colombia, New York (online)
2009 “Last Considerations on São Paulo’s 28 Biennale”, in: Magazine El Replicante. Guadalajara. Mexico, 51-53

ACADEMIC JOURNEY
Since 01/2020 Candidate for the Title of Doctor in Philosophy under the supervision of Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. habil. Jens Kastner.
Recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
06/2015 Master in Critical Studies. Institute for Art and Cultural Sciences.
Academy of Fine Arts. Examination approved with honors. Vienna,
Austria. Master Thesis: Motherhood in the Art World
07/2010 Master in New Media Arts, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Awarded with the scholarships Capes (for the year 2008) and Fapesp (for the years 2009 and 2010). Master Thesis: “Authorship in the Net.Art”
07/2002 Media Studies and Journalism, Valle University, Colombia. Awarded with the Academic Incentive Scholarship offered by the Universidad del Valle. Graduated with the best grades of the promotion.
07/1995 Secondary School Liceo Benalcazar, Cali, Colombia.
Supported by the Academic Excellence Scholarship offered
by Secondary School Liceo Benalcazar

LECTURES
07/2024 AltShift Degrowth Festival. With the collective abya yala deScolonial.
06/2024 Sharing session at WILDERNESS ALLIANCES — Exhibition & Laboratory for Artistic and Performative Research in Interaction with Plants and other Vibrant Entities. Motherboard 2.0
05/2024 DeScolonial walk. 38 LAF Austria (Lateinamerika Forschung https://laf-austria.at/)
04/2024 Vienna Biennale. SOHO in Ottakring. Workshop Cyanotypes as Archive of Resistance.
03/2024 People's Summit. With the collective abya yala deScolonial.
03/2024 Organization of the Conference and Exhibition in colaboration with Jens Kastner "InVisibilizations::InVisibilizaciones. De(s)coloniality and Art (by artists from Latin America in Vienna)". Akbild Vienna.
01/2024 Participation in the Mercadita Feminista. Workshop Plants and Cyanotypes as Archive of Resistance. Bonn. Germany.
11/2023 Panel contribution. Cali Foto Festival.
11/2023 Panel contribution. Meridians Volume 22.
10/2023 Guest lecture. Seminar Art History “Art and Activism” at the University of Vienna. Laura Bohnenblust.
10/2023 Guest lecture. Künstlerische kollaborative Kunstvermittlungspraxis. at Akbild. Carla Bobadilla Jeria.
02/2022 Seminar “Interdisziplinär” at Kunstschule Wien, class Hansel Sato.
12/2021 The unsaid: decolonization of knowledge through the language of the arts? (Dem Nichtgesagten: Dekolonisierung des Wissens durch die Sprache der Künste?). Ein Panel with: D/Arts (Sheri Avraham, Zuzana Ernst, Esra Özmen, Ivana Pillic), Claudia Sandoval Romero, Jakob Krameritsch und Maren Grimm. Moderation: Amalia Barboza and Mariel Rodriguez.
09/2021 Visit of the class of Ulrike Haele, Manual & Material Culture, New Design University Privatuniversität GesmbH at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab.
11/2021 Conference Decolonizing Knowledge (De-/Kolonisierung des Wissens) at the University of Vienna.
09/2021 Artist talk during the exhibition Strategies of Visibilization at Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory for Vienna Design Week, Vienna
09/2021 Artist talk during the exhibition Strategies of Visibilization at Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory for Verein K-Visiting Critics Residency, Vienna
09/2021 Gender: Ambivalente Un_Sichtbarkeiten | 8. Jahrestagung der ÖGGF an der Universität Wien
06/2021 Auf großer Fahrt: Die Zapatistas kommen. Radio Orange. Vienna
08/2019 “Motherhood in the Art World”, Exhibition "Ebullición"
KUNSTRAUM AM SCHAUPLATZ. Vienna
07/2018 “Motherhood in the Art World”, Forum Discussion
RePRODUZIERE DICH! Soho in Ottakring. Vienna
07/2017 “Latina Art in Exile in Vienna”, Conference Accesos Móviles, Art from Latin America. Bern University
2015-2016 “Motherhood in the Art World”, Exhibition “Mother of the Year”, Lentos Museum. Linz
05/2012 Panel Discussion “The Collection”, Exhibition Keine Zeit, Belvedere 21, Vienna
11/2011 “New Media Art”, Jahrestagung of the History Department at Alpen Adria University of Klagenfurt
07/2010 Series of conferences “Photography and New Technologies”, National Confederation of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism of Brazil -
SESC, Sao Paulo
11/2009 “Places Localities and the Internet as a territory: Art and
Politics”, Conference Consciousness Reframed X. Macromedia
University, Munich
07/2009 “Photography and New Media”, Center of Cultural Diversity, New York
08/ 2009 “Photography and New Media”, Conference Communication and Context, Valle University, Colombia
11/2008 “The Debate of Photography and New Communication
Media: Collaborative Creation of Photographic Images inside the
Brazilian Context”, II Symposium of the Brazilian Association of
Researchers In Cyberculture-ABCIBER. Pontifical Catholic University-
PUC, Sao Paulo


GRANTS
Since 2021 Recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy
of Sciences at the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Academy of Fine arts Vienna
2019-2020 kültür gemma! Fellowship for coordination and audio-visual content creation. Vienna
2009-2010 Research Support Scholarship awarded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation-Fapesp for the Master in New Media Arts, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008 Research Support Scholarship awarded by Social Educational
Professional Support Center-Capes for the Master in New Media Arts,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
1995-2002 Academic Incentive Scholarship awarded by the Universidad del Valle. Media Studies and Journalism, Valle University, Colombia
1995 ICESI University Scholarship awarded by Secondary School Liceo
Benalcazar
1994-1995 Academic Excellence Scholarship offered by Secondary School Liceo Benalcazar

RESEARCH
03-07/2010 Guest student at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln-KHM
2008-2010 Research in the group Digital Poetics under the direction of Gilbertto Prado and Silvia Laurentiz, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
08/2008 Participation in the Congress IX Consciousness Reframed. Vienna
05/2008 Participation in the group Public Interventions, under the direction of Prfs. Drs. Ana Maria Tavares and Antoni Muntadas. Sao Paulo
07/2007 Development of projects at Fabrica, Benetton’s Research Center
under the direction of Enrico Bossan. Treviso. Italy

MEDIA WORK AND WORKSHOPS
2024 Solidarität gegen Angst. Volkskundenmuseum. SOHO in Ottakring.
2024 AltShift Degrowth Festival. With the collective abya yala deScolonial.
2024 Vienna Biennale. SOHO in Ottakring. Workshop Cyanotypes as Archive of Resistance.
2024 People's Summit. With the collective abya yala deScolonial.
Since 2023 Content creator of online Platforms of the collective Abya Yala De(s)colonial
Since 2021 Managment of Online Platforms Jornadas de Resonancia
2021 Compas Zapatistas. Coordination of the Spanish-speaking group to accompany the Zapatista delegation in Austria
05-06/2021 Photography-Workshop. Gymnasium Groß-Enzersdorf, Austria
2019/2020 Content creator and coordination of the interdisciplinary space Salon Souterrain for the fellowship kültür gemma!, Vienna, Austria
05/2020 Photography-Workshop. Gymnasium Groß-Enzersdorf, Austria
2009-2010 Workshops “Photography and New Media Technologies”, Rural Node Secondary School. Caloto, Colombia
2008-2009 Head of the Photography Department. University National Unified College Corporation-CUN, Bogota, Colombia
2003-2005 Photography teacher. Liceo Benalcazar School and Secondary
School, Cali, Colombia