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 am deeply engaged with questions on 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 spaces of exchange, contributing to the urgent debates around loss, mourning and restitution for women and non-binary people (*) of the Global South, as well as for the more-than-human inhabitants of the world—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) and the Dissertation Completion Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Arts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ACTIVATIONS
2024 Artistic intervention in the framework of "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. "The Rebellion of the Native Flowers". 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.
2023 Cali Foto Fest. Imágenes y Heridas de lo Colonial.
2023 Recovering and Re-embodying Life. DeScolonial Mothering*.
Mothering Communities.
2022 Motherhood* in the Art World. Doing the Dirty Work. Wienwoche.
2021 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.
2020 Wienwoche. The Perfume. Vienna.
2019 Wien Modern. Growth. Salon Souterrain. kültür gemma! fellowship, Vienna.
2019 Participation in the frame of Wienwoche. kültür gemma! fellowship. Vienna. 2019
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.
2018 RePRODUZIERE DICH! Soho in Ottakring. Vienna.
2016 Foto Galeria. Cordoba, Argentina.
2015 Participation in the frame of the exhibition “Mother of the Year”, Lentos Museum. Linz, Austria.
2015 "Small“ Kunstraum Super, Wien.
2014 Experimento Bio. Bilbao. Spain.
2014 Monovar Salon. Spain.
2014 Month of Photography with Sanja Lasic, Academy of Fine Arts. Vienna.
2013 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.
2012 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.
2011 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.
2010 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.
2009 International Festival of Electronic LanguageFILE. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2008 Salão de Abril. Fortaleza, Brazil.
2007 Exhibition at ADN Gallery. Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
2006 Individual Exhibition at Afro Spot Gallery. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2004 Exhibition of the posters Bogota. Bogota, Colombia.
2004 Exhibition of Eurocine’s Posters. Bogota, Colombia.
2003 II Salón Nacional de Fotografía, II place and honorary mention. Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
2001 II Salón Atma of Photography, Museum of Modern Art. Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
2000 Ventana 2000. Honorary mention. Santiago de Cali, Colombia. 2000
2000 Premios Nacionales de Arte, Museum of Modern Art. Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

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
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
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 Dissertation Completion Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2025)
Recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Academy of Fine Arts (2021-2024)
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.
07/1995 Secondary School Liceo Benalcazar, Cali, Colombia.
Supported by the Academic Excellence Scholarship offered
by Secondary School Liceo Benalcazar

CONVERSATIONS
03/2025 imaginarios materiales. Kleines Symposium zu Kunst- und Kulturtheorien aus Lateinamerika. Akbild. Jens Kastner.
01/2025 Magic Plants of Abya Yala. Guest lecture and workshop at Kunstschule Wien. Interdisciplinary Seminar. Hansel Sato.
07/2024 Alt Shift Festival for Degrowth in Krems am Camp, Austria. Panel contribution and workshop “Belonging and Creation of Territory in the Diaspora.” With the collective abya yala deScolonial.
06/2024 “Other Dreams. Other Traces. Other Archives. Other Futures” at sharing session WILDERNESS ALLIANCES — Exhibition & Laboratory for Artistic and Performative Research in Interaction with Plants and other Vibrant Entities. Motherboard 2.0, Vienna.
05/2024 Conference contribution and workshop “DeScolonial Walk through the Botanical Garden” at 38 LAF Austria (Lateinamerika Forschung https://laf-austria.at/), Vienna.
04/2024 Conference contribution and workshop “Exercise of Epistemological Justice. Expanding the Archive of Resistance” at Klima Biennale, invited by SOHO in Ottakring, Vienna.
03/2024 People's Summit. "The Rebellion of the Native Flowers. Terricide and Cyanotypes". Lecture and workshop. With the collective abya yala deScolonial.
03/2024 Guided visit for the class Artistic Art Education of Carla Bobadilla Lic., Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna in the context of the exhibition InVisibilizations.
03/2024 Guided visit for the class Artistic Collaborative Practice of Carla Bobadilla Lic., Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna in the context of the exhibition InVisibilizations.
03/2024 Conference and exhibition design, organization and moderation “UnSichtbarkeiten::InVisibilizations::InVisibilizaciones De(s)coloniality and Art (by artists from Latin America in Vienna)” together with PD Dr. phil. habil. Jens Kastner. With the support of the Learning on the Job Scholarship. Aula. Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
01/2024 Workshop “Expanding the Archive of Resistance. The case of Abya Yala in the Diaspora” at the Mercadita Feminista organized by the collective Borregas Moradas in Bonn, Germany.
11/2023 Panel contribution “De(s)colonial Vienna. Images from the Counter-Archive”, Cali Foto Fest.
11/2023 Panel contribution “Strategies of Visibilization Searching for Contact Zones between the Periphery and Center in mumok’s Exhibitions, 1998–2018” Meridians (2023) at the webinar of Meridians Volume 22.
10/2023 Guest lecture “Representation and Archive. Art and Activism” at the Seminar Art History of Dr. Laura Bohnenblust, University of Vienna.
10/2023 Guest lecture “Representation in the Sciences. Museums and Botany” at the seminar Künstlerische kollaborative Kunstvermittlungspraxis of Carla Bobadilla Lic., Institute for Education in the Arts (IKL), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
07/2023 Lecture and workshop “Recovering and Re-Embodying Life. DeScolonial Care Work” at Mothering* Communities of MPhil/PhD Art Barbara Mahlknecht. Zentrum Fokus Forschung. University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
02/2022 Seminar “Interdisziplinär” at Kunstschule Wien. 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 "Strategies of Visibilization". Guided visit of Ulrike Haele's seminar, Manual & Material Culture, New Design University Privatuniversität GesmbH at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab.
11/2021 "Strategies of Visibilization". Participation at the Decolonizing Knowledge Conference (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
2025 Recipient of a Dissertation Completion Scholarship of the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Academy of Fine arts Vienna
2021-2024 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 anti-colectiva abya yala deScolonial
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