Manuela Illera,
Bogotá, Colombia
Lives and works in Munich Germany
Manuela Illera is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist mostly involved with time-based media and constellations related to the performing arts. Her feminist political practice, enunciated from the site of migration, situates her in the search for radical communications on decoloniality, the body and subversive identities. Her music, films and group collaborations in various disciplines examine the role of whiteness, capitalism and patriarchal social conformity in culture.
2023 Diploma (MA Equivalent) in Time based Media from the ADBK Munich with Prof. Julian Rosefeldt.
Meisterschülerin from Prof. Jorinde Voigt.
2012 Visual Arts at Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
2010 Painting at Carlos Rojas, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Co-director of the decolonial music festival La Retornona (Bogotá).
Co-founder of Cosmica Bandida band
Director of the feminist podcast Extravagant Mortals.
Video producer for digital communication at Haus der Kunst.
Selected Solo Shows
2024
06.06 PIEDRAS LUNARES, Site specific, DG Kunstraum, Munich
29.02 LENGUAS SOLARES, Site specific, Instituto Cervantes, Munich
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2023 Tanztage Ingolstadt, Animal Ventus + Cosmica Bandida
Debutanti*nnen der AdBK
The other side of the Moon, Buchheim Museum, group show, performance
La Retornora, art direction, Music Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
Sentimental Disobedience, Historische Aula AdBK Diplom Solo Show
2022 COSMICA BANDIDA at HYPERLOCAL Festival, Milan
COSMICA BANDIDA at SuperBOOKS Haus der Kunst, Munich
COSMICA BANDIDA at LAFITA, Munich
COSMICA BANDIDA at Kunstarkaden
COSMICA BANDIDA at Dj Bike
CORPS MATRIARCHAL, public space Munich with Burschenschaft Molestia and Sonqo Ruro
AKKURAT Festival, COSMICA BANDIDA at Import Export, Munich
LA BANDIDA Vs LA ÁCIDA, COSMICA BANDIDA, Solo show, AkademieGalerie
COSMICA BANDIDA Live at SVS Collisions Muffat Cafe
Site Visit, Interweave - Radio 80k, Museum Brandhorst, Munich Germany
Goethe Institute Paris, Lassitude, Paris, France
ANTIKRIST, Ersan Mondtag, artistic collaborator Deutsche Oper, Berlin Germany
2021 Super Books, Haus Der Kunst with AKASCOPE and Banfora records, Munich Germany
Zimmer Frei, Hotel Mariandl, sound installation, performance, Munich Germany
SVS Collisions art residency, Canfranc, Spanish pyrenees.
Polyphonic Museum online release.
Body without organs, Sugar mountain, Munich Germany
EXPERIMANCE Festival COSMICA BANDIDA Performance, Saarbrücken, Germany
AMP WALL Monument confrontation performance with Kalas Liebfried, Munich Germany
ENSEMS festival, 3 channel installation Palau de les Arts, Valencia, Spain
2020 COSMICA BANDIDA Performance, Akademiegalerie, Munich Germany
The Sun will Come at Pandemic edition ADBK 2020
Der Schmied von Gent, Ersan Mondtag, artistic collaborator Antwerp, Belgium
2019 AKASCOPE, release, Munich Germany
AKVO inauguration, Gallery Foe, Munich, Germany
Generation 19’ Studio Jorinde Voigt, Gallery week Berlin, Germany
Space Nouvelle, Innsbruck, Austria
Generation 19’ Academy of fine Arts Munich, yearly exhibition, Munich, Germany
L’artiste devant sa toile, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
2018 Das internat, Ersan Mondtag, artistic collaborator, Dortmund, Germany
Big Awards, CAGE Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Intertidal, Academy of fine Arts Munich, yearly exhibition, Munich, Germany
2017 ART LAB, Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany
STROKE Art Fair, Munich, Germany
Malaga Art Fair, Malaga, Spain
Kunst- und Textwerk, Lesecafé im Westend, Munich, Germany
2016 Imaginarios desarmados, Casal de Joves Palau Alós, Barcelona, Spain
SUDAKART, Farbenladen, Munich, Germany
Proyecto 30, Funza, Colombia
2015 Applaudissement, Arthaus Neuhausen Gallery, Munich, Germany
Arte Caliente Fest, SO.CAL, Munich, Germany
Atelier am Isator with Teresa Sakura, Munich, Germany
2014 The Night Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Cantando quiero decirte, El Sanatorio, Bogotá, Colombia
CONFLICTO EN ALTA RESOLUCIÓN, FILBO, Bogotá, Colombia
2012 Mensajes del Absoluto, Morafoto Studio, Bogotá, Colombia
2010 Pintura, Centro Carlos Rojas, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
PRIZES AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich Scholarship Fund (Debütantin)
2021 Scholarship „Junge Kunst und neue Wege“ from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art.
2021 Artist Residency - SVS Collisions @Laboratorio Subterraneo Canfranc, Spain
2018 BIG AWARDS international gallery, artist selection, Barcelona
2013 Third place in the national painting prize, "Conflict in High Resolution" of the National Centre of Historical Memory of Colombia.