Teresa Margolles is a visual artist who examines the social causes and consequences of death, destruction, displacement, discrimination and misery. While she is widely known for her group of works that focus on the social and economic conditions caused by drug traffic and the invloved acts of crime, in the last four years the focus of her artistic practice involves border conflicts, immigration and extreme inequality in society.
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Blowback / The Power, 2022
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Aproximacion al Lugar de los Hechos (Approximation to the Scenes of the Facts), 2020
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Estorbo (Obstruction) II, 2019
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Mujeres venezolanas en la frontera con Colombia (Venezuelan women on the border with Colombia), 2018
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La entrega (The delivery), 2017-2019
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La Gran America (The Great America), 2017
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Pesquisas (Inquiries), 2016
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Espejos de la barra del club "RUV" (Mirrors from the counter of the club "RUV"), 2016
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Mundos (Worlds), 2016
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Piso del club "Lago Blanco" (Floor from the club "Lago Blanco"), 2016
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Pista de baile del nightclub "Irma's" (Dance floor of the nightclub "Irma's"), 2016
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Pesquisas (Inquiries), 2016
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Pesquisas (Inquiries), 2016
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Plancha (Hotplate), 2014
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Boee Chocami (Black Path), 2014
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La búsqueda (2) [The Search (2)], 2014
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40 kilómetros (40 kilometers), 2014
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Nkijak b’ey Pa jun utz laj K’aslemal (Opening Paths to Social Justice), 2012 - 2015
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PM 2010, 2012
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Esta finca no será demolida (This property will not be demolished), 2011-2013
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Esta finca no será demolida (This property will not be demolished), 2011-2013
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Esta finca no será demolida (This property will not be demolished), 2011
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En el aire (In the Air), Ciudad Juarez, 2011
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Muro Ciudad Juárez (Wall of Ciudad Juarez), 2010
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Frontera (Border), 2010
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51 cuerpos (51 Bodies), 2010
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¿De qué otra cosa podríamos hablar? Limpieza (What Else Could We Talk About? Cleaning), 2009
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Recados Póstumos (Cine Estudiante) [Posthumous Notes (Cinema Estudiante)], 2006
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Papeles (Papers), 2003
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Trepanaciones (Sonidos de la morgue) [Trepanations (Sounds of the morgue)], 2003
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Periferia de la agonía (Periphery of agony), 2003
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Catafalco (Catafalque), 1997
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Teresa Margolles
Everything Gets LighterFundacion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
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7 Deadly Sins. Current PerspectivesKunsthalle Krems, Krems, Germany
14 Oct 2023 - 1 Apr 2024In 2005, the British cultural radio station Radio 4 asked its listeners to come up a list of what they considered to be the worst sins. To many people’s surprise,...Read more -
Group Show
The Other Side of the Mirror is HomeGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
1 Sep - 11 Oct 2023With works by Vlassis Caniaris, Willie Doherty, Beatriz González, Leiko Ikemura, Teresa Margolles, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Adrian Paci, Shirana Shahbazi in collaboration with Anne Morgenstern, Didier William and Artur Zmijewski.Read more -
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EstorboGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
10 Jun - 29 Jul 2022Central themes from her body of work, such as violence, poverty and discrimination, are traced back to fundamental origins - using a local conflict that can stand representative of global...Read more -
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Periferia dell’agoniaMattatoio, Rome, Italy
24 Feb - 19 May 2022From this standpoint, the Mexican artist brings into the context of art the space of death, a metaphor par excellence of the border, of a limit that is paradoxically reached...Read more -
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The StoneEs Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
18 Sep 2020 - 28 Mar 2021Teresa Margolles (Culiacán, Sinaloa, 1963) spent a long period in Cúcuta, a city on the border between Venezuela and Colombia. It is a territory that has turned into a symbol...Read more -
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En la HeridaKunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
11 Nov 2019 - 2 Feb 2020The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Krems focuses on a recent topical aspect of her work: the nearly hopeless situation of transgender prostitutes in Ciudad Juárez, the city with the highest...Read more -
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La carne muerta nunca se abrigaMuseo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, Chile
31 Aug 2019 - 2 Feb 2020In this project, Margolles investigates for the first time the local context and the effect of an economic model, considered one of the most unequal in the world, on the...Read more -
58th Venice Biennale
May You Live in Interesting TimesVenice Biennale, Venice, Italy
11 May - 24 Nov 2019Congratulations to Teresa Margolles on receiving special mention for her work in the 58th Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. The Jury of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, comprising Stephanie Rosenthal (President of the Jury, Germany), Defne Ayas (Turkey/Netherlands), Cristiana Collu (Italy), Sunjung Kim (Korea), and Hamza Walker (USA) recognized Margolles for her sharp and poignant works that deal with the plight of women grossly affected by the narcotics trade in her native Mexico.Read more -
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EstorboMuseo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
21 Mar - 26 May 2019Margolles will exhibit the results of some of her fieldwork she made on the Simón Bolívar bridge, one of the geographical points that connect Colombia and Venezuela, questioning the physical...Read more -
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Ya Basta hijos de putaPAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
28 Mar - 10 Jun 2018Promoted by the Municipality of Milan - Culture and produced by PAC with Silvana Editoriale, the exhibition is part of the calendar of Art Week, the Milanese week dedicated to...Read more -
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Pista de BaileGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
2 Sep - 29 Oct 2016Teresa Margolles has focused her artistic practice in the last decade on the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, one of the most important towns along the country‘s Northern border. The...Read more -
53rd Venice Biennale
What else could we talk about?Mexican Pavilion, Venice, Italy
7 Jun - 22 Nov 2009The installation consisted of a set of seven pieces that subtly intervened the space. However, in symbolic terms, it was impossible to be unnoticed since the objective was to make...Read more -
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Los Herederos - Die ErbenGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich
17 Jan - 21 Feb 2009„Violence, homicide and death are the focus of Teresa Margolles’ artistic and political discourse. She forges an aesthetics that is related to death on the one hand and to the...Read more -
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Ciudad JuárezGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich
13 Jun - 30 Jul 2005This city is not only known as the Capital of the Maquiladoras1, but it achieved tragic fame due to an unsolved series of murders of young women. Since 1993, more...Read more -
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Limmatstrasse, Zurich 22 Mar - 10 May 2003Teresa Margolles deals in her work with the dark sides of the Megalopolis Mexico City and with Latine America in general. She makes her subject matter the worthlessness of human...Read more
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En La Herida, 2020 Texts by Florian Steininger, Oscar Gardea Duarte, Maria Chiara WangKunsthalle Krems
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Ya Basta Hijo De Puta, 2018 Texts by Diego Sileo, Oscar Gardea Duarte / a.k.a. Rufián / a.k.a. Tâm Liêu Âm, Michy Marxuach, Ángel Moya Garcia, Gilbert Vicario, Mario Canal, Ferran Barenblit, Eugenio Viola, Francesca Guerisoli, Raphael Gygax, Antoine Henry Jonquères, Emanuela Borzac Read more -
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Mundos, 2017 Text by John Zeppetelli, Jean-Philippe Uzel, Thérèse St-Gelais, Lulu Morales MendozaMusée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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We Have A Thread In Common, 2015 Edited by Patrice GiassonNeuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York
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El Testigo, 2014 Texts by Ferran Barenblit, Óscar Gardea Duarte, Juan A. Gaitán, María Inés Rodríguez & Eyal WeizmanCentro de Arte Dos de Mayo, CA2M, Mostoles
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La Promesa, 2012 Author: María Inés RodríguezUNAM, MUAC, Mexico
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Frontera, 2011 Text by Alpha Escobedo, Leobardo Alvarado, Rein Wolfs, Letizia RagagliaEdited by Rein Wolfs, Letizia Ragaglia
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Museoin, Bozen
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What Else Could We Talk About?, 2009 Texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Taiyana PimentelMexican Pavilion. 53 International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia
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127 Cuerpos, 2006 Text by: Hans-Georg Lohe, Patrizia Dander, Heriberto YépezKunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
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Muerte Sin Fin, 2004 Texts by Klaus Görner, Udo KittelmannMMK Frankfurt am Main
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