Janet Toro
Born in Osorno, in the south of Chile. Short time later her Family emigrated to Santiago City.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Chile, Santiago. Lives and works in germany since 1999.
She was member Art Group APJ (Group for young Art). The group which worked in a very broad spectrum of art, ranging from graphic, installations to street-art. Due to the explosive matter of their political contents, considering especially the street-happenings, a very high risk.
Later she was member of the group Plástica Social (Social Art), where she got to the heart of her work as a performance-artist.
Her artistic field of activity contains performances, installations, and sculptures. Profound intuition, personal experience and thorough theoretical research are the fundaments of her works, aiming for a functionality on multiple cognitive and semantic levels.
Her works are a confrontation with existential, political and social subjects, whereat the creation of an a critical expression is essential for she.
Negotiating expensive materials, she instead works with plastic, textile, flour, paper, leaf, thread, hair, nail, earth, stone in short simple materials, that belong to our everyday life.
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Curriculum Janet Toro
Selected Individual and group exhibitions
Individual exhibitions..
2011 Installation and objects: Entre líneas (In Between Lines), Kunstkontor Gallery, Köln (Cologne), Germany
2010 Sacra sitis, Sacer dolor, Performance, Martin Luther Church, Köln (Cologne), Germany
2010 Sacra sitis; Sacer dolor installation (100 m2) Iglesia Martin Luther, Köln, Germany
2010 Sacra fames installation (25 m2) Martin Luther Tower, Köln (Cologne), Germany
2009 Secluded, installation at the artist’s home (38 m2) Köln (Cologne), Germany
2008 Farewell, installation at the artist’s home (53 m2). Dortmund, Germany
2008 Der Rand, performance in the context of the release of Clownfisch Kunsthalle, Wuppertal.
2007 Extranjero (Foreign) Exhibition. Camera Obscura Gallery, Dortmund, Germany.
2006 Desolación (Desolation) Performance, . Galerie Art- Isotope,Night of the Museums, Dortmund
2006 Isolation (Isolation), installation at the artist’s house (53 m2), Dortmund, Germany
2005 A-Test (A-Test) performance, Forum Radius 100 Depot, Dortmund, Germany
2004 Exhibition Mácula (Taint) Bonifatius Kirche, Dortmund, Germany
2004 Radiografía (X-Ray) at the artist’s home (53 m2)Dortmund, Germany.
2002 Humanos (Humans), Etage Eins, Gallery-Lounge. Dortmund, Germany
2001 Perros peleando (Dogfight) Gerda Türke Gallery, Dortmund, Germany
2000 Las huellas del dolor (The Traces of Pain) Schmerztherepeutisches Zentrums, St.-Marien Hospitals Lünen, Germany
1998 La herida (The Wound Series) Three Performances, Santiago, Valparaiso, Chile. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998 La locura (Madness), performance, Perrera-Arte Experimental Centre . Santiago, Chile
1998 Serie Ciudad Tóxica (Toxic City Series) two performances, Santiago, Chile.
1998 El Imbunche (The Imbunche) in the context of Anamorphosis; a secret point of view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
1997 La Crucifixión (The Crucifixion) Chiloe Museum of Modern Art, Chile.
1990 Serie, 2 Performances La sangre, el río y el Cuerpo (The blood, the river and the Body Series) Mapocho River, Santiago, Chile.
1986 Dos Preguntas (Two Questions) Performance. Collaboration by C. Winter. Paseo Ahumada, Santiago Chile.
Selected group exhibitions
2011 Frauenmusem Art Fair, Bonn, Germany.
2011 Line Up!, Galerie 30 works, Köln (Cologne), Germany
2011 Ein-sam installations. Martin Luther, tower Köln (Cologne), Germany.
2010 Taese Art Fair, Köln (Cologne), Germany
2006 Artor-Wand. Das Spiel Installation, Art- Isotope Gallery, Dortmund, Germany.
2004 Serie Biografía de mi Cuerpo (Biography of my Body Series) Theaterzwang Festival, Depot, Dortmund. Three new performances of the series.
2004-2003 Huellas del recuedo (Traces of Memory) Habeas Corpus, installation, IG Metall, Sprockhövel and Berlin, Germany.
2003 El ausente performance (The Absentee) Performance in the context of the event: Chile. September 11, 1973, 30 years.after Bochum Museum of Art, Germany.
2003 Serie Biografía de mi Cuerpo (Biography of my Body Series). 3 Performances at Brotfabrik Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany,
1999 Serie El Cuerpo de la memoria (The Body of Memory) Ninety performances and Installations. II Bienal de Arte joven, South Wing National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
1998 El Imbunche (The Imbunche), Performance in the context of the exhibition Anamorphosis. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile