Claudia Vásquez Gómez
Visual artist

AHORA. Santiago, Chile. 2025-2026

Selected Works 2007–2022 Solo Exhibition · Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Universidad de Chile · Santiago A survey of land art, performance and audiovisual works developed across Chile’s  most extreme territories — from Antarcticbases and Patagonian channels to the Atacama  Desert, Puerto Williams and the lakes of southern Chile. Across fifteen years of situated practice, […]

Camino a Montegrande, a propósito de Francisco Varela. Valle del Elqui,Chile. 2024

  Since 2006, Claudia Vásquez has developed a body of work informed by the thought of Chilean biologist, philosopher, and Buddhist thinker Francisco Varela (1946–2001). Concepts such as impermanence, memory, and experience have become central to the material and conceptual development of her practice. This project unfolds as a journey through the Elqui Valley, combining […]

Escritura en terreno III : Mercado Vega Central. Santiago, Chile. 2022

«La Vega Central de Santiago», one of the oldest and most emblematic food markets in Chile, became the starting point for this intervention focused on the activation of its oral and intangible heritage. The project highlights the phrase “After God Comes La Vega”, an expression passed down through generations of vendors since the late 18th […]

Research about the wind : Georgetown. Georgetown, Guyana. 2022

Landscape intervention and collaborative performance developed in Georgetown, Guyana, as part of the 51st anniversary of bilateral relations between Chile and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. The project unfolded in two stages: a workshop with Guyanese art students exploring and making visible the coastal wind near Georgetown, followed by a collective performance created with scenic […]

Casa de Fuerza. Pozo Almonte, Chile. 2022

Humberston Saltpeter Office. Pozo Almonte. Chile. Performance using a gray silk dress. Performance developed at the Humberstone Saltpeter Works in the Atacama Desert, using a gray silk dress as the central element of the action. The work explores the material and human memory of the saltpeter industry, Chile’s main economic activity between 1880 and 1930, […]

Olvido. Santiago, Chile. 2021-2022.

Solo exhibition presented at the National Center for Contemporary Art Cerrillos. Intervention developed from the text “SOMETIMES I FORGET I AM HERE”, using an installation of 150 natural grass tiles as the central element of the work. The piece incorporated a gradual irrigation protocol that allowed the grass to transition from an intensely green state […]

Every travel is a travel. Moscú * San Petersburgo* Omsk. Rusia. 2021

Video recording of the Trans-Siberian railway route between Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Omsk, and Moscow. Filmed in 2018 and edited in Santiago de Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic. Duration: 4 min 49 sec.   Registro en video del recorrido del tren Transiberiano entre San Petersburgo, Moscú, Omsk y Moscú. Grabada en 2018 y editada en Santiago […]

DE CORPO PRESENTE. Sao Paulo, Brasil. 2021

Collective exhibition «Por um soplo de furia y esperanza: Una declaración de emergencia climática», MuBE — Museu Brasileiro de Escultura e Ecologia.Performance based on the text É TARDE MAS AINDA TEMOS TEMPO (It is late, but we still have time) in collaboration with artist Ana Teixeira (BR). Curated by Galciani Neves and Natalie Unterstell. Exibición […]

Field Writing: EXPERIMENTOS. Puerto Williams, Chile. 2021

Field Writing: EXPERIMENTOS.

Omora Park. Puerto Williams, Chile. Ephemeral writing of a quote from Charles Darwin (1809-1889): “I love silly experiments, that’s why I’m always doing them”, using edible wheat letters known as “alphabet paste”. Omora Ethnobotanical Park, founded in 2000, is a 1,000-hectare private reserve Navarino Island. It is home to the southernmost sub-Antarctic temperate   forest in […]