Martin Soto Climent

Selected Works

Biography

Born in 1970 in Mexico City, Martin Soto Climent lives and works in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Martin Soto Climent mainly with sculptures and installations to which he mostly uses simple objects and materials he finds in the streets or buys at thrift stores. Sometimes unaltered, sometimes subject to minimal gestures of recontextualization, these materials are arranged in new configurations that in their simplicity and humbleness may appear like readymades. The artist is not interested in art as a product but believes in the artistic object as a container of energy. His process is based on the intensification of this energy through the use of minimal resources according to a method of economy of means that extends to an existential logic of restraint and moderation, a conscious posture to counteract excess. Soto Climent is constantly looking for the poetic gesture that transforms, without producing, what is already in the world to demonstrate how a simple fold, intertwining or extension of one or more objects can open multiple 'windows' of perception and understanding and evoke intimate memories and suggestions. Materials like women's clothing, domestic furnishings and vintage photographies are manipulated and transformed drawing out the sexual or otherwise implicit qualities of the objects that are arranged in apparently fragile assemblages that explore questions of desire, fragility, temporality and decay. Most of these objects can be returned to their original state and therefore stay in an ephemeral stage of transition.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

15.11.2022
LE TEMPESTAD
MARTÍN SOTO CLIMENT: ECUACIONES DEL DESEO
07.06.2018
ARTRIBUNE
Cambiare prospettiva. Martin Soto Climent a Roma
05.02.2016
ARTNEWS
Mexico City’s Lulu Expands

From the studio: Martin Soto Climent

Studio Visit

Explore Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent in his studio in Tepoztlan, Mexico and his beautiful and special relationship with nature.
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Education

1996

Industrial Design Degree, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

2015

Master Degree in Visual Arts, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

Solo exhibitions

2023

‘La Volonté de la Volupté’, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France

2022

‘Hay una palabra para nombrar la hora de la noche en silencio’, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
‘Gentle Stranger’, Union Pacific, London
‘The Phantom’s Shadow’, Karma International, Zurich

2021

‘Amatl’, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris

2020

‘Gossip’, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

2019

‘Martin Soto Climent: In the Shadow of an Invisible Thread’, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
‘The skin of the apple’, Karma International, Zurich

2018

‘Todo empieza en otra parte’, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
‘Under the immortal skin’, T293, Rome
‘Temazcal’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles

2017

‘Works and Days’, Atlantis, Chevalier Roze, Marseille

2016

‘Retrospectiva’, Lulu, Mexico City
‘Chambres aver vue sur le champ’, Untilthen, Paris
‘Paradise’, DREI, Cologne
‘Frenetic Gossamer’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘Huellas de la Revolución Industrial’, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Roma

2015

‘La bella durmiente’, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
‘Caramel Huysmans’, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
‘The Contemporary Comedy: Glossy Mist’, Clifton Benevento, New York

2014

‘Luster Butterfly’, T293, Rome
‘All That I Never Was’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles

2013

‘Mariposas Migratorias’, Clifton Benevento, New York

2012

‘I miss my thread’, Karma International, Zurich
‘The Equation of Desire’, Kunsthalle Winterthur
‘The Bright of the Whisper’, Kunstraum, Innsbruck
‘La Alcoba Doble’, T293, Rome/Naples

2011

‘Frenetic Gossamer’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles

2010

‘Martin Soto Climent – A bridge between two towers’, Clifton Benevento, New York
‘A Long Chapter One’, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

2009

‘El Mago’, Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam
‘Laberintome’, T293, Naples
‘Impulsive Chorus’, X Initiative, New York
‘The Intimate Revolt’, Karma International, Zurich
‘For your eyes only’, La Sala, Mexico City
‘Martin Soto Climent’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles

2008

‘Hidden Symmetries’, Broadway 1602, New York
’Parabolic Dust’, Broadway 1602, New York
‘01.18.08’, T293, Naples

2007

‘Vacio Contenido’, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City

2006

‘Checkmate’, Broadway 1602, New York
‘Study Objects’, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City

2005

‘Other Objects’, The Other Gallery, The Banff Center, Alberta
‘Biotic Project’, Subway Station Tacuba, Mexico City

2004

‘Cotton Candy Doves’, MUCA , Mexico City
‘Throw Balls’, UNAM – The University Cultural Building, Mexico City

2003

‘Curious objects vol1’, Curious objects vol2’, The space, Mexico City
‘03-03-03’, installation in Jardín Hidalgo, Coyoacán, Mexico City

2002

‘It was green’, Museum Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City

2001

‘Empty Spaces (Journey Sensations)’, Casa de la Cultura Malinalxochitl, Malinalco, Mexico
‘One of so Many, Young Artist Collective’, Sebastián Foundation, Mexico City

Group exhibitions

2024

‘Material Manipulations’, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

2023

‘Tramas e Tecituras’, Simões de Assis Gallery, São Paulo

2022

‘Do animals go to heaven?’, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, Italy

2020

‘Seeing Touch’, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz, Switzerland

2019

‘Gossamer’, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK

2018

‘Unstable stillness’, Perrotin, Hong Kong

‘GRAND OPENING (SUMMER RAPSODHY)’, KURA at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan
‘Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study’, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne

2017

‘Deseo’, MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno Medellín, Medellín
‘Sin Titulo’, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
‘t twoninethree in-residence at Luciana Brito Galeria’, Sao Paulo

2016

‘WHO ARE YOU?’, SALTS, Basel
‘Art Club #10 / Bois d’amour’, Acadèmie de France à Rome – Villa Medici, Rome
Frieze Projects, Frieze London
‘Lanzarote’, Union Pacific, London
‘Future Form’, Gamma Galeria, Guadalajara
‘…ma l’amor mio non muore. Opere dalla Collezione Alloggia’, Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo
‘¿ Cómo te voy a olvidar ?’, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
‘Corridor Plateau VI’, DREI, Cologne
‘T293-in-residence’, Via Gabba 1, Milan
‘One, No One and One Hundred Thousand’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
‘Un certain regard’, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
‘Après Ski’, Karma International, Los Angeles

2015

‘WONDERWHEEL’, Depart Foundation, Miami
‘The prediction of a one-night king’, Chalet Society, Paris
‘Breathing Room’, U:L:O: Part I, Lodos, Mexico City

2014

‘THE GO-BETWEEN. A selection of emerging international artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
‘Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
‘Many Places at Once’, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
‘Unsparing Quality’, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles

2013

‘The Unicorn’, Transformer Station, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
‘The Black Moon’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘Search for the Unicorn’, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
‘They might well have been remnants of the boat’, Calder Foundation, New York
‘The First and the Last Folding’, Swiss Church, London
‘Notes on Neo-Camp’, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
‘Opinione Latina’, Francesca Minini, Milan

2012

‘Qalandiya International’, Palestine
‘«allez-y!» Act 2’, R4/Ile Seguin, Paris
‘Exposures, Experiences, Experiments’ (performance), Halle für Kunst, Lünebur
‘CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito’, MAMbo, Bologna
‘A Disagreeable Object’, SculptureCenter, New York
‘Erogenous Zones’, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
‘A Stepping Stone’, Autocenter, Berlin
‘Death Can Dance’, Townhouse, Zurich
‘Economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture’, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
‘Koło Plastyków’, Domu Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw

2011

‘There are two sides to every coin, and two sides to your face’, Galerie Xippas, Paris
‘Energies, unplugged and reloaded’, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich
‘Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials…’, Johann König, Berlin
‘The moment pleasantly frightful’, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
‘Emerge Selections 2011’, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2010

‘It’s All American’, New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, New Jersey
‘Mascarade, Chambres à part IV, place du Trocadéro, Paris
‘Swagger, Drag, Fit Together’, Wallspace, New York
‘Still Vast Reserves’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
‘Une idée, une Forme, un Être – Poésie / Politique du corporel’, Migros Museum Zurich
‘Not Extractions, but Abstractions’, Clifton Benevento, New York
‘Digging in a Sandbox’, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin
‘Adventure in Space’, Villa Lentza, Szczecin
‘While Bodies Get Mirrored’, Migros Museum, Zurich

2009

‘Summer Show’, Hotel, London
‘The Reach of Realism’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
‘Melodies & Rocks / Copyright’, Karma International Art Space, Zurich
‘Between Spaces’, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
‘(re)Visions: (di)Visions’, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
‘Ordinary Revolutions’, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
‘Collection of…’, White Columns, New York
‘Between the Cup and Lip’, V&A, New York
‘Nudes’, Fortes Vilaça Gallery, Sao Paulo

2008

‘As Queer as a Clockwork Orange’, La Sala, Mexico City
‘Light’, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City

2007

‘Re-Make / Re-Model’, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
‘Pase de Abordar, artistas viajeros contemporáneos’, UIA, Mexico City
‘The Kitchen Benefit Art Auction’, The Kitchen, New York
‘The Office’, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
‘Drawing outside the lines’, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
‘New Collection presentation’, Nancy & Stanley Singer, East Hampton, New York
‘Objects’, Karma International Art Space, Zurich
‘In Apertura’, Vilma Gold, London

2006

‘Solidarity Solitude’, Broadway 1602, New York
‘Keep passing the open windows or happiness’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
‘Distor’, Art Museum Carrillo Gil , Mexico City

2005

‘Beguin, Began, Begun’, Other Gallery, The Banff Center, Alberta
‘Alegria’, El mono de la Tinta, Madrid

2002

‘Urban Tianguis. Alternative runway’, Franz Meyer Museum, Mexico City
‘Colección Monocroma Alternative Catwalk’, Centro Convenciones de las Américas, Mexico City