About
Loreto Valenzuela (b. 1973, Chile) is a visual and performance artist based in Germany. Working across painting, movement, drawing, and spatial arrangements, she treats time as material—composing passages of attention through gestures, markings, threads, and thresholds. Shaped by her cultural background, her work remains attentive to the politics of looking: who is seen, who is permitted to look, and how power circulates through observation. She shifts the viewer’s position and repeatedly reconfigures roles, frames, and points of view—using change, interruption, and “reset” as method to practice living with uncertainty. Returning to an active archive of works, notes, and images, she reorders and re-activates what is marginal, peripheral, or forgotten, treating these not as edges but as standpoints. A daily discipline—stretch, sketch, and reboot-play—keeps the practice close to what it means to be human.
Recent projects include Project[ions] (Südufer Freiburg, 2024), a Vernissage performance for Steph Huang’s The water that bears the boat (Galerie für Gegenwartskunst / E-Werk Freiburg, 2024), A Whisper of the Stone (Kaiserwache Off Space, Freiburg, 2023), UNCERTAIN.T (Delphi Space, Freiburg, 2022), and Club Unique (concept/curation/performance format, E-Werk Freiburg, ongoing).