Michelle-Marie Letelier

Michelle-Marie Letelier (Chile, 1977) is an artist based in Berlin.

She graduated from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000, has participated in postgraduate programs such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (2010, Berlin), ORGANISMO | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies (2024, TBA21–Academy & Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid), and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (2008, Berlin).

Highly influenced by her early life in the Atacama Desert; between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, her work has been shown internationally in biennials, galleries, museums and institutions, among others: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; KBH.G (Basel); Tabakalera (San Sebastián); Or Gallery (Vancouver); Kunstmuseum Bonn; German Oceanographic Museum (Stralsund); Villa Romana (Florence); Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (Moscow); Gropius-Bau (Berlin); Screen City Biennial 2019 (Stavanger); Bienal Sur 2017 (Buenos Aires); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Fondazione Cini (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).

Her videos and VR have been exhibited in international screenings and festivals, including: The Arctic Arts Festival 2021 (Harstad); Videonale.18 (Bonn); VRHAM! Festival 2020; WE ARE OCEAN 2019-2021 (Berlin & Marseille); East Asia Contemporary Art Space (Shanghai); 5th Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre) and X Video and Media Arts Biennial (Santiago).

Letelier has obtained support from the Ministry of Culture & Arts - Government of Chile; Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.; KORO - Public Art Norway; Arts Council Norway; Goethe Institut Chile, Canada & Norway; IFA-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and Berliner Senate in Germany.

She has been a resident at TaDA (Arbon, 2025); Læsø AiR (Læsø, 2023); The Blue Cabin (Vancouver, 2023); Atelier Mondial (Basel, 2023); Prater Digital (online, 2021); Resonancias (Punta Arenas, 2021); Troms fylkeskultursenter (Tromsø, 2019), Kunstnerhuset (Svolvær, 2018); ISLA (Antofagasta, 2018); Magallanes2020 (Punta Arenas, 2018); USF (Bergen, 2017) and ISCP (NYC, 2014).