Bio Portrait

Victoria Hertel is a Singapore-based German-Venezuelan artist whose practice explores the sensory entanglement of the self and non-self.

Her immersive installations combine sensor technology, trace and motion to construct distilled sensory encounters that heighten our awareness of the material network we inhabit. Through the synaesthetic experience of these encounters we are invited to expand our understanding of our coexistence in relation to everything within and around us.

Hertel received her BFA from the University of Barcelona and her MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore in partnership with Goldsmiths University of London. She has been awarded the Chan-Davies Art Prize for academic excellence in her MA research and practice of Trace as energy in materialities.

Her work has been exhibited in solo shows, group exhibitions as well as residencies in Germany, Spain, Austria, Poland, China, Taiwan and Singapore.

Solo

  • 2022

  • Scent. Art Outreach. Singapore

  • The Chan-Davies Art Prize: syn-. Starch. Singapore

  • 2021

  • Core. dblspce. Singapore

  • 2019

  • 熔荟 / Fused Deposition. 深圳画院 [Shenzhen Fine Art Institute]. Shenzhen

  • Chromatic Density. Edel Extra. Nuremberg

  • 2018

  • Energeia. Galeria Antoni Pinyol. Reus

Group

  • 2023

  • Tides That Bind: On Senses. Think & Tink / Borneo Laboratory. Kuching

  • Congress for Constructive Divisiveness: 77th Annual General Meeting. Art Outreach. Singapore

  • threads: Draft #2: Latent Spaces. Earl Lu Gallery, ICAS, LASALLE. Singapore

  • Bad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole. Objectifs, Lower Gallery. Singapore

  • 2022

  • Singapore Night Festival. National Museum of Singapore. Singapore

  • The Winston Oh Travelogue Award. LASALLE. Online

  • Three Sketches for a Lost Year. Field Studies. Singapore

  • dblspce 1.0. dblspce. Singapore

  • It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to. The Projector. Singapore

  • 2021

  • only losers left alive (love songs for the end of the world). Yeo Workshop. Singapore

  • Being Together. Tunghai University Art Gallery. Taichung

  • Let's Meet Tomorrow Before the End of Our Time. TRAFO CCA. Szczecin

  • The LASALLE Show. ICAS, LASALLE. Singapore

  • Beautiful, Nice and Interesting. ICAS, LASALLE. Singapore

  • Fluid Spaces. Art Outreach. Singapore

  • Creative Unions. Vans Off The Wall x Funan. Singapore

  • 2020

  • TILT. ICAS, LASALLE. Singapore

  • Límits. Subsòl Espai d’Art. Barcelona

  • The Ghost in Walls. ITALIC. Berlin

  • 深圳画院院展. 深圳画院 [Shenzhen Fine Art Institute]. Shenzhen

  • 2019

  • Aus der Strömung VI. Kunst Block Balve. Munich

  • Barcelona Gallery Weekend. Espacio Garatge. Barcelona

  • Testbild 001. Stadtteilbüro des 16. Bezirks. Vienna

  • abstrAKTION. DD 55 Gallery. Cologne

  • 2018

  • Nous Talents. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Belles Arts. Barcelona

  • 26 Premi Telax. Galeria Antoni Pinyol. Reus

  • 2017

  • Autors premiats al XVII Concurs de Pintura al Passeig de Sant Joan. Ayuntamiento de Gràcia. Barcelona

  • Stripart XXII Mostra d’Art Jove d’Horta Guinardó. Centre Cívic Guinardó. Barcelona

  • 2016

  • Exposició Final de Grau. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Belles Arts. Barcelona

  • Transart V Mostra d’Art Jove. Palau Falguera. Sant Feliu de Llobregat

Residencies & Grants

  • 2021

  • Residency. dblspce. Singapore

  • 2019

  • Residency. 深圳画院 [Shenzhen Fine Art Institute]. Shenzhen

  • 2015

  • Erasmus+ Scholarship.. Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Munich

Awards

  • 2021

  • Chan-Davies Art Prize

  • The Winston Oh Award

Collectors

  • 2021

  • Galeria Antoni Pinyol

  • 深圳画院 [Shenzhen Fine Art Institute]

  • The Projector Singapore

Education

  • 2020 - 2021

  • Master of Arts Fine Arts (MAFA)

    LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore & Goldsmiths University of London

  • 2012 - 2016

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

    Facultat de Belles Arts Universitat de Barcelona

  • 2015 - 2016

  • Erasmus+ Exchange

    Facultat de Belles Arts Universitat de Barcelona

Symposia

  • 2021

  • Let's Meet Tomorrow Before the End of Our Time. Academy of Art Szczecin & TRAFO CCA Szczecin

  • 2020

  • Archipelagic Encounters. McNally School of Fine Arts LASALLE Singapore & CoVA University of Melbourne