Närvaro – fem röster, ett eko av tillhörighet

Presence is the convergence of countless trajectories. Where Chile’s vibrancy collides with the profundity of the East, where roots adrift put forth new shoots in foreign soil, five artists crystallize into a shared spectrum of light through the language of color.

A group exhibition featuring four Chilean-born artists working in Sweden alongside Chinese contemporary artist Li Xinmo. Their creations pulsate with transcontinental fervor and vivid chromatic narratives. Merging South American vitality with Eastern wisdom into a remarkable visual synthesis, these artists — though their homelands remain distant — converge at China Cultural Center in Stockholm to weave together stories of memory, the present, and the future. Art, as a universal language, maps an oasis of the soul. Welcome to explore these imaginative and visually impactful works at China Cultural Center in Stockholm.

Guided Tour Session: 6 May at 17:00. Entry requires a confirmed invitation email.

Ricardo Donoso

Born in Chile, he received his art education in both Chile and Romania, establishing a multifaceted identity as an artist, curator, and educator. His career bridges artistic practice and institutional curation, having held positions at Sweden’s Väsby Konsthall, Edsvik Konsthall, and Galleri Infra. Currently serving as curator at Galleri Carl in Stockholm, he also teaches art courses at Medborgarskolan while actively organizing and contributing to art projects across Sweden, maintaining a prominent presence in the Nordic contemporary art scene.

Salazar Luna

Born in 1956 in Maitencillo, Chile, his life journey spans South America and Northern Europe — migrating from his homeland through Argentina, Sweden, and the Canary Islands before settling in Åkersberga, Sweden. His artistic practice centers on intangible imprints of the soul — memory, scent, and taste — guiding viewers through poetic abstract compositions into liminal realms where reality and illusion converge. From the crashing waves of Chile’s coastline to the luminous Scandinavian snowscapes, his work constructs transcendent spiritual landscapes through vibrant color fields and fluid brushstrokes, dissolving geographical boundaries. Using color as a primal language, he explores the eternal dialogue between migratory existence and inner vistas, merging improvisational gestures with spatial reconfiguration to map the cartography of displacement and belonging.

Rolando Pérez

Born in Chile in 1947, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile and Stockholm’s Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Renowned for his archaeology of memory and poetic reinvention of mundane objects, he transforms ordinary fragments into surreal spectacles. In his seminal installation Loppisfolket (The Flea Market People), he salvages discarded wooden spoons, clock casings, and clogs from flea markets, breathing new life into these relics through fantastical collages that assemble whimsical, uncanny wooden communities. His art perpetually weaves tender allegories of existence, suspended between ruin and fairy tale, oblivion and rebirth.

Manuel Murua

Chilean painter and draughtsman, he explores quantum allegories of life through a chromatic poetics of energy fields. Rooted in the philosophical inquiry of “What happens next?”, his work casts hope into imagined parallel universes — high-saturation vortex compositions reject apocalyptic dread, instead constructing visual kinetics through dynamic color planes and fluid brushstrokes that resonate with the oscillations of cosmic spectra. For him, art is an archaeology of energy etched across temporal-spatial palimpsests, where his chromatic spectrum becomes a prism refracting vitality’s multidimensional essence.

Li Xinmo

Artist, calligrapher and art educator, was born in 1976 in Heilongjiang Province, China. She began studying calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting at a young age and received her master’s degree from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. Since University, focusing on contemporary art creation, calligraphy teaching and research, she has written books and exhibited her works at several museums in Europe, including the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the World Culture Museum in Gothenburg.