Projects
♥
Studio
Vir Andres Hera

Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères

2022
Show
April 9 to June 5.
A program developed by Art by Translation and AiR 351.
Venues: Les Laboratoires, Ygrec – ENSAPC, Aubervilliers; Air 351, Cascais; Palácio Nacional de Belém, Lisboa; CAC, Torres Vedras

Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères

2022
Show
April 9 to June 5.
A program developed by Art by Translation and AiR 351.
Venues: Les Laboratoires, Ygrec – ENSAPC, Aubervilliers; Air 351, Cascais; Palácio Nacional de Belém, Lisboa; CAC, Torres Vedras

Foreign Affairs / Negócios Estrangeiros is a transnational exhibition developed by Art by Translation and AiR 351, presented in Portugal and France as part of the France–Portugal Season 2022. The project approaches diplomacy through translation, ambiguity, and linguistic slippage.

Within this framework, Vir Andres Hera presents a performance alongside two installative propositions. James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV (2022) centers on the Inuktitut syllabary and its entanglement with colonial history and contemporary geopolitics. Originally devised by the missionary James Evans, the syllabary is reworked here to encrypt words drawn from imperial and minoritized languages, including English, French, and Nahuatl.

A second axis engages with EPV, or Extremely Politically Vulnerable, a legal category used by the Canadian government in politically sensitive cases. Drawing from their own archives, Hera turns this administrative classification into a figure through which intimate documents connect to broader geopolitical and linguistic structures across North America.

Across video, printed documents, sound, and live performance, language becomes fragmented, looped, and partially withheld. The work moves through opacity, hesitation, and misalignment.

with

Vinit Agarwal, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Keren Benbenisty & João Pimenta Gomes, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Jesse Chun, Clémence de Montgolfier, André Guedes, Mark Geffriaud, Laura Genes with Helder Silva (Impacto Visual), Vir Andres Hera, Géraldine Longueville, Musa paradisiaca, Pratchaya Phinthong, Joshua Schwebel, João Paulo Serafim, João Simões, Maria Trabulo, Fabien Vallos and works from art students.

Curators
Maud Jacquin
Sébastien Pluot
Luísa Especial
Download
→
See also
+-
James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV - Vir Andres Hera
James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV
2022
Moving Image
Relaciones Bakhtinianas - Vir Andres Hera
Relaciones Bakhtinianas
2026
Moving Image
Deux chandelles – Ome titlawilli - Vir Andres Hera
Deux chandelles – Ome titlawilli
2021
Performance
Tactical Specters - Vir Andres Hera
Tactical Specters
2025
Show
A Room of One’s Ghosts - Vir Andres Hera
A Room of One’s Ghosts
2025
Worlding
Tout dans le Cabinet Mental - Vir Andres Hera
Tout dans le Cabinet Mental
2022
Show
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
Installation view. Vir Andres Hera. James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV, in Affaires Étrangères, Negócios Estrangeiros. Portugal. Series of documents printed on paper. HD video.
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
Installation view. Vir Andres Hera. James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV, in Affaires Étrangères, Negócios Estrangeiros. Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers. Series of documents printed on paper. HD video.
H: 550 cm, W: 400 cm
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
Installation view. Vir Andres Hera. James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV, in Affaires Étrangères, Negócios Estrangeiros. Portugal. Series of documents printed on paper. HD video.
H: 250 cm, W: 400 cm
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
Performance view. James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV, in Affaires Étrangères, Negócios Estrangeiros. Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers.
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
View of the opening and performances program. Palácio Nacional de Belém. Museu da Presidência da República.
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
View of the performance program. Vinit Agarwal. Patat’si Patat’sa: Fragments of the Tamarind Archive, 2022. Tamarin Season, 2022.
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
View of the performance program. Reenactment of Newspaper Music, Alison Knowles, 1962/2022.
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
View of the performance program. Reenactment of Newspaper Music, Alison Knowles, 1962/2022.
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
View of the performance program. João Pimenta Gomes, Alto Mar (Mare Liberum).
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères - Vir Andres Hera
Installation view. João Paulo Serafim. Index of Extinct and Endangered Species. Installation: video, photographic prints, drawings.
documents, publication.
News
♥
News
Archive
  
Close
Großtankstelle Brandshof | Hamburg
REST – Pfeil Magazine × VIS
13 — 15 March 2026
Read more  ><
What do we do when we do nothing—if that is even still possible—and what freedoms or possibilities open up in the moment of pausing? Under the title REST, a two-day event with performative contributions will take place at the Grosstankstelle Brandshof (Hamburg Rothenburgsort), where the processes of urban transformation become visible in specific ways. Here we propose a transformed understanding of time in order to resist the impetus of acceleration and efficiency. REST is dedicated to the moment of interruption, seeking to explore societal spaces for action—beyond productivity.

Performative works by Jenni Bohn, Camila Cañeque, Sarah Drath, Nicholas Grafia, Vir Andres Hera, Matthias Schubert, Mikołaj Sobczak, Hyemin Yang.

Educational intervention by Lyn van Gent.
Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso – Infinito Delicias | Madrid, ES
Un puñado de notas, with JUF Project
27 February 2026
Read more  ><
Closing event of the residency at Infinito Delicias. Public presentation with JUF (Leto Ybarra and Bea Ortega Botas), structured as a staged conversation and activation of materials developed during the residency.
Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso – Infinito Delicias | Madrid, ES
Unearthing the connection between worlds, with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
11 February 2026
Read more  ><
Participation in Session 4 of the study group Todo comienzo es un ensayo, accompanying the residency program.

The session, titled Unearthing the connection between worlds, engaged questions of colonial haunting, racial capitalism, and spectral presence through collective reading, listening, writing, and communal cooking practices.

Developed in dialogue with the residency research of Vir Andres Hera and Juf, focused on bodies in transit and the spatial, affective and political conditions of residencies.
Art Gallery of New South Wales | Sydney, AU
Resonance Grant – French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation
28 January 2026
Read more  ><
Selected as a recipient of the 2026 Resonance Grant by the French-Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation, supporting the project Tyiirr: A Room of One’s Ghosts for development toward an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2027. The grant fosters artistic exchange between France and Australia.
Pfeil Magazine | Berlin, DE
Coatlicue Réalisatrice – Pfeil Magazine #19
13 January 2026
Read more  ><
Contribution to Pfeil Magazine #19, edited by Anja Dietmann and released in January 2026. The issue explores rest as activity and resistance within contemporary political, ecological and performative conditions.

Featuring contributions by Asma Ben Slama, Camila Cañeque, Christiane Blattmann, Eileen Myles, Federico Tosi, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Hanne Loreck, Hans-Christian Dany, Hyemin Yang, Ingrid Jäger, Jenni Bohn, Jochen Lempert, Julia Schulze Darup, Mariona Berenguer, Matthias Schubert, Mikołaj Sobczak, Mirene Arsanios, Nat Raha, Nicholas Grafia, Niclas Riepshoff, Omar Hahad, Sarah Drath, Stacy Skolnik, Thomas Laprade and Vir Andres Hera.
Morelos Museum of Contemporary Art Juan Soriano | Cuernavaca, MX
América – Book Presentation
10 January 2026
Read more  ><
Participation in the second presentation of América, an independent publication bringing together texts by twelve visual artists rooted in the Global South.

The conversation gathered Diego Ventura Puac-Coyoy, Vir Andres Hera and Diego Piñeros in dialogue with Roberto Monroy (PhD in Latin American Studies), moderated by María Olivera.

The event took place within the framework of the exhibition Aquí el horizonte.
Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso | Madrid, ES
Arte por Venir Residency – How to Imagine a Place to Inhabit
28 November 2025 — 28 February 2026
Read more  ><
Residency within the Arte por Venir program at Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso, Madrid, from 28/11/2024 to 28/02/2025. Developed in collaboration with Juf, the project engaged María Lugones’ notion of “world-traveling” and activated the figure of Coatlicue to reflect on diasporic memory, fiction and critical hospitality.
Villa Médicis | Rome, IT
Translatio – Hybrider le récit chrétien
13 — 14 November 2025
Read more  ><
Participation in the study days Translatio – Hybrider le récit chrétien, organized by Clovis Maillet and Nicolas Sarzeaud at Villa Médicis.

The program explored how Christian narratives have crossed cultural borders and generated hybrid encounters across time.

With Vir Andres Hera, Victor Barabino, Dario Biancullo, Raphaël Bories, Patrick Boucheron, Andrea Fortis, Alessandro Gallicchio, Elise Haddad, Amalia Laurent and Adrian Paci.
Lo schermo dell’arte | Florence, IT
VISIO 2025 – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images
12 — 16 November 2025
Read more  ><
Selected among eight artists for VISIO 2025 – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi and held in Florence as part of the 18th Lo schermo dell’arte Festival.

The selected artists were: Tohé Commaret, Rafik Greiss, Vir Andres Hera, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Olukemi Lijadu, Thomias Radin, Jordan Strafer and Shen Xin.

The programme combines mentoring sessions, production development and international curatorial dialogue, with the possibility of support through the VISIO Production Fund.
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte | Paris, FR
Artist Talk – Vir Andres Hera & Morgan Labar
23 October 2025
Read more  ><
Conversation between Vir Andres Hera and Morgan Labar at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris, addressing questions of image, archive and historiography within contemporary artistic practice.
CIAPV – Île de Vassivière | Vassivière Island, FR
Research Residency – CIAPV Vassivière
1 September — 30 November 2025
Read more  ><
Research residency at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de Vassivière (CIAPV) from September to November 2025. During the residency, Vir Andres Hera developed the ongoing project A Room of One’s Ghosts, an installation combining video, scent, sculpture and sound, exploring invisible presences and spectral traces embedded in the territory of Vassivière Island.
Fonderie Darling | Montreal, CA
Bodies at Play II – Fonderie Darling
1 — 31 July 2025
Read more  ><
Invited for a micro-residency within Bodies at Play II at Fonderie Darling, Montreal, in 2025. The program brought together two performances: JUDITH by Sarah Chouinard-Poirier and At the limit of the otherwordly […] by Vir Andres Hera. The evening explored bodies that refuse disappearance, activating voices, broken archives and submerged presences.
Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève | Geneva, CH
The Sacred, Without World
26 June 2025
Read more  ><
Performance presented at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève within the program IT’S ABOUT TIME.

Taking Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s poem Zong! as a point of departure, the work unfolded as a polyphonic space of ritual, memory and repair, in collaboration with Jona Sanders and Maya Zaton.

A subsequent performance on 26 June 2025 featured Nils Alix-Tabeling and Phœnix Atala.
DS Galerie | Paris, FR
A Queer Garden
15 May — 21 June 2025
Read more  ><
Participation in the group exhibition A Queer Garden at DS Galerie, Paris.

Vir Andres Hera presented Le Romanz de Fanuel (2017) as a film installation, re-edited and spatialized in dialogue with Ulysse Feuvrier. Originally conceived on 16mm, the work was revisited to resonate with contemporary queer genealogies and shifting temporalities.

With Bayo Álvaro, Arda Asena, Guillaume Aubry, Andrés Barón, Clément Bataille, Claude Eigan, Tom Hallet, Vir Andres Hera, Youri Johnson, Mar Pérez and Leïla Vilmouth.
La Ferme du Buisson & ESAAA – The Experimental School of Annecy-Alps | Noisiel, FR
Walking with the Disappeared – Workshop with Maïmouna Silla
17 — 21 March 2025
Read more  ><
Hybrid pedagogical workshop led by Vir Andres Hera with invited artist Maïmouna Silla, for third-year art students at ESAAA.

Hosted by La Ferme du Buisson, the workshop extended the course Walking with the Disappeared, engaging decolonial and feminist approaches to narration, oral transmission and image-making.

The project unfolded in resonance with the group exhibition Tactical Specters.
La Ferme du Buisson – Centre d’art contemporain | Noisiel, FR
Tactical Specters
16 March — 16 July 2025
Read more  ><
Snake chamber: burial reenactment was presented within the group exhibition Tactical Specters, curated by Thomas Conchou. The exhibition approached haunting as a political and temporal force, engaging unresolved histories of violence, disappearance and coloniality.

Within this framework, Vir Andres Hera presented a constellation of photographic works, sound and installation addressing queer ancestrality, exile and fractured temporalities, drawing on family archives, staged images produced in Mexico, and a performance carried out in Sète with the artist’s mother.

With Assoukrou Aké, Nils Alix-Tabeling, Vir Andres Hera, Chiara Fumai, Coco Fusco, Hamedine Kane, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Élise Legal, Joshua Leon, Anne Le Troter, Anouk Maugein & Lorraine de Sagazan, Jota Mombaça, Publik Universal Frxnd, Samir Ramdani and Euridice Zaituna Kala.
Palacio de Autonomía, UNAM | Mexico City, MX
Pushing Border Art’s Borders
31 January 2025
Read more  ><
Participation in the symposium organized in the context of Bordear. Una idea de frontera.
Presentation titled: “Video Installation as a tool to dismantle monolithic perspectives of time and space.”

Organized by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Andrea Masala and Torrivilla.
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes | Villeurbanne, FR
Amoxtli – Public Conversation
30 November 2024
Read more  ><
Public encounter with Vir Andres Hera on the occasion of Amoxtli, presented at the Institut d’art contemporain as part of the 17th Lyon Biennale.

The discussion unfolded around the conceptual framework of the installation, including references to Sayat-Nova and the notion of nepantla as theorized by Gloria Anzaldúa, as well as the collective dimension of the work involving LGBTQIA+ activists, artists and technicians.
The Writers’ Room & EUCA Annex | London, UK
Distance, Proximity & Connection
8 — 24 November 2024
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Annie Aguettaz (Imagespassages, Annecy) and TC McCormack, presented across The Writers’ Room and EUCA Annex.

With Vincent Broquaire, Jenny Feal, le Gentil Garçon, Jeremy Griffaud, Cagla Erdogan, Jisun Lee, Moussa Sarr, Emmanuel Tussore, Ludivine Zambon and Vir Andres Hera.

Supported by Fluxus Art Projects, Imagespassages, The Florence Trust and ADMRC Research Centre (Sheffield Hallam University).
Fondation Pernod Ricard | Paris, FR
Camera Serpent – Reading
2 November 2024
Read more  ><
Public reading of Camera Serpent at the launch of Phylactère 3, at the Fondation Pernod Ricard bookstore.

The text forms part of an ongoing writing cycle around Coatlicue and hybrid cinematic temporalities.

Contributors to Phylactère 3: Angela Goh, Camille Videcoq, Cécile Bouffard & Ruth Childs, Clarissa Baumann, Dora Garcia, Hippolyne, Juliana Vargas Zapata, Lara Dautun, Loraine Furter, Laurie Charles, Lu Lin, Pauline Lecerf, Publik Universal Frxnd, Rita Elhajj & Ghalas Charara, Suzanne Treister and Vir Andres Hera.
Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou | Paris, FR
Détours Souterrains, Corps Oraculaires
31 October 2024
Read more  ><
Screening at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou on 31/10/2024 as part of the Prospective Cinema program. The evening presented new edits of Misurgia Sisitlallan (2020), Le Daftar (2023) and Amoxtli (2024), alongside films by Ife Day, followed by a public conversation with Ife Day and Éva Barois de Caevel.
Chapelle Saint-Jacques centre d’art contemporain | Saint-Gaudens, FR
Let Us Reflect Film Festival
4 — 5 October 2024
Read more  ><
Screening of Negrillas Kuïloni (2017–2019) as part of the 4th edition of Let Us Reflect Film Festival, curated in collaboration with the Réseau documents d’artistes and Documents d’artistes Occitanie.

Continuous projections across the city, including the Musée des Arts et Figures des Pyrénées Centrales.
Maison de l’Amérique latine | Paris, FR
MIRA Art Fair
22 September 2024
Read more  ><
Participation in a public discussion on 22/09/2024 at the Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, as part of MIRA Art Fair 2024, alongside Laura Huertas Millán and Irene Aristizábal.
Institut d’art contemporain (IAC) | Villeurbanne, FR
Les Voix des Fleuves / Crossing the Water
21 September 2024 — 5 January 2025
Read more  ><
Presentation of Amoxtli (2024) at the 17th Lyon Biennale, Les Voix des Fleuves / Crossing the Water, held at the Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, from 21/09/2024 to 05/01/2025. The work was awarded the Prix Jeune création Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2024 and shown within the Jeune création internationale program curated by Alexia Fabre.
Lyon Biennale | Lyon, FR
Prix Jeune création Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2024
19 September 2024
Read more  ><
Recipient of the Prix Jeune création Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2024 for Amoxtli, awarded within the framework of the 17th Lyon Biennale.
Convento dos Capuchos, Caparica | Sète, FR / Lisbon, PT
Sourdes résistances, débordements fous. Sète~Lisboa
9 September — 19 October 2024
Read more  ><
Participation in Sète~Lisboa, Festival international d’art contemporain curated by Philippe Saulle, held from 09/09/2024 to 14/09/2024 in Sète and from 15/10/2024 to 19/10/2024 in Lisbon. The festival was supported by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and brought together artists from Sète and Lisbon including Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Pedro Barateiro, Sara Bichão, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Zoé Lakhnati, Elisa Fantozzi, Damien Fragnon, Pauline Guerrier, Vir Andres Hera, Manuela Marques, Naomi Maury, Eléna Salah, Márcio Vilela and others.
Qalqalah قلقلة
Un lieu où je pouvais faire des études queer – Conversation
20 August 2024
Read more  ><
Online conversation between Vir Andres Hera and Claire Finch, published 20/08/2024 on qalqalah.org.
Julio Artist-Run Space | Paris, FR
Primer aviso
8 — 29 June 2024
Read more  ><
Group exhibition bringing together Manoela Medeiros, Vir Andres Hera and Omar Castillo Alfaro.

Curated by Dayneris Brito, the project foregrounded Latin American artistic positions as autonomous, transborder and decolonial gestures, articulated through hybrid and transgressive bodies.
LUMA Westbau | Zurich, CH
Together? Together! – Zurich
7 June 2024
Read more  ><
Participation in Together? Together!, a screening and conversation held at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, curated by Gioia Dal Molin and Barbara Casavecchia. The program included works by Noor Abed, Giulia Essyad, Vir Andres Hera, Saodat Ismailova, Joyce Joumaa, Beatrice Marchi, Noha Mokhtar, Valentin Noujaïm and Jiajia Zhang, and was introduced by a public conversation with the curators and artists.
Cité internationale des arts | Paris, FR
The Way We Perform Now
17 May — 23 June 2024
Read more  ><
Participation in the second phase of the curatorial project The Way We Perform Now.

17–24/05/2024: Workshop by Flora Bouteille with Socheata Aing, Nogan Camille Chevreau, Venera Gazilaeva, Marion Lebbe, Lilit Saribekyan, Maite Taboada and Hippolyte Thillard.

09/06/2024: Evening of performance readings co-organized with Kettly Noël, with Omar Castillo Alfaro, Christiane Fath, Magalie Grondin, Paula Haeni, Vir Andres Hera, Camille Kingué, Ornella Mamba, Kettly Noël, Makenzy Orcel, Mickaël Egouy (PoétiK’Art AgencY), Vittoria Quartararo, Milad Sanaei and Tanin Torabi.

23/06/2024: Public assembly organized by l'École des Actes.
Istituto Svizzero | Milano, IT
Together? Together! – Milano
12 April 2024
Read more  ><
Screening curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Gioia Dal Molin during Milano Art Week, in collaboration between Istituto Svizzero and Mousse Magazine.

With works by Noor Abed, Giulia Essyad, Vir Andres Hera, Saodat Ismailova, Joyce Joumaa, Beatrice Marchi, Noha Mokhtar, Valentin Noujaïm and Jiajia Zhang.
ESAAA – The Experimental School of Annecy-Alps | Annecy, FR
Workshop with Dora García
5 — 9 February 2024
Read more  ><
Workshop initiated and coordinated by Vir Andres Hera with invited artist Dora García for fourth- and fifth-year art students (Master Monstre) at ESAAA.

The project developed in continuity with Dora García’s film-manifesto Si pudiera desear algo (2021), inviting collective speculation on the entanglements between socialist and feminist struggles and their potential artistic forms.

Public presentation on 08/02/2024 at Théâtre de l’Échange, Annecy.
Palexpo Genève | Geneva, CH
Artgenève 2024 — Video Program
25 — 28 January 2024
Read more  ><
Collective video program presented by Documents d’artistes Genève during the 12th edition of artgenève.

Presented at the DDA-Genève stand (B.50), in collaboration with Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Artists: collectif_fact, Giulia Essyad, Véronique Goël, Vir Andres Hera, Pauline Julier, Thomas Liu Le Lann, Gabriela Löffel, Denis Savary and Anaïs Wenger.
Contemporain·e·s France | Paris, FR
Passerelles 2024
1 January — 31 December 2024
Read more  ><
Selected as mentor within the fourth edition of the mentorship programme Passerelles 2024.

Vir Andres Hera was paired with Maïmouna Silla, accompanied by Ana Bordenave.

The programme supports women, non-binary and trans artists through intergenerational transmission and alternative structures of care and professional development.
Salzburger Kunstverein | Salzburg, AT
International Artist-in-Residence Program
1 January 2024 — 31 March 2026
Read more  ><
Research residency at Salzburger Kunstverein in 2024 within the International Artist-in-Residence Program, directed by Mirela Baciak, with mobility support from the Goethe-Institut. The residency culminated in a public conversation with Tristan Bera.
Makhzin in collaboration with Brief Histories | New York City, USA
Counterlexicons Writing Session
27 December 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in the first writing session on counterlexicons, hosted by Makhzin in collaboration with Brief Histories, with Mirene Arsanios and Issa Bin Ismail.

The session focused on countering the weaponization of language across media, academia and cultural institutions, and foregrounded traditions of resistance and liberation in writing practices.
UNIDEE Residency Programs at Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte | Biella, IT
UNIDEE Residency Modules – Gestures of Untranslatability
11 — 17 December 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in Module V, Gestures of Untranslatability, curated by Chiara Cartuccia, as part of the Autumn 2023 session Neither on Land nor at Sea – Meeting by the Mediterranean Im/Possible.

Presented with Qalqalah (Virginie Bobin + Vir Andres Hera), with invited guests Andrea Ancira García, Mirene Arsanios and Anna T.
Galerie de l’UQAM | Montréal, CA
L’art observe – Artist Interview
28 November 2023
Read more  ><
Video interview produced by the Galerie de l’UQAM as part of the series L’art observe.

The conversation addresses recent projects and articulates questions of memory, diasporic subjectivities, geopolitics and emancipatory imaginaries.

Released in the context of Troisième oreille, transmissions at SBC galerie d’art contemporain.
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (MAC Lyon) | Lyon, FR
Cómo bailar en tiempo de crisis — Screening at MAC Lyon
27 November 2023
Read more  ><
Video screening program curated by Images Passages for its 30th anniversary, presented at Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in the context of Encore & En-Corps.

Artists presented: Sammy Baloji, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Emmanuel Tussore, Enrique Ramírez, Cecilia Bengolea, Shaun Gladwell, Ali Kazma, Mimiko Türkkan, Anna Byskov, Nicolas Clauss, Vir Andres Hera, Mohau Modisakeng, Miranda Pennell, Gregg Smith and Pascal Lièvre.
Grande Halle – OVNi | Nice, FR
Des choses parfois et accidentellement vraies
17 November — 3 December 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in Des choses parfois et accidentellement vraies (OVNi 2023) at the Grande Halle, Nice, from 17/11/2023 to 03/12/2023, curated by Nathalie Amae. Misurgia Sisitlallan [the afterlife] was presented as an in situ adaptation developed in dialogue with the curator, unfolding through projections, screen-based diffusions and photographic rolls fixed in oil that reconfigured the architecture of the Grande Halle.

The exhibition featured works by Poklong Anading, Martha Atienza, Hélène Baillot, Raphaël Botiveau, Christine Barbe, Janet Biggs, Leyla Cárdenas Campos, Thierry De Mey, Abdessamad El Montassir, Subodh Gupta, Vir Andres Hera, Lamia Joreige, Bani Khoshnoudi, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Les Levine, Manuela Marques, Hiroya Sakurai, Ana Elena Tejera, Alisi Telengut and Keiji Uematsu.
Breaking Bread | Cape Town, ZA
It Is the Fault of the Tlaxcalans – Cape Town
11 September 2023
Read more  ><
It Is the Fault of the Tlaxcalans was presented on 11 September 2023 at Breaking Bread, Cape Town. The evening combined a reading by Vir Andres Hera with a Mexican-inspired dinner conceived as a performative gathering. The program included a foreword by curator Ziphozenkosi Dayile and formed the public culmination of the residency.
SBC Galerie d’art contemporain | Montreal, CA
Third Ear Transmissions
8 September — 28 October 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in Third Ear Transmissions at SBC Galerie d’art contemporain, Montreal, from 08/09/2023 to 28/10/2023, curated by Nuria Carton and Romeo Gongora. The exhibition explored listening as a collective and political practice, foregrounding dissonance, multilinguality and shared sonic space.
Mimosa House / Dazed Space / Burberry | London, UK
Exchange: London
10 July 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in Exchange: London on 10/07/2023 at Mimosa House and Dazed Space, London, curated by Daria Khan. The evening, initiated by Dazed in partnership with Mimosa House and supported by Burberry, brought together exhibitions, performances and DJ sets across central London. The program included works and performances by Vir Andres Hera, Marikiscrycrycry, Romeo Roxman Gatt and Agnes Questionmark.
MO.CO. Panacée | Montpellier, FR
SOL ! The Regional Biennale #2
24 June — 1 October 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in SOL #2 ! La biennale du territoire at MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, from 24/06/2023 to 01/10/2023, curated by Anya Harrison. The biennial brought together artists engaged with territorial imaginaries and local geographies, situating contemporary practices within shifting ecological and political landscapes.
Atelier des artistes en exil | Paris, FR
N/A – Non Attribué
20 — 21 June 2023
Read more  ><
Participation in N/A – Non Attribué at Atelier des artistes en exil, Paris, from 20/06/2023 to 21/06/2023, curated by Mona Young-eun Kim, with Angelus, Roya Heydari, Yongkwan Joo, Alexandre Kato, Gena Marvin, Gabriel Moraes Aquino, Richie Nath, Jongeun Park, Anna Soz and REACTAsie.
YGREC – ENSAPC | Aubervilliers, FR
Routes de Sable
15 June 2023
Read more  ><
Performance Routes de Sable presented on 15/06/2023 at YGREC – ENSAPC, Aubervilliers, by Léonce Noah, Ife Day and Vir Andres Hera.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie | Paris, FR
Accueillir un regard multiple et multi-temporel – MEP
4 May 2023
Read more  ><
Conversation between Vir Andres Hera and Flora Fettah at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, as part of the first cycle « Art et Activisme », conceived in resonance with the work of Zanele Muholi. Presentation of Le Daftar.

Invited by the MEP public program team, with support from Clothilde Morette.
CAC Les Tanneries | Amilly, FR
Seized by the spirit
1 April — 16 July 2023
Read more  ><
Solo exhibition Seized by the spirit at CAC Les Tanneries, Amilly, from 01/04/2023 to 16/07/2023, curated by Eric Degoutte. The exhibition unfolded as an immersive environment where voices, fragments of myth, and archival traces intertwined through video and installation, extending ongoing research on possession, transmission and the opacity between languages.
YGREC – ENSAPC | Aubervilliers, FR
Les langues de la pythie
3 February — 25 March 2023
Read more  ><
Solo exhibition Les langues de la pythie at YGREC – ENSAPC, Aubervilliers, from 03/02/2023 to 25/03/2023, curated by Guillaume Breton. The exhibition staged a polyphonic environment where voice, prophecy and mistranslation became material, extending ongoing research on orality, coded writing systems and the instability of meaning across languages.
Présent.e Podcast | Paris, FR
PRÉSENT.E — Vir Andres Hera
17 January 2023
Read more  ><
Podcast episode released 17/01/2023. Interview conducted by Camille Bardin. Recorded 29/10/2022 in Paris.

Conversation addressing voice, queer medieval friendships, performance practices, and Le Daftar.

Episode duration: 49 min 59 s.

Production, recording and editing: Camille Bardin.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt | Berlin, DE
Tefnut – HKW
4 December 2022
Read more  ><
Performance Tefnut by Ife Day, Vir Andres Hera and Belinda Zhawi, presented on 04/12/2022 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, within the multi-day program Queer Ancient Ways / Ceremony of Souls, part of Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World). The program included contributions by Denise Ryner, Anthony Bogues, Honor Ford-Smith, Danielle Bainbridge, Zairong Xiang, Zoé Samudzi, Eric I. Karchmer, Lili Lai, Judith Farquhar, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tina Post, keyon gaskin, Stefano Harney, Bedour Alagraa and Carlo Ginzburg.
Studio Flair & Le Houloc | Paris, FR
À la lisière des perceptions distordues
14 — 22 October 2022
Read more  ><
Solo exhibition À la lisière des perceptions distordues at Studio Flair & Le Houloc, Paris, from 14/10/2022 to 22/10/2022, curated by Sandra Barré. The exhibition explored thresholds of perception through video and installation, engaging distortion and sensory displacement.
Chasen Thajni | Ahuatempan, MX
El límite de lo propio
19 — 30 September 2022
Read more  ><
Series of short residencies initiated in 2022 and continuing until 2024 at Chasen Thajni, Ahuatempan (Ngiba territory), in collaboration with Ulises Matamoros Ascención. The research informed the film Amoxtli.
Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro | Querétaro, MX
The Vulnerable Observer – Solo Show
19 August — 16 October 2022
Read more  ><
Solo exhibition presenting a selection of recent works including Misurgia Sisitlallan, Daftar and Le Romanz de Fanuel.

The exhibition featured 16mm film, camcorder material, HD video, microscopy-based video works, and sound pieces developed in collaboration with the IRCAM – Centre Pompidou artificial intelligence laboratory and musicians from the Conservatoire de Lyon.

Opening performance by Vir Andres Hera with interventions by Ulises Matamoros and Gwenaëlle Tatoué.
The Left Place The Right Space | Reims, FR
Performance — Dans un jardin qu’iels ont su garder secret
28 May 2022
Read more  ><
Performance as part of the exhibition Dans un jardin qu’iels ont su garder secret by L. Camus-Govoroff, curated by Camille Bardin (07/05/2022 – 31/05/2022).

Participants in the performance program: Héloïse Farago (Troubadure), Mahé Cabel (Rose de Bordel) and Vir Andres Hera.
Le CREDAC | Ivry-sur-Seine, FR
Tout Dans Le Cabinet Mental
14 May — 17 July 2022
Read more  ><
Participation in Tout Dans Le Cabinet Mental at Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, from 14/05/2022 to 17/07/2022, curated by Cassandre Langlois, with Pierre Bal-Blanc and Marianne Marić, Virginie Bobin, Flora Bouteille, Katya Ev, Dora García, Vir Andres Hera, Myriam Lefkowitz and Julie Laporte, Marine Leleu, Aapo Nikkanen, Alevtyna Kakhidze and Sasha Pevak, Cally Spooner, Nora Sternfeld, Sabine Teyssonneyre, Victor Villafagne and Victor Yudaev. Contributions and interviews by Oliver Marchart.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt | Berlin, DE
Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)
13 May — 24 July 2022
Read more  ><
Participation in Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, from 23 October to 30 December 2022. The exhibition brought together artists including Leo Asemota, Shuvinai Ashoona, Richard Bell, Gaëlle Choisne, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mariana Castillo Deball, Stan Douglas, Léon Ferrari, William Kentridge, Guadalupe Maravilla, Tabita Rezaire, Rosemarie Trockel, David Wojnarowicz, Xiyadie, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and many others.
Salon de Montrouge | Montrouge, FR
66e Salon de Montrouge
7 May — 5 June 2022
Read more  ><
Participation in the 66e Salon de Montrouge, curated by Guillaume Désanges and Coline Davenne, from 7 May to 5 June 2022.
AiR 351 / Palácio Nacional de Belém | Lisbon, PT
Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères
9 April — 5 June 2022
Read more  ><
Participation in Affaires Étrangères / Negócios Estrangeiros, a transnational exhibition program developed by Art by Translation and AiR 351, presented across France and Portugal from 09/04/2022 to 05/06/2022. The exhibition brought together over thirty artists and thinkers exploring diplomatic language, translation and the politics of exchange.
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers | Aubervilliers, FR
James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV
9 April 2022
Read more  ><
Live performance James Evans, Beatrix and the EPV presented on 09/04/2022 at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. The project combines sound, video and speculative research, unfolding through multilingual spoken texts (Portuguese, Italian, English, Nahuatl) distorted by live analog and digital glitches. Produced within the frameworks of Translation, DARE-DARE, Artist Run Space Montreal and Art by Translation ENSAPC Cergy.
La Gaîté Lyrique | Paris, FR
Délier les langues – Talk
23 March 2022
Read more  ><
Part of the “Portfolio” cycle organized by La Gaîté Lyrique in partnership with Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.

Session #4: Délier les langues.
Vir Andres Hera in dialogue with Ingrid Luquet-Gad and Jérôme Nika.
Espace Le Carré | Lille, FR
Virgen de Coatlalopeuh, candle and copal incense burning
25 February 2022
Read more  ><
Conference-performance by Clovis Maillet and Vir Andres Hera, presented on 25/02/2022 at Espace Le Carré, Lille, within Format à l’Italienne XII, curated by Flora Fettah. The performance explored spiritual friendship from medieval monastic contexts to contemporary queer and virtual intimacies, drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa and cross-linguistic narrative forms.
ENSA Bourges | Bourges, FR
La Box – Artistic Residency
21 February — 18 March 2022
Read more  ><
Artistic residency at ENSA Bourges within the La Box program from 21/02/2022 to 18/03/2022, including a presentation of research developed during the stay.
La Criée, centre d’art contemporain | Rennes, FR
Archipels Cartilages – Magazine
1 February 2022
Read more  ><
Co-authored text with Minia Biabiany published in the print issue of lili, la rozell et le marimba, edited by La Criée, centre d’art contemporain.

Issue dedicated to inherited, adopted, confiscated, dominant, invented and recomposed languages.
Espace Le Carré | Lille, FR
Habiter le trouble – Format à l’Italienne XII
14 January — 6 March 2022
Read more  ><
Participation in Format à l’Italienne XII at Espace Le Carré, Lille, from 14/01/2022 to 06/03/2022, curated by Flora Fettah. The exhibition brought together laureates of the Prix Wicar residency in Rome, including Sylvain Konyali, Lise Lerichomme, Manon Thirriot and Vir Andres Hera.
Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche | Paris, FR
Ways of Publishing – Bétonsalon
3 December 2021
Read more  ><
Public reading of Archipels Cartilage (co-authored with Minia Biabiany) presented as part of the program Ways of Publishing:

A conversation between Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet and Estelle Lecaille (sika, Brussels), with Katia Kameli (artist), Sophie Kaplan (director of La Criée, Rennes, Lili, la rozell et le marimba), and Baptiste Brun, moderated by Lotte Arndt. Followed by a reading by Vir Andrès Hera (author, member of the editorial committee of Qalqalah قلقلة and contributor to the upcoming revue of Lili, la rozell et le marimba), and a performance by Nadjim Bigou-Fathi and Soto Labor.
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier | Montpellier, FR
Diarchie enters the collection of FRAC Occitanie
1 December 2021
Read more  ><
The work Diarchie entered the collection of FRAC Occitanie Montpellier in 2021.
Rile Books Bookshop & Project Space | Brussels, BE
Hoot no. 6 — Vir Andres Hera – Magazine Monograph
1 December 2021
Read more  ><
Magazine feature focusing on Vir Andres Hera’s artistic practice during his time in Marseille. The text reflects on his work with moving image, plural voices and layered oralities, emerging from encounters at Triangle-Astérides and subsequent studio conversations.
DARE-DARE – artist-run center | Montreal, CA
Traduction – Poetic stroll and zine launch
6 November 2021
Read more  ><
Public intervention in the form of a collective walk led by Vir Andres Hera on 6 November 2021 at DARE-DARE, Montreal, navigating geographic, linguistic and symbolic detours through the surrounding neighbourhood.
École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy | Cergy, FR
Art by Translation
1 September 2021 — 1 June 2022
Read more  ><
Artist fellow of the postgraduate program Art by Translation (2021–2022), developed by ENSAPC and TALM. The fellowship brought together Vinit Agarwal, Jesse Chun, Laura Genes and Vir Andres Hera, under the direction of Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot. The program unfolded between Cergy, Aubervilliers and Portugal, and included exhibitions and a public discussion in May 2022.
DARE-DARE – artist-run center | Montreal, CA
Traduction – Research residency
1 August 2021 — 4 April 2022
Read more  ><
Research residency within the TRADUCTION 2021–2022 program at DARE-DARE, Montreal, initiated by Martin Dufrasne and collaborators. The program brought together artists and curators including DOIS, Anna Jane McIntyre, Vir Andres Hera, Kama la Mackerel and Wojtek Ziemilski & Adam Stoyanov.
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse | Mulhouse, FR
Qalqalah : Plus d’une langue
19 June — 19 September 2021
Read more  ><
Presentation of Qalqalah : Plus d’une langue at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse from 19 June to 19 September 2021, curated by Victorine Grataloup and Virginie Bobin, following its earlier presentation at CRAC Occitanie.
MUCEM | Marseille, FR
Commun·e – Session 1
3 June 2021
Read more  ><
Participation in Commun.e – Session 1, held on 3 June 2021 at MUCEM, Marseille, within the framework of Africa2020. Curated by Ziphozenkosi Dayile and Flora Fettah, the session gathered presentations and performances by Eden Tinto-Collins, Vir Andres Hera, Belinda Zhawi, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Dorothée Munyaneza and Moesha 13, exploring cultural formations, resilience, resistance and collective modes of being together.
Académie de France à Rome — Villa Medici | Rome, IT
Il Baule — Contribution to ECCO — Villa Medici 2020–2021
1 June 2021
Read more  ><
Commissioned text Il Baule published in ECCO, the online review of the Académie de France à Rome — Villa Medici (2020–2021 edition).
Triangle-Astérides. Center for contemporary art and Artists' residency | Marseille, FR
Mid-career residency at Triangle – France
1 May — 31 August 2021
Read more  ><
Mid-career residency at Triangle France – Astérides, Marseille, from May to August 2021.
ARTE Radio | Paris, FR
ARTE Radio — Vir Andres Hera
1 April 2021
Read more  ><
Interview conducted by Emilie Courtel for the program Place Cavour on ARTE Radio. Conversation addressing Vir Andres Hera’s artistic research, moving image practice and work with language and voice.
Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis | Rome, IT
Works at Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis — Prix Wicar
3 March 2021
Read more  ><
Screening of works by Vir Andres Hera, laureate of the Prix Wicar — Villa de Lille à Rome residency. The presentation was followed by a public conversation with the artist.
Villa Wicar | Rome, IT
Rome Prize – Villa Wicar
4 January — 5 April 2021
Read more  ><
Laureate of the Prix Wicar – Résidence de création de la Ville de Lille, artist in residence at Villa Wicar (Place Cavour), Rome, from January to April 2021. The residency, supported by the Société des Sciences, de l’Agriculture et des Arts de Lille and the Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis de Rome, developed a video and writing practice exploring radical forms of listening and the opacity created between languages.
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier | Montpellier, FR
Lux Fugit Sicut Umbra
14 November 2020 — 28 February 2021
Read more  ><
Participation in Post_Production 2020, a group exhibition curated by Emmanuel Latreille at FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, from 14 November 2020 to 28 February 2021, featuring works by Hugo Bel, Rebecca Brueder, Vir Andres Hera and Isabelle Rodriguez.
Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains | Tourcoing, FR
Misurgia Sisitlallan
25 September 2020 — 3 January 2021
Read more  ><
Presentation of Misurgia Sisitlallan within Panorama 22, a group exhibition curated by Louise Déry at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, from 25 September 2020 to 3 January 2021.
CRAC Occitanie | Sète, FR
Qalqalah قلقلة: Plus d’une langue
12 September 2020 — 10 January 2021
Read more  ><
Participation in Qalqalah : plus d’une langue, a group exhibition curated by Victorine Grataloup and Virginie Bobin at CRAC Occitanie, Sète, from 12 September 2020 to 10 January 2021.
Le BAR, Bureau d’Art et de Recherche | Roubaix, FR
Les Chimères de l’ailleurs
27 April — 13 July 2019
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Marianne Feder at Le BAR – Bureau d’Art et de Recherche, Roubaix, within Lille 3000 – Eldorado (27 April – 13 July 2019). Bringing together works by Marie Aerts, Vir Andres Hera, Frédéric Bruly-Bouabré, Patrick Chapelière, Bertrand Dezoteux, Romuald Jandolo, Augustin Lesage and Rémi Tamburini, the exhibition approached the notion of “Eldorado” as a shifting horizon of desire and projection. Moving from colonial mythologies of gold to contemporary migrations, utopian aspirations and spiritual imaginaries, the curatorial framework examined prosperity, exile, conquest and transcendence as recurring narratives structuring both history and imagination.
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma | Montreal, CA
Le Romanz de Fanuel at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
3 — 14 October 2018
Read more  ><
Screening of Le Romanz de Fanuel at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, October 2018, within the Rencontres pancanadiennes du cinéma program.
La Lune en Parachute | Épinal, FR
Cruzamientos
17 March — 20 May 2018
Read more  ><
Duo exhibition with Aurore-Alexandra Castellacci, curated by Milan Garcin at La Lune en Parachute, Épinal, from 17 March to 20 May 2018. The project was conceived around notions of cultural and geographic crossings, bringing two distinct artistic positions into dialogue within a shared curatorial framework exploring displacement and hybridity.
Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains | Tourcoing, FR
Le Romanz de Fanuel
22 September 2017 — 1 July 2018
Read more  ><
Presentation of Le Romanz de Fanuel within Panorama 19 – L’élégance, la science, la violence !, curated by Jean de Loisy at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, from 22 September 2017 to 7 January 2018.
Musée Atger | Montpellier, FR
Trans-lucide. Re-penser la Skéné
19 October — 23 November 2016
Read more  ><
Trans-lucide, group exhibition with the Skene research group based in the Montpellier fine arts school.
Villa Arson | Nice, FR
Run Run Run – Group Exhibition
2 October — 30 December 2016
Read more  ><
Group exhibition presented at Villa Arson.

Artists include Vir Andres Hera and the collective MAIK ALLES GUTE (Berlin, Leipzig — Germany), among others.
Customs Hall, International Railway Station. Portbou, ES | Weißensee Kunsthochschule. Berlin, DE
Walter Benjamin, Migrating Devices
24 September — 23 October 2016
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Pilar Parcerisas, presented at the Customs Hall of the International Railway Station in Portbou (24 September – 23 October 2016), marking the 76th anniversary of Walter Benjamin’s death. Developed in collaboration between Weißensee Kunsthochschule (Berlin), École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Escola Llotja (Barcelona) and Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), the project revisited Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History through the motif of the suitcase. Vir Andres Hera presented "Reflections" (2016).
Palais Royal | Paris, FR
Viva Villa ! Biennale
16 — 18 September 2016
Read more  ><
Participation in Festival ¡Viva Villa! – Édition 2016, curated by Cécile Debray, held at the Palais-Royal, Paris, from 16 to 18 September 2016, as part of the Journées du Patrimoine. The inaugural edition of the festival brought together residents of Villa Médicis, Casa de Velázquez and Villa Kujoyama, exploring the notion of artistic residency as both immersion and displacement. Through exhibitions, screenings and public discussions, the event reflected on landscape, identity, memory and the conditions of artistic research across institutional contexts.
Galerie l’étrangère | Nice, FR / London, UK
Residency at Galerie l’étrangère
1 August — 14 February 2016
Read more  ><
Research residency at Galerie l’étrangère, unfolding between Nice and London in 2016, with artists Maik Alesgute, Marie Jeschke and Raik Zimmerman.
Madrid, ES
Ignacia enters the collection of Casa de Velázquez
15 July 2016
Read more  ><
The work Ignacia entered the collection of Casa de Velázquez in 2016.
Halle Nord | Geneva, CH
Vitrines, Capsule 2.30 at Halle Nord
8 July — 20 August 2016
Read more  ><
Presentation of Seconde Jeunesse (2014–2016), HD video, 9’53’’, as part of Vitrines, Capsule 2.30 at Halle Nord, Geneva (8 July – 20 August 2016). Screened 24/24 from the Passage des Halles de l’île, the video follows the traces of Pieter van Gent, a 16th-century Belgian missionary in Mexico, staging gestures of cleaning, sorting and examining archival documents. The work reflects on cultural persistence, memory and transmission, and has previously been broadcast on ARTE Creative and presented at Bethanien Kreuzberg, Berlin.
ARCO, IFEMA, Madrid, Spain. | Madrid, ES
ARCO, 35th Edition
24 February 2016 — 28 February 2026
Read more  ><
Participation in the 35th edition of ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, 2016, through the Casa de Velázquez stand.
Ex-libris Gallery | Newcastle
The things not seen archive
9 November — 19 December 2015
Read more  ><
Sound-based group project presented at Ex-Libris Gallery, University of Newcastle (November 2015), and at Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (December 2015). The Things Not Seen Archive gathered short audio works pressed onto unique vinyl dubplates, conceived both as physical listening objects within exhibition contexts and as part of a parallel dematerialized online archive.
Espace Saint Martin | Lausanne, CH
La Ballade du Crime
7 — 13 November 2015
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Julie Gil at Espace Saint Martin, Lausanne bringing together works by Stefan Botez, Laetitia Bech, Valère Chanceaulme, Etienne Chosson, Livian Johan, Mathis Gasser, Jhafis Quintero, Dorian Ozhan Sari and Vir Andres Hera.

The exhibition unfolded from a reflection on crime as myth, spectacle and image, tracing its theological, historical and media genealogies, and questioning how contemporary art engages with the visibility, absence and repetition of violence.
Galerie l’œil du vingtième | Paris | Paris, FR
Pasolini, encore six de ses sept vies
1 — 29 November 2015
Read more  ><
Group exhibition presented at Galerie L’Œil du Vingtième, Paris, marking the 40th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death. Curated by Stéphane Moreaux, the exhibition took its title from Pasolini’s poem Una vitalità disperata and brought together five artists exploring a possible field of encounter with his poetic and cinematic work. Rather than a commemorative homage, the project approached Pasolini as a living interlocutor, engaging the persistence of his political, aesthetic and sensual force in relation to contemporary forms of violence and representation.
Casa de Velázquez – French Academy in Madrid | Madrid, ES
Artist of the French Academy in Madrid
1 September 2015 — 31 August 2016
Read more  ><
Artist of the French Academy in Madrid (Casa de Velázquez), 2015–2016.
La Compagnie, Belsunce, Marseille | Marseille, FR
#New Window
24 — 31 August 2015
Read more  ><
Group exhibition at La Compagnie, Marseille, bringing together eight recently graduated artists from art schools in Aix-en-Provence, Toulon and Montpellier: Vir Andres Hera, Mathieu Baechel, Yohan Dumas, Jean-Loup Faurat, Max Paskine, Morgan Patimo, Maureen Quink and Mathieu Vincent.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien | Berlin | Berlin, DE
Unsichtbarkeiten – Invisibilities
27 November — 2 December 2014
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Ludwig Seyfart at Künstlerhaus Bethanien bringing together students from Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin and École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier including the work of Vir Andres Hera.
Centre Chorégraphique National | Montpellier | Montpellier
Presence without presence
18 — 25 February 2014
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Chantal Pontbriand exploring practices of presence and absence across visual and performative works. Held at L’Agora – Centre Chorégraphique National, Montpellier.
Le Nouveau Printemps | Toulouse, FR
Danses interdites
Curated by Clément Postec and Rossy de Palma
Date
2 June — 1 October 2026
Read more  ><
Le Nouveau Printemps is an annual contemporary art festival in Toulouse dedicated to emerging and international artistic practices through exhibitions, performances and public programs across the city.

Artists presented in Danses interdites:
Vir Andres Hera, Paloma de la Cruz, Caroline Déodat, Saodat Ismailova, Smail Kanouté, Paul Maheke, Caroline Monnet, Ben Russell, Rebecca Topakian, Ahmed Umar and Ana Vaz.
FRAC Occitanie | Montpellier, FR
Re-membrances
Public program of SOL ! La biennale du territoire #3 : L’École des beaux-arts de Montpellier : A Singular History
Date
16 — 20 March 2026
Hour
19:00 - 20:30h
As part of
SOL ! La biennale du territoire #3
Read more  ><
Re-Membrances is a performance based on Vir Andres Hera's personal archives: student notebooks, personal notes, and fragments of texts written in the early 2010s during his artistic training in Montpellier. These writings, marked by exile, the discovery of new languages, and the construction of a diasporic subjectivity, are collectively activated with a group of students. The texts become living material through voice, choir, spoken word, sound, and projection. The performance transforms the intimate into a shared experience and questions what the institution transmits, but also what it leaves out of the picture, proposing to reinvest it as a space to be collectively reconfigured.
STUK – House for Dance, Image & Sound | Leuven, BE
Grind Grind Grind, Release.
Artefact 2026 – STUK, Leuven
Date
12 February — 1 March 2026
As part of
Artefact 2026
Read more  ><
Participation in Grind Grind Grind, Release. An Exhibition as a Massage, part of Artefact 2026 at STUK, curated by Karen Verschooren.

The exhibition approached the body as a site of tension and pleasure, asking whether an exhibition can function as a form of massage — a space for release, desire, and reorientation.

With works by Eglė Budvytytė, Nicola Turner, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, James Richards, Ange Leccia, Hervé Guibert, Latifa Echakhch, Vir Andres Hera, Tavares Strachan, Iván Argote, Moni Wespi, Banu Cennetoğlu & Yasemin Özcan, Lee Mingwei, Lies Daenen, Daniel Linehan & Michael Helland & Marieke Dermul, Maika Garnica, Oliver Beer and Stefanie Egedy.
Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo (MMAC) | Cuernavaca, MX
Aquí, el horizonte
Curated by Regina De Con Cossío
Date
31 January — 15 April 2026
Read more  ><
Group exhibition curated by Regina De Con Cossío.

Artists: Gabriela Salazar, Marilyn Boror Bor, Carolina Fusilier, Luis Enrique Zela-Koort, Calderón & Piñeros, Valentina Díaz, Daniel Monroy Cuevas, Distruktur, Asma, Diego Ventura Puac-Coyoy, Omar Castillo Alfaro and Vir Andres Hera.
Musée de Grenoble | Grenoble, FR
Amoxtli enters the collection of the Musée de Grenoble
Commission acquisition – Musée de Grenoble
Date
3 December 2025
Read more  ><
The installation Amoxtli (2024) was acquired by the Musée de Grenoble following its presentation at the 17th Lyon Biennale. The acquisition was validated by the national scientific acquisition commission.

The work joins the museum’s contemporary collections under the section Image en mouvement / vidéo.
Fondation des Artistes | Paris, FR
Caméra Serpent / Incwadi – Fondation des Artistes
Laureate of the Autumn 2025 Production Grant
Date
20 November 2025
As part of
Autumn 2025 Patronage Commission
Read more  ><
Selected among 24 artists for the Autumn 2025 production grant of the Fondation des Artistes.

The supported project, Caméra Serpent / Incwadi, was chosen by the patronage commission held on 20 November 2025. The grant supports the production of new works across visual arts disciplines.

Other laureates included Yto Barrada, Anne-Lise Broyer, Loucia Carlier, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Wilfried Dsainbayonne, Florian Fouché, Brandon Gercara, Mounir Gouri, Paul Heintz, Hippolyte Hentgen, Gala Hernández López, Hayoung Kim, Elias Kurdy, Isabelle Le Minh, Laida Lertxundi, Livia Melzi, Marianne Mispelaëre, Louise Mutrel, Arash Nassiri, Mathieu Pernot, Julien Prévieux, Théo Robine-Langlois and Ana Vaz.