Montserrat Camargo is a Mexican visual artist and writer, currently based in Madrid.
In her practice Camargo combines language, textile and performance to build dispositifs for the regeneration of intimacy. Drawing from her personal experience of displacement and estrangement with her mother tongue, she researches individual memories in order to archive intimacy and reactivate a space understood within the private; thus creating new forms of community. As a way of resistance in an internet era she recovers disappearing forms of intimacy, vernacular media and informal communication where language is not institutionalised. Within this frame, through repetition and prolonged duration, language becomes a current that passes through and exits her body turning into a material. As a result, the viewer often encounters a tension of a raw form, something almost half done, a bodily object where the presence of the artist still remains.
Emphasising joy and freedom she invites the audience to play with her by revealing secrets, stealing conversations, and reshaping gossip as a broadcast of intimacy; eventually, pushing us to interact with each other
Exhibitions
2026
- Cese y desista. Solo Show. La Juan Gallery, Madrid.
- xM2. Group show. Teatros del Canal, Madrid.
2025
- Confesionario. Performance exhibited in an art festival. Art batallion, Madrid.
- Lo que fue, lo que persiste, lo que transcurre. Group Show. OB Studio, Madrid.
2024
- La dieta blanca. Group show. Obertura Carabanchel, Galeria Nueva, Madrid.
- Katarsis. Collaborative performance. Amphitheater of Dikaia, Greece.
- Roki’s house. Amphitheater of Dikaia, Greece
2023
Occupying another home – A self invented residency. Group Show. Zapadores Ciudad del Arte, Madrid, Spain.
2022
- 100x kunst in the Akerk. Group Show. Stipend awarded by Kunstpunt, Groningen, Netherlands.
- Yo vivo aquí. Solo show. Heerz Tooya Gallery, Bulgaria.
2021
- Jugando a la casita. Group Show. RAAHM, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
- Detour. Graduation Show. Suikerfabriek, Groningen, Netherlands
- Green Lights. Group show. Herestraat 72, Groningen, Netherlands.
2020
- Sentimental Preoccupations. Group show. Maydays, Groningen, Netherlands
- 1/3 2 4 3D. Curatorial practice show. Praediniussingel 59, Groningen, Netherlands.
2019
- In Between. Grup Show. Amici Dell’Arte Galleria, Groningen, Netherlands.
- Takes a Sip of Your Soul. MALM Collection, Loppersum.
2018
Stardust and Chicken Soup, 70th Anniversary of the Synagogue. Group Show. Synagogue, Groningen, Netherlands.
Residencies & awards
2025 / 2026 – Hospital de artistas. La Juan Gallery, Madrid.
2024 – CoTranspose Summer Residency. Dikaia, Greece.
2022 – ARV. International Residency. Vishovgrad, Bulgaria.
2022- 100x kunst in the Akerk. Stipend awarded by Kunstpunt. Groningen, Netherlands.
2021 – Stipend awarded by the municipality of Friesland. In collaboration with RAAHM, Leeuwarden.
2021 – Occupying Another Home A Self Invented Residency, in collaboration with Mila Jankovic. De Laan 26B, Groningen, Netherlands.
2020 – 24-hour Artist Residency. SYB KUNSTHUIS, Friesland, Netherlands.
2018 – Artwords. NP3,Groningen, Netherlands.
Curatorial and other relevant experience
2026
Curator & Production Assistant.
La Juan Gallery Madrid, Spain
2025
- Production Assistant Desplazamiento del Congreso, by Roger Bernat – Madrid, Spain
- Co-founder of Colectivo Chacal Literary and artistic projects, cultural programming, and event production – Madrid, Spain
- Gallery & Studio Assistant at OB Studio Contemporary – Madrid, Spain
2024
Gallery & Studio Assistant
OB Studio Contemporary – Madrid, Spain
2022
- Co-curator
Gallery Heerz Tooya – Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria - Writer & Photographer
Hanze Mag – Groningen, the Netherlands
2021
- Curatorial Assistant
30th Anniversary Exhibition, SYB KUNSTHUIS – Beetsterzwaag, the Netherlands - Co-curator & Exhibition Installation
In collaboration with RAAMH Leeuwarden – Leeuwarden, the Netherlands - Curatorial & Exhibition Installation Team Member
Green Lights, Zip City Project – Groningen, the Netherlands - Co-curator
Minerva Art Academy – Groningen, the Netherlands
2019
Artist Collaboration
Sound installation with German artist Hendrick Hanstchel at NP3 – Groningen, the Netherlands
2018
Gallery & Artist Liaison
In Between, Galleria Amici Dell’Arte – Groningen, the Netherlands
Studies
MA in Creative writing by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (2023 – 2025)
BA in Fine Art by Minerva Art Academy, Groningen, Netherlands. (2017 – 2021)
Foundation year under the tutelage of Artist Alessa Esteban. Mexico City. (2016 – 2017)
Film summer course at La ESCAC Terrasa, Cataluña.