Santiago Sierra’s substantial body of work acts to reveal the perverse networks of power that inspire the alienation and exploitation of workers, the injustice of labour relations, the unequal distribution of wealth produced by capitalism, the deviance of work and money, and the racial discrimination clearly evident in a world scored with unidirectional (south-north) migratory flows.
A large 'NO' inscribed into a field of wheat near Rouillé, France.
A large metal sculpture of the word 'NO' was transported by a truck around the world and repeatedly installed in different locations.
A large 'NO' marble sculpture installed in the Piazza Bruccellaria Montecatini during the XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Italy.
Within the framework of the neighbourhood protests against the installation of surveillance cameras held in the Lavapies neighbourhood of Madrid, the word 'NO' was painted in front of the cameras.
The word 'NO' is projected above the Pope as he celebrated World Youth Day in Madrid in 2011. Using a Fulgurator, a device designed by Julius von Bismarck, the image is projected briefly over the Pope and a photograph taken.
2017 Santiago Sierra. Solo Exhibition, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2017 Mea Culpa, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2017 The Names of Those Killed in the Syrian Conflict Between 15’th of March 2011 and 31’st of December 2016, Center of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria; Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Lucia and the Prisoners, Gallery on the Move, Tirana, Albania
2016 25 veteranos/2205 crímenes de estado, Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2016 L’abbeveratoio, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy
2016 Black Flag, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhaguen, Denmark
2015 The Debt, Oldtown of Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
2015 583 Hours of Work, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
2015 Athens Stray Dogs Project and The Trilogy of Pigs Eating Peninsulas, Kappatos Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2015 Santiago Sierra. Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany
2015 Veterano de la guerra de México cara a la pared, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Veteranos de las guerras del Paquisha y Perú cara a la pared, Galería Encarnación 2015 González, Madrid
2015 Four Black Vehicles with the Engine Running Inside an Art Gallery, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2015 La Lona, LABOR, México D.F., Mexico
2014 The Flock, Team Gallery, New York.
2014 Lucia and the Prisioners, Zentralle Halle, Krems, Austria
2013 Veterans/Psychophonies, Void Gallery, Derry
2013 40 m3 of Earth from the Iberian Peninsula, KOW, Berlin
2013 El trabajo es la dictadura, galería Ivory Press, Madrid
2013 Veteran of the Allied Occupation in Germany, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
2013 Veterans of the wars of Afghanistan, Irak and Vietnam, 13 Rooms, Sydney, Australia
2013 Santiago Sierra. Skulptur, Fotografie, Film, Kunsthalle Tübingen; Deichtorhallen – Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
2013 Santiago Sierra, Kunstverein Arnsberg
2013 Santiago Sierra, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2013 Veterans, Team Gallery, New York
2013 Destroyed Word, Te Tuhi Center for the Arts, Auckland
2013 Los Encargados (con / mit / with Jorge Galindo), galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2013 Pigs Devouring the Hellenic, Italic and Iberic Peninsulas, Prometeo Gallery, Milano
2012 Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed, Lisson Gallery, London
2012 Santiago Sierra. Hafnarhús, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
2012 No proyectado sobre el Papa (con / mit / with Julius Von Bismarck), PhotoEspaña, Off Limits, Madrid
2011 NO, Global Tour, Artium, Vitoria / Ars Cameralis, Katowice
2011 CMX 04, galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2011 Santiago Sierra, Prometeo Gallery, MilanoSantiago Sierra / Cady Noland, KOW, Berlin
2010 NO, Global Tour, verschiedene Orten / several locations
2010 7 formas de 60 x 60 x 600 cm, construidas para ser sostenidas en perpendicular a la parad, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Enterramiento de diez trabajadores, Chiesa del Luogo Pio, Livorno
2009 NO, Global Tour, Milano
2009 NO – European Tour Departure, Lucca
2009 Santiago Sierra, MARCO, Vigo34 cm, Prometeo Gallery, Milano
2009 Santiago Sierra, Magasin 3 Stockolm Konsthall, Stockholm
2009 Los Penetrados, galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2008 Remake of Group of Persons Facing the Wall and One Person Facing into a Corner, Lisson Gallery, London
2007 Centro Cultural Matucana, Santiago de Chile
2007 Santiago Sierra, New Works, Lisson Gallery, London
2007 1549 Crimenes de Estado, Antiguo Edificio de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de la Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlatelolco, Mexico City
2007 Himnos, Cabildo de Montevideo, Montevideo
2007 Proyecto Caracas, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
2007 Concierto para Planta Eléctrica a Diésel, Salon Experimental de la Fundación Chacao, Caracas
2007 Sumision, Proyecto Juárez, Mexico City
2007 Santiago Sierra, Prometeo Gallery, Milano
2006 Santiago Sierra, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
2006 Santiago Sierra, CAC, Málaga
2006 The Punished, Art Frankfurt, Hall 9, Frankfurt
2006 245m3, Stommeln Synagoge, Pulheim
2006 89 Huicholes, San Andrés Jalisco, Jalisco
2005 Under Destruction # 2. The Corridor in the House of the People, Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana, Bucuresti
2005 Una persona, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento
2005 Intercambio en las posiciones de dos volúmenes de tierra de 30m3 cada una, Nordkorea – Südkorea / North Korea – South Korea
2005 Loudspeakers, Arsenale, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
2005 Haus im Schlamm, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2004 Santiago Sierra – Acciones 2001–04, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2004 120 horas de lectura continua de una guía de teléfono, galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2004 Santiago Sierra, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
2004 Santiago Sierra, Lisson Gallery, London
2004 Klassenkampf, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
2004 Santiago Sierra, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
2004 300 Tons, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2004 Santiago Sierra, Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny, Paris
2004 Pinturas, galería Enrique Guerrero / Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City
2003 100 personas escondidas, galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2003 El Degüello, Battery Park, New York
2003 Edificio iluminado, Arcos de Belén, Mexico City
2003 Palabra tapada, Pabellón de España, Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
2003 12 parapets, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
2002 Hiring and arrangement of 30 workers in relation to their skin colour, Kunsthalle WienPart 1 / Part 2, Lisson Gallery, London
2002 3.000 huecos de 180 x 70 x 70 cm cada uno, Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Vejer de la Frontera
2002 9 forms 100 x 100 x 600 cm each, constructed to be supported perpendicular to a wall, Deitch Projects, New York
2002 Documents, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
2002 Spraying of polyurethane over 18 people, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
2002 Construction and installation of 12 forms of 75 x 75 x 800 cm organized in two spaces, Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin
2002 The history of the Foksal Gallery taught to an unemployed Ukrainian, Fundación Galería Foksal, Warsaw
2002 Project Room, ARCO, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, MadridSantiago Sierra. City
2002 Works: 2002–1990, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2002 2 maraqueros, galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico
2001 430 personas remuneradas con 30 soles la hora, galería Pancho Fierro, Lima
2001 20 trabajadores en la bodega de un barco. 3 intervenciones urbanas, Barcelona
2001 Art Report Barcelona Banner held outside the entrance to an art fair, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Basel
2001 Object measuring 600 x 57 x 52 cm constructed to be held horizontally to a wall, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
2001 Miami Art Fair, Project Room, galería Enrique Guerrero, Miami
2000 Workers who cannot be paid, remunerated to remain inside cardboard boxes, Kunst- Werke, Berlin
2000 A person paid for 360 continuous working hours, P.S.1. New York
2000 8 combinaciones para una puerta de 2 hojas, Proyecto Zapopan, Jalisco
2000 Muro de una galería arrancado, inclinado a 60 grados del suelo y sostenido por 5 personas, 2000 Acceso A, Mexico City
2000 12 workers paid to remain inside cardboard boxes, ACE Gallery, New York
2000 Documents, ACE Gallery, Mexico City
2000 Público transportado entre 2 puntos de la ciudad de Guatemala, Belia De Vico Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de Guatemala
1999 Línea de 250 cm tatuada sobre seis personas remuneradas, Espacio Aglutinador, La Habana
1999 465 personas remuneradas, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Sala 7, Mexico City
1998 Obstrucción de una vía con un contenedor de carga, Arte In Situ, La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City
1997 Traslación de un automóvil, Galería BF 15, Monterrey
1997 Fardo de 1.000 x 400 x 250 cm, compuesto de plásticos en desuso y suspendido de la fachada de un edificio sito en la calle Isabel la Católica, 5, Galería Art & Idea, Mexico City
1996 15 hexaedros de 250 cm de lado cada uno, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
1994 86 módulos de soporte publicitario metálico de 300 x 80 cm cada uno, galería Ángel Romero, Madrid
1994 Dos cilindros de 250 x 250 cm cada uno compuestos de carteles arrancado, Espacio P, Madrid
2017 Fragile State, PinchukArteCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2017 Transactions – About the value of artistic labour, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2017 Closed Universe (Part II). Mechanisms of radicalism in contemporary art, Martinetz Gallerie, Cologne, Germany.
2017 L'Autre... De límage à la réalité 2/3: Face a l'Autre, Maison Populaire, Paris, France
2017 HL2805xy57, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017 Primary Structures. Masterworks of Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2017 INTÉRIMS (Art contre emploi, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
2016 The Others, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2016 Militant Nostalgia, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2016 For an Image, Faster than Light, Yinchuan Biennale, China
2016 Antimusée/Antimuseum. Une retrospective d’expositions fermées, FRI ART, Centre d’Art de 2016 Fribourg, Switzerland.
2016 What People Do For Money, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Thomas Hirschhorn & Santiago Sierra: Radical Democracy, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Performer, Audience, Mirror, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016 El excusado, Galería Parque, Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Arte y propaganda libertaria, Encarnación González, Madrid, Spain
2015 FAAC, Festival de Arte de Acción de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
2015 Under the Mountain. Jerusalem Season of Culture, Old Jerusalem, Israel
2015 Motherlode. 35Esima edizione Drodesera, Centrale Fies, Trento, Italy
2015 Workers Leaving The Studio. Looking Away From Socialist Realism, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
2015 Say What? / Ne dedin en?, GaleriZilberman, Estambul
2015 Cross Section of a Revolution, Lisson Gallery, London
2015 The Copenhagen Declaration. Jens Haaning / Santiago Sierra, Farschou Foundation, Nordhavn.
2015 Monte de Estépar, Espacio Tangente, Burgos
2015 14 Rooms, Messe Basel, BasileaCorpus – Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2015 Das Ende 20. Jahrhunderts. Es jommt noch besser, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin.
2015 Smart new world, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2015 Places of Transition, freiraum quertier21 INTERNATIONAL, Museum Quartir, Viena
2015 BOOSTER. Kunst Sound Machine, Marta Herford, Herford
2013 El arte del presente. Colección Helga de Alvear, Centro Centro, Madrid
2013 Performance Now, ICI, New York
2013 Together / Apart, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2013 Kunst und Migration, Kunsthalle Bahnitz, Berlin
2013 13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sidney
2013 El cuerpo fragmentado, LIMAC, Madrid
2013 Turn off the Sun, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix Believers, KOW, Berlin
2013 Tireless Refrain, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yonguin
2012 Internationales Sommervestival Hamburg 2012, Kampnagel, Hamburg
2012 Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kerala
2012 30 Artists / 30 Spaces, Institut für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg
2012 Aproximaciones I. Arte español contemporáneo en la colección Helga de Alvear, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
2012 12 Rooms, Ruhr Triennale, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2011 Proyecto Juárez, Matadero Madrid, Madrid
2011 Historias de la vida material. Personas, lugares, cosas, acontecimientos, ficciones, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
2011 11 Rooms, Manchester International Festival, Manchester
2010 Márgenes del silencio, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
2010 El ángel exterminador. A room for Spanish Contemporary Art, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels
2009 Moralische Fantasien, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2009 Viva la muerte, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2008 The living Currency (La Monnaie Vivant),Tate Modern, London
2008 Political / Minimal, KWInstitut for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2008 All Inclusive. A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2008 Madrid Abierto. Intervenciones Arte Público, Madrid.
2007 Entre fronteiras/Between Bordes. MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow
2006 The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2006 Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2006 Pasión/Provocación – fotografia & video en la Colección de Teofilo Cohen, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2006 TRANSIT, ART FrankfurtAUTO-NOM-MOBILE, Kunstverein KasselLa Monnaie vivant, CAC Brétigny
2005 The Hours. Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005 Hasta pulverizarse los ojos, Sala de Exposiciones BBVA, Madrid; Sala BBVA, Bilbao Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
2005 Art Takes Place. A Lucky Strike, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2005 Pursuit of Happiness, Leidsche Rijn
2005 Police, Ober-Österreichisches Landesmuseum Graz
2005 14a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Caracas
2005 De la crítica y los nuevos compromisos, IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Fotografía, Sala Mendoza, Caracas; Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas
2005 51a Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
2005 En Attente, Casino, Luxembourg,
2005 Bienal de Praga 2, Sección Acción Directa: Latin American Social Sphere, Prague, Bienal Internacional de Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2005 Nothingness, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj/Ljubljana
2005 Eco. Arte contemporáneo mexicano, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2005 Emergencias, MUSAC, LeónLaocoonte devorado.
2005 Arte y violencia política, Artium, Vitoria; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2004 Nothingness, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Granz
2004 The Real Royal Trip, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, New York; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
2004 VideoZone 2, Video Festival, Tel Aviv
2004 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla
2004 Bienal de São Paulo, São PauloBienal de Liverpool, Liverpool
2004 Seven Sins, Museion, Bolzano/BozenGegen den Strich, Staatliche Kunsthallen Baden-Baden
2004 Climats, Cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national d’art, Vassivière
2004 Produciendo Realidad. Arte e resistenza latinoamericana, Prometeo – Associazione per l’arte contemporanea, LuccaI need you, Centre Pasqu’Art, Biel/BienneDie Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2004 Made in Mexico, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2004 Social Capital, Art Gallery of the CUNY Graduate Center, New York
2004 Brainstorming. Topographie de la morale, Centre national d’art, Vassivière
2004 Cremers Haufen, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster Soziale Kreaturen.
2004 Wie Körper Kunst wird, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
2004 Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
2004 Material Witness, Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland, OH
2004 Made in Mexico, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2003 Repertorio sistématico de consulta rápida para el estudiante y profesional con definiciones acordes con la realidad del mundo actual, CANAIA, Mexico City
2003 Auto-nom. Das Automobil in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
2003 Nuevos Proyectos, Fundación Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Vejer de la Frontera
2003 Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2003 Witness, Barbican Art Centre, London
2003 Mexico Attacks!, Associazione Prometeo per l’Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
2003 M_ARS. Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
2003 Segundo encuentro de arte experimental de Madrid, Artistas Visuales Asociados de Madrid
2002 20 Million Mexicans Can’t Be Wrong, South London Gallery, London
2002 Corpi Dispersi, Castello Comunale di Barolo, Barolo
2002 Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, PS1, New York
2002 Protest/Respect, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen
2002 La Canción del Pirata, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
2002 Art & Economy, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2002 The Hall of Lost Steps, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul
2002 Trans Sexual Express, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
2002 The Hall of Lost Steps, Borusan Sanat Galerisi, Istambul
2001 Marking the Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2001 ARS 01 - Unfolding Perspectives, Kiasma, Helsinki
2001 Loop, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München; PS1, New York
2001 Angst, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen
2001 Aftersun, Cala San Vicente, Mallorca
2001 Complicidades. Aspectos retóricos de la fotografía actual, Centro Nacional de Fotografía José Manuel Rotella, Torrelavega
2001 Políticas de la diferencia. Arte iberoamericano de fin de siglo, Valencia; Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil; Consell General del Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana; Governo do Estado de Pernambuco, Centro de Convençoes de Pernambuco
2001 Pay Attention, Please, Cerdeña
2001 Trans Sexual Express: A Classic for the Third Millennium, Centre d’art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
2001 Comunicación entre las artes, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia
2001 Plateau of Humankind, 49a Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
2001 Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2000 Pervirtiendo el minimalismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Extramuros, La Habana
2000 Novena Muestra Internacional de Performance, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
2000 Puerto Rico 00 (paréntesis en la ciudad), San Juan de Puerto Rico
2000 Leaving the Island, PICAF, Metropolitan Museum of Pusan, Pusan
2000 Documentos, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles
2000 A Shot in a Head, Lisson Gallery, London
2000 Friends and Neighbours, EVA 2000, Limerick
1999 Galería BF 15, FIAC, Paris
1999 Plaza G & T, Ciudad de Guatemala
1999 Representar/Intervenir, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
1999 México Nuevo, Centre d’arts plastiques de Ville franche-sur-Sâone; Museé de la Vallée de Barcelonnette Paradas continuas, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
1998 Made in Mexico - Made in Venezuela, Art Metropol Gallery, Toronto
1998 Galería BF 15, VI Expoarte Guadalajara, Jalisco
1998 Regina 51, VI Expoarte Guadalajara, Jalisco
1998 Cambio II, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
1998 Después del cuerpo, Galería 127, Mexico City
1998 Cambio I, Sandra Gehring Gallery, New York
