La Chola Poblete
Exhibition View: Guaymallén, Palais Populaire, Berlin, 2023
Exhibition View: Guaymallén, Palais Populaire, Berlin, 2023
Exhibition View: Guaymallén, Palais Populaire, Berlin, 2023
Rosa mística, 2023. Watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper. 200 x 152 cms
Barroco Andino, 2023. Watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper. 200 x 152 cms
Virgen del Carmen de Cuyo, 2023. Watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper. 200 x 152 cms
Virgen de la Cordillera, 2023. Watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper. 200 x 152 cms
Untitled, 2021. Fotografía digital
Untitled, 2019. Mixed media on canvas. 100 x 100 cms
Untitled, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 70 x 50 cms
Untitled, 2019. Mixed media on canvas. 100 x 91 cms
American beauty, 2017. Digital photography
Untitled, 2023. Watercolor and ink on paper. 65 x 50 cms
Untitled, 2023. Watercolor and ink on paper. 65 x 50 cms
Untitled, 2023. Watercolor and ink on paper. 75 x 55 cms
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The work of the artist La Chola Poblete (Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina, 1989)includes watercolor paintings, oil landscapes, bread sculptures and iron structures, which build, not without tension and violence, a multi-part bidimensional installation that reproduces, in a key of denunciation and vindication, the dynamics of the cult. Taking up again the tools and formats around which she built her own language and iconography, La Chola intervenes in historical and contemporary imaginaries to explore the ambiguities and undefinable zones of the narrative of the past and the current political discourse. As if she knew that even in the stereotyping and exoticization of the original peoples, their mythical force survives, the artist uses her own body and invents her own mythograms, in graphic interventions that, between the delicacy of drawing and the power of branding, save not only their history, but also their desire for the present.
exhibitions
EN EL AIRE
08.11.2025
LA CHOLA POBLETE —En el aire— Curated by Antonio Villa. A film set, a stage, paintings and photographs of La Chola immerse us in the performance of her present as an artist. The sophisticated web of references and the spectacular mise-en-scène do not produce a single effect. It is a cocktail of quotes from an artist who is excessive for the extremes she touches, and exquisite for the abundance of cultured citations she weaves together.
news
06.03.2026 LA CHOLA at MASP
publications
La Chola Poblete: Ejercicios del llanto
Museo Moderno Buenos Aires, 2023
links
Mercedes Ezquiaga, “La Chola Poblete conquista Berlín y se encamina hacia la Bienal de Venecia 2024” Infobae. Sep, 2023
Enzo Maqueira, “La Chola, la artista queer argentina que brilla en Europa”, Revista Viva. Mayo, 2022
Jessica Fabaro, “La Chola Poblete, la artista queer argentina que cautivó a la reina Letizia provoca con sus vírgenes en arteba”, TN. Octubre 2022
