selected works // exhibitions // series
Balcony Gallery, Lisbon
23. May - 04. July 2026
"Removing Gravity from the Fall is an exhibition that arises from a question about a question. Or several questions about a question. Or perhaps, a question about several questions. The origin is doubt. And doubt is a place in and of itself. To ask—treating the question not as something to be solved, but as something to be lived—is to inhabit this place of doubt and to linger in it. To return to it, as well. For this, one must try to love uncertainty; for it is only by trying to love uncertainty that one inhabits the mystery. " (Carolina Serrano - excerpt from the exhibition text)
An installation composed of three spheres made of wax and cotton threads suspended within a structure of galvanized steel and mirrors. The mirror in the first piece reflects the exterior of the sculpture, the one in the second piece reflects the interior of the sculpture, and the one in the third piece reflects both the interior and the exterior of the sculpture.
Installation at St. Gertrud Church, Cologne [Germany]
06. September. 2025 - 21. September. 2025
Inspired by a verse from the mystical poet Angelus Silesius, Carolina Serrano fills the central nave of St. Gertrud Church with 1200 identical concave elements – empty shells that refer to the idea of empty space. But this space is not merely empty: it is full of possibilities, a projection space for inner worlds, memories and silent presence. Thus, the seemingly uninhabited becomes inhabited space – a place that is larger than the object itself and invites us to lose ourselves inside ourselves
Solo exhibition at Brühler Kunstverein, Brühl [Germany]
20. June. 2025 - 13. July. 2025
Through her investigation of concepts such as good and evil, matter and spirit, tenderness and violence, freedom and confinement, and her use of wax as the predominant material in her work, the artist creates her own language that reflects her constant attempt to understand what it means to be human. In this exhibition, Serrano continues to explore these ideas by placing sculptures with contrasting attributes (masculine/feminine, interior/exterior, full/empty, horizontal/vertical, lying down/suspended) next to each other. Thus, through their proximity, these opposites are either cancelled out or added together, resulting once again in a return to Unity and Wholeness.
Solo exhibition at Matjö - Raum für Kunst, Cologne [Germany]
31. October.2024 - 28. November.2024
In the exhibition Inside of, Carolina Serrano shows her sculptures through elements that limit the gallery space, creating divisions between the sculptures and the space, and between the sculptures and the observer. The artist explores concepts linked to human duality and the antagonisms of existence, through the physical materialization of boundaries and wax objects that reflect the ideas of good and evil, tenderness and violence, freedom and enclosure.
Solo exhibition at Galerie Alex Serra, Cologne [Germany]
27. October.2023 - 14. Dezember.2023
The exhibition consists of a number of sculptures, including a series of "flowers" (Magnolia, Narcissus, Chrysanthemum and Ranunculus), a hanging sculpture and some drawings on white wax plates.
Solo exhibition at UMA LULIK_ Gallery, Lisbon [Portugal]. text by Susana Ventura
12. January.2023 - 25. February. 2023
The exhibition consists of 8 wall sculptures and 2 suspended sculptures and the laying of a white carpet floor to create an extremely bright and white space, making the exhibition a total and continuous work.
Solo exhibition at Galerie Alex Serra, Cologne [Germany]. text by Wilko Austermann
5. November.2021 - 8. January.2022
The exhibition consists of a set of black sculptures arranged in the gallery's two rooms, emphasising the concepts of dichotomy and duality explored in the exhibition and in the artist's work.
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Solo exhibition at UMA LULIK_ Gallery, Lisbon [Portugal]. text by Alexandre Melo
23. September.2020 - 9. January. 2021
The exhibition consisted of a set of sculptures and a light installation on the wall, which was the light that illuminated the entire exhibition.
Solo exhibition at FOCO Gallery, Lisbon [Portugal]. curated by Mattia Tosti
6.February.2020 - 22. February.2020
The artist's first solo exhibition, it consisted of a set of sculptures, installations and photographs.
Works that were part of the exhibition All we can do is wait at Galeria Paulo Nunes Arte Contemporânea, Vila Franca de Xira [Portugal] in 2021 + the installation A Jangada [The Raft] at Palácio Marquês de Pombal, Oeiras [Portugal] in 2015.
Series of 12 inscribed wax plates
Wax plaques with bas-relief inscriptions, traces carved into the paraffin, writing and lines drawn with a hot pen.
Series in progress made up of photographs taken in various places, such as Sintra [Portugal], Istanbul and Capadocia [Turkey].
Series of 5 wax sculptures [with styrofoam interior structure], dated between 2017 and 2018.