Pedro Soler

Pedro Soler

Singapore / Spain / Ecuador
www.root.ps

Trained in Digital Arts at the Audiovisual Institute of the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona – Spain (1997-1998), he has developed an intense professional career as a creator and cultural agitator. Articulator of numerous initiatives related to multimedia, art, theater and free culture, both individually and collaborating with various international groups, such as Fiftyfifty (independent distributor of multimedia content), Dadata (audiovisual creation), Didascalie.net (platform for theater and multimedia), GISS.tv (streaming services with free software).

Pedro was a curator at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona from 2000 to 2006, an artist-programmer for the theater in Paris from 2003 to 2006 and, from 2006 to 2009, he worked as Director of Hangar.org, the Visual Arts Production Center in Barcelona. In 2010 he was curator of the exhibitions "L'Espai de l'Intent" (Can Felipa Cultural Center), "Lo uno y lo Múltiple" (La Capella - Institute of Culture), both in Barcelona, and "The One and the Multiple ” (Artellewa – Noshokaty Foundation) in Cairo. In 2011 he started Plataforma Cero, an artistic production and research center within the LABoral art center in Gijón, Spain.

Starting in 2012, he participated with workshops and interventions in Pixelache (Helsinki), Grec mov|i|ment (La Caldera, Barcelona), LabSurLab (Quito), Summer of Labs (Euskadi/Galizia/Portugal), 404 School Not Found (Intermediae , Madrid), RCK (La Porta, Barcelona), Tecnomagxs (Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico) among other activities. After a stay at La Fonderie Darling in Montréal, Québec - Canada in 2013, he settled in Medellín - Colombia, to work in collaboration with entities such as Casa Tres Patios, Platohedro and Parque Explora. In 2015 he is co-curator of the exhibition "Art in Orbit" at the CAC, Quito.