Video and visual artist, Héctor Solari was born in Montevideo [Uruguay] and living in Germany since 1993. Solari studied architecture in Montevideo and art in Montevideo and Lucca [Italy] with Guillermo Fernández, Luis Camnitzer and David Finkbeiner. Video and visual artist, Héctor Solari was born in Montevideo [Uruguay] and living in Germany since 1993. Solari studied architecture in Montevideo and art in Montevideo and Lucca [Italy] with Guillermo Fernández, Luis Camnitzer and David Finkbeiner.

He has exhibited, among others, in the following institutions: Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo; Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 (Performing Architectures, Goethe Institute program), Italy; Quadrienale of Scenography, Prague, Czech Republic; Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin and Grassi Museum Leipzig, Germany; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Baltycka Galeria Sztuki, Slupsk and BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland; Haus der Kunst Munich; Hellerau-European Centre of the Arts Dresden and Germanisches Museum Nuremberg, Germany.

2016-2017 he was curator of the festival of dance and scenography "Reconstruction of the Future" for Hellerau-European Centre for the Arts Dresden. From 2012 to 2016 he curated the video art exhibition series "Schön Vergänglich" for the Museum Moderner Kunst-Wörlen in Passau. In 2011 he curated the “International Price Victor Vasarely for art in public spaces" in Pécs, Hungary; 2013 he was member of the jury at the same competition in Aix-en-Provence, France.

From 2010 to 2018 he taught the subjects "Aesthetics", "History of Video Art" and "Contradictions in the Contemporary Cultural Management" at the Dresden International University and at the University of Applied Sciences Görlitz. At the Palucca University of Dance Dresden he has been teaching the subject "Dance and Architecture" since 2019.

Héctor Solari lives and works in Hamburg.

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