Chaveli Sifre (b. 1987, Würzburg, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin. Her multidisciplinary practice explores healing traditions, the hierarchy of the senses, botany, and the belief systems that shape them. Through installations, sculptures, paintings, and participatory performances, Sifre investigates the intersections of science, spirituality, ritual and healing modalities aiming to recover their long-lost connections.
Through her immersive and sensorial installations, Sifre invites audiences to reconsider the hierarchy of the senses in order to generate a world transforming tool.
Chaveli Sifre holds a Master’s in Museum Studies from HTW Berlin (2021) and a BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (2010). She has presented numerous solo exhibitions, most recently Epona at Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2025), a multisensory installation featuring scent, sound, and North Sea shells. Also in 2025, she was featured in Profiles: Latin America at ARCO Madrid. In 2024, she presented Essenz des Lebens (Death is a Seed) at Kultur Büro Elisabeth in Berlin and Nothing is Finished but Everything has Begun at 721 in San Juan. Previous solo exhibitions include Reverse Alchemy at LISTE Basel and Soft Portals at Embajada (2023); Aerosol - La Escuela del Olor at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico and Maleza in Barcelona (2022); and Cromántica in San Juan (2019).
Her group exhibition highlights include After Images at Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin), Bwa Kayiman at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and Invocacions at MACBA (Barcelona), all in 2024, TBA21’s Meandering in Córdoba; . Upcoming exhibitions include Faunalia at WIELS (Brussels) and Britzenale (Berlin). Additional presentations include Mishkin Gallery (NYC), Centre Clark (Montreal), De Appel (Amsterdam), and Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Other notable projects include "Aerosol - La Escuela del Olor" at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan (2022); and "Spirit Level” at Underneath the Arches in Naples (2024). She has also participated in major events such as the "Flow States, La Trienal 2024” at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, La Trienal Poligráfica in San Juan and the Bienal Tropical del Caribe.
In 2024, Sifre was awarded the prestigious Villa Romana Prize, the oldest German art prize, granted to outstanding contemporary artists living in Germany.
Sifre’s work has been discussed in publications such as NEZ Magazine (France) and Arts of the Working Class (Berlin), and featured in curated catalogs like "Meandering – Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics" (Sternberg Press). Online, her work has received critical attention in The New Yorker’s review of La Trienal, Observer’s feature El Museo del Barrio’s 2024 Triennial Expands Latinx Identity to Embrace a Global Perspective, Artsy’s 8 Must-See Shows in New York This Holiday Season.
Through her immersive and sensorial installations, Sifre invites audiences to reconsider the hierarchy of the senses in order to generate a world transforming tool.
Chaveli Sifre holds a Master’s in Museum Studies from HTW Berlin (2021) and a BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (2010). She has presented numerous solo exhibitions, most recently Epona at Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2025), a multisensory installation featuring scent, sound, and North Sea shells. Also in 2025, she was featured in Profiles: Latin America at ARCO Madrid. In 2024, she presented Essenz des Lebens (Death is a Seed) at Kultur Büro Elisabeth in Berlin and Nothing is Finished but Everything has Begun at 721 in San Juan. Previous solo exhibitions include Reverse Alchemy at LISTE Basel and Soft Portals at Embajada (2023); Aerosol - La Escuela del Olor at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico and Maleza in Barcelona (2022); and Cromántica in San Juan (2019).
Her group exhibition highlights include After Images at Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin), Bwa Kayiman at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and Invocacions at MACBA (Barcelona), all in 2024, TBA21’s Meandering in Córdoba; . Upcoming exhibitions include Faunalia at WIELS (Brussels) and Britzenale (Berlin). Additional presentations include Mishkin Gallery (NYC), Centre Clark (Montreal), De Appel (Amsterdam), and Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Other notable projects include "Aerosol - La Escuela del Olor" at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan (2022); and "Spirit Level” at Underneath the Arches in Naples (2024). She has also participated in major events such as the "Flow States, La Trienal 2024” at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, La Trienal Poligráfica in San Juan and the Bienal Tropical del Caribe.
In 2024, Sifre was awarded the prestigious Villa Romana Prize, the oldest German art prize, granted to outstanding contemporary artists living in Germany.
Sifre’s work has been discussed in publications such as NEZ Magazine (France) and Arts of the Working Class (Berlin), and featured in curated catalogs like "Meandering – Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics" (Sternberg Press). Online, her work has received critical attention in The New Yorker’s review of La Trienal, Observer’s feature El Museo del Barrio’s 2024 Triennial Expands Latinx Identity to Embrace a Global Perspective, Artsy’s 8 Must-See Shows in New York This Holiday Season.





















