Valeria Montti Colque awarded the 2025 Sculpture Award – the K. A. Lind Honorary Award

The Sculpture Award – the K. A. Lind Honorary Award 2025 is awarded to the artist Valeria Montti Colque. The prize sum of SEK 400,000 makes this one of Sweden’s largest artist awards.

The jury’s motivation
“Valeria Montti Colque’s artistry pushes the boundaries of space, body, and material. In her world, we encounter sculpture as a state of being – a state where mythology, migration, and magic are interwoven into explosive formations that challenge both hierarchies and traditions. Her works are often lavish, tactile, and associative, yet always grounded in a serious search for belonging and healing. With a distinctive ability to create spaces of intensity, where color, form, and symbols interact, Montti Colque opens portals to other dimensions. She uses sculpture as ritual, as scenography, as resistance – and as invitation. Montti Colque’s art embodies the transgressive – between art forms, between people, between worlds.”

Valeria Montti Colque
Valeria Montti Colque (b. 1978) is based in Stockholm. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in 2004. Exhibitions in 2025 include Cosmonación – Modersberget at Bonniers Konsthall and Cosmonación at Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. In 2024, she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale and participated in Örebro Open Art. In 2022, she took part in the group exhibition Swedish Acquisitions – Matches at Moderna Museet.
Montti Colque is represented in Moderna Museet’s Collection.

The jury of 2025
The 2025 jury consists of PA Ovin, Chairman of the Friends of Moderna Museet, Asrin Haidari –Curator, Swedish and Nordic Art from 1974, Moderna Museet, Mats Stjernstedt – Director Malmö Konsthall, Lina Bjerneld – Artist and Professor in Painting and Drawing at the Royal Institute of Art, Valerie Kyeyune Backström – Author and Critic.

The Sculpture Award – the K. A. Lind Honorary Award of SEK 400,000 is one of Sweden’s major art prizes and has been presented biannually since 1950. The Award was founded by the textile artist Sigrid Lind in memory of her parents.