(b. 1987) Würzburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Chaveli Sifre is a Puerto Rican artist based in Berlin. Sifre’s work centers on healing practices, the sense of smell, botany, and the belief systems constructed around them. Interested in intersensorial entanglement as knowledge production, Sifre creates installations, scents, paintings, and performative rituals that recover the long-lost intersections between science, spirituality, perfumery, medicine, magic, and care.
Sifre received her MA from Museumskunde, HTW, Berlin, Germany (2021) and her BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico in San Juan (2010). She has been exhibiting internationally with solo exhibitions and projects at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), San Juan (2023), El Sitio, Barcelona, Spain (2022), El Lobi, Suan Juan, Puerto Rico (2019) Mana Contemporary, Chicago (2017), La Estación Espacial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016), Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013, 2011). Sifre has participated in numerous institutional groups shows including her current inclusion the exhibition After Images at Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2024), TBA21’s Meandering, Cordova (2022); Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan (2021), Botanisches Garten, Berlin (2020); Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin (2020); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan (2020); Martin Gropius Bau (2018); Hamburger Bahnhof (2017); Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuale, Habana, Cuba (2017), and LACE, Los Angeles (2016) among others. Sifre has been awarded the prestigious Villa Romana Prize 2025 and is currently participating its ten-month residency at the Florentine artists’ house. In June of 2025 Sifre will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Kunstahalle Osnabrück.