Marta Torres

Amongst all the events and venues across Berlin New Media Week, there is one that holds a special place in our hearts. "Intelligent Kin" was a central point for us. Our exhibition that spanned two weeks with an inspiring group of artists, blending the analog with the digital. This film by @stefano.canavese highlights the works that were on exhibit. Our thanks go out to all the artists for this magical experience, and to our venue @mahallaberlin and technical sponsor @eyvi_visual who both empowered us to dream without limits ❤️ Production team: Curated by: Harshini J. Karunaratne, Stav Skalidis, Marta Torres Exhibition design by: Marta Torres Lead electrician and lighting design by: Amin Shahsavar Organized by: 3AM:ENERGY x DEREAL Studio Produced by: DEREAL Studio Technical provider: ‍Eyvi Exhibiting Artists: Yuuuuuuuuulia and Arta de mi Kshitija Gurav Andrea Familari Theresa Stritzinger JEWRO Lea Brugnoli David C Morton Decaynews Simon Woywod Robin Baumgarten Elizaveta Bogachova Gabriele Franco Acci Baba Francesco Della Toffola x Ana Brumat Stefano Canavese Hertzraum DEREAL Studio Stavrianos Skalidis Tobia Silvotti Jesse Günther HPPDMS x DAHEXD Badel Batu Jurgen Ostarhild Harriet Davey Paul Burn

The elements of electro-domestic coverings, as well as the vernacular and popular elements they represent, that make up this mixed culture are seen less as the places and people are displaced. The project aims to amplify these maximalist aesthetics, creating volumes with fabrics used in mercados, street sellers in coverings, all materials bought in the areas that still make and sell these elements and materials to fabricate them, the fabric elements fabricated in collaboration in San Salvador to put together with the New Media parts put together in Berlin. The three sculptures are abstract shapes creating a color scheme with mismatched printed fabric; from a personal standpoint, the shapes are based on the region’s flowers, fruits, and mixed traditions. They create a composition that inflates, deflates, and dims lights brighter as the shapes take up space that isn’t given to marginalized communities. The same fabric used throughout from San Salvador covers all technology pieces as the original phenomena covers appliances flamboyantly. The materials of the piece the main being the fabrics, as well as plastics and a color palette for each piece all come together to tell a story. The installation combines everyday items while uplifting the aesthetic of excess. #newmediart #vernacular #maximalism #color #elsalvador #berlin

Making a metaphor about Mammatus Clouds, a scientific sign that a thunderstorm is about to happen. I used this to signify the feeling before the civil war in El Salvador happened. It changed my parent’s lives through death, pain and exile, leaving the country in a fragile “post war” piece I grew up in. This is the story of my family through their own pictures. Before and during the civil war in El Salvador. They describe these moments as a tension that kept building up with a militarized government repressing with inequality and mass arrests, excecutions and then kidnappings and bombs by the resistance. Ending in a 12 year war in my parents youth where they tried to live some type of life. While prototyping this piece, the only monument for the peace accords was demolished with orders from the current president. An installation art piece with a structure that fills with fog with projection mapping on it through TD. There’s a shift in the repetition of images and amount of fog in it changes the way you view the pictures, adding an extra phantasmagoric layer to a time that isn’t often talked about in Salvadoran society. A piece seen differently from different angles and times. This is a personal piece that, it involved conversations with my parents and research about the subject to treat a story that hurts, often brushed off and I wanted to handle with respect and care. The plastic is also a small wink at Salvadoran kitschy elements that I try to bring in my work. My grandmother always had her furniture covered in transparent plastic, something very common in our culture. Everything is there but not completely within reach. This is my first individual art piece shown in Berlin. In @manifest.io.berlin Thank you @baselnaouri and @harshinijk_ for believing in my work, this story and me. @rccrdtrrs shared his knowledge to advise me in how to make this come to life. Thank you for all the physical and emotional support @arcdurukan @jojojordanjojo @latinx_cyborg @emilysmithberlin @antoangel17 and others. 💙 It’s been mind blowing to have so much amazing feedback of this work. Photos by @omwh_ite @yetanotherstandpoint #kunst #artinberlin #artinstallation

~* DOMESTIC ARCHAEOLOGY *~ 🏡is an art and participatory research project that examines how everyday objects carry layered meanings shaped by memory, perception, and cultural context. While institutional systems privilege objects deemed historically or artistically valuable, this project focuses on overlooked domestic materials, figurines, textiles, containers, and souvenirs, as intimate archives of lived experience. Reframed as “ordinary treasures,” these objects are understood as dynamic rather than fixed, continuously shifting in meaning depending on context, use, and interpretation. What may be dismissed as decorative or disposable in one setting can hold emotional, cultural, or aesthetic significance in another, revealing how value and taste are constructed through broader social and institutional frameworks. At its core, the project unfolds as an evolving, participatory archive. Visitors are invited to engage directly with objects, contribute their own, and share stories, associations, or responses. Through this process, they move from observers to active participants, questioning and reassigning value. The archive grows over time through accumulation, exchange, and artistic reinterpretation, remaining in constant flux. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, Domestic Archaeology creates a collective space where meanings are continuously negotiated, and where the significance of the everyday is reimagined through shared experience. It’s about questioning our tastes, curations, value systems in a gamefied colorful setting. 🧂Come, explore and include your reflections, conversations, be a part of the archive: link in bio 🧚‍♀️ Created under the All About Curating program I was a part of thanks to the @karnekunst scholarship 🫶

I am beyond honoured to have received a full scholarship from @karnekunst and be able to be part of the amazing intensive program by @ allaboutcurating during this month. As someone working in arts and culture in Berlin this was such an amazing opportunity to learn all the behind the scenes of all kinds of art spaces, the people behind them, how everything goes. I’ve learned so much and met so many amazing people throughout the program in all the parts of making art and making art dedicated spaces and I’ve had so many fulfilling conversations that have made my brain happy. This happened at such an important point for me as I grow my career and right in the moment where it’s been 3 years since I moved to Berlin. I’m really thankful for this experience, I’ve gained so much insight about it through learning and unlearning and elements of behind the scenes Berlin art world that we rarely get to see besides the projects we’re involved in, and how things work. Thank you for everyone I’ve met that were so open with what they do, so much insight into this art ecosystem, a lot of thinking, questions, very ✨intensive✨ and expanding on the layers of the art scene. I’m even more in love with what I do and where I live. It’s been to get deeper into the worlds I’m passionate about. With this experience I’m looking forward to keep growing, learning, and expanding in all the sides of my artistic practice and creating spaces, research, producing 🪜and how they all intertwine. It’s been a beautiful space to be critical about the ways things work, the hardships the good and the bad but also seeing all the models of work that can be possible when there are passionate people involved and the ways to make things happen. It’s been inspiring to dive deeper into a world that I think is so important, what we can say through art and the power of it.

The multicolormarta world has a new digital home 🏡 Designed the way I think and work: not in a straight line, but through different doors, different mediums, different stories always in conversation with each other. The landing page is a room to explore. 🛋️Playful and spatial, full of things to discover, but underneath the aesthetics there are real questions about memory, about who gets to occupy space, about what we consider beautiful and why. the experience invites you in before it asks you to think. It’s all intentional. Architectural practices feeds the conceptual installation art, research feeds the objects, the objects feed the production. and the production feeds back into everything. None of it exists in isolation. A lot of this knowledge apart was built by doing, a decade of hands-on practice that transformed in parallel into my work as a Creative Producer and Exhibition & Cultural Project Manager. I work best where things are alive: installation periods, opening days, small core teams coordinating wide networks of artists, technicians, curators, and venues. I love being the connective tissue and making things happen. Inside this digital room in selected Art practice you find fog installations about memory next to sculptural lamps that become clouds, blending the lines of art and design and possibilities. XR pieces about echo chambers, a performance on deviations, fun AR explorations, next to research on maximalism and what gets to be considered beautiful, questioning taste, creating dialogue, and research that becomes the backbone of my practice. Creating spaces, exhibition design along artists that open important conversations. Different mediums, different scales, different contexts. always 💫me✨. Always grateful for everyone that believes in me and helps me evolve through different stages, my communities that are there for me, and those that reach out with their personal stories that my work evoked on them. Follow what you believe in, your voice, keep your whimsy and even when it feels like it doesn’t, it does all make sense ❤️‍🩹 I present to you my digital world as I keep growing and expanding. Come in and explore. 🌷 🔗 Link in bio

As we’re about to close Dreams that Wake, so hi as exhibition coordinator+ making spaces, behind the scenes things happen.. ☁️ 🌊 It’s been some time now since I organically started working with @harshinijk_ & @baselnaouri , where things just clicked at some point and it made sense, that we get each other through the ups and downs, help each other grow and also just make each other laugh through it all. I feel lucky to have found people through my journey that get me in so many ways and we appreciate each other bring so much to each other’s lives. I get to work on things that I love and constantly learning through each experience. While we have a shared goal in making art, exhibitions, spaces of dialogue, amplifying artists in these chaotic times. With their curation we built a world where different stories intertwined in the dreams that we have when we go to sleep and dreams we wish for the future after these troubled past and present through scenography joining the displaced reality through the powerful works of the brilliant @lisa.bogachova @ta.la.fa @mey.seifan @slowfuture_studio with support from @timelab.slowfuture @ee.vahnn @ghazalehranjbarvakili @katzkey_u , it takes a village. We came into the kindest team in @bardo_projektraum @karnekunst @florfreis @realmarce that have been also such a special connection for me specifically having a Latin American at run space with so much care, energy, passion to everything they do that has welcomed us so fondly that makes me hopeful for the future. It’s been such a powerful experience through the different events, through my own struggles and just another example of the importance of arts in these times and what we stand for. See you today at the Finissage!

Hello hiii as @colortheoriesshow by @spaceprincejulio has started(!!!) I’ll share one of the two limited edition products I worked on these months for the show. These are three different limited edition art prints and on the other side you have an Augmented Reality QR code with simple steps so you can place Krisha, Bibo, and Pirulinpinpina anywhere. I had the idea of a project based on the very loved characters my brother has created; using their personalities, combining it with my style as well as my brothers with a focus on color 🎨and the personification of them, so I explored and modelled them in peculiar worlds and making something fun, cute and interactive as well. 💅 Here you can see the prints and when they cibernetically came with me to print here in Berlin, once you scan the code on the back you can simply place them where you are with your phone, take pictures and have a quirky limited edition print. And have your own Bibo while running errands (?) or wherever you go. You can buy them at the show @colortheoriesshow that is looking amazingg and later they will be available online. Hope you love them as much as I do 🥹💗 Thank you to my brother @spaceprincejulio for including me in his brilliant work, believing in my art, can’t wait to see the show and all the amazing people involved. See you soon NYC 😉 #newmedia #prints #art #AR #elsalvador

💫 **Art Intensive Berlin — Spring 2026 Cohort** Marta Torres @multicolormarta is one of the selected participants of the Latin American Diaspora Scholarship offered by All About Curating in collaboration with Karne Kunst @karnekunst This April, a group of curators, artists, writers, and researchers from around the world will spend four weeks in Berlin, diving into the city’s art scene — not just observing it, but becoming part of it. Over the month, they’ll take part in studio and institutional visits, one-on-one mentorship, workshops on funding and grants, and conversations with people shaping the art world locally and internationally. The program will close with a public symposium, where participants share their work and connect with Berlin’s wider art network. Art Intensive Berlin is about access, exchange, and building sustainable creative practices — with the city itself as an active part of the experience. Welcome to all participants — excited to see what unfolds. **Participants:** Eva Salazar (Mexico) @ev.a.rte Uirá dos Reis de Oliveira (Brazil) @uira.dos.reis Lizz Del Mar Florival (United States) @lyszflo Ayelén Ruiz (Argentina/Germany) @.mafiachina. Marta Torres (El Salvador/Germany) @multicolormarta Bianca Z. Sadcovitz (Brazil/Germany) @bianca.zltcvtz

You know you should be on social media. Your portfolio sits untouched. The algorithm feels mysterious. You're scrolling at 3am, anxious, comparing, waiting for the perfect moment to finally show your work. ‍That's not how this has to feel. ‍Social media doesn't have to be anxiety-inducing, draining, or fake. Your feed can be a digital home; a genuine extension of your creative practice where you feel good showing up. In this 3-week course, you'll learn from artists who've actually built engaged audiences while maintaining their sanity and joy 🌈 We'll teach you how to develop a mentally sustainable relationship with social media, treat your feed as an extension of who you are, and create a path for finding the right opportunities for you. 🚫 No growth hacks. No fake engagement tactics. 💫 Just strategy grounded in real creative practice and wellbeing. Hosted by: 🌜 Artist, curator and social media strategist Harshini J. Karunaratne (@harshinijk_ ) 🌜 Designer, artist and entrepreneur Marta Torres (@multicolormarta ) Featuring 3 guest artists who will share their insights: 🌜 VJ and creative technologist Marta Pang (@pang.marta ) 🌜Electronic musician, computer programmer, and meditator Jason Snell (@jasonjsnell ) 🌜 Choreographer, co-founder of @apal.info , and founding member of @unitednetworks.eu Ming Poon (@ming.apur ). ✅ 5 sessions across 3 weeks online at 75EUR ✅ Open to anyone with a creative practice ✅ Free spots and discounted rates for #3AMENERGY members. Get in touch! ⏰ Early bird offer on right now! Get 15% off till Feb 7. Link in bio or DM us for info! Course outline out now! ✨

My self expression through outfits is one of the things that keeps me creative so here you have another series of my outfits and details, that lately trying to have more of an archive of something that for me is an extension of my practice as well as just for fun. Maybe a common thread is prints on this one, most people think I have more clothes than I actually do but most of anything new them are thrifted or I’ve had for too many years, I just constantly re-contextualise them, wear them differently, cut them, sew things on, add materials to them and just buy things when it’s something really special. I dress according to what makes my brain excited starting that day and it usually doesn’t take me long to think about it, it starts with a piece, or a color and it just grows from that. I cling to that whimsy that comes from dressing for myself and expressing it to the world and there’s something really special and empowering about just trying out new things with what you have, restructuring and honestly just feel good and yourself with what you wear. I saw somewhere that we’re just living through so many hardships and one of the few things we can control is how we dress our ‘avatar’ so I choose to make my IRL avatar to bring me joy. 🫧 Explore, get lost, find yourself, take another detour, be bold in your own way, just let yourself be.

Opening of Lanterns Unseen at @prachtsaal during @berlinnewmediaweek Exhibition will be open Sept. 4-7th visit to see a version of my sculptures along with many other beautiful works! Thank you @miichiime @gabriel.jeanjean @martynalebryk the whole team for the invitation and all the kindness and support in this experience. It’s been a lovely. 📸 by @robertamaddalenabireau My installation inflates and deflates, as the shapes take up space that isn’t given to identities outside the social norm. The piece is based on the aesthetic of excess and mismatched elements of El Salvador where I was born and raised that comes from a mixed culture, with external influences leading to an aesthetic and social perception where deviations of these specific elements are rejected. As this research and project were being developed, street sellers were displaced more than ever; historical community areas were eliminated, and art and freedom of speech were censored. Gentrifying the main commercial area of San Salvador that is the home of the elements that inspired this work, removing elements that seem unattractive to international investors, creating uncomfortable cleanliness that is disconnected from the locals, and creating a more significant social divide, demolishing buildings in the area to create white and metal structures. Through time, the vernacular and popular elements of El Salvador, that make up this mixed culture are seen less as the places are lost and the aesthetic is lost. The project aims to amplify these maximalist aesthetics, creating volumes with fabrics used in mercados in coverings, all materials bought in the areas that still make and sell these elements and materials to fabricate them, the fabric elements fabricated in collaboration in San Salvador to put together with the New Media parts put together in Berlin. The volumes are abstract shapes creating a color scheme with mismatched printed fabric; from a personal standpoint, the shapes are based on the region’s flowers, fruits, and mixed traditions. Ultimately questioning what we view as good or bad taste and where those judgements come from. #kunst #artist #exhibition #elsalvador #latinamerica