MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL
BIOGRAFIA
Mariana Castillo Deball
Born in México City, 1975
Lives in Amsterdam and Berlin
Education
2002-2003 Postgraduate program Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1998- 1999 M A Philosophy. Iberoamerican University. Mexico, DF
1993- 1997 M A Fine art. National University of Mexico.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Galerie Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany.
Este Desorden construido, autoriza geologicas sorpresas a la memoriam as abdonada. Museo experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico.
Figures don‘t lie but liar can figure, pinksummer, Genova, Italy.
2010 Between you and the image of you that reaches me.
Museum of Latinoamerican Art, Long beach, CA
SCHAU ORT Elisabeth Kaufmann + Christiane Buentgen, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
2008 DO UT DES. Objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium.
Nobody was tomorrow. Barbara Wien, Berlin
2006 Estas Ruinas que ves. Museum of contemporary Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2005 Time takes no time in a story. Adamski gallery, Aachen, Germany
2004 Institute of Chance. Prix de Rome. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Never odd or Even. Marres, Center for contemporary art, Maastricht, NL
2003 Interlude: The reader’s traces. Intervention in the National library in Paris, Public library in
New York and the National library in Berlin. Contributions by: Paul Elliman,
Hubert Czerepok, Dario Gamboni, Raimundas Malasauskas, Harry Mathews, Peter Piller,
Manuel Raeder, Steve Rushton, Enrique Vila-Matas.
To look for a needle in a haystack. Stephan Adamsky gallery, Aachen, Germany.
Nine chains to the moon. Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2002 The wall and the books: 987 words stolen from a library. Library and gallery space
Jan van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Stochastic Archives. Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. México DF.
Group Exhibitions
2012 dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany Prims. Drawing from 1990-2012, National Museum of Norway Printin, Museum of Modern Art, New York The Future Lasts Forever, Konstcentrum Gavle, Sweden
2011 54th Venice Biennale Illuminations. Never odd or Even, Grimm Museum, Berlin, Germany. Section Folkloriquel /Cabinet de Curiosités, Zeeusws Museum, Zeeland. NL. La Vie Mode d'Emploi (Life A User's Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE. Homo Ludens, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.Mexicall / Resisting the present, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Heidelberg
Ludwigshafen, Germany. Inanimate beings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK. What about this, Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien, Austria
INCIDENTES DE VIAJE ESPEJO EN YUCATAN Y OTROS LUGARES, Museo tamayo, Maxico City, MexicoFleeting Stories/ Historias Fugaces, LABoral, Gijon, Spain. Amikejo, 2-men-show (Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (uqbar)), MUSAC Museo de
Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain.
Mexicall / Resisting the present, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
Shadow Boxing, Royal College of Art: Curating Contemporary Art MA, London, UK.
Æther – Une proposition de Christoph Keller, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2010 Ars viva award 09/10 – Geschichte/History, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Migros Museum, Zurich.
Panamericana Group show curated by Jens Hofman. Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
Sao Paulo Biennale, Residency, July-October, 2010, Capacete
No Soul For Sale, Festival of independents, presenting with Peep-Hole.Tate Modern, London
Ginger Goodwin Way, OR gallery, Vancouver, Canada
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Touring exhibition: Museum of
Contemporary Art in Detroit; ICA, London; de Appel, Amsterdam; Culturgest, Lisbon
2009 Ars viva award, History, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany.
El Patio de mi casa, Cordoba, Spain.
Athens biennial, Heaven, Athens, Greece.
The Happy Interval, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania.
What are we going to do after we’ve done what we’re doing to do next?
MACBA, Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
Paper exhibition, Artist space, New York.
The Malady of Writing, MACBA Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egipt.
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum
Saint Louis, USA.
Performa, Lectures and exhibition at Cabinet Magazine Space, New York, USA.
Sequelism: Part 3, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.
Extranjeros en la cultura y en la tecnología, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Chapter 2 (the repetition), Parc Culturel de Rentilly, France..
2008 22nd Ateliers Internationaux, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France.Galeria Sentimental,
Tensta konsthall, Stokolm, Sweeden.
Salon of the revolution, 29th Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia.
One of these things is not like the other things, 1/9 unosunove, Rome, Italy
Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy. In collaboration with Irene Kopelman, uqbar.
Shanghai Biennale, China
Blackboxing at artistspace, (screening) New York, USA
Master Humphrey’s Clock, De appel, Amsterdam, NL
Sensitive Timelines, 26cc, Rome, Italy
Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations, SMBA, Amsterdam, NL
Seven Times Two or Three, CUBITT, London
Selective Knowledge, The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation / MIET, Athens, Greece
2007 A for Alibi, De appel, Amsterdam, NL
Transacciones Filosóficas, Historical Observatory, Córdoba Argentina
The Book, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlachard, Barcelona
The last piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Paris
Blackboxing, Project, Dublin
24th Memorial Nadežda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia
2006 Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
10 Defining Experiments, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Concerning knowledge, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven, Belgium, and Artis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
A place in Time, Campr Street, San Antonio TX
Redo/Undo, Fridericianum, Kassel
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam
Friends and Enemies. Gagosian Gallery , Berlin
2005 “Today, November 20”
If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution
Production in sequences Leiden, NL
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam
9th Baltic Triennial of Art, BMW
Contemporary art center Vilnius, Lituania
“Blackboxing”
If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution
Production in sequences, Utrecht, NL
5a Bienal de Artes Visuales del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil, September 30, 2005
2004 Bucket Brigade. Burlington City Arts, Firehouse Center for Contemporary art.
Black Friday. Galerie Kamm, Berlin
GPB 2004. Galeri Pastor Bonus. Exteresa Arte Actual, Ciudad de México.
Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá. Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
2003 Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists
Baltic, International center for contemporary art Gateshead, England.
“24/7”. New York - Vilnius, CAC, Vilnus, Lituania
20 million mexicans can’t be wrong, Southampton gallery, UK
En un mar en el que no se nada. Paris Photo, Project Room
Aparentemente Sublime. Museum of Modern art, Mexico City.
every piece is the show luxe projects, NYC
2002 PULPA. Arte, literatura, moda, diseño y algo más Centro de Arte
Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam. La Habana, Cuba.
Titel folgt Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany.
Volkskrant Regular (True Type) de Volkskrant, Amsterdam.
Bonnefanten magazine, Maastricht
A to Z. Museum in progress.Viena, Austria.
2001 Registro/Registre. Galeria Banyoles, Spain.
Se rendre a l’evidence. Centre Culturel du Mexique. Paris, France.
XI Bienal Internacional, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.
2000 Los libros de otros. Museo de la ciudad de México.
Gráfica actual. Instituto de artes gráficas de Oaxaca.
Exposición colectiva. MUCA Roma.
1999 City editings. ZMVM: Zona Metropolitana del valle de
México.Instituto Goethe. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
El arte de los libros de artista: Homenaje a Ulises
Carrión. Biblioteca México.
Exhibición de cortometrajes. Centro de la imagen, Mexico city.
Distinctions/residencies
2011 daad, grant, Artist-in-Berlin Programme.
2009 Ars viva award, 2009. Exhibitions at Museum Wiesbaden, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne,
Migros Museum, Zurich.
Residency at Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. March-June, 2009.
2008 22e ateliers internationaux of Frac des Pays de la Loire, France.
2006 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, grant.
2004 Prix de Rome/first prize. Amsterdam, NL.
2002 Bourse for postgraduate studies CONACULTA (National Council for the culture and arts) México.
2001 Young artists bourse. National Council for the culture and arts, México.
Bourse Unesco/Ashberg. Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.
Publications
Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunst halle Sankt Gallen, 2009.
Fuga di un piano. Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy, 2008.
Estas Ruinas que ves/These Ruins you see. Museo Carrillo Gil/CONACULTA, México 2008.
A for Alibi, Uqbar Foundation/Sternberg press, 2007
Today: November 30, 2006. Newspaper
Today: November 20, 2005. Newspaper
Interlude: The reader’s traces. Jan van Eyck Academie / revolver, 2005
Never odd or Even. Marres, center for contemporary art/revolver, 2005
An interview with a goalkeeper about chance, intelligence and humour.
Jan van Eyck Academie, 2003
Time containers. Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, 2004
Rocket scientists breakfast. Contribution for D-magazine, 2003
An interview with a goalkeeper about chance, intelligence and humour. Jan van Eyck Academie. In the context of the
show To look for a needle in a haystack, 2003
No one can win against kipple. In collaboration with Hubert Czerepok. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie, 2003
Interlude: The reader’s traces. Poster and inserts in the context of the library project.
Contributions by: Paul Elliman, Dario Gamboni, Raimundas Malasauskas, Harry Mathews, Peter Piller, Manuel Raeder,
Steve Rushton, Enrique Vila-Matas, 2003
Penser/Classer. Edited by the Jan van Eyck Academie, 2002
Monuments Vilnius In Early Edition of the 24/7 newspaper (exh. cat.: 24/7 Wilno – Nueva York, Visa Para). Vilnius. LT:
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC).
Monuments or souvernirs. In Proceeding #1: DAKAR 5-19/05/2002 (pp. 136-141). Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.
Artist’s books. Edition with Martha Hellion and Issa Maria Benítez. Turner, 2003
Other projects
Mariana Castillo is founder together with Irene Kopelman of Uqbar, an initiative that connects art with different
areas of knowledge.
www.uqbarfoundation.org
Public Collections
JUMEX Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
