Nata a Città del Messico nel 1975.
Vive e lavora a Berlino

 

EDUCAZIONE

2002-2003 Postgraduate program Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Olanda

1998- 1999 MA Philosophy. Iberoamerican University, Messico

1993- 1997 MA Fine art. National University of Mexico

 

MOSTRE PERSONALI

2022

In a Convex Mirror, Pinksummer, Genova, Italia

Amarantus Artium, Artium Museoa Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spagna

Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg SPACE, Londra, UK

Amarantus MUAC, Città del Messico, Messico

 

2021

Amarantus. Museum für Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Germania

Amarantus, MUAC Mexico City, Città del Messico, Messico
Amarantus, Artium Museum (Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo), Araba, Spagna
Walking through the town I followed a pattern on the pavement that became the magnified silhouette of a woman’s profile, England’s Creative Coast, United Kingdom (commission with Towner Eastbourne)

 

2020

Mariana Castillo Deball. England’s Creative Coast, Towner Eastbourne, UK

Between making and knowing something, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

 

2019
Replaying Life’s Tape, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, Australia
Mariana Castillo Deball, a solo exhibition, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Olanda
Mariana Castillo Deball: Finding Oneself Outside, New Museum, New York, USA

 

2018
Amparo Museum Puebla, Puebla, Messico
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Georgia, USA
Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germania
Magical fatalism Opera about desire and nostalgia, Alumnos 47, Mexico City, Messico
Statues Also die, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Torino, Italia

 

2017
Them inside the skin, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgio
Pleasures of association, & poissons, such as love —, Galerie Wedding, Berlino, Germania
Sharjah Biennial 13 Tamawuj, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Mimbres pottery kill hole sequence, Kadist, Parigi, Franncia
The tortoise and other footraces between unequal contestants, Pinksummer, Roma, Italia

 

2016
Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

 

2015
Reliefpfeiler, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlino, Germania
Chronotropo, Musée Régional D’art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, Francia
¿Quién medirá el espacio, quién me dirá el momento?, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca MACO, Oaxaca, Messico

 

2014
Parergon, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlino, Germania
Vista de Ojos, Kurimanzutto, Città del Messico, Messico
Moi-Peau, Kunsthalle Lissabon, PT

 

2013
Tamoanchan, Pinksummer, Genova, Italia
Palavra e pedra solta não têm volta, Mendes Wood, San Paolo, Brasile
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, CCA Glasgow, Scozia, UK
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, Chisenhale Gallery London, Londra, UK
TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica

 

2012
Zurich art prize, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurigo, Svizzera

 

2011
We are silently illiterate, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlino, Germania
Este desorden construido, autoriza geológicas sorpresas a la memoria mas abandonada, Museo experimental, El Eco, Mexico City, Messico
Figures don‘t lie but liars can figure, Pinksummer, Genova, Italia

 

2010
Between you and the image of you that reaches me. Museum of Latin American Art, Long beach, California, US
Solo show, SCHAU ORT Elisabeth Kaufmann + Christiane Büntgen, Zurigo, Svizzera

 

2009
Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Svizzera

 

2008
DO UT DES. Objectif_exhibitions, Anversa, Belgio
Nobody was tomorrow. Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlino, Germania

 

2006
Estas Ruinas que ves. Museum of contemporary Art Carrillo Gil, Città del Messico, Messico

 

2005
Time takes no time in a story. Adamski gallery, Aachen, Germania

 

2004
Institute of Chance. Prix de Rome. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Olanda
Never odd or Even. Marres, Center for contemporary art, Maastricht, Olanda

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, Germania
Nine chains to the moon. Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Olanda

 

2002
The wall and the books: 987 words stolen from a library. Library and gallery space Jan van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, Olanda
Stochastic Archives. Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Città del Messico, Messico

 

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE

2022

Until the Songs Spring, Mexican Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition at Venice Biennale

 

2019
Time for Fragments – Works from the Marx Collection and the Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlino, Germania

 

2018
6th Biennale Gherdëina, Gherdëina, Italia
Rogerio Duarte Marginalia 1, Museo Jumex, Città del Messico, Mexssico
Magical fatalism Opera about desire and nostalgia, Alumnos 47, Città del Messico, Messico
Statues Also die, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italia

 

2017
A Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Neither., Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgio
Recouvrir, ensabler, copier, traduire, restituer, Kadist Foundation, Parigi, Francia
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Parasite, Hong Kong
Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Proyecto líquido. Deseo, Alumnos 47, Città del Messico, Messico
Beyond the Box. Sammlung Dohmen, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germania
Touch Base, Studio Flotti, Berlin, Germania
Lecturas de un territorio fracturado, Museum Amparo, Puebla, Messico
While I was also Listening To …, La criée – centre d‘art contemporain, Rennes, Francia
The Politics of Archeology (working title), Kadist, Parigi, Frania
Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, UAE
Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

 

2016
¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos?, Bienal FEMSA, Monterrey, Messico
Incerteza Viva, 32nd São Paolo Biennial, Brasile
Proyecto líquido. Deseo, Alumnos 47, Città del MEssico, Messico
rainbow caravan, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City Art Museum, JP
SITElines2016. Much wider than a line, SITE Santa Fe, US
In The Belly of the Whale, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Olanda
Liverpool Biennale, UK
30th Anniversary Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT

Under the Same Sun, The South London Gallery, Londra, UK
Unresolved, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, Olanda
All Heritage is Poetry, Fórum Fundaçao Eugénio de Almeida, PT
Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi, Stroom Den Haag, NL
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Antwerp, BE
El orden Natural de las Cosas, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX

 

2015
The Art of Preservation, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, DE
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX
Objetos Frontera, CA2M, Madrid, ESP
Riddle of the Burial Ground, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE
Ce qui ne sert pas s’oublie, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, FR
Sebald Variations, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, ES
The Parliament of Things, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Beyond Borders
, Fifth edition of Beaufort, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, BE
Biennial of the Americas, Denver, Colorado, USA
Panorama, The High Line, New York, US

 

2014
¡Puro mexicano! Tres momentos de creación, MUNAL, Mexico City, MX
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, FR
8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Playgrounds Reinventar la plaza, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
Les Mots Bleus – Biennale de Belleville 3, Paris, FR
TransVisible, 19 Bienal Paiz Guatemala – Artecentro Graciela Andrade de Paiz, Ciudad de Guatemala, GT
Post / Postminimal – Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen, CH
Future Perfect, Contemporary Art From Germany – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Bibliologie – FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, FR

 

2013
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
how to write II, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, DE
The Way of the Shovel, MCA Chicago, USA
Future Perfect, Kunstverein Frankfurt, DE
Arqueológicas, Matadero, Madrid, ES

 

2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, DE
Serpentine Gallery Memory Marathon, London, UK
Lieber Aby Warburg, Was tun mit Bildern, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, DE
Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
Life Is Elsewhere, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin-Neukölln, DE
LA IDEA DE AMÉRICA LATINA, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, ES
Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente, Espai Cultural de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
Colección: el crimen fundacional, MUCA Roma, Mexico city, MX
Un ojo, dos ojos, tres ojos, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), Casa Vecina, Mexico City, MX
Never odd or Even, Museum of contemporary art, Roskilde, DK
Printin’, curated by Ellen Gallagher and Sarah Suzuki, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Resisting the present, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR
Esquemas para una Oda Tropical, Galeria Luisa Strina, Rio de Janeiro, BRA

 

2011
The Future Lasts Forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, SE
Never odd or Even, Grimm Museum, Berlin, DE
Section Folklorique / Cabinet de Curiosités, Zeeuws Museum, Zeeland, NL
La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE
Homo Ludens, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Resisting the present, Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Heidelberg Ludwigshafen, DE
Inanimate beings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
What about this, Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien, AT
INCIDENTES DE VIAJE ESPEJO EN YUCATÁN Y OTROS LUGARES, Museo Tamayo, Mexico city, MX
Fleeting Stories/Historias Fugaces, LABoral, Gijón, ES
54th Venice Biennale Illuminations, IT
Amikejo 2 – men-show, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, ES
Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art: Curating Contemporary Art MA, London, UK
AEther – Une proposition de Christoph Keller, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

 

2010
Ars viva award, History, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE; Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
No Soul For Sale, Festival of independents, presenting with Peep-Hole. Tate Modern, London, UK
Ginger Goodwin Way, OR gallery, Vancouver, CA
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
The Heart of the Thing Is the Thing We Don’t Know, James Galley, CUNY Graduate Center, NY, US

 

2009
Ars viva award, History, Museum Wiesbaden, DE
This place you see has no size at all…, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR
El Patio de mi casa, Cordoba, ES
Athens biennial, Heaven, Athens, GR
The Happy Interval, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, LT
What are we going to do after we’ve done what we’re doing to do next?, MACBA, Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, ES
Paper exhibition, Artist space, New York, US
The Malady of Writing, MACBA Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, ES
A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG
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, AR
Chapter 2 (the repetition), Parc Culturel de Rentilly, FR

 

2008
22nd Ateliers Internationaux, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Galeria Sentimental, Tensta konsthall, Stokolm, SE
Salon of the revolution, 29th Youth Salon, Zagreb, HR
One of these things is not like the other things, 1/9 unosunove, Rome, IT
Manifesta 7, Rovereto, IT. In collaboration with Irene Kopelman, Uqbar
Shanghai Biennial, CN
Blackboxing at artistspace, (screening) New York, USA
Master Humphrey’s Clock, De appel, Amsterdam, NL
Sensitive Timelines, 26cc, Rome, IT
Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations, SMBA, Amsterdam, NL
Seven Times Two or Three, CUBITT, London, UK
Selective Knowledge, The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation/MIET, Athens, GR

 

2007
A for Alibi, De appel, Amsterdam, NL
Transacciones Filosóficas, Historical Observatory, Córdoba, AR
The Book, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlachard, Barcelona, ES
The last piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Paris, FR
Blackboxing, Project, Dublin, IE
24th Memorial Nadežda Petrovic, Cacak, RS

 

2006
Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
10 Defining Experiments, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Concerning knowledge, BAK, Utrecht, NL
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven, Belgium, and Artis, Den Bosch, NL
A place in Time, Campr Street, San Antonio TX, US
Redo/Undo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Friends and Enemies, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, DE

 

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, NL
BMW, 9th Baltic Triennial of Art, Contemporary art center Vilnius, LT
“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, BRA

 

2004
Bucket Brigade. Firehouse Center for Contemporary art, Burlington, US
Black Friday. Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
GPB 2004, Galeri Pastor Bonus. Exteresa Arte Actual, México City, MX
Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá, CO
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, NO

 

2003
Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists, Baltic, International center for contemporary art Gateshead, UK
“24/7”. New York – Vilnius, CAC, Vilnus, LT
20 million mexicans can’t be wrong, Southampton gallery, UK
En un mar en el que no se nada. Paris Photo, Project Room, FR
Aparentemente Sublime. Museum of Modern art, Mexico City, MX
every piece is the show luxe projects, NYC, US

 

2002
PULPA. Arte, literatura, moda, diseño y algo más Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam. La Habana, CU
Titel folgt Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
Volkskrant Regular (True Type) de Volkskrant, Amsterdam
Bonnefanten magazine, Maastricht
A to Z. Museum in progress.Viena, AT

 

2001
Registro/Registre. Galeria Banyoles, ES
Se rendre a l’evidence. Centre Culturel du Mexique. Paris, FR
XI Bienal Internacional, Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT

 

2000
Los libros de otros. Museo de la ciudad de México, MX
Gráfica actual. Instituto de artes gráficas de Oaxaca, MX
Exposición colectiva. MUCA Roma, IT

 

1999
City editings. ZMVM: Zona Metropolitana del valle de México. Instituto Goethe. Buenos Aires, AR
El arte de los libros de artista: Homenaje a Ulises Carrión, Biblioteca México, MX
Exhibición de cortometrajes. Centro de la imagen, Mexico city, MX

 

PREMI

2015 Premio ARCO Comunidad de Madrid para jóvenes artistas, Madrid, Spain

 

2013 First Prize, Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Berlin, DE

 

2012 Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, CH

 

2009 Ars-viva award, History, DE

 

2004 Prix de Rome/first prize. Amsterdam, NL

 

2002 Grant for postgraduate studies CONACULTA (National Council for the culture and arts) México

 

2001 Young artists Grant. National Council for the culture and arts, MX

 

RESIDENZE D’ARTISTA

2016 18th Street Art Centre, Los Angeles, USA

 

2012 Cove Park, Henry Moore Foundation, Scotland, UK

 

2011 DAAD residency, Berlin, DE

 

2010 Capacete, Sao Paulo, BRA. Residency July–October, 2010

 

2009 Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, BRA. Residency March-June, 2009

 

2008 22e ateliers internationaux of Frac des Pays de la Loire, FR

 

2006 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, grant

 

2001 Grant Unesco/Ashberg. Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT

 

PUBBLICAZIONI

Mariana Castillo Deball. Parergon, exhibition catalogue for Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, ed. By Melanie Roumiguière, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2014.

Ixiptla is a journal on trajectories of Anthropology, edited by Mariana Castillo Deball, published at bom dia boa tarde boa noite:
Vol. I (English) was published on the occasion of Expedite Expression, 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2014.
Vol. II (English and German) was published on the occasion of Parergon, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2014.
Vol. III (Spanish) was published on the occasion of Who will measure the space, who will tell me the time?, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, 2015.

Uncomfortable Objects, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2012
Finding Oneself Outside: Published on the occasion of dOCUMENTA (13), bom dia boa tarde boa noite, 2012
Never odd or Even, Volume II, bom dia boa tarde boa noite, 2011
Coyote Anthropology: A Conversation in Words and Drawings, Mariana Castillo Deball & Roy Wagner, Series: dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken No. 024. Hatje Cantz, 2011
Philosophical Transactions, Uqbar Foundation, 2009
Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunsthalle 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

 

CONFERENZE/ TALK/ INSEGNAMENTI

2016
Lecture event with Mathew Robb, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, US
Lecture, Miércoles de SOMA, SOMA, Mexico City, MX

since 2015
Sculpture professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Muenster

 

2015
Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US

 

2013
Conversation with Chris Gosden, Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Screening and lecture, CCA, Glasgow

 

2012
Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, 2012
Dialogue, Bice Curiger and Mariana Castillo Deball, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Guest tutoring, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Dialogue zur Kunst und Architektur, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH with Laurent Bartholdi, from Mathematics Institute Göttingen
Prodoc Art&Science, discussion with Dario Gamboni, Nina Zschocke and phd students, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
Never odd or Even, performance, dOCUMENTA, Kassel, DE
08.06.12 Abraham Cruzvillegas and Mariam Ghani
26.07.12 with Mario Bellatin, Michael Portnoy and Eva Scharrer
14.09.12 with Marcos Lutyens and Anna Szaflarski
Blackbox, dOCUMENTA, Kassel, DE, Michael Taussig, Paul Chan and Mariana Deball
Lecture, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, DE
Lecture, Fondazione march, Padova, IT
Never odd or Even, performance, SOMA, Mexico city, MX
26.01.12 Maia Fernandez Miret and Daniel Saldaña

 

2011
Never odd or Even, performance, Grimmuseum, Berlin
01.10.11 Ana Teixeira Pinto and Armando Andrade Tudela
22.10.11 Sophie Goltz and Ingo Niermann
Lecture, UdK Seminar Ariane Beyn, Berlin

 

2010
Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London. In collaboration with Amalia Pica
Lecture, No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London
Lecture, AAMAM/Capacete, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2010
Workshop together with Irene Kopelman. Within the exhibition The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Seeing and Naming, Honours Class Seminar, Institute for Practice-based Research in the Arts, The Hague, NL
Workshop, Master of art in public sphere (MAPS). Geneva, Switzerland

 

2009
Roger Caillois and the ‘kaleidoscopic intelligence’, Lecture. Université de Genève, unité d’histoire de l’art
ACTUALITE DE LA RECHERCHE. MA d’histoire de l’art, prof. Dario Gamboni Workshop, Master of art in public sphere (MAPS). Geneva, Sankt Gallen
Philosophical Transactions, Book presentation, Centro Cultural España Córdoba-Buenos Aires, Argentina Uqbar (Irene Kopelman, Mariana Castillo Deball)
Sobre a insconstancia da alma salvagem, Workshop and Lecture. Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Libre Tiraje: Primer Encuentro de gráfica y escritura. Lecture. Oaxaca, México
Un ojo, dos ojos y tres ojos, Workshop together with Irene Kopelman. CAAM, Canarias, Spain

 

2008
Hacia una ecuación personal/Towards a personal equation, lecure in the context of the coloquium:
Extranjeros en la cultura y en la tecnología, Espacio Fundación Telefónica de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estas Ruinas que ves/These Ruins you see, book presentation. Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico city. With: Jesse Lerner, Renato Gonzalez Mello, Manuel Raeder and Adam Sellen

 

2007
Storytelling, Seminar by Uqbar (Kopelman, Deball), for the MA students of the PZ Intitute, Rotterdam.
November 2007–January 2008
Memories Encased: Collecting and Inventing Our Cultural Memory, Symposium, October 9, 10, 11, 2007 in Mérida, Yucatán. National University
Contemporary Archaeology, Workshop for the students at the School of Arts, Mérida, Yucatán

 

2006
Concerning Knowledge Production, BAK, Utrecht, NL
Libraries and Contemporary Art, Conference, in collaboration with Dario Gamboni, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris
A for Alibi. Symposium. Universiteits Museum, Utrecht

 

2005
Curating the library, DeSingel, Antwerp
Blackboxing, Espacio 111, Mexico City
Interlude: the reader’s traces. Booklaunch – lecture. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Never Odd or Even. Lecture, Marres, center for contemporary art
International Summer School in the History of Science, University Museum, Utrecht, 3–16 July 2005

 

2004
Institute of Chance. Lecture in the context of the series “Contemporary history” Marres, center for contemporary art, Maastricht, NL
Time containers. Workshop. Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg. In collaboration with Manuel Raeder

 

2003
Monday Night. 16 Beaver. New York, US
Souvenirs or Monuments Launch of Proceeding #1: Dakar 5–19/05/2002. Amsterdam, NL: Stedelijk Museum/Jan van Eyck Academie

 

COLLEZIONI PUBBLICHE

LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
JUMEX Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo) , Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) Stuttgart, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Schwitzerland
The Fundación Cisneros/colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (FC/CPPC), Caracas/New York
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA