Mariana Castillo Deball

Born in México City, 1975.
Lives and works in Berlin.

 

EDUCATION

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

1998- 1999 MA Philosophy. Iberoamerican University, Mexico

1993- 1997 MA Fine art. National University of Mexico

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Firesong for the bees, a tree of clay, Brugge Triennial, Bruges, Belgium

 

2022

In a Convex Mirror, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

Amarantus Artium, Artium Museoa Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK

Amarantus MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2021

Amarantus. Museum für Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Germany

Amarantus, MUAC Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Amarantus, Artium Museum (Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo), Araba, Spain
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, UK (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, Netherlands
Mariana Castillo Deball: Finding Oneself Outside, New Museum, New York, USA

 

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

 

2017
Them inside the skin, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Pleasures of association, & poissons, such as love —, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Sharjah Biennial 13 Tamawuj, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Mimbres pottery kill hole sequence, Kadist, Paris, France
The tortoise and other footraces between unequal contestants, Pinksummer, Rome, Italy

 

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

 

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

 

2014
Parergon, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Vista de Ojos, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Moi-Peau, Kunsthalle Lisbon, Portugal

 

2013
Tamoanchan, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Palavra e pedra solta não têm volta, Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brasil
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, CCA Glasgow, Scotland, UK
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, Chisenhale Gallery London, UK
TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica

 

2012
Zurich art prize, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Swiss

 

2011
We are silently illiterate, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
Este desorden construido, autoriza geológicas sorpresas a la memoria mas abandonada, Museo experimental, El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
Figures don‘t lie but liars can figure, Pink Summer, Genoa, Italy

 

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

 

2009
Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Swiss

2008
DO UT DES. Objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
Nobody was tomorrow. Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany

 

2006
Estas Ruinas que ves. Museum of contemporary Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

 

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

 

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

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, Netherlands

 

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

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

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

 

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

 

2018
6th Biennale Gherdëina, Gherdëina, Italy
Rogerio Duarte Marginalia 1, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Magical fatalism Opera about desire and nostalgia, Alumnos 47, Mexico City, Mexico
Statues Also die, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

 

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

 

2016
¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos?, Bienal FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico
Incerteza Viva, 32nd São Paolo Biennial, São Paolo, Brasil
Proyecto líquido. Deseo, Alumnos 47, Mexico city, Mexico
rainbow caravan, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
SITElines2016. Much wider than a line, SITE Santa Fe, USA
In The Belly of the Whale, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
30th Anniversary Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

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

 

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

 

2014
¡Puro mexicano! Tres momentos de creación, MUNAL, Mexico City, Mexico

Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Playgrounds Reinventar la plaza, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Les Mots Bleus – Biennale de Belleville 3, Paris, France
TransVisible, 19 Bienal Paiz Guatemala – Artecentro Graciela Andrade de Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Post / Postminimal – Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Swiss
Future Perfect, Contemporary Art From Germany – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Bibliologie – FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France

 

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

 

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

 

2011
The Future Lasts Forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Never odd or Even, Grimm Museum, Berlin, Germany
Section Folklorique / Cabinet de Curiosités, Zeeuws Museum, Zeeland, Netherlands
La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Germany
Homo Ludens, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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 YUCATÁN Y OTROS LUGARES, Museo Tamayo, Mexico city, Mexico
Fleeting Stories/Historias Fugaces, LABoral, Gijón, Spain
54th Venice Biennale Illuminations, Venice, Italy
Amikejo 2 – men-show, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art: Curating Contemporary Art MA, London, UK
AEther – Une proposition de Christoph Keller, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

 

2010
Ars viva award, History, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE; Migros Museum, Zurich, Swiss
No Soul For Sale, Festival of independents, presenting with Peep-Hole. Tate Modern, London, UK
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 (UK); de Appel, Amsterdam (Netherlands); Culturgest, Lisbon (Portugal)
The Heart of the Thing Is the Thing We Don’t Know, James Galley, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA

 

2009
Ars viva award, History, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
This place you see has no size at all…, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

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, USA
The Malady of Writing, MACBA Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain
A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
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, Sweden
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 Biennial, Shanghai, China
Blackboxing at artistspace, (screening) New York, USA
Master Humphrey’s Clock, De appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sensitive Timelines, 26cc, Rome, Italy
Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations, SMBA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Seven Times Two or Three, CUBITT, London, UK
Selective Knowledge, The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation/MIET, Athens, Greece

 

2007
A for Alibi, De appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Transacciones Filosóficas, Historical Observatory, Córdoba, Argentina
The Book, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlachard, Barcelona, Spain
The last piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Paris, France
Blackboxing, Project, Dublin, Ireland
24th Memorial Nadežda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia

 

2006
Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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, City of San Antonio, Texas, USA
Redo/Undo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Friends and Enemies, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

2005
“Today, November 20”, If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution. Production in sequences Leiden, Netherlands
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
BMW, 9th Baltic Triennial of Art, Contemporary art center Vilnius, Lithuania
“Blackboxing”, If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution. Production in sequences, Utrecht, Netherlands
5ª Bienal de Artes Visuales del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil

 

2004
Bucket Brigade. Firehouse Center for Contemporary art, Burlington, USA
Black Friday. Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
GPB 2004, Galeri Pastor Bonus. Exteresa Arte Actual, México City, Mexico
Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway

 

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, Lithuania
20 million mexicans can’t be wrong, Southampton gallery, UK
En un mar en el que no se nada. Paris Photo, Project Room, Paris, France
Aparentemente Sublime. Museum of Modern art, Mexico City, Mexico
every piece is the show luxe projects, New York, USA

 

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, Netherlands
Bonnefanten magazine, Maastricht, Netherlands
A to Z. Museum in progress. Vienna, 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, Mexico
Gráfica actual, Instituto de artes gráficas de Oaxaca, Mexico
Exposición colectiva, MUCA, Roma, Italy

 

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, Mexico
Exhibición de cortometrajes, Centro de la imagen, Mexico city, Mexico

 

PRIZES

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

 

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

 

2012 Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Swiss

 

2009 Ars-viva award, History, Germany

 

2004 Prix de Rome/first prize. Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

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

 

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

 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2016 18th Street Art Centre, Los Angeles, USA

 

2012 Cove Park, Henry Moore Foundation, Scotland, UK

 

2011 DAAD residency, Berlin, Germany

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

2006 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA

 

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

 

PUBLICATIONS

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

 

CONFERENCES/ TALK/ TEACHINGS

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

since 2015
Sculpture professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Muenster, Muenster, Germany

 

2015
Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

 

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

 

2012
Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, 2012
Dialogue, Bice Curiger and Mariana Castillo Deball, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Swiss
Guest tutoring, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dialogue zur Kunst und Architektur, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Swiss with Laurent Bartholdi, from Mathematics Institute Göttingen
Prodoc Art&Science, discussion with Dario Gamboni, Nina Zschocke and phd students, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Swiss
Never odd or Even, performance, dOCUMENTA, Kassel, Germany
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, Germany
Lecture, Fondazione march, Padua, Italy
Never odd or Even, performance, SOMA, Mexico city, Mexico
26.01.12 Maia Fernandez Miret and Daniel Saldaña

 

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

 

2010
Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London. In collaboration with Amalia Pica
Lecture, No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London, UK
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, Netherlands
Workshop, Master of art in public sphere (MAPS), Geneva, Swiss

 

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, Swiss
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, Netherlands
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, Netherlands
Libraries and Contemporary Art, Conference, in collaboration with Dario Gamboni, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris, France
A for Alibi. Symposium. Universiteits Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
JUMEX Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
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, Swiss
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