
Mariana Castillo Deball (1975 Città del Messico, Messico) vive e lavora tra Berlino e Città del Messico. La sua pratica interdisciplinare si sviluppa all’intersezione tra arte, archeologia, storia, antropologia e scienze sociali, indagando il ruolo degli oggetti nella costruzione delle narrazioni culturali e della memoria collettiva. Attraverso un’approfondita ricerca d’archivio e il dialogo con collezioni museali, reperti archeologici e sistemi di classificazione del sapere, realizza installazioni, sculture, disegni, opere editoriali e ambienti immersivi che mettono in discussione le modalità con cui la storia viene raccontata, conservata e trasmessa. L’artista ha esposto in importanti istituzioni internazionali quali il New Museum di New York, l’Hamburger Bahnhof di Berlino, il Centre Pompidou di Parigi e il MACBA di Barcellona. Ha inoltre partecipato a manifestazioni di rilievo internazionale come dOCUMENTA (13), la Biennale di Venezia, la Biennale di Berlino e la Biennale di San Paolo. La sua ricerca artistica si distingue per la capacità di intrecciare discipline diverse e di far emergere connessioni inedite tra passato e presente, interrogando criticamente le strutture di conoscenza e i processi attraverso cui si formano identità, culture e storie condivise.
Mariana Castillo Deball, detail of Feathered Changes site, 2025, a commission for LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries, © Mariana Castillo Deball
Mariana Castillo Deball, detail of Feathered Changes site, 2025, a commission for LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries, © Mariana Castillo Deball
Installation view of Death, I am Still Paper. Organized by Tangente St. Pölten, Austria, August 3 – November 11, 2024. Curators Joana Warza, and Lorena Moreno Vera. Photograph courtesy of Studio Castillo Deball © David Reiber Otálora
Installation view of Death, I am Still Paper. Organized by Tangente St. Pölten, Austria, August 3 – November 11, 2024. Curators Joana Warza, and Lorena Moreno Vera. Photograph courtesy of Studio Castillo Deball © David Reiber Otálora
Installation view of Death, I am Still Paper. Organized by Tangente St. Pölten, Austria, August 3 – November 11, 2024. Curators Joana Warza, and Lorena Moreno Vera. Photograph courtesy of Studio Castillo Deball © David Reiber Otálora
Column of Conglomerates, 2022. Ceramic column with glazed details and metal, 50 x 50 x 361cm. Installation view of Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg SPACE, London. 2022 Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Bloomberg SPACE Photo © Marcus Leith.
Column of Vessels, 2022. Ceramic column and metal structure, 50 x 50 x 333cm. Installation view of Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg SPACE, London. 2022. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Bloomberg SPACE Photo @ Marcus Leith
Column of Plenty, 2022. Ceramic column and metal structure, 65 x 65 x 370cm. Installation view of Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg SPACE, London. 2022. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Bloomberg SPACE Photo © Marcus Leith.
Mariana Castillo Deball, installation view of Calendar Fall Away, 2022, CNC-engraved wooden floor, Variable dimensions, Hasta que los cantos broten (Until The Songs Spring), 2022, Mexican Pavillion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Mexican Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia. Photo © INBA/WE EXHIBIT – Samuele Cherubini. 2022
Marian Castillo Deball, installation view of Calendar Fall Away, 2022, CNC-engraved wooden floor, Variable dimensions, Hasta que los cantos broten (Until The Songs Spring), 2022, Mexican Pavillion at the 59th international Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Mexican Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia. Photo © Manuel Raeder.
Mariana Castillo Deball, installation view of Amarantus, MUAC, Mexico City, 2021. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and MUAC. Photo © Gerardo Landa Rojano.
Mariana Castillo Deball, installation view of Amarantus, MUAC, Mexico City, 2021. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and MUAC. Photo © Gerardo Landa Rojano.
Mariana Castillo Deball, installation view of Between making and knowing something, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford UK, 2020. Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Modern Art Oxford. Photo © Helen Messenger.
Mariana Castillo Deball, Uncomfortable Objects, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2019. Installation view. Photo © Kristien Daem.
Mariana Castillo Deball, Finding Oneself Outside, New Museum, New York, 2019. Exhibition view. Photo © EPW Studio.
Mariana Castillo Deball, Finding Oneself Outside, New Museum, New York, 2019. Exhibition view. Photo Mari Hutchinson © EPW Studio.
Mariana Castillo Deball, Mariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl, installation view in the Logan Center Gallery. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman, 2018
Mariana Castillo Deball, Hypothesis of a Tree, 2016. Bamboo structure, rubbings on Japanese paper, Sumi ink, dimensions variable.
Commisioned by 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, installation view at 13th Sharjah Biennial
Mariana Castillo Deball, Liverpool Biennale, 2016, United Kingdom
Mariana Castillo Deball, Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, 2015, Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignan
Mariana Castillo Deball, Parergon, 2014, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Uncomfortable Objects
Mariana Castillo Deball (1975 Città del Messico, Messico), vive e lavora a Berlino.
ISTRUZIONE
2002-2003 Dottorato alla Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Olanda
1998- 1999 Master in Filosofia. Università Iberoamericana, Messico
1993- 1997 Master in Belle Arti. Università Nazionale del Messico
PREMI
2015 Premio ARCO Comunidad de Madrid para jóvenes artistas, Madrid, Spagna
2013 Primo premio, Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Berlino, Germania
2012 Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurigo, Svizzera
2009 Ars-viva award, History, Germania
2004 Prix de Rome/first prize. Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
2002 Grant for postgraduate studies CONACULTA (National Council for the culture and arts), Messico
2001 Young artists Grant. National Council for the culture and arts, Messico
RESIDENZE ARTISTICHE
2016 18th Street Art Centre, Los Angeles, California, USA
2012 Cove Park, Henry Moore Foundation, Scozia, Regno Unito
2011 DAAD residency, Berlino, Germania
2010 Capacete, San Paolo, Brasile
2009 Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile
2008 22e ateliers internationaux of Frac des Pays de la Loire, Francia
2006 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, USA
2001 Grant Unesco/Ashberg. Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portogallo
MOSTRE PERSONALI SELEZIONATE
2026
Ella es la luna and she lights the darkness, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germania
Feathered Changes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA
2025
Stringing Beads, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germania
Martha Hellion – Hojas Sueltas Ediciones Sin Límites, a cura di Mariana Castillo Deball e Manuel Raeder, Museo Experimental El Eco, Città del Messico, Messico
2024
Vùjá de – Paper Thresholds, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlino, Germania
The Flames Leave a Feathered Mark, ASU Art Museum Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
2023
Cada cosa es Babel, Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelles, Belgio
Luce Dietro Tracce Incompiute, MUDEC, Milano, Italia
To-day / A Noite, September 2nd, Pivô, San Paolo, Brasile
2022
In a Convex Mirror, Pinksummer, Genova, Italia
Amarantus Artium, Artium Museoa Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spagna
Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg SPACE, Londra, Regno Unito
Amarantus MUAC, Città del Messico, Messico
2021
Amarantus. Museum für Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Germania
Amarantus, MUAC, 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, Regno Unito (commissione con Towner Eastbourne)
2020
Mariana Castillo Deball. England’s Creative Coast, Towner Eastbourne, Regno Unito
Between making and knowing something, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Regno Unito
2019
Replaying Life’s Tape, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, Australia
Mariana Castillo Deball, a solo exhibition, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Paesi Bassi
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, Berlino, Germania
Magical fatalism Opera about desire and nostalgia, Alumnos 47, Città del Messico, Messico
Statues Also die, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italia
2017
Them inside the skin, Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelles, Belgio
Pleasures of association, & poissons, such as love —, Galerie Wedding, Berlino, Germania
Sharjah Biennial 13 Tamawuj, Sharjah, Emirati Arabi Uniti
Mimbres pottery kill hole sequence, Kadist, Parigi, Francia
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, California, 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 Lisbon, Lisbona, Portogallo
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, Regno Unito
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, Chisenhale Gallery London, Londra, Regno Unito
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, Città del Messico, 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, USA
Solo show, SCHAU ORT Elisabeth Kaufmann + Christiane Büntgen, Zurigo, Svizzera
2009
Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, San Gallo, 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, Paesi Bassi
Never odd or Even. Marres, Center for contemporary art, Maastricht, Paesi Bassi
2003
Interlude: The reader’s traces. Intervento alla libreria nazionale di Parigi, Public library a New York e National library a Berlino. Contributi di: 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, Paesi Bassi
2002
The wall and the books: 987 words stolen from a library. Library and gallery space Jan van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, Paesi Bassi
Stochastic Archives, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Città del Messico, Messico
MOSTRE COLLETTIVE SELEZIONATE
2024
Fictions: Narrativity in Contemporary Art, MAZ, Zapopan, Jal., Messico
Pre-Architecture, CIVA, Bruxelles, Belgio
Forgive Us Our Trespasses, HKW, Berlino, Germania
Tangente, Festival for Contemporary Culture, St. Pölten, Austria
Dibújame un mapa de lo que no verás, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola UNAM, Messico
Indigenous Histories, Kode, Bergen, Norvegia
The Paradoxes of Internationalism (As narrated by the Museo Tamayo Collection) Part II, Museo Tamayo, Città del Messico, Messico
Spaces of Possibility, Triennale di Bruges, Berlino, Germania
Ten Thousand Suns, 24ª Biennale di Sydney, Australia
Rituals of Daily Life, Collegium, Arevalo, Spagna
2023
lnto Nature: Time Horizons, Borger-Odoorn, Paesi Bassi
Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM San Paolo, Brasile
Imaginario Coyolxauhqui, Museo del banco de Mexico, Città del Messico, Messico
El fin de los tiempos: Narrativas del fin de un Mundo en el imaginario mexicano, Museo de Antropología, Città del Messico, Messico
2022
As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture, Architectural Association, Londra, Regno Unito
Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World), Haus Kulturen der Welt, Berlino, Germania
Hasta que los cantos broten (Until The Songs Spring), Padiglione messicano alla 59ª Biennale di Venezia. A cura di Catalina Lozano e Mauricio Marcín
Publishing practices, Archive books, SAAVY, Berlino, Germania
mixed up with others before we even begin, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria. A cura di Franz Thalmair
2019
Time for Fragments – Works from the Marx Collection and the Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlino, Germania
2018
6ª Biennale di Gherdëina, Gherdëina, Italia
Rogerio Duarte Marginalia 1, Museo Jumex, Città del Messico, Messico
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, California, USA
Neither., Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelles, Belgio
Recouvrir, ensabler, copier, traduire, restituer, Kadist Foundation, Parigi, Francia
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Parasite, Hong Kong, Cina
13ª Biennale di Sharjah, Emirati Arabi Uniti
Proyecto líquido. Deseo, Alumnos 47, Città del Messico, Messico
Beyond the Box. Sammlung Dohmen, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germania
Touch Base, Studio Flotti, Berlino, 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, Francia
Tamawuj, 13ª Biennale di Sharjah, Sharjah, Emirati Arabi Uniti
Universal History of Infamy, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
2016
¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos?, Bienal FEMSA, Monterrey, Messico
Incerteza Viva, 32ª Biennale di San Paolo, Brasile
Proyecto líquido. Deseo, Alumnos 47, Città del Messico, Messico
rainbow caravan, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Giappone
SITElines2016. Much wider than a line, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
In The Belly of the Whale, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Paesi Bassi
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Regno Unito
30th Anniversary Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Under the Same Sun, The South London Gallery, Londra, Regno Unito
Unresolved, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
All Heritage is Poetry, Fórum Fundaçao Eugénio de Almeida, Portogallo
Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi, Stroom Den Haag, Paesi Bassi
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Anversa, Belgio
El orden Natural de las Cosas, Museo Jumex, Città del Messico, Messico
2015
The Art of Preservation, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germania
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Museo Jumex, Città del Messico, Messico
Objetos Frontera, CA2M, Madrid, Spagna
Riddle of the Burial Ground, Project Arts Centre, Dublino, Irlanda
Ce qui ne sert pas s’oublie, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Francia
Sebald Variations, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spagna
The Parliament of Things, Firstsite, Colchester, Regno Unito
Beyond Borders, 5ª edizione di Beaufort, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Belgio
Biennial of the Americas, Denver, Colorado, USA
Panorama, The High Line, New York, USA
2014
¡Puro mexicano! Tres momentos de creación, MUNAL, Città del Messico, Messico
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, Francia
8ª Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea di Berlino, Germania
Playgrounds Reinventar la plaza, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spagna
Les Mots Bleus – Biennale de Belleville 3, Parigi, Francia
TransVisible, 19 Bienal Paiz Guatemala – Artecentro Graciela Andrade de Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Post / Postminimal – Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, San Gallo, Svizzera
Future Perfect, Contemporary Art From Germany – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Varsavia, Polonia
Bibliologie – FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Francia
2013
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlino, Germania
how to write II, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlino, Germania
The Way of the Shovel, MCA Chicago, Illinois, USA
Future Perfect, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Francoforte, Germania
Arqueológicas, Matadero, Madrid, Spagna
2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germania
Serpentine Gallery Memory Marathon, Londra, Regno Unito
Lieber Aby Warburg, Was tun mit Bildern, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germania
Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Città del Messico, Messico
Life Is Elsewhere, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin-Neukölln, Germania
LA IDEA DE AMÉRICA LATINA, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Siviglia, Spagna
Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente, Espai Cultural de Barcelona, Barcellona, Spagna
Colección: el crimen fundacional, MUCA Roma, Città del Messico, Messico
Un ojo, dos ojos, tres ojos, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), Casa Vecina, Città del Messico, Messico
Never odd or Even, Museum of contemporary art, Roskilde, Danimarca
Printin’, a cura di Ellen Gallagher and Sarah Suzuki, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Resisting the present, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Parigi, Francia
Esquemas para una Oda Tropical, Galeria Luisa Strina, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile
2011
The Future Lasts Forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Svezia
Never odd or Even, Grimm Museum, Berlino, Germania
Section Folklorique / Cabinet de Curiosités, Zeeuws Museum, Zeeland, Paesi Bassi
La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Bruxelles, Belgio
Homo Ludens, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Resisting the present, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Messico
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Heidelberg Ludwigshafen, Germania
Inanimate beings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spagna
Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, Regno Unito
What about this, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
INCIDENTES DE VIAJE ESPEJO EN YUCATÁN Y OTROS LUGARES, Museo Tamayo, Città del Messico, Messico
Fleeting Stories/Historias Fugaces, LABoral, Gijón, Spagna
54th Venice Biennale Illuminations, Venezia, Italia
Amikejo 2 – men-show, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spagna
Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art: Curating Contemporary Art MA, Londra, Regno Unito
AEther – Une proposition de Christoph Keller, Centre Pompidou, Parigi, Francia
2010
Ars viva award, History, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Colonia, Germania; Migros Museum, Zurigo, Svizzera
No Soul For Sale, Festival of independents, presenting with Peep-Hole. Tate Modern, Londra, Regno Unito
Ginger Goodwin Way, OR gallery, Vancouver, Canada
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Mostra itinerante: Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ICA, Londra, Regno Unito; de Appel, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi; Culturgest, Lisbona, Portogallo
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, Germania
This place you see has no size at all…, Kadist Art Foundation, Parigi, Francia
El Patio de mi casa, Cordoba, Spagna
Biennale di Atene, Heaven, Atene, Grecia
The Happy Interval, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lituania
What are we going to do after we’ve done what we’re doing to do next?, MACBA, Contemporary Art Museum, Barcellona, Spagna
Paper exhibition, Artist space, New York, USA
The Malady of Writing, MACBA Contemporary Art Museum, Barcellona, Spagna
A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egitto
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary art museum Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Performa, Lectures and exhibition at Cabinet Magazine Space, New York, USA
Sequelism: Part 3, Arnolfini, Bristol, Regno Unito
Extranjeros en la cultura y en la tecnología, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chapter 2 (the repetition), Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Francia
2008
22nd Ateliers Internationaux, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, Francia
Galeria Sentimental, Tensta konsthall, Stoccolma, Svezia
Salon of the revolution, 29th Youth Salon, Zagabria, Croazia
One of these things is not like the other things, 1/9 unosunove, Roma, Italia
Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italia. In collaborazione con Irene Kopelman, Uqbar
Biennale di Shanghai, Cina
Blackboxing at artistspace, (screening) New York, USA
Master Humphrey’s Clock, De appel, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Sensitive Timelines, 26cc, Roma, Italia
Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations, SMBA, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Seven Times Two or Three, CUBITT, Londra, Regno Unito
Selective Knowledge, The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation/MIET, Atene, Grecia
2007
A for Alibi, De appel, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Transacciones Filosóficas, Historical Observatory, Córdoba, Argentina
The Book, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germania
Extraordinary Rendition, NoguerasBlachard, Barcellona, Spagna
The last piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Parigi, Francia
Blackboxing, Project, Dublino, Irlanda
24th Memorial Nadežda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia
2006
Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
10 Defining Experiments, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Concerning knowledge, BAK, Utrecht, Paesi Bassi
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven, Belgium, and Artis, Den Bosch, Paesi Bassi
A place in Time, Campr Street, City of San Antonio, Texas, USA
Redo/Undo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germania
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Friends and Enemies, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germania
2005
“Today, November 20”, If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution. Production in sequences Leiden, Paesi Bassi
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
BMW, 9th Baltic Triennial of Art, 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, Paesi Bassi
5ª Bienal de Artes Visuales del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasile
2004
Bucket Brigade. Firehouse Center for Contemporary art, Burlington, USA
Black Friday. Galerie Kamm, Berlino, Germania
GPB 2004, Galeri Pastor Bonus. Exteresa Arte Actual, Città del Messico, Messico
Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norvegia
2003
Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists, Baltic, International center for contemporary art Gateshead, Regno Unito
“24/7”. New York – Vilnius, CAC, Vilnus, Lituania
20 million mexicans can’t be wrong, Southampton gallery, Regno Unito
En un mar en el que no se nada. Paris Photo, Project Room, Parigi, Francia
Aparentemente Sublime. Museum of Modern art, Città del Messico, Messico
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, Germania
Volkskrant Regular (True Type) de Volkskrant, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Bonnefanten magazine, Maastricht, Paesi Bassi
A to Z. Museum in progress. Vienna, Austria
2001
Registro/Registre, Galeria Banyoles, Spagna
Se rendre a l’evidence, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Parigi, Francia
XI Bienal Internacional, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portogallo
2000
Los libros de otros, Museo de la ciudad de Città del Messico, Messico
Gráfica actual, Instituto de artes gráficas de Oaxaca, Messico
Exposición colectiva, MUCA, Roma, Italia
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, Messico
Exhibición de cortometrajes, Centro de la imagen, Città del Messico, Messico

Mariana Castillo Deball
Ixiptla Volume V Amarantus, 2023
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Pagine: 208
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3-96436-046-5

Udo Kittelmann
Parergon, 2014
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
A cura di Kirsty Bell, Dario Gamboni, Melanie Roumiguière
Pagine: 352
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3863356460

Mariana Castillo Deball
Ixiptla volume I, 2014
Bom Dia Boe Tarde Boa Noite
A cura di Mariana Castillo Deball, Kythzia Barrera, Maria Gaida, Moosje M. Goosen, Pablo Katchadjian, Paula López Caballero, Federico Navarrete Linares, Victoria Novelo Oppenheim, Sandra Rozental, Carlos Sandoval, Adam T. Sellen, Anna Szaflarski
Pagine: 180
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3-943514-25-4

Mariana Castillo Deball
Finding Oneself Outside: Uncomfortable Objects, 2012
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Pagine: 32
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3-943514-05-6

Mariana Castillo Deball
Uncomfortable Objects, 2012
Bom Dia Bom Tarde Bom Noite
A cura di Mariana Castillo Deball, Jimena Canales, Laurent Bartholdi, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mario Bellatin, Daniel Saldaña, Victoria Cirlot
Pagine: 168
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3-943514-10-0
Pubblicato in occasione della mostra dello Zurich Art Prize 2012: Mariana Castillo Deball Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurigo, 27.09.12 – 18.11.12

Mariana Castillo Deball
Never Odd or Even Vol. II, 2011
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Pagine: 30 copertine sovrapposte
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3-00-035970-5

Mariana Castillo Deball, Roy Wagner
Mariana Castillo Deball & Roy Wagner: Coyote Anthropology, A Conversation in Words and Drawings, 2011
Hatje Cantz
Lingua: Inglese
Pagine: 24
ISBN: 978-3-7757-2873-7

Mariana Castillo Deball, Dario Gamboni
Kaleidoscopic eye, 2009
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
Pagine: 120
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-3-96436-000-7

Mariana Castillo Deball
Estas Ruinas que ves / These Ruins you see, 2008
Sternberg Press
Pagine: 272
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN: 978-1933128467