birth
Mexico City, Mexico, 1975
last update
23-04-2025
Mariana Castillo Deball was born 1975 in México City, today she lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. Mariana Castillo Deball studied fine art at the National University in Mexico and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. After MA in Philosophy at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico, she obtained her MFA at the National University in Mexico and visited the Postgraduate program at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL). Her works have presented in solo exhibitions at several international institutions, including Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2009), Museum of contemporary Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2006), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Center for contemporary art, Maastricht (both 2004), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2003 and 2002).
Mariana Castillo Deball’s work is characterized by the tension between order and coincidence. The Mexican artist maps out areas of action and memories as well as object worlds that often display a specific historical and cultural context. During her research, the artist looks for institutions that house collections, classifications, catalogues and (re-)presentations of cultural assets, such as libraries, museums and archives, and which represent a symbolic classification of the world. She also creates apparently banal visual investigations, which are brought into unexpected coherence through narrative wit and tactile precision. Mariana Castillo Deball is thereby able to solve one of the most demanding challenges of contemporary art: to combine conceptual asperity and intellectual requirement with a sensual and innovative aesthetic.
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documents
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Territoris indefinits. Perspectives sobre el llegat colonial [Reportatge fotogràfic inauguració exposició]
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16-5-2019
Territoris indefinits. Perspectives sobre el llegat colonial [Enregistrament audiovisual roda de premsa]
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16-5-2019
Ixiptla [vol. IV, Spring]
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2018
Antropología de coyote : una conversación en palabras y dibujos / Mariana Castillo Deball y Roy Wagner
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2018
Sun Ra : en algún lado y en ninguno : poemas / edición y traducciones por Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein y Alberto Ortega
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[2018]
Ixiptla [vol. 3, Spring]
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2015
Ixiptla [vol. 1, Spring]
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2014
What we caught we threw away, what we didn't catch we kept
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2013
Uncomfortable objects / Mariana Castillo Deball
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2012
Un ojo, dos ojos, tres ojos / [proyecto = project : Uqbar Foundation ; textos = texts : Mariana Castillo ...[et al.]]
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2012
Finding oneself outside: uncomfortable objects / Mariana Castillo Deball
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[2012]
Finding oneself outside: uncomfortable objects / Mariana Castillo Deball
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2012
Never odd or even : Volume II [exhibition / a project by Mariana Castillo Deball ; contributors, Mario Bellatin, ... et al.]
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2011
Transacciones Filosóficas = Philosophical Transactions / Uqbar Foundation (Mariana Castillo Deball, Irene Kopelman)
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2009
Kaleidoscopic eye : [exhibition / concept and realization: Mariana Castillo Deball ; texts by Mariana Castillo Deball, Dario Gamboni]
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[2009]
Estas ruinas que ves / Mariana Castillo Deball
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2008
A for alibi / Irene Kopelman ... [et al.]
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2007
[Nobody]
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2007
A for alibi / Irene Kopelman ... [et al.]
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2007
Interlude : the reader's traces / Mariana Castillo Deball
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2005
Interlude : the reader's traces / Mariana Castillo Deball
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2005
Never odd or even : [exhibition / a project by Mariana Castillo Deball ; contributors, Gabriela Aguileta ... et al.]
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2005
Never odd or even : [exhibition / a project by Mariana Castillo Deball ; contributors, Gabriela Aguileta ... et al.]
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2005
Never odd or even : [exhibition / a project by Mariana Castillo Deball ; contributors, Gabriela Aguileta ... et al.]
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2005
Archivo estocástico
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2002
The wall and the books : 982 words stolen from a library / Mariana Castillo Deball
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[2002?]
Penser/classer / [Mariana Castillo Deball]
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2002