I am a trained architect, researcher and artist based between Berlin and Colombia. I studied Architecture at the University of Arts Berlin and Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland.
My work situates at the intersection between artistic research, education, curation, and design of discursive and built spaces. Engaging thematically a. o. with diasporic and queerfeminist spaces and the entanglement of colonialism and architecture/infrastructures. For this I use different media such as drawing, mapping, video as well as performance. One key focus in my work is working as a facilitator giving workshops and seminars sharing my practice (embodied mapping, drawing and theory).
Together with Sarah Naira Herfurth, we founded the habi practice حبي , where we jointly develop projects and educational formats in spatial planning around the relationship of space and race/colonialism. From 2019 to 2024, I was part of fem_arc collective in Berlin. Together with initiatives and groups of different age groups, we developed projects that took a critical look at power structures in space and individual experiences of discrimination.
For collaborations and workshops, please contact me via Instagram or email.
2023
WORK
10/2024-now
Seminar "Mapping Extractivism"
FH Potsdam together with Ida Flik
Seminar "Mapping Extractivism"
FH Potsdam together with Ida Flik
09-10/2024
research trip
"Interfaces of spatial resistance"
funded by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Cali, Colombia
research trip
"Interfaces of spatial resistance"
funded by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Cali, Colombia
2019 - 2024
fem_arc collective
fem_arc collective
08/2024
Facilitator
SIEGEN SUMMER SCHOOL 2024
together with Franzi Ayoka Ebeler from coop disco
University of Siegen
Facilitator
SIEGEN SUMMER SCHOOL 2024
together with Franzi Ayoka Ebeler from coop disco
University of Siegen
03/2024 - 05/2024
Exhibition Design and Education
"WOR(L)DING DREAMERS" - curated by hn.lyonga and Johanna Janßen
co-design together with Océane Vé-Réveillac (fem_arc)
Galerie im Turm, Berlin
Exhibition Design and Education
"WOR(L)DING DREAMERS" - curated by hn.lyonga and Johanna Janßen
co-design together with Océane Vé-Réveillac (fem_arc)
Galerie im Turm, Berlin
10/2023 - 02/2024
Teaching
NEGOTIATING MODERNITY - RETHINKING (OUR) TOOLS
togehter with Sarah N. Hachem Herfurth
Fachhochschule Erfurt
Teaching
NEGOTIATING MODERNITY - RETHINKING (OUR) TOOLS
togehter with Sarah N. Hachem Herfurth
Fachhochschule Erfurt
06/2023
Teaching
COLONIAL MODERN
togehter with Sarah N. Hachem Herfurth
University of Arts
Teaching
COLONIAL MODERN
togehter with Sarah N. Hachem Herfurth
University of Arts
10/2022-03/2023
research and co-curation
CONSTELLATIONS
Poligonal + fem_arc
05 - 07/2022
Teaching
(NOT) OUT OF PLACE
togehter with Sarah N. Hachem Herfurth
University of Arts
research and co-curation
CONSTELLATIONS
Poligonal + fem_arc
05 - 07/2022
Teaching
(NOT) OUT OF PLACE
togehter with Sarah N. Hachem Herfurth
University of Arts
2019 - 2021
Tutor
Chair for Art and Cultural History
Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser
University of Arts
Tutor
Chair for Art and Cultural History
Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser
University of Arts
02/2017 - 11/2018
Sting Architekten ELW Berlin
10/2016 - 03/2017
internship
Sackmann Payer Architects
09/2015
construction site internship
Fatkoehl Architekten
Prinzessinengarten I Berlin
EXHIBITIONSSting Architekten ELW Berlin
10/2016 - 03/2017
internship
Sackmann Payer Architects
09/2015
construction site internship
Fatkoehl Architekten
Prinzessinengarten I Berlin
08/2022
Open Studio
Flutgraben Performance Residency
03/2022
Exhibition
Sensing the City - Sense of City
ORi künstlerische Bildmedien e.V. Berlin
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2024
"The space between two bodies of water - Artistic exploration and spatial approach to Gloria E. Anzaldúa's understanding of 'Nepantla'" will be published in the series “Identity and Heritage” by Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag end of 2024.
"Columbus III: Colonial Echoes in Data Infrastructure" will be published in the issue “On transindustriality” by TETI Press in fall 2024.
06/2023
Review: "Wissen über Brücken – Conocimiento sobre Puentes.
Relating to Gloria E. Anzaldúa in Words, Vision and Context
Ein kollektives Übersetzungsprojekt."
Bd. 7 (2023): Miradas
09/2022
Tracing Nepantla
catalog text by Daniela Reyes Rios in
Where do you think you're going? On Spaces & Identities - Hrsg. artburst berlin
06/2022
Tracing Nepantla
Text by Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus
Eigenart - online and print version
06/2023
Review: "Wissen über Brücken – Conocimiento sobre Puentes.
Relating to Gloria E. Anzaldúa in Words, Vision and Context
Ein kollektives Übersetzungsprojekt."
Bd. 7 (2023): Miradas
09/2022
Tracing Nepantla
catalog text by Daniela Reyes Rios in
Where do you think you're going? On Spaces & Identities - Hrsg. artburst berlin
06/2022
Tracing Nepantla
Text by Ana Rodriguez Bisbicus
Eigenart - online and print version
LECTURES AND PANELS (selected)
08/2024
Lecture part of Siegen Summer School, Siegen.
03/2024
„Wie können diskriminierungsfreie Räume geschaffen werden?“ online und im Haus der Architektur Köln e.V. (part of fem_arc)
11/2023
Tracing Nepantla - Tagung "With/out identity - Zur Frage von Identitätskonstruktionen in Raum, Erbe und Communities" des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs "Identität und Erbe", Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar.
07/2023
Tracing Nepantla - (re)searching urbanity symposium, Floating, Berlin.
11/2022
"Listening as spatial practice of resistance" Teil von Lecture Series Design Academy, Eindhoven (part of fem_arc)
10/2022
panel as part of fem_arc with Niloufar Tajeri and Ana Filipovic Mecke (Soft Agency) HIT THE CITY – INTERSECTIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin
Lecture part of Siegen Summer School, Siegen.
03/2024
„Wie können diskriminierungsfreie Räume geschaffen werden?“ online und im Haus der Architektur Köln e.V. (part of fem_arc)
11/2023
Tracing Nepantla - Tagung "With/out identity - Zur Frage von Identitätskonstruktionen in Raum, Erbe und Communities" des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs "Identität und Erbe", Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar.
07/2023
Tracing Nepantla - (re)searching urbanity symposium, Floating, Berlin.
11/2022
"Listening as spatial practice of resistance" Teil von Lecture Series Design Academy, Eindhoven (part of fem_arc)
10/2022
panel as part of fem_arc with Niloufar Tajeri and Ana Filipovic Mecke (Soft Agency) HIT THE CITY – INTERSECTIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin
03/2022
Lecture about fem_arc at Horizonte Weimar lecture series, Bauhaus Weimar University
Lecture about fem_arc at Horizonte Weimar lecture series, Bauhaus Weimar University
WORKSHOPS/TEACHING (selected)
06/2024
workshop in conference "In the face of catastrophe - theory and action in times of climate collapse", Institut für Philosophie, Phsychoanalyse und Kulturwissenschaften, Berlin
workshop in conference "In the face of catastrophe - theory and action in times of climate collapse", Institut für Philosophie, Phsychoanalyse und Kulturwissenschaften, Berlin
05/2024
workshop: zuhören als Raumpraxis, together with Monja Simon (fem_arc)
Hochschule Mainz, Faculty of Interior Design, Mainz
workshop: zuhören als Raumpraxis, together with Monja Simon (fem_arc)
Hochschule Mainz, Faculty of Interior Design, Mainz
03/2024
workshop as part of fem_arc, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
workshop as part of fem_arc, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
10/2023 - 02/2024
semesterproject: Negotiating Modernity - Rethinking our tools
Post- und dekoloniale Theorien und Praktiken in der
Raumplanung together with Sarah Naira Herfurth, Fachhoschule Erfurt
09/2023
workshop: Negotiating Modernity - Ein Spaziergang durchs Hansaviertel
im Rahmen von Dekoloniale Akademie mit Sarah N. Herfurth
07/2023
workshop: Nepantlerxs - im Rahmen von Performacúla Festival 2023
06/2023
seminar: Colonial Modern - Post- und dekoloniale Theorien und Praktiken in der Architektur mit Sarah N. Herfurth, UdK Berlin
11/2022
workshop: On Sections - Zeichnen Workshop I Im Rahmen von Choreographing
Architectures by Sasha Amaya im DAZ, Berlin
06/2022
workshop: Geographies of selve I Queer Elsewhere Gathering I L'ampolla, Katalunien
04-07/2022
seminar: Not (out) of place Post- and dekoloniale Theorien für eine neue Architekturpraxis mit Sarah N. Herfurth, UdK Berlin
06/2022
workshop: mapping input during Decoloniale Bildung Modul, University of Essen/Duisburg
06/2021
seminar: Back to normal? Mapping a post-crisis counter inventory
as part of fem_arc, UdK Berlin
semesterproject: Negotiating Modernity - Rethinking our tools
Post- und dekoloniale Theorien und Praktiken in der
Raumplanung together with Sarah Naira Herfurth, Fachhoschule Erfurt
09/2023
workshop: Negotiating Modernity - Ein Spaziergang durchs Hansaviertel
im Rahmen von Dekoloniale Akademie mit Sarah N. Herfurth
07/2023
workshop: Nepantlerxs - im Rahmen von Performacúla Festival 2023
06/2023
seminar: Colonial Modern - Post- und dekoloniale Theorien und Praktiken in der Architektur mit Sarah N. Herfurth, UdK Berlin
11/2022
workshop: On Sections - Zeichnen Workshop I Im Rahmen von Choreographing
Architectures by Sasha Amaya im DAZ, Berlin
06/2022
workshop: Geographies of selve I Queer Elsewhere Gathering I L'ampolla, Katalunien
04-07/2022
seminar: Not (out) of place Post- and dekoloniale Theorien für eine neue Architekturpraxis mit Sarah N. Herfurth, UdK Berlin
06/2022
workshop: mapping input during Decoloniale Bildung Modul, University of Essen/Duisburg
06/2021
seminar: Back to normal? Mapping a post-crisis counter inventory
as part of fem_arc, UdK Berlin
Conversatorio - Tracing Nepantla open studio at Flutgraben Performances Residencies july 2022