upcoming performances (set design)

Laodamie (set design)

Laodamie, Queen of Epirus
Play by Catherine Bernard 1689
Theatre set design by Carmen Mariscal

Dates: 18-19 March 2026  
Location: Glob Théâtre, Bordeaux
Info: https://www.lasubversive.org/laodamie-de-catherine-b/

Mary Sidney alias Shakespeare (set design)

Mary Sidney alias Shakespeare
Play by Aurore Evain
Theatre set design by Carmen Mariscal

Dates: 2 October 2025
Location: Espace Culturel René Monory / Prix Renaudot des lycéens, Loudun (86)

Dates: 16-17 October 2025
Location: Théâtre Les Riches-Claires, Bruxelles

Dates: 22-24 April 2026
Location: MC2 - Scène nationale de Grenoble

Info: https://www.lasubversive.org/mary-sidney-alias-shakespeare/

La Folle Enchère (SET design)

upcoming exhibitions

Todas las cosas se mezclan con las palabras (Every thing mixes with the words) GROUP EXHIBITION

Todas las cosas se mezclan con las palabras (Every thing mixes with the words) Curated by Karen Cordero
Galería Ana Tejeda: Calle Arquímedes 175, Polanco, Polanco V Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11540 Mexico City, Mexico
Exhibition: From 26 January to 30 April 2026 (with special events during Zona MACO Art Fair 4-8 February 2026)
For more information: https://www.galeriaanatejeda.com

Las mil y una novias (The Thousand and One Brides) GROUP EXHIBITION

Las mil y una novias (The Thousand and One Brides) Curated by Marina Vázquez and Mary Carmen Alverú
Museo del Castillo de Chapultepec (National Museum of History)
Primera Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec s/n, San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11580, Mexico City, Mexico
Exhibition: 2025-2026 (Exact date TBC)

RECENT SOLO exhibitions

SEDIMENTS OF MEMORY - Unearthing Histories Beneath the Mexican Embassy in Berlin

Exhibition Opening: 3 July 2025 from 6-9 pm
Open to Public: From 4 July to 2 August - Thu – Sat 14 – 18 h
Location: Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 45  |  10178 Berlin, Germany
For more information: https://www.rosa-luxemburg-platz.net/

"For the first time in Berlin, the work of Mexican artist, researcher, and theatre set designer Carmen Mariscal is being presented. Her interdisciplinary practice explores memories embedded in spaces – from the human body to clothing, architecture, and the city itself.
Her current project investigates the layered histories of the site now occupied by the Mexican Embassy in Berlin. Through photography, film, and installation, Mariscal explores the layered histories of the embassy’s current site, uncovering traces of memory, transformation, and diplomacy throughout the 20th century. Her work brings to light forgotten stories that connect Mexico, Germany, the United Kingdom, and others, tracing its transformations throughout the 20th century. In addition the exhibition includes two films from previous site-specific projects in Mexico.

To mark the exhibition, a public talk followed by a walk to the Kunstverein will take place on 2 July at 6pm, hosted by the Mexican Embassy (Klingelhöferstraße 3, 10785 Berlin)".

Sediments of Memory is part of Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (SPACEX), a project supported by the European Union.

Building memories participatory installation

Exhibition Road Festival
Exhibition: Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 June 2025, 12–6pm
Location: Exterior of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2RL
Organised by: Royal College of Art, Imperial College London, the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum
For more information: https://www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/

Help create a ‘mosaic of hope’ for future generations through wax rubbings, self-reflection, polaroid photography and sensory interactions with one of the most famous buildings on Exhibition Road

The Royal College of Arts’ Carmen Mariscal is interested in the physical and emotional connection between people and the cities that contain them. At the Great Exhibition Road Festival attendees will engage with the scarring and pockmarks of famous Vicotria and Albert Museum, scars that were left visible to keep the memory of wartime destruction alive for future generations. By create waxing rubbings and using them to decorate messages of hope for future generations, Carmen hopes the experience will get festival attendees of all ages back in touch with their sense of touch, remind visitors of their emotional connections to the built environment, and see them reflect on ways that we can care for each other, and for our buildings. Together these reflections, alongside polaroid photography capturing moments of sensory interaction with Victorian-aged Museum walls, will build over the Festival weekend into ‘mosaic of hope’ for future generations.
Carmen Mariscal is a practice-based doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art, London. Her cross-disciplinary practice explores traces of memory in dwellings. These include the body, which is humans´ first habitat, followed by their clothes, homes, public spaces, and cities. Her recent research also investigates entropy and ruin in architecture. These themes are expressed through photography, sculpture, sound, moving image, theatre set design, and installation.

RECENT GROUP exhibitions

Making Space GROUP EXHIBITION

Cooke Latham Gallery 41 Parkgate road, SW11 4NP, London, UK
Exhibition 7 May 2025 from 12 to 14.30 pm
For information: https://www.cookelathamgallery.com/contact/

FAME GROUP EXHIBITION

FAME Femmes Artistes - Mouvement Engagé: Curated by Flavie Durand-Ruel
Frédérick Mouraux Gallery Rivoli Building, Chaussée de Waterloo, Brussels 1180, Belgium
Exhibition 18 May - 6 August 2025
Private view: Sunday 18 May, 2025 from 2 to 7 pm
Opening Hours Tuesday to Friday 11 - 6pm, Saturday 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
For information: Frédérick Mouraux Gallery FAME Exhibition

RCA research Biennale GROUP EXHIBITION

RCA Research Biennale Exhibition and Symposium
Exhibition: Until 27 Feb 2025  10.30am – 6.30pm daily 
Location: Royal College of Art Battersea, Hangar space, Studio Building, Howie Street, London SW11 4AN

For more information: https://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research-biennale/

exhibitions 2024

CURIOSITY GROUP EXHIBITION

Photographie d’ Amérique Latine
Exposition organisée per GALERIA H

Commissaire d’exposition: Lassla Esquivel

Location: 42 Quai des Célestins, 75004 Paris, France, Paris 4e
Exhibition: du 6 au 10 Novembre, 2024. - Jeudi 7 Novembre 18h Vernissage

la soeur de shakespeare SOLO EXHIBITION

La Soeur de Shakespeare
Théâtre des Îlets – CDN de Montluçon
Espace Boris-Vian,
27 rue des Faucheroux
03100 Montluçon
Tel : 04 70 03 86 13 | 06 71 72 52 65 
theatredesilets.fr

Exhibition: 19th -21st September 2024

group EXHIBITION

Three War Leaves sculptures will be on view at :

Ana Mas Projects Gallery
The Art Fair By Invitation curated by Mariella Franzoni, Círculo Ecuestre, Carrer de Balmes, 169 bis, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, 08006 Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition: 7th -9th November 2024

UNDER THE CANOPY Group EXHIBITION

Under the Canopy
Embassy of Mexico 8 Halkin Street, SW1X 7DT, London, UK
Private View: 10th of April at 5:30 pm.
In order to attend visitors can obtain tickets through this link:  https://forms.gle/FbM2Y2YGhZV399P87

Eight Mexican Royal College of Art interdisciplinary researchers and recent alumni will be presenting a group exhibition at the Embassy of Mexico in the United Kingdom between the pathways of Contemporary Art Practice, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Design History and Product Design.

CHASMA Group EXHIBITION

Chasma PGR Research, Royal College of Art
Beaconsfield Gallery 22 Newport St, London SE11 6AY, UK
https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk
+44 (0) 20 7582 6465 admin@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
Exhibition: https://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects
Private View: Thursday 1st February: 18h to 20h
Open from:
2nd and 3rd February: 12h to 17h
7th to 10th February: 12h to 17h

Spaces of coalescence two-person exhibition

Spaces of Coalescence at the Festival Image Ouverte

The Window
1 Rue Gustave Goublier 75010 Paris, France
info@thewindowparis.fr

Private View: 16 March 2024 at 7 pm
Exhibition: 16-31 March 2024
Workshop: 17 March 2024 from 11 am to 1 pm

Exhibition and workshop organised by Ludovica Fales as part of Spaces of Coalescence Research Group.

(Re) Generando Narrativas e Imaginarios Group exhibition

(Re) Generando Narrativas e Imaginarios (Curated by Karen Cordero)

Itinerant exhibition:

Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS)
Blvd. Agustín de Vildósola S/N, Proyecto Rio Sonora Hermosillo XXI, 83270 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
+52 662 212 6570

Exhibition: until 31 March 2024

Museo Espacio
Av. Ferrocarril Sur S/N, AntiguosTalleres del Ferrocarril, Desarrollo Especial Talleres F.F.C.C., 20259 Aguascalientes, Ags., Mexico
+52 449 688 4101

Exhibition: May to August 2024

RECENT PUBLICATIONs

Material Engagements, Publication with the Post Graduate Research Group, Royal College of Art, London, 2023.

I Care by… Publication with the Post Graduate Research Group, Royal College of Art, London, 2022.

“I care by connecting, reconnecting and disconnecting. I care by looking into uncomfortable histories”. CM

I Care by… publication by the Care Research Group at the Royal College of Art, lead by Gemma Blackshaw . I am honoured to have written the afterword with Sofie Leyton.

public SCULPTURE CHEZ NOUS

The public sculpture Chez Nous was on view from March 12 to June 1, 2020 at the Place du Palais-Royal, Paris, France. You can watch the video to learn more about it.

This sculpture was made possible thanks to the support of the Mairie de Paris, the Mairie du 1er arrondissement, Paris, The Mexican Cultural Institute, Paris and the generosity of private patrons and donors. It was curated by Periferia Projects and produced by Agence Eva Albarran, Paris.

During the time when Chez Nous was on view, a platform was created to support our partner associations Espacio de Mujeres (Mexico) and Association Aurore (France) that provide a safe shelter to women and children victims of violence in their homes (and beyond), we have continued with this especially since gender violence has risen during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdowns that took place in 2020-2021.

For more information on the Chez Nous public sculpture contact:
Camila Melo camila@carmenmariscal.com

DATES FOR NEW PLACEMENT FOR CHEZ NOUS IN 2026 TO BE CONFIRMED

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES (Set Designs)

Laodomie

Laodamie
Play by Catherine Bernard 1689
Directed by Aurore Evain
Theatre set design by Carmen Mariscal
http://www.lasubversive.org

Dates: 24-25 April 2025  
Location: La Manekine, scène intermédiaire des Hauts-de-France, 4 Allée René Blanchon, 60700 Pont-Sainte-Maxence, France
Tel: +33 3 44 72 03 38

Dates: 29 April 2025
Location: Vivat, scène conventionnée d’Armentières. 4 Pl. Saint-Vaast, 59280 Armentières, France
Tel: +33 3 20 77 18 77

ARTIST TALKs & interviews

Documentary on the Exhibition “Érase…”, Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City
Artists: Carmen Mariscal and Mercedes Gertz
Curated by: Karen Cordero
March 1st-April 9th 2022

March 22nd 2022
Talk on the Exhibition “Érase…” hosted by Fundación Elena Poniatowska
El Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City
Artists: Carmen Mariscal and Mercedes Gertz
Curator : Karen Cordero
Director, El Claustro: Carmen López P.

March 26th 2021
Interview by Alicia Leos, Arrieras Somos

March 5th 2020
Interview in Frédéric Taddeï’s TV programme Interdit d'interdire on RT France : The artist Carmen Mariscal talks about her monumental installation «Chez nous», Place du Palais Royal (with the journalist Ludivine Benard, the author Christine Orban and the pianist Suzana Bartal)

August 2019
Interview in French TV program Telematin (with dancer Marie-Agnès Gillot and Carmen Mariscal)

April 2019
Interview for Les Inédits de l’art à Paris: 1 minute, 1 oeuvre by Museum TV
At the Art Paris Art Fair, Ana Mas Projects Gallery.

March 22nd 2019
Interview by Matthew Spriggs for Arts District, New Orleans
With gratitude to Marcela Correa, curator

December 31st 2018
Interview by David del Río for Notimex

December 5th 201*
Interview by Erika Olavaerría for France Culture 24

May 2018
Panel Discussion: Activating archives and work by women artists, strategies and experiences.
With Karen Cordero, Mercedes Gertz, Alicia Knock, Camille Morineau and Alma Ruiz. Mexican Cultural Center, Paris
This panel was made possible thanks to the support of FONCA

May 2018
Curatorial walkthrough the exhibition "…jusqu’à la fin des temps", Mexican Cultural Center, Paris

April 2018
Interview by Jordi Batallé for RFI

10th October 2017
Talk by Carmen Mariscal: The Artist Today: Mending the Broken Places
at a conference organised by Global True North World Forum, Teatro Bicentenario, León, Gto, Mexico

April 2014
A Modern Odyssey, Memory and transformation of migrant women
Interview with Mexican artist Carmen Mariscal

virtual exhibitionS

"…jusqu’à la fin des temps" (…until the end of times)
Works by Carmen Mariscal and Mercedes Gertz,
Curated by Carmen Cordero
Virtual exhibition at MUMA, Museum of Mexican Women Artists

Mundos Posibles (Possible Worlds)
Group exhibition
Curated by Lucero González and Ana Quiroz
http://museodemujeres.com Museum of Mexican Women Artists