performance exhibitions

short selection

2025

  • Performance „Dear Anna:” LEGS. Organised by PANCH Performance Art Network CH. Le Ventre, the old Synagogue in Hegheheim/FR
  • Performance “Nomadic Territories”. Together with Elsbeth Carolin Iten and Lilian Frei. ABOUT US! Festival, Zurich/CH.
  • Performance “Territorios Errantes” with the collective “Las Errantes” (Elsbeth Carolin Iten, Kerstin Wittenberg, Maricruz Peñaloza). VIII CONGRESO DE ARTE DE ACCION. Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid /ESP.

2024

  • Kunstkarten Originale (art cards originals). Annual exhibition at Strahlholz railway station AR/CH.
  • Author’s reading: «No preamble: Marina» (Ohne Umschweife: Marina). insieme Kulturlokal, Zürich.
  • Vestibule Performance Day. Summer Camp. «Von Migration und andere kurze Geschichten…oder ich komme aus dem Globalen Süden #3». Rote Fabrik, Zürich/CH.
  • Performance Jam Session. River’s Edges – Lungo il Fiume. Casa Stanata. Locarno/CH.

2023

  • Exhibition. Kunstkarten Originale (art cards originals). Annual exhibition at Strahlholz railway station AR/CH.
  • Performance. «Women. Life. Freedom» Idea: Maricruz Peñaloza and Mo Diener, developed together with Azad Colemêrg, Bohdana Batsko, Iris Käser, Maria Ordoñez, Sasha Ahapova, Raffaella Regina. MFO Park, in the framework of ABOUT US! Festival. Zurich/CH.
  • Performance. «Picaflor and Other Stories» ( (ORT)). Judith Huber Studio. Emmenbrücke /CH

2022

  • FUNDUS 40 – Performance «MP (Maricruz Peñaloza ) & MP (Marcel Proust)» in the occasion of Fundus 40 -Works  from the collection. Das marsie – Raum für kollektive Kunst. Curating: Simone Etter. Zurich / CH.
  • Performance «What do Emmy H. and I have in common?». KUNSTLICHT GALA – Multimedia Art Auktion for Refugees. Cabaret Voltaire. Idea and Text: Maricruz Peñaloza.. Participants: Yasmin Kiss, Eva Ramseier, Alejandra Vasen, Tatjana Hartmann. Zurich / CH.
  • Performance Tête a Tête. Paulus Akademie. Zurich / CH.

2021

  • Performance «Of Dancing, Suffering and White Traces». Das marsie – Raum für kollektive Kunst. Curating: Simone Etter. Zurich /CH.
  • Performance. PEPA-Pequeño Evento de Performance. Internationales Performance Festival. Curating: Analía Beltran. Madrid /ES.
  • Performance. Fashion Revolution. Curating: Monica Germann. Zentralwäscherei. Zurich /CH.

2020     

  • Performance. SCHIRME ÜBER DEM HIMMEL. Kaskadenkondensator, Basel /CH.
  • #Confinamiento. Fase 2. Red Mexicana de Performances, Museo La Neomudejar, RACA, Festival Extra. Online Festival.

2019 

  •  PERNEO. Ciudad del Arte. Museo Zapadores, Curating: Alba Soto. Madrid /ES.
  •  CHROMA – THE FUTURE IS ROMA – “We Pass The Mic To Europe.“. Curating: Timea Junghaus / Zsofia Bihari. 58th Biennale di Venezia, Venice / IT.
  •  International OPEN Performance Art Festival. Kaskadenskondensator. Basel /CH.
  •  Performance. “Walking Between Worlds”. Biosfera Experimental. platform for experimentation and research of Live Art (Performance). Directed by Esmeralda Perez Tamiz. Mexico City /MX.
  • EXTRA! Festival Internacional de Performance. Encuentro Binacional Mexico / Suiza. ARTSPACE México, Mexico City / MX. Curating: Pancho Lopez / Maricruz Peñaloza.

2018    

  • Performance the Field. Kunst Club Dübendorf. Organised by Simone Etter. Dübendorf/CH
  • Srinagar Biennale Basel. Performances at public space/ Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel /CH.
  • ( (ORT)). Judith Huber Studio. Emmenbrücke /CH.

2017

  • Acción!MAD17. Encuentros Internacionales de Arte de Acción. Naves Matadero. Madrid / ES.
  • LEGS. Performance together with Olivia Wiederkehr.  Ausstellungsraum Klingeltal. Basel /CH.

2016

  • Performance togehter with Adela Picon. «Con-Tacto». Cuerpo a Cuerpo, 4to. Encuentro de Performance, música. video. Centro de Arte La Regenta. Las Palmas de Gran Canarias / ES.
  • LEGS- Performance Relay. togehter with Adela Picon. Tatarletti. Kulturplatz. Olten /CH.
  • LEGS- Performance Relay. Corner College. Zurich /CH.

Talks | Lectures | Selection

2024

  • River’s Edges – Lungo il Fiume. Presentation of «PANCH-Performance Art Network Switzerland». Casa Stanata. Locarno/CH.
  • Talk «PANCH-Performance Art Network Switzerland». La Regionale. Visarte Ticino. Villa Ciani, Lugano/CH. Talk cancelled due to illness.

2020

  • PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON -a decade of performances in public space-. Book launch and discussion with Linda Cassens Stoian, Daniel Morgenthaler and Maricruz Peñaloza. Helmhaus, Zurich /CH.
  • «The body as a political stage and as a social subject». Simposium Internacional y Virtual de Gestion Cultural. Provocando bienestar social. Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico/MX.

2019

  • «De ida y vuelta: de Performance Extra a PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON». Artspace Galerie. Mexico City/MX.

2018  

  • Artist Talk with Eduardo Briones.  Lumen Consultores. Chiapas / MX.
  • «Cultural Hues». Srinagar Biennale. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Basel / CH.

2017

  • «Bosquejos de la performance en Helvetia» . Acción!MAD17- XIV Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Acción.  With the participation of: Gisela Hochuli, Klara Schilliger, Adela Picon and Valerian Maly.  Naves Matadero, Madrid / ES.

2016  

  • Presentation and panel discussion on the PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON festival in the framework of «Cuerpo a Cuerpo».  4to. Encuentro de Performance, Música, Video. Centro de Arte La Regenta. Gran Canaria / ES. Curator: Pedro Déniz.

 

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