Miguel Buenrostro
Lives in: Berlin, Germany.
From: Tijuana, Mexico / 14.07.1984.
Education: Masters in Fine Arts, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
University: Bauhaus University, Weimar, DE.
Education
2018-2020 MFA, Public Art And New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus University, Weimar, DE
2012 Human Behavioral Research / University of Georgia, USA
2010-2011 Audiovisual Production / Centro de Medios Audiovisuales, GDL / MX
Grants / Awards
2024 Berlin Music Ambassadors, WOMEX 2024 Delegation, Berlin
2023 Bildende Kunst – Recherchestipendium (Artistic Research), Berlin
2023 NEUSTART KULTUR; Fonds Darstellende Künste (Performing Arts Fund), Berlin
2022 Berlin Senat, zeitgeschichtliche und erinnerungskulturelle Projekte, Berlin
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR: Förderprogramm für kleinere und mittlere Musikbühnen, Berlin
2020 IFA, Ausstellungsförderung, Territorium Tijuana - Berlin Exhibition.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Upcoming; Cosmoaudiciones, Museo experimental del Eco, CDMX, México
2025 Upcoming; Excesos Sonoros y Documentos de Escucha, MUSAS, Sonora, México
2024 Saber a qué Suena, Museo Casa del Lago, CDMX, México
2023 Variations, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
2021Otros Nosotros, Owned by Others exhibition, Museum Tropicana, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Crossing Echoes, Berlin Ethnological Museum, Berlin
2024 Chintete!, Cantina la Dominica, CDMX, México
2023 Out There, Blo Ateliers, Hier Und Jetzt: Connections, Berlin
2022 Planetary listening, waveling experience, Radio Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2022 Tiempo Ritmo, Errant Sound, Berlin
2022 Intangible Archeologies, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
2022 Listening-Sensing-Receiving, Radical Sounds Latin America, Berlin
2021 Monuments for Whom?, Owned by others exhibition, Berlin
2020 JTM w / Melodie Mousset, Safiental Biennial, Tenna, Switzerland
2022 Kinzonzi 2.0, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
2021 Kinzonzi, Museé Nacional de la DRC, Kinshasa Congo
2021 Sonic Diaspora, Ambactia Memoria, Somos, Berlin
2021 Hey Universum! , GISELA Kunstraum, Berlin
2021 Monuments for Whom?, Owned by others exhibition, Berlin
2020 Mexicali Biennial, Armory Center For the Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Territorium, Museo de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, Mexico
2019 Salón, Arte y Ciudad, CDMX, México
2019 Imaginary Bauhaus Museum, Schiller Museum, Weimar, Germany
Film Festivals /Public Screenings
2024 Womex, Film Program, Manchester, UK
2024 Take One Action Film Festival, Edinburgh
2024 Ritmo & Memoria, Documentary Showcase, Radical Sounds Latin America, Berlin
2023 Listening Documentaries, RICS Academy, Brussels Belgium
2021 Heimat, Ethnographic Film Forum/ COMASE, CDMX, Mexico
2019 Portland Underground Film Festival, Portland, USA
Curatorial Projects
2023 Pantopia-Music Festival, Berlin
2023 Planetary Listening, Dragonale, Berlin
2022 Rhythm & Memory, Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
2022 Miziki, Haus Der Statistik, Hopscotch Reading Group, Berlin
2022 Cosmoaudiciones, Berlin Phonogramm Archiv / Berlin Ethnologisches Museum
2022 Sonic Pluralities, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin
Residencies / Public Program
2022 Listening Academy, University of Bergen, Norway - Listening Biennial, Berlin
2022 Brick & Mortar, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Hier und Jetzt, B.L.O. Ateliers, Berlin
Teaching / Workshops
2024 - 2025 Cinema, Space & Culture, Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos, Tijuana, Mexico
2023 Sounding Art, Berlin School of Sound, Berlin
2023 Listening Documentaries, RICS Academy, Brussels Belgium
2023 Class Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound, Humboldt university, Berlin
2022 Narrating Violence, Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI), Freie Universitat, Berlin
2020 Learning from Tijuana, Escuela Libre de Arquitectura, Tijuana, Mexico
2019 Invisible Mapping, Escuela Libre de Arquitectura, Tijuana, Mexico
2019 Urban Narratives, New School of Art and Design, San Diego, USA
Recent Publications
2024 Buenrostro, Miguel, Engelmann, Vanessa: Das Archiv aufführen. Über Zuhören als situierte Praxis, Improvisation und künstlerische Forschung im Kontext der Arbeit mit und in Soundarchiven. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 16 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 92–102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23157.
2024 Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Raul Walch, K. Verlag
2024 Listening Academy, Cosmoaudiciones, Errant Bodies ( Not Yet Published )
2024 Variations, Reflections on the Brick & Mortar residency ( Not Yet Published )