YUPANQUI RAMOS (b. Guanajuato, México) is a multidisciplinary artist and costume designer based in Berlin. Her practice bridges, performance art, installation and video to critically examine colonial dynamics within environmental contexts. Intertwining biotechnology, ancestral knowledge, and more-than-human histories to forge alternative connections between human and non-human worlds.

Her work incorporates traditional craft techniques with contemporary artistic forms, Ramos invites to question and reimagine the intricate relationships between culture and nature, interrogating scientific colonialism, ecological disruption, and the extraction of biological resources.

 Ramos's work has recently been shown at Hosek Contemporary (2026), 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025), Sophiensæle (2025), SAVVY Contemporary Berlin (2024), Humboldt Forum, Berlin (2024), Thalía Theater (2023),  Kampnagel (2022), Sprechwerk Hamburg (2022), and Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS :

2026

“A body rite of culture and decay” Hosek Contemporary, Berlin.

“Grains of memory” Stadtmuseum and HTW, Berlin.

2025 

“Waiting to Exhale” video, as Plant stories program in ZKU, Berlin 

“Error 404: Soil not found” Performance, 36th Bienal de São Paulo as part of Conjugations public program invite Spatial Strategies, KH- Berlin.

2024

“Faded Memory” video installation, Research-based Project, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin.

2022

“Chimeras ii” Photographic project in collaboration whit Felipe Vasquez, SIM residency, Iceland. 

AWARDS & GRANTS:

2026

DAAD STIBET

DAAD PROMOS-Movility

2th Prize Hosek Contemporary.

2025

Mart Stam/Deutschlandstipendium

Costume Designer :

Theater :

2025

“After Hope” by Anton Kats, costume designer, Sophiensæle Berlin.

2024

“Bau Auf Bau Ab”, costume assistant, Humboldtforum, Berlin.

2023

“Barocco”, by Kirill Serebrennikov, costume assistant, Thalia Theater, Hamburg.

2020

“Coda” by Felipe Vasquez, costume designer , Beaux Arts de Paris.

Dance:

2022

“Decolonycities” Windhoek – Hamburg “ By Yolanda Gutierrez.,costume designer, Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Hamburg.

“Afroconfusionist“ by Israel Akpan Sundays, costume designer, Sprechwerk, Hamburg.

2013

“The rite of spring” by Delfos contemporary dance company, costume assistant, Palacio de Bellas Arte, Mexico.

Film:

2016

“Machinery Panamerican” by Joaquín del Paso, Berlinale Talents, Mexico.

2015

“The chosen ones” by David Pablos,  Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes, Mexico.