Marcela Moraga examines the tensions of a binary nature/culture order in her textile projects, drawings, videos, performances, and stories. With the help of multimedia practices, she questions the different socialization of nature in various colonial and geographical contexts. Her artistic research focuses particularly on human communities, animals, rivers, mountains, and plants communities that resist the dispossession of extractive practices of the past and present.
Through speculative narrative structures, fictional methods, indigenous knowledge, and collective work, Moraga develops new narratives that allow for the reunion of lives, bodies, and ecosystems that were once disintegrated, as well as connections between the human and the non-human, and the reconstruction of ways of life that are now mestizo, hybrid, or contaminated.
Marcela Moraga was born in San Fernando, Chile, she studied for a Bachelor and Magister of Visual Arts degree at the Universidad de Chile, then completed a postgraduate degree in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Hamburg, followed by a Master’s degree «Art in Context» at the University of Berlin.
Her work has been shown at Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin (2025, DE), Pavillon am Milchhof (2025, DE), Museo Palacio Pereira (2024/25, CL), Haus am Lützowplatz (2024, DE), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2022/23, DE), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022, DE) and others. The latest art residencies where she has been invited are: 2025 Anatomia Publica at TA T (Tieranatomische Theater/ Animal Anatomy Theater) Berlin, 2024 Connect Chile, at the astronomical observatories of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and at Arts at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023 H Residency in Calama, Chile and 2019 Villa Romana residency, Florence.
Marcela Moraga also has extensive experience as a multiplier of knowledge and artistic practices amongst young people and adults. She has designed a series of artistic workshops where she transmits themes of ecology, conscious consumption, and environmental justice. The artist is an accredited instructor in Germany for the global citizenship education program.
