WORKS

about

Sebastian Díaz de León (he/him), born in Mexico City, now lives in Berlin, where he engages in a spatial practice that intersects architecture, film, and photography. He explores existing structures to envision a socially and climate-just future, addressing contemporary spatial challenges. As part of the collective ufoufo, he co-edited the book "VISITING - Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller" (2022) and contributed to the accompanying exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Kassel, and Zürich. Recent projects from the collective include ABRISSSTOP! (2023), which opposes building demolitions, and IVRY-AFFAIRES (2023), a video installation highlighting the stories of Ivry-sur-Seine's inhabitants. Currently, he teaches architectural design at Universität der Künste Berlin.

contact

email
sdiazdeleon

ufoufo.eu
ufoufo

andersurania.org
andersurania


screenings
2024

IVRY–AFFAIRES at group exhibition Under Pressure, Adalbertstr 9 Berlin

Ghostly Tracks, at festival of well beeing, Mäusebunker Berlin

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! at hallo kiosk hamburg
2023

IMAGE DE VILLE Festival,carte blanche,Aix en Provence

CONTAMINATIONS, at Climate Care Festival, Floating University, Berlin

IVRY–AFFAIRES at Haus der Statistik, Berlin

IVRY–AFFAIRES at Centre Jeanne- Hachette Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! - at Spektakel auf der Autobahn, own your city - urbane praxis woche, Berlin

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht!at Delphi Space, Freiburg

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! at Kurfürstenstr Berlin

exhibitions
2024

Under Pressure, group exhibition at Adalbertstr 9 Berlin

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, at Architekturforum Zürich

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! at Profitopolis,
Museum der Dinge, Berlin

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller at Kunsthochschule Kassel

2023

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller at freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg

ABRISSSTOP/Down with Demolition protest fest, performance, Film screening, Kurfürstenstr. Berlin

2022

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller at DAZ Berlin

2020

Les Gonflables at KUNST RAUM STADT Univeristät der Künste berlin
2019

Oberweissbacher Lichterfest at making futures

lectures/talks
2024
Lecture and Discussion at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) on Invitation of Anne Lacaton, Madrid (ESP)
curators talk at architekturforum zürich

curators talk at Kunsthochschule Kassel
2023

Guest lecture at UdK Berlin, on invitation by summacumfemma

curators talk at freie akademie der künste hamburg

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Talk at IEB, TU Braunschweig, Prof. Dan Schürch
2022

curators talk at DAZ

residencies/fundings
2023

Goethe Institut - visual arts project fund

Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis

publications

Visiting Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller,
Berlin 1966-89.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Franz und Walther König


press

arte twist 29.09.2024

nextroom.at 01/2024: ufo ufo - Initiative gegen Abriss 

DBZ 02/2023: “Gebauten Raum erforschen“ 

Baunetz Campus: ”Einige Fragen an“

BauNetz.de, 07.12.2023: Substanzielles Umdenken ︎︎︎

Taz, 28.11.2023: Abrisspläne in der City West

Bauwelt,  24.2023: Endlich umdenken!︎︎︎

BauNetz.de , 20.11.2023: Allianz gegen Abrisse︎︎︎

Tagesspiegel, 16.11.2023: Abriss an der Urania

Berliner Kurier,  16.11. 2023: Streit um Abriss

Berliner Zeitung, 16.11.2023: Umstrittener Abriss

Deutschlandfunk Kultur,  12.11.2023: “Petition gegen
Abriß an der Urania Berlin” ︎︎︎

nd, 9.11.2023: “Kahlschlag in Berlin”

taz, 23.02.2023: Rettet die West Platten↗

Tagesspiegel 22.02.2023: Kunst gegen Abriss↗

rbb abendschau, 10.04.2023: Umweltschonender Stadtumbau gefordert↗

art in berlin, 03.03.2023: Monopoly goes real↗

dérive N° 87 (Apr - Juni / 2022): »Wir sind die
Architekten für die Situationen, wo die Sonne von unten scheint.« ↗

Tagesspiegel, 04.03.2023: Verdichter der Großstadt↗

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 09.04.2022: Ganz furchtbar überlegt

taz, 12.07.2022: Werkübersicht des Architekten-Duo Baller

monopol magazin, 16.06.2023: Architekten Inken und Hinrich Baller











Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht!
2023
with ufoufo (Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Florine Schüschke & Lena Löhnert)
2-Channel Video Installation
7:46 minStill functioning buildings are frequently subject to demolition, to be replaced by more profitable, denser structures. Buildings from the 1970s are particularly affected. Their disappearance from the cityscape was our call to action to produce this experimental short film against demolitions: A truck driver is preparing to drive over porcelain cups, the administration worker that has to permit the demolition is loosing control, all the while the investors play bowling. Screened first onto the façade of the building An der Urania 4-10 in Berlin, at that time prepared to be demolished, and accompanied by a performance demonstration against the demolition, the short film was subsequently shown on different façades of buildings on the edge of being demolished.


Shown at Image de Ville Festival Aix en Provence, Delphi Space Freiburg, HALLO KIOSK, HAMBURG, as part of the exhibition Profitopolis - Museum der Dinge Berlin.





First Screening at the about to be demolishid Building an der Urania 4–10, Berlin
Screening at Delphi Space, Freiburg
Screening at Spektakel auf der Autobahn, BerlinSc
IMAGE DE VILLE Festival, Aix en Provence, France
Screening at hallo Kiosk, Hamburg

Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht! is part of the exhibition “Profitopolis”, Museum der Dinge, Berlin

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