Felipe Castelblanco (Bogotá, b. 1985) is a Basel-based multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and filmmaker working at the intersection of participatory art, film, and eco-social practice. His work explores institutional forms, creates platforms for inter-epistemic dialogue, ventures out into new frontiers of publicness, and engages unlikely audiences in remote places. Felipe earned a Ph.D. from the Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria) and the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, and holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (USA).
Founder of the Para-Site School (2011-2021), and co-initiator of the non-profit Co-Space, and Tierra de Agua nature reserve in Colombia. His current research explores human and vegetal alliances as a path toward biocultural peace-building through participatory art and film in the Andean-Amazon region. He is a recent Postdoctoral artistic researcher with the SNF Project Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant (2022-2025) hosted at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. Currently a lecturer for the MA Transversal Design with the Critical Media Lab at IXDM at HGK Basel FHNW.
Reverse Making:
Workshop as part of KUNST KANN at Museum Tingely. November 20th, Basel CH.
Una Academia Porosa (Conference input).
Universidad Autónoma, Madrid 14 – 16. December, 2026
Recent Shows:
“What If”
Features:
Screening + Artist Talk IMPAKT Festival: Techno-Ancestrality
April 9 – 10, 2026. Utrecht, NL
