Category: Exhibitions
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Sweet Junkie
Exposition name: Sweet Junkie
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Psychotropical Apothecary (Pharmakon)
Exposition name: Psychotropical Apothecary (Pharmakon)
Type: Different art spaces
Date: 2020
Description: Mobile and permanent installation that brings together tinctures, micro-dosing practices, and live performance in an experiential and participatory format. Since its inception in 2020, it has been presented in various art spaces, inviting more than 3,000 participants—99.9% of whom have reported positive effects. This ongoing project offers a curated selection of plant-based preparations designed to heal the body, expand consciousness, and support neuro-hacking. Drawing from ancestral herbal knowledge and contemporary experimentation, the apothecary includes tinctures and extracts of Calea zacatechichi (the “herb of dreams,” used to induce vivid dreaming and activate the pineal gland), Psilocybe cubensis Mexicana (San Isidro mushrooms, known for boosting serotonin. -
Reciclotropical
Exposition name: Reciclotropical
Location: Residencia Art Project, Playa del Carmen
Type: Installations and sculptures.
Material: Dyed cotton in vapor and fabrics with the plants.
Date: Mar 2021
Description: Site specific process collecting plants and garbage, I also decided not to produce any residues. -
Entreminas Garden
Exposition name: Entreminas Garden
Location: Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Curator: Mauricio Marcin
Date: 2021
Description: A garden donated from my mini milpa and terrace collection was installed inside the museum exhibition, creating a living, interactive space. Visitors were invited to participate by exchanging plants and seeds, and by caring for a diverse selection of over 30 species—including passionflowers (Passifloras), Brugmansias, aloe, sugar cane, and more—transforming the exhibition into a communal act of cultivation, reciprocity, and shared stewardship. -
Pharmakon: Earth Upside Down – Psicotropicalia Maya
Exposition name: Pharmakon: Earth Upside Down – Psicotropicalia Maya
Location: Izamal, Yucatán. México
Institution: JUMEX Museum Extrawalls,
Curator: Kit Hammonds
Other artists: Lorena Ancona, Galia Eibenschutz & Erika Torres, Calixto Ramírez, Rafiki Sánchez.
Date: Abr 2022
Description: Cotton fabrics dyed in vapor with medicinal plants found in Izamal and Mérida Dragon’s blood, achiote, chaya, ricino, muicle, achiote, bugamvilia, Jamaica, tronadora, tobacco, chicalote, damiana, tepezcohuite. Nine meters by seven meters by three meters.
Related external articles:
– Proyecto en Izamal, La tierra al revés. By Fundación Jumex
https://www.fundacionjumex.org/es/exposiciones/242-proyecto-en-izamal-la-tierra-al-reves
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Pharmakon: Pharmakos
Exposition name: Pharmakon: Pharmakos
Location: Pereira Museum, Colombia
Date: Abr 2023
Description: Hosted at the Museo de Arte de Pereira—an institution dedicated to the promotion, education, and conservation of visual arts and cultural heritage—Pharmakon: Pharmakos explored the tension between cure and poison, delving into ancestral knowledge, ritual practices, and the symbolic use of plants. The exhibition formed part of Cristina Ochoa’s ongoing research into the political, spiritual, and ecological dimensions of psychoactive substances.
Related external articles:
– Museo de Arte de Pereira, Colombia:
https://museu.ms/museum/details/16876/museo-de-arte-de-pereira
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Seeds Oracles
Exposition name: Seeds Oracle
Location: Tamayo Museum, México City
Date: 2022
Description: Cristina Ochoa presents an oracle crafted from corn and colorín seeds, drawing on ancient Mayan divination techniques and blending them with contemporary digital oracles commonly found online. Rather than simply displaying archival material or creating a new standalone piece, the artist merges and reinterprets two culturally distinct sources of symbolic knowledge—ancestral and digital—that have both played a vital role in her practice.
In parallel, she showcases photographs of seed capsules created during a recent residency in Tulum, which were later buried as part of a ceremonial seed consecration led by a Mayan elder. These images serve as the foundation for a personal and visual seed bank that Ochoa will continue to develop over time. As the seeds begin to germinate, she will expand the project with additional documentation and data, reflecting a layered process that encompasses natural growth alongside genetic, cultural, social, and spiritual dimensions.
Related external articles:
– The Backroom: Cristina Ochoa. By
https://www.museotamayo.org/thebackroom/cristina-ochoa -
Pharmakon – Actions at a distance
Exposition name: Pharmakon – Actions at a distance
Location: Jumex Museum, Mexico City
Date: FEB – MAR 2022
Curator: Kit Hammonds
Other artists: Lorena Ancona, Oscar Cueto, Galia Eibenschutz, Calixto Ramírez, Rafiki Sánchez.
Description: More than an installation, it is a sanctuary of biodiversity, a vegetal pharmacy, a trans-disciplinary learning space, and a site for ancestral memory and ecological regeneration. Functioning as a temporal portal, the garden invites us to learn from Indigenous cosmogonies and reimagine collective futures in harmony with the rhythms of nature. It embodies ancestral technologies as tools for reconnection with the sacred. The garden is inhabited by diverse life forms—plants, fungi, lichens, pollinators, insects, birds, and reptiles. -
The Hearth of the Forest
PHOTO: UNAM, 2023
Exposition name: The Heart of the Forest
Location: Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Date: Until September 2023
Description: Pharmakon explores the blurred boundaries between cure and poison, medicine and drug. Through a vibrant collection of more than 50 entheogenic plant specimens gathered from urban sidewalks across Colombia and Mexico—mounted on colorful papers—and a series of drawings and paintings, the work opens a critical dialogue around pharmacology, ancestral herbalism, and the political and spiritual dimensions of substances. Conceived as an experimental laboratory, the project reclaims Indigenous and popular knowledge systems, positioning the vegetal world as a site of healing, resistance, and psychotropical hope.
Related external articles:
– Cristina Ochoa: El corazón del monte
https://fdr.at/en/project/die-zukunft-beginnt-heute/
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Pharmakon: Street Herbaries
PHOTO: PHARMAKON AT SOMERS GALLERY 2023 LONDON
Exposition name: Pharmakon: Street Herbaries
Location: Multiple: London, Vienna, Mexico City, Barcelona…
Date: 2023
Description: Pharmakon explores the blurred boundaries between cure and poison, medicine and drug. Through a vibrant collection of more than 50 entheogenic plant specimens gathered from urban sidewalks across Colombia and Mexico—mounted on colorful papers—and a series of drawings and paintings, the work opens a critical dialogue around pharmacology, ancestral herbalism, and the political and spiritual dimensions of substances. Conceived as an experimental laboratory, the project reclaims Indigenous and popular knowledge systems, positioning the vegetal world as a site of healing, resistance, and psychotropical hope.