Cristina Maldonado is a Mexican intermedia artist based in Prague (CZ) and
Querétaro (MX) working in the fields of immersive art, participatory and relational
art, video-performance, performative writing, pop-up schools and found dramaturgy.

For the last two decades, she has been working independently directing,
performing, mentoring and leading workshops and collaborations.

Mediation, uncharted human relationships and death are constants in her work.

She uses devised theater and dialogical methodologies to create sensorial,
social and meditative experiments, and she is researching how to bring art
further into the process of creating collective knowledge.

Cristina is an Associate artist of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic
creation in public space, in the frame of the project (UN)COMMON SPACES,
co-funded by the Creative Europe Program
of the European Union. And member of the Sistema Nacional de
Creadores del Arte, Medios Audiovisuales Experimentales Mexico 2021-23.

She is the co-founder of play.research.lab– a non-profit that designs and supports
alternative learning formats linking play, education, research, and the arts.