Bernardo Sandoval
Artist and designer profoundly devoted to arts and culture management. As a florist he is passionate about making graceful arrangements and installations.
Being a restless spirit, he is always working on the materialization of eccentric ideas.
He has also curated different cultural projects such as exhibitions, concerts and editorials.
His main aim is to create and foment beauty in a sustainable way and to collaborate with other creatively spirited people.
Based in Mexico
Bucolic Fall Banquet
Flower and fruit installations
Inspired by nature, especially flowers and still life representations.
“I like to explore my surroundings and use the available local resources from where I am working”
Aesthetics as poetry
Selected projects
2020
N U N T I U S exhibition. Curator of a ceramics and textiles exhibition at Víctor Esquivel Studio in Yucatan, Mexico (September).
Botanical history and cartography of Luis Barragán’s Casa Ortega Gardens. Promoter of the project in collaboration with the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at UNAM, Mexico City (in development since 2019).
2019
Workshops in Costume Design (Andrey Bartenev, A Triadic Ball) and Food Design (Katharina Unger, Beyond Food) at the Domaine de Boisbuchet Cultural Centre, France.
Director, writer and actor of Nardo, a short film produced in Lessac, France.
Notas en Solsticio. Promoter of a classical music concert at Luis Barragán’s Casa Ortega Gardens, with musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra of México.
2018
Coordinator and curator of “Plural como el tiempo”: 75th anniversary exhibition of El Colegio Nacional at Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico City (June – September).
2016
Uk’ux: hummingbird heart. Founder of a social business focused on fabrication of handmade notebooks designed and developed in collaboration with refugees from Central and South America (2016 – 2018).
2014
Conscienté. Founder and coordinator of a social business of regional herbal teas, developed alongside students of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 2014, with women of the rural communities of Actopan Hidalgo, México. The project is ongoing..
2013
Founder and Editor in Chief of La B. Café, a virtual cultural blog and magazine, since 2013.
