Lucila Pacheco Dehne

Lucila Pacheco Dehne (1994, Berlin, DE/CO) lives and works between Amsterdam and Berlin. She studied Fine Arts at HBK Braunschweig (2015–2021) and completed her MA in Planetary Poetics at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2025.

Pacheco Dehne works through a sculptural and installation-based practice, investigating themes such as intercultural resistance, identity, and the environment. Her practice also extends to lectures, performances, cooking sessions, and workshops.

Currently she is working on two series 'Companions' and 'Roots Are Tongues That Speak a Million Angry Languages'. Companions is a series of different pairs of shoes, each serving as a companion or representative of emotional, physical, or personal traits. These pairs act as border-crossers between the human, the social, and the natural, while asserting the presence of an entire body.

In Roots Are Tongues That Speak a Million Angry Languages, Pacheco Dehne explores the journeys of plants such as maize, tomato, and mugwort, which arrived in Europe through colonization, trade, and violence. Some became staple crops, while others were labeled “invasive” or banned for their use in contraception and abortion. The work consists of six sculptural plant bodies, serving as monuments to migration and resistance.