The Uqbar Foundation was initiated by artists Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball in 2006. It aims to generate a platform for interdisciplinary practice and discussion, creating a dialogue among artists, scientists, and institutions, and developing new ways of collaboration with different areas of knowledge, individuals and institutions such as museums, universities, archives and libraries. Recent projects include Philosophical transactions at the historical observatory in Cordoba, Argentina; A for Alibi, a long term project in the collection of scientific at the University Museum in Utrecht, including an exhibition at De Appel in Amsterdam and a publication; and participation in the Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge in Istanbul, curated by Jennifer Teets and Anselm Franke.
Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman are the project leaders of the 2007-2008 Piet Zwart Institute thematic project On Storytelling.

Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico) is an artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam, and member of Uqbar. Recent exhibitions include The last piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Paris (2007); Estas ruinas que ves, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F (2006); 10 Defining Experiments, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (2006); Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam (2006); 9th Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius, (2006); Prix de Rome, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2004); Interlude: the reader’s traces, National Library, Paris, the Public Library, New York and the National Library, Berlin (2003). Her bibliography includes These Ruins you see (2007); A for Alibi, Uqbar foundation/Sternberg press (2007); How William Blake Saved Documenta, A prior Magazine (2007); Backwards Speaker, Artlies (2007); Chance, Intelligence, and Humor: An Interview with Gianluigi Buffon’, Cabinet, Issue 19 (2005); Interlude: The Reader’s Traces, Jan van Eyck Academie/Revolver (2005); and Never odd or Even, Marres/Revolver (2005).

Irene Kopelman (Argentina) is an artist based in Amsterdam, and member of Uqbar. Recent exhibitions include Logicas Desviadas, 713 Gallery, Buenos Aires (2007); Levity, The Drawing Center, New York (2007); Alguns Libres d’Artista, Roma Publications, Projecte SD, Barcelona (2007); Longitude, Fumus Fugiens, Smart project space, Amsterdam (2006), Hydra, PSWR (Public Space with a Roof), Amsterdam (2006). Her bibliography includes ‘Logicas Desviadas’, process 06, AVAM (2006), ‘Territories’, Documents II, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2005), ‘Reconstructing Time’, Artis Geological Museum, Roma publications (2005), and ‘Prix the Rome’, Signs/Graph, 010 Publishers (2004); and Three Interventions in a Public Space Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Roma Publications (2005).