NAMo
Natali Aguirre Montaña


Art+Design
Projects ++
  1. Portal to Jaguarity
  2. Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala
  3. Wet Matter
  4. The Dust under the bed
  5. Don’t call me water, call me Teresa
  6. The Real and the Magical
  7. Rethinking Conquest: And Anti-Amazon Conversation
  8. Tracing the 735-kilometres
  9. Kitchen Series
  10. This Cookbook is Alive
  11. Abigarrada Borderland

    Explorations++
    1. Mycelium+Corn

    Architecture+SpatialDesign
    Spatial Design++
    1. Soils’ Exhibition
    2. DAE Final Exam
    3. ALTA Pasticceria
    4. PitStop Cafe & Pub 
    5. Bakery Kiosk
    6. Enseres Showroom

    Architecture ++
    1. SER Sustanible Living
    2. La Esperanza Home
    3. El Volador Home
    4. Otás Home
    5. Santa Marta Home
    6. CADN Childhood Center
    7. Gibraltar Velodrome


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    Portfolio++


    Info++
    Natali Aguirre Montaña is a Rotterdam-based designer and artist working across disciplines. With a background in architecture, spatial design, and interior design, her interdisciplinary practice bridges research, decolonial and feminist theory, and material exploration. Trained in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, her work ranges from tufting to bioplastics, from ceramics to photography, and from textiles to spatial installations.

    Her work has been exhibited at the Van Abbemuseum with the project ‘Portal to Jaguarity’ (2024), and at Alcova Milano 2026 with the installation ‘The Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala’.

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    2. Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala



     From  Milan Design Week ‘26 - Alcova Milano 2026

    Photos by  @marica_de_michele 
    @designacademyeindhoven INFRAMEZZO Exhibition


     ‘The Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala’ is an invitation to pause, reflect, and inhabit the decolonial potential of everyday acts of care. Inspired by woman-headed households in Colombia, where food preparation and sales often become acts of resistance, designer Natali Aguirre Montaña reframes the domestic not as a lesser or private realm, but as a site of political and cosmic significance.

    Drawing on feminist-decolonial thought, the project threads ancestral knowledge into present awareness through material and metaphorical engagement with corn and textiles. The installation forms an ‘abigarrada’ (layered, contradictory, mestiza) landscape, inhabiting the ‘borderland’ between ancestry and modernity, public and private, male and female. It asserts that food, especially the ‘arepa’, an ancestral corn-based bread, is not only a cultural artefact, but a cosmic connector sustaining lives, identities, and histories in Abya Yala (the decolonial name for the Americas).




     From Final Exam Contextual Design MA - Design Academy Eindhoven

    Photo by Natali Aguirre Montaña

    From Final Exam Contextual Design MA - Design Academy Eindhoven 

    Photos by Mijali Posada & David Hernandez


    EXHIBITIONS

    • The Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala
      Milan Design Week 2026 - Alcova Milano 2026
      Milan, IT

    • The Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala
      Dutch Design Week 2025
      Eindhoven, NL