Natalia Orendain del Castillo is a Mexican visual artist, scenographer, and researcher. In her home country, she began her studies in visual arts, specializing in sculpture. With a continuous interest in the performative arts, she pursued further studies in stage and costume design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee.

Since 2012, she has participated in various forms of experimental, documentary, and music theatre productions across Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Prague, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Mexico. She has worked as part of the creative teams of artists such as Hans-Werner Krösinger, Herbert Fritsch, Robert Wilson, Agora Kollektive, and the music theatre duo Kötter/Seidl.

Natalia has presented her own artistic research at events such as the Prague Quadrennial (2015), the Dual Year Mexico/Germany (2017), and during an artistic exchange residency in Lagos, Nigeria, supported by the Goethe-Institut and Galerie Wedding, Berlin.

In 2019, Natalia moved to London to pursue a postgraduate degree at the Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London), while also collaborating as a researcher with Forensic Architecture and the sociology research project Open City (Open, Oxford, Warwick, and West London Universities). Her work as a scenographer has continued with opera productions at venues including The Grange Festival and Glyndebourne (UK), while integrating research-based methodologies into new works in contemporary music theatre with Hannes Seidl/B-Ebene (Frankfurt am Main, 2024) and documentary theatre with Daniel Kötter/RODEN (Berlin, 2025).

Her artistic research focuses on the perception and production of space, sound as a generator of spatial experience, and the performativity of everyday life. She works with immersive, installative, and participatory formats to explore audience experience. Her recent projects concentrate on communication systems as performative situations, and incorporate concepts of navigation and situational awareness as production techniques.