Rocio Naval (also Maria Rocio Mercedes Naval) is a Filipino-German visual artist, curator, researcher, and community organiser based in Amsterdam. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in European Art History from the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg with a minor in English Literature, and is currently completing a Research Master’s in Art and Performance at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and a Master’s in Monstrous Futurities at the Sandberg Instituut, where her artistic and research practice centres queer and decolonial themes spanning collaborative workshops, performances, and autoethnographic essay writing. Rocio is an active member of balik/bayan NL, a group of Filipinos in the diaspora united by the goal of critically exploring Filipino history and heritage, as well as engaging with the interconnectedness of current issues in the Philippines and the Netherlands. She speaks English, German, Spanish, and Tagalog, and is currently learning Dutch and Catalan.

(current) Contributing Writer “Vibrant Piña Textiles: Revealing Relationality and Queer Entanglement” Objects in Distress ed. Dr. Artun Ozguner published by Bloomsbury Publishing UK - (current) Book Illustrator “DEIN Zyklus, DEIN Wissen: Mestruation, Hormone, und Selbstfürsorge. Ein praktisches Handbuch.” by Leonie Janowicz and Donata Nehm published by Tredition - Volunteer Fiber Festival 2025 Best Kept Secret 2025 - Illustrator “In Harmonie mit dem Zyklus: Die Relevanz des Wissens über den Menstruationszyklus” by Leonie Janowicz published in Zeitschrift für Physiotherapeuten April 2025 - Curator “Let Us Cook” Spring Is In The Air Festival Concertgebouw Brugge - Contributing Speaker “Inside-Outside” Longtable Sounds Now Symposium Bridging Institutional and Grassroots Practices STUK Leuven - Organiser “But what about us fishers? / Paano na kaming mga mandaragat?” by Mia Tengco Stichting MOIRA Utrecht - Keynote Speaker “Vibant Piña Textiles: Revealing Relationality and Queer Entanglement” Objects In Distress convened by Design History Society London - Production Intern “PEARLS” by Joshua Serafin Caravan Production Brussels - Keynote Speaker “Vibant Piña Textiles: Revealing Relationality and Queer Entanglement” (Un)Common Grounds: Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Everyday Materialities Universiteit van Amsterdam supported by ARCHON Amsterdam - Organiser “Decolonising Spaces: What Is To Be Done?” round table with Sandew Hira, Annemarie de Wildt, ROTS, Kenza Badi Universiteit van Amsterdam - Cover Illustrator “Desgraciada ¿Mala suerte o violencia estructural?” by Rocío Moya published by Ediciones Camelot - Contributing Writer “Reclaiming Pre-Colonial Queer Narratives in Contemporary Filipinx Art Practice: Observations from the Diaspora” Neighbourhood Magazine - Workshop Facilitator Cooking with Queer Youth gut so. Mannheim - Representative Speaker “At the Intersection of Race and Menstrual Health” Festival Contre Le Racisme 2023 Heidelberg - Co-Curator & Graphic Designer “Homecoming” (extension of “***starchildren queer to stay”) Queeres Zentrum Mannheim in cooperation with zeitraumexit e.V. Mannheim (as Maria Rocio Mercedes Naval) - 8M Workshop Facilitator “KAPWA: community, collectivism, and FLINTA* identities in pre-colonial Philippines” Intersektionales Feministisches Kollektiv Heidelberg - Co-Curator “***starchildren queer to stay” zeitraumexit e.V. Mannheim (as Maria Rocio Mercedes Naval) - Contributing Artist “Blickwechsel!” with Matilda Randighieri Kulturamt Heidelberg - Assistant Art Curator “Pagkilala at Pagtitiwala” Tawid Gallery Cavite - Illustrator “Poesie per pettirossi e altre creature minute” by Matilda Randighieri published by Incontri Editrice - Artist Untitled solo exhibition Flying Bean Coffee Valencia - Contributing Writer “Our Tent” Raumspinnerin Magazin Nr 1 Heidelberg - Artist “Raumspinnerin” Drunter&Drüber online festival Haus am Wehrsteg Heidelberg - Founder & Affiliate Director I Support The Girls Germany Heidelberg - Executive Vice President Art van Demon e.V. Heidelberg - Artist Group exhibition “Relapse-Rupture-Resemblance” Eurocampus Parañaque - Artist “On The Lapse of Man” land art Sta. Fe Beach Club Bantayan Island

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