Día de Muertos en Ocotepec/Morelos
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| free admission |
| German, Spanish |
| Accessible for wheelchairs |
| Foyer |
| Belongs to: Fiesta de Día de Muertos |
The photo exhibition The Feast of the Dead in Ocotepec is 40 years old and shows how Mexican families in a village in central Mexico celebrate the return of their dead on All Souls’ Day until today. The families await their guests with a lavishly decorated altar, and many regions of Mexico have developed their own traditions. In Ocotepec, for example, the reclining dead man is erected. His head consists of a sugar skull, his clothes are stuffed with sweet dead bread.
Photographer Mario Vázquez
born in Mexico, has lived in Berlin for over 30 years and works as an actor, visual artist and photographer.
He is the initiator of the Mexican Festival of the Dead in Berlin, a founding member of Calaca e. V. and was the artistic director of the Mexican Festival of the Dead for many years.
He trained as an actor at the Escuela Nacional Mascarones in Mexico and was a member of the ensemble for 13 years. As an actor he was involved in all productions of Calaca e. V. As a director, he staged, among others, the music and shadow theatre Franziska and Death and Journey to Mictlán.