Roberto Arámbula

(Guadalajara, 1980)

Also known as La Bestia, Roberto Arámbula is a visual artist whose practice includes oil painting, installation, and performative action. His work does not aim to represent the world as it is but to deconstruct, confront, and reveal its complexity.

Based in Hamburg, he has developed a critical body of work around themes such as migration, the aesthetics of control, consumer fetishism, and systemic violence. His alter ego — La Bestia — serves as a symbol of transit, collective body, and resistance, inspired by the Central American migrant train and expanded into a metaphor for humanity in motion.

In projects like Dollar of Ignorance (G20, Hamburg, 2017), his practice transcends art’s traditional boundaries to disrupt the public sphere, generating tensions between image, politics, and power.

Currently, his work is undergoing a subtle but radical transformation. Without abandoning the critical edge of his early work, Arámbula turns his gaze toward a deeper dimension: the energetic and the spiritual. Light and darkness cease to be opposites and become complementary forces within a universal balance.

From this new perspective, art not only highlights the fractures of the present but also opens the possibility for integrative consciousness. His work invites viewers to an inner process of reflection where aesthetics become a tool for awakening.