Notes related to Mexico

The Mexican Cultural Institute in Spain hosts the group exhibition En el interior del cielo, a show that gathers some of the most prestigious Mexican artists from the collection of Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras.

The exhibition Alfredo Castañeda, painter of poetry at Casa de América offers a journey through the Mexican artist's work from a more poetic point of view. In this way, Castañeda's paintings are shown accompanied by his poems, where a dialogue is generated between the artist's two vocations.

The CAC Malaga hosts Milagro, the first solo exhibition in a museum of Mario Ayala (Los Angeles, USA, 1991), son of a Mexican-American mother and Cuban immigrant father, whose production reflects his personal experiences and artistic concerns of the world of garages, truck drivers and mechanics of Fontana.

Ofrenda is the first large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Tania Candiani in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. It is curated by Emiliano Valdés.

Standing before the expressive forcefulness of Mexican-American Robert Nava (East Chicago, USA, 1985) can be risky. At first glance, the primitivism in the technique used in his canvases is shocking in the conversion of the strength of the stroke and the basics of the gesture into a language that agglutinates a brute force. Perhaps for that reason, the usual tendency of those who face his work is to quickly pigeonhole it out of the academic, out of that refinement that is presupposed -although less and less- to those who fill the room of a museum, to let themselves be carried away by the urgency of expression in front of that pretended good taste.

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art presents the tour of Enrique Bostelmann: Apertures and Borderscapes. The exhibition will be available from June 18 to December 15, 2024.

Leonora Carrington’s painting "Les Distractions de Dagobert" (1945), valued between $12 to $18 million, is generating considerable excitement as it heads to auction at Sotheby's this May. Having been in an American collection since 1995, its upcoming sale not only reflects the escalating market demand for Carrington's pieces but also underscores the rising interest in female Surrealist artists.

El Museo del Barrio presented the exhibition Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, the first retrospective exhibition by the pioneering artist, curator, and theorist. Born in 1943 to a Mexican immigrant family, Mesa-Bains has been a leading figure in Chicanx art for nearly half a century.

To Live Forever (For a While) is the exhibition at JUMEX featuring the work of iconic British artist Damien Hirst. The exhibition will offer a complete overview of the artist's work between 1986 and 2019, with 57 works including installations, sculptures and paintings.

Fuego Amigo, Pía Camil's exhibition at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), proposes a story without beginning, in a circular form. It is curated by Mauricio Marcin.

For the second consecutive year, the Ama Amoedo Foundation and Casa Wabi Foundation in alliance launched an open call for artists from Argentina to carry out a six-week residency in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Deadline to apply: May 2, 2024.

War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture is the exhibition of Beatriz Gonzalez at MUAC (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo), which reviews the artist's work. It is curated by Cuahtémoc Medina and Natalia Gutiérrez.

The team of the General Directorate of Visual Arts and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo of the UNAM appointed Tatiana Cuevas Guevara, curator and art historian, as the next director of the MUAC.

Magali Lara: Interior Landscapes is the artist’s exhibition at The James B. Duke House, together with the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and ISLAA.

Carlos Rosales-Silva is the Spring 2024’s Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Luce dietro tracce incompiute is the textile installation by Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball, whose monumental dimensions welcome visitors to the heart of the Museo delle Culture di Milano (MUDEC).

Featuring works by 67 national and international artists, Everything Becomes Lighter is a thematic exploration in keeping with the current times. The exhibition at JUMEX considers the healing power of light and lightness as an antidote to the forces of darkness and heaviness that surround humanity today.

Magdalena Fernández's Mobile Body Paintings arrived at the Clavijero Cultural Center, in Morelia, to breathe with the Mexican public.

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Locust Projects presents Waterbirds: Migratory Sound Flow, by Mexican artist Tania Candiani.

The Museo de Arte Moderno de México (MAM) presents the exhibition Oswaldo Vigas: Looking Inward, which explores, 100 years after the birth of the visual artist, fundamental works of his prolific career, as well as his intellectual interests. The work of Oswaldo Vigas will dialogue with other Venezuelan, Latin American and European creators of the time.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey presented the exhibition Corn & Industry, which brings together a vast selection of Damián Ortega’s work over the last thirty years, presenting a comprehensive portrait of his artistic production that showcases how his work engages in a dialogue with the construction of a “national culture".

Museo Jumex will celebrate its 10th anniversary after a decade of exhibitions and public programs that have established it as an important contemporary art institution in Mexico.

SFER IK Museion, an interdisciplinary creative sphere by AZULIK with locations in Tulum and Uh May, launches the SFER IK AWARD, a new award for artists to create using artificial intelligence.

The Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto Mississauga presented GUT_BRAIN, an exhibition series inspired by the primary movements of the digestive system: ingestion, propulsion, mechanical breakdown, chemical digestion, absorption, and elimination.

Mexican artist Sergio Hernández presented an exhibition at the Colegio de San Idefondo with 143 works. It is the most important and complete exhibition so far, which includes unpublished pieces.

The Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato presents the artist Pablo Vargas Lugo in Exceso solar (Solar Excess). It is curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.

¡Qué viva el papeleo! (Long live paperwork!) is Amalia Pica's exhibition at the Museo Jumex that deals with office culture and focuses on finding pleasure and the potential for playing within the tedious processes of paperwork.

The Tzitzimime Trilogy consists of three films: Versos de porquería (2021), Soneto de alimañas (2022), and Eclipse (2023) premiering at Casa Encendida.

Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami Struggle is the first major international retrospective at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) dedicated to the long collaboration between Brazilian artist and activist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami people.

Aranya Art Center presented the first museum exhibition in China by Gabriel Kuri, the Mexican-born and Brussels-based artist. The exhibition assembles nearly thirty works made between 1999-2023.