If you happen to be in town for Mexico City Art Week, make sure to visit these leading art spaces and revelatory exhibitions on view. “Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional” lights up Museo Jumex in the visionary’s much-anticipated, first museum presentation in Mexico since 2006. For her momentous, second solo presentation with kurimanzutto in Mexico City, Seoul and Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang voyages into the depths of abstraction by juxtaposing multi-dimensional pieces with archival creations by skillful Mexican artisans. Read on for more.
“Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional”
Museo Jumex
Polanco
Installation view of the exhibition “Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional.” Museo
Jumex, 2025. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López (GLR Estudio).
Commencing on February 1, “Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional” will light up Museo Jumex in the visionary’s much-anticipated, first museum presentation in Mexico since 2006. The illustrious Mexican creative showcases here 300 captivating objects which will ebb and flow throughout four floors as well as a spirited public plaza. The expansive show confronts the very definition of art, focusing on the diverse creative processes utilized by Orozco that have only flourished throughout his majestic career.
“Thinking about Orozco’s multiple ‘technics,’ isn’t just a matter of thinking about whether he uses traditional artistic techniques like carving or casting, glazing or impasto,” said Curator Briony Fer. “Rather, it’s to ask how he uses tools of rotation and symmetry, amongst other modus operandi—that is, other ways of working—in order to create new relations and correspondences between things. In the process, he unsettles what we think we know about the world.”
Why we love it: Every floor of “Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional” takes a closer look at the artist’s transcendent ethos, and is not organized by time but by a parade of explorations into the intimate relationship between art and life.
Gabriel Orozco at Museo Jumex
February 1, 2025 – August 3, 2025
Haegue Yang: “Arcane Abstractions”
kurimanzutto
San Miguel Chapultepec
Installation view of Haegue Yang “Arcane Abstractions,” 2025, courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
For her momentous, second solo presentation with kurimanzutto in Mexico City, Seoul and Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang voyages into the depths of abstraction by juxtaposing multi-dimensional pieces with archival creations by skillful Mexican artisans. Shining light on the beauty of local materials, the show unfolds as a ritualistic thoroughfare within a rapturous, architectural arrangement.
Why we love it: Highlights include Mesmerizing Votive Pagoda Lanterns enhanced by prismatic light and flowers, as well as woven ceremonial sculptures energized by the ropes of Japanese shimenawa and the Korean geumjul which signal sacred objects and areas.
Haegue Yang at kurimanzutto
February 8 – April 5, 2025
Yann Gerstberger: “2 Feet in 1 Bucket of Ice”
OMR
Colonia Roma Norte
Yann Gerstberger, “Automatic,” 2025,
Collages assembled from mixed fabrics, glued onto tarpaulin and augmented with oil pastels,
110 1/4 x 94 1/2 in,
280 x 240 cm; Courtesy of the artist and OMR, Mexico City. Photos by Davis Gerber © 2025.
In the midst of a celebratory Mexico City art week, artist Yann Gerstberger unveils “2 Feet in 1 Bucket of Ice,” an energetic solo show at OMR. In a deft continuation of the visionary’s “ICE NEWS & FREEWAY FETISHES” presentation at OMR during 2019, this new exhibition offers a kaleidoscope of paintings and tapestries fused together in revelatory fashion. Gerstberger masterfully glues hand-dyed cotton fibers onto his canvases, creating hypnotic planes and textures.
Why we love it: Invoking Mexican pop culture motifs, art historical themes, as well as elements of the natural environment, Gerstberger invents his own cutting-edge form of contemporary craftsmanship.
Yann Gerstberger at OMR
February 4 – April 5, 2025
“Capítulo VII: Shifting Grounds”
LagoAlgo
Chapultepec Park
Julian Charrière, “Midnight Zone”, 2024,
Installation View, Baja California Sur;
Copyright the artist; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany,
Photos by Adil Schindler.
During a buzzing week, LagoAlgo raises the curtain on a highlight of its spring 2025 program: “Capítulo VII: Shifting Grounds.” The sweeping group presentation focuses our attention on the critical theme of visible and invisible cycles of displacement. Grounded by a seven-week long endeavor titled “The Symposium of Expanded Painting and Speculative Fictions,” expertly conceived by Ad Minoliti and seven forward-thinking artists, visitors will embark upon an experiential installation and mural, as well as revelatory works of fabric and painting.
“From colonialist conceptions of nature disguised as beauty, to questioning what makes up a region’s identity, the worsening climate crises, voluntary blindness by humankind to our self-imposed catastrophes, and time that ticks as a warning; we have gathered a group of some of today’s most innovative thinkers who through their artist practices allow visitors to join them in their quest to tackle some of our most pressing issues,” said Carolina Alvarez-Mathies, Artistic Director of LagoAlgo. “Thus, art becomes a catalyst for significant social change through collective action. Simultaneously, it confronts us as individuals around the way we impact the environment that surrounds us.”
Why we love it: The dynamic exhibition contemplates our profound impact on Mother Nature, economic structures, and more, with visionaries like Alicja Kwade, Elmgreen & Dragset, Julius von Bismarck, Ho Tzu Nyen, and more.
“Capítulo VII: Shifting Grounds” at LagoAlgo
February 7 – June 1, 2025
Noé Martínez: “The Shadow of the Mountain Has Tattoos”
Proyectos Monclova
Polanco
Noé Martínez, “Calmecayo, Xantolo 2023,” 2024,
Oil on copper plaque, reclaimed antique crystals,
and silver chain, framed in american walnut wood.
Framed dimensions:
9.06 x 7.48 x 1.57 in,
23 x 19 x 4 cm,
Plaque dimensions:
7.09 x 5.51 in,
18 x 14 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Proyectos Monclova. Photo by Ramiro Chaves.
Noé Martínez, “Razones minerales 2,” 2024,
Oil on copper plaque, reclaimed antique crystals,
and silver chain, framed in american walnut wood.
Framed dimensions:
9.06 x 7.48 x 1.57 in,
23 x 19 x 4 cm,
Plaque dimensions:
7.09 x 5.51 in,
18 x 14 cm; Courtesy of the artist and Proyectos Monclova. Photo by Ramiro Chaves.
Mexican artist Noé Martínez revels in an inaugural solo presentation at Proyectos Monclova with “The Shadow of the Mountain Has Tattoos.” A gem of Art Week, the vibrant exhibition voyages through the complex, colonial past of Mexico with unflinching artistry and humanity. The horrors of human trafficking and slavery meet with an intricate narrative on the Gulf of Mexico, a place which closely links to the visionary’s ancestry.
Why we love it: Fusing evidence from compelling historical documents with the artist’s soaring imagination, multi-faceted oil paintings, ceramics, sculptures, and more, become universal modes of hope and healing.
Noé Martínez at Proyectos Monclova
February 4 – March 1, 2025
Magali Lara: “Robar lo que me pertenece”
Galería RGR
San Miguel Chapultepec
Installation view of Magali Lara’s “Robar lo que me pertenece,” Courtesy of the artist and Galería RGR.
Artist Magali Lara debuts an inaugural solo exhibition with the esteemed Galería RGR: “Robar lo que me pertenece.” Translated to “Steal what belongs to me,” the mesmeric show, curated by Art Director Gabriela Rangel, traverses decades of artistry by the innovative Mexican creative. Works on display beckon viewers into a visual symphony of drawing and painting, delving deeply into the many shades of femininity, sexuality, and maternity. Honest investigations into the realms of love and death play out in powerful abstract works.
Why we love it: Meticulously curated, a variety of collages, gouaches, oil paintings, as well as artist books and a textile, illuminate diverse eras of Lara’s immersive and sincere artistry.
Magali Lara at Galería RGR
February 5 – March 29, 2025
“MASA x Luhring Augustine Vol. 2”
MASA
San Miguel Chapultepec
Installation view of “MASA x Luhring Augustine Vol. 2” at MASA. Photos by Gerardo Linda & Eduardo Lopez (GLR Studio).
In a vivid, second collaboration, groundbreaking art spaces MASA and Luhring Augustine offer a group exhibition which brings together visionaries from each gallery’s impressive roster. Within the immersive and historic MASA gallery, “MASA x Luhring Augustine Vol. 2” unites perceptive artist pairings: Pipilotti Rist with Alma Allen; Eva LeWitt alongside Hector Esrawe; and Diego Singh with Renata Petersen. A riveting, global conversation takes place between diverse mediums and mindsets.
Why we love it: Rist and Allen take on extra-sensory perception and dream landscapes, LeWitt and Esrawe speak deftly through ethereal and architectural installations, while Singh and Petersen reveal the limitless qualities of painting and blown glass.
“MASA x Luhring Augustine Vol. 2” at MASA
February 5- March 29, 2025
Salah Elmur: “The Land of the Sun”
Mariane Ibrahim
Cuauhtemoc
Salah Elmur, “The Yellow Wall,” 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
At the radiant Mariane Ibrahim in Mexico City, artist Salah Elmur brings spellbinding paintings which reach back to childhood moments spent on the banks of the Nile and the Sudan of Khartoum. Titled “The Land of the Sun,” the arduous colonial histories of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt—places which also follow the trajectory of Elmur’s life path—are unearthed in surreal works of art. Protagonists in the form of fisherman, laborers, and peasants, live and breathe anew in the artist’s earth-toned explorations.
Why we love it: On February 4, Mariane Ibrahim invites visitors of Mexico City Art week to join in a celebratory pop-up at the gallery from 4-6 pm, hosted in vivacious partnership with Phaidon and Monacelli.
Salah Elmur at Mariane Ibrahim
February 4 – May 3, 2025
