Fall–winter program

Upcoming exhibitions

Jonathas de Andrade: Visions of the Nordeste
October 3–November 12, 2017
Level -1 gallery

Museo Jumex presents Jonathas de Andrade: Visões do Nordeste (Visions of the Nordeste), the artist’s first solo presentation in Mexico. Through his practice de Andrade examines issues of class and race embedded in Brazilian society and culture. Featuring three of his most recent works, Visões do Nordeste presents the videos O Peixe (The Fish, 2016) and O Caseiro (The Housekeeper, 2016), and ABC da Cana (ABC of Sugarcane, 2014), the exhibition hinges around de Andrade’s continued focus on his native region, the Brazilian northeast, known as the Nordeste, and the presence of Gilberto Freyre’s thought in his most recent body of work.

Exhibition organized by Julieta González, Artistic Director, and María Emilia Fernández, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.

Pablo Helguera & Yevgeniy Fiks: Bronstein Opticians
October 17–November 5, 2017

Óptica Bronstein (Bronstein Opticians) will be presented between October 17–November 5, 2017, at the Museo Casa León Trotsky, as part of Pablo Helguera’s anthological time-based exhibition Dramatis Personæ. Óptica Bronstein, takes the form of an optometrist’s office where visitors can undergo a series of rather particular eye examinations that test their observation skills as well as their political and ideological vision, encouraging them to examine how we read, interpret and manipulate history, and to consider the impact of these operations on current politics.

Exhibition organized by Julieta González, Artistic Director, and Ixel Rión, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.

Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión
October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018
Level 1 & 2 galleries

Museo Jumex presents La levadura y el anfitrión (The Yeasts and The Host) the first exhibition in Mexico by French artist Philippe Parreno. For this exhibition, the artist presents an expanded proposal over two floors. Combinations of new, existing and re-edited works are overlaid to produce different realities and experiences in an ever-changing composition.

At the nucleus of the exhibition, on the second floor of the museum, is the control center. Here a bioreactor breeds yeast connected to a computer that remembers the program of a past exhibition (Anywhen, Parreno’s Tate Modern Hyundai Commission 2016 in London). These living colonies are now exposed to a new context and are reacting to it. The dynamic systems trigger the order of appearances of events in the gallery space such as the projection of a film or the sound and light movements that reverberate throughout the building. By turning control of the show over to natural systems, Parreno’s work explores the realm between the human mind—the host that choreographs the exhibition and other spectral forms of intelligent or emergent matter and activity.

Exhibition organized by Museo Jumex. Ixel Rión, Curatorial Assistant, and Begoña Hano, Exhibitions Coordinator.

Learning to Read with John Baldessari
November 11, 2017–April 8, 2018
Level 3 gallery

Aprendiendo a leer con John Baldessari (Learning to Read with John Baldessari) will feature more than 80 works including early instruction paintings and his iconic photo-collages, as well as videos, sculptures, text-based works and editions from a career spanning more than half a century. The survey draws on the artist’s practice of addressing pedagogic themes of instruction, the class, and judgment that appear in his work from the 1960s to the present. The dichotomy between learning and unlearning in Baldessari’s own playful and idiosyncratic method is revealed through this survey of his work, hung from A-Z—a subverted didactic that displays the tension between text and image. Each section of the exhibition looks at interpretation from a different perspective, alluding to the lessons the artist’s work conveys, and the impossible task of "reading" John Baldessari.

Exhibition organized by Kit Hammonds, Curator, and Gabriel Villalobos, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.

Cadu: I am Mandala
November 23, 2017–January 7, 2018
Level -1 gallery

Soy Mandala (I am Mandala) is a collaborative project developed by Brazilian artist Cadu, during his residency at Casa Gallina in Mexico City. One of Fundación Jumex's strategic partners, Casa Gallina aims to activate processes of community participation in the neighborhood of Santa Maria La Ribera in Mexico City. Soy Mandala is the result of a long-term engagement between the artist, a dance group of senior women, and a knitting collective from the community, who explore together through this collaboration, issues of identity, gender, and spirituality.

Exhibition organized by Gabriel Villalobos, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.

Ana Gallardo: School Of Aging
November 20–December 9, 2017
Plaza

Under the title Escuela de envejecer (School of Aging) Ana Gallardo presents a series of workshops and performances in the public space, developed in collaboration with seniors. The project looks at what happens after productivity at work has come to an end, and elderly people discover and learn new ways of employing their time. Gallardo’s project is part of Museo Jumex’s ongoing program for the plaza, Agora: A Blueprint for Utopia, through which the museum commissions and presents works that explore social dynamics in the public sphere through participation and performative strategies. Previous presentations of the Agora program were, Rirkrit Tiravanija: UFO (Universal Fantastic Occupation) in 2015–16, and Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation. Superpowers of Ten. 

Organized by: Catalina Lozano, Associate Curator, and María Emilia Fernández, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.