Summer exhibitions
Museo Jumex
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303
Ampliación Granada, 11529
Mexico City
From June 27 through October 25, 2015, Museo Jumex will present three diverse projects: a micro-exhibition of the work of Jerzy Grotowski, a theatre director who greatly influenced contemporary performance practices; an exhibition that draws from the Colección Jumex; and a comprehensive exhibition of the artist, activist and ecologist Gustav Metzger.
Passersby: Jerzy Grotowski
27 June–12 July 2015
Passersby: Jerzy Grotowski explores the experimental theatre work of Polish director Jerzy Grotowski (1933–99), who in his travels through Mexico influenced the dramatic arts while exploring new methodologies and approaches to theatre, integrating anthropology, ritual and “spatial movements.”
Grotowski came to Mexico in 1981 and 1985, following in the footsteps of Antonin Artaud. During his travels he was influenced by different cultural practices such as Haitian Voodoo, yoga and Huichol rituals, and assembled a group of followers who keep his technique alive today.
The exhibition is the first in Museo Jumex’s Passersby (Pasajeros) series that presents biographical micro-exhibitions underlining the importance of foreigners passing through Mexico who have been influential in the development of the national artistic discourse.
Series curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy & Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio.
Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni
11 July–4 October 2015
Presenting more than one hundred works from the Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni explores several approaches to curating that help us understand the choices implicit in forming and activating an art collection. In addition to participating in the curatorial selection for the exhibition, artists Bernadette Corporation, Nicolas Ceccaldi and Peter Wächtler were commissioned to create a work for the presentation inspired by works from the collection.
The artists represented in the exhibition include Bas Jan Ader, Carlos Amorales, Joseph Beuys, Monica Bonvicini, Stefan Brüggemann, Jeff Burton, Anne Collier, Jose Dávila, Moyra Davey, Carroll Dunham, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Cerith Wyn Evans, Claire Fontaine, Garea, Gelitin, Liam Gillick, Felix González Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Dennis Hopper, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Gabriel Kuri, Abigail Lane, Gonzalo Lebrija, Jesús León, Robert Longo, Sarah Lucas, David Lynch, John McCraken, Sarah Morris, Ugo Mulas, Luis Felipe Ortega, Jorge Pardo, Liliana Porter, Richard Prince, Tobias Rehberger, Daniela Rossell, Thomas Ruff, Alan Saret, Hedi Slimane, Dash Snow, Mungo Thomson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luis Emilio Valdés Rodríguez and John Waters, among others.
Curated by Nicolas Ceccaldi, Fernando Mesta, Eva Svennung, Bernadette Van-Huy, Susana Vargas and Peter Wächtler
We Must Become Idealists or Die. Gustav Metzger
18 July–25 October 2015
The first solo exhibition in Mexico of the work of influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger, We Must Become Idealists or Die. Gustav Metzger features works from 1959 to the present. Cornerstones of the exhibition include his manifestos from 1959 to 1969, the Destruction in Art Symposium of 1966 and his Three Years Without Art 1977–1980. These projects are a fundamental starting point for introducing the artist’s concerns with urgent issues including social inequality, nuclear weapons and environmental degradation. In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum will present a symposium on extinction on October 3.
Curated by Daniela Pérez
