25th anniversary celebration

Today, March 3, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, founded by philanthropist and visionary Eugenio López Alonso. The nonprofit organization was established with the aim of creating new opportunities and resources for contemporary art and artists in Mexico and beyond.

Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo was formed in 2001 to coincide with the first public presentation of Colección Jumex at Galería Jumex, a 15,000-square-foot space housed within Grupo Jumex’s facilities in Ecatepec. Since then, Fundación Jumex has operated as a private, non-profit institution that supports curators and artists, many of whom are now part of the national and international contemporary art scene. In 2013, the Foundation established Museo Jumex in Mexico City, an internationally recognized contemporary art museum. 

Over the past two and a half decades, Fundación Jumex has achieved global reach through a variety of initiatives. Scholarships and sponsorships further expand the organization’s impact in the field of contemporary art. Its scholarship program provides financial aid to master’s and doctoral candidates in visual arts and related fields in Mexico and abroad, while its sponsorships support individuals, collectives, and institutions committed to the production, research, and dissemination of contemporary art. To date, the Foundation has provided more than 212 scholarships and 271 sponsorships. 

The Foundation’s public programming includes workshops, tours, courses, panels, conferences, performances, and artist-led projects, now serving 5,000 participants annually. The Foundation has also produced numerous publications, such as exhibition catalogues, artist books, and scholarly titles, and has collaborated with leading cultural organizations worldwide.

Since the museum opened in 2013, Fundación Jumex has presented nearly 150 exhibitions and welcomed approximately 4 million visitors. Notable exhibitions include: Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort (2025), Gabriel Orozco: Politécnico Nacional (2025); Damien Hirst: To Live Forever (For A While) (2024); Gego: Measuring Infinity (2023); Gabriel Kuri: Forecast (2023); Minerva Cuevas: Game Over (2022); Lari Pittman: Lo Que Se Ve, Se Pregunta (2022); Leo Marz: The Ancient Incident (2021); Sofía Táboas: Thermal Range (2021); Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even (2019); Andy Warhol: Dark Star (2017); Calder: Discipline of the Dance (2015); and Cy Twombly: Paradise (2014). Other series of significant exhibitions include those drawn from Colección Jumex, which has more than 3,300 contemporary works from the middle of the 20th century to today, making it one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in Latin America.

Monumental artworks installed on the museum’s public plaza have included Urs Fischer’s Lovers (2022), Gonzalo Lebrija’s Breve Historia del Tiempo (Brief History of Time) (2020), and Jeff Koons’s Seated Ballerina (2019). Projects such as Fritz Haeg & Nils Norman: Proposals for a Plaza; Rirkrit Tiravanija: UFO (Universal Fantastic Occupation), and Michael Lin: Mariposa B1-09 have provided space for public interaction and participation.

Fundación Jumex also offers the public a comprehensive library dedicated to the study and research of the history and theory of modern and contemporary art in Mexico. It currently has more than 8,500 titles, including specialized art periodicals, catalogues of group exhibitions held in Mexico and abroad, monographic books, as well as projects and studies on museography and curatorship.