Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303
Mexico City 11529
Mexico
Julie Mehretu: Everywhen
March 20–August 15, 2027
The first solo museum exhibition of American artist Julie Mehretu in Latin America, EveryWhen features a new body of work alongside pieces from the artist’s practice over the past 20 years. One of the most significant and acclaimed visual artists of the 21st century, Mehretu employs print, spray-paint, and gestural painting techniques. Her meticulously-constructed and densely-layered canvases unite references to present geo-political movements with prehistoric art, afro-futurism, and the immediacy of the painting itself. Exploring these temporal and embodied poetics, EveryWhen speaks to how the past continues to haunt the present and to the compression of time and space that is at the heart of Mehretu’s oeuvre.
The exhibition is curated by Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator, Museo Jumex. An accompanying catalogue, published in collaboration with Rizzoli Electa, features new writing inspired by Mehretu’s practice by Kit Hammonds, Brenda Lozano, and Jayna Brown.
La tierra se levanta
March 31–May 30, 2027
La tierra se levanta [The Land Rises] is a group exhibition featuring the work of José Luis Arroyo-Robles, Tania Bello, Brenda Virginia Castro Rascón, Miguel Cinta Robles, Perla Mata Chairez, and Guadalupe Alonso Vidal. The artists’ practices engage with geographies and landscapes outside of Mexico City. The exhibition emphasizes land as both a material and a heritage associated with the transmission of knowledge and techniques related to various forms of labor, such as metal casting, clay preparation, fiber weaving, cotton picking, and planting. The phrase "the land rises" signifies not only the agency within matter but also its alchemical transformation through processes like melting metal, plowing soil, creating fibers from veins, and transforming metallurgical residues into pigments.
Curated by Rosela del Bosque, Associate Curator, and Adriana Flores, Curatorial Assitant, Museo Jumex.
Picasso-Matisse-Klee: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen
April 17–August 22, 2027
In the Berggruen Museum’s first presentation of its collection in Latin America, paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Paul Klee are presented alongside works by other masters of modern art, including Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, and Henri Laurens. Organized around the themes of still life, portraiture, the human figure, and landscape, the exhibition traces the evolution of modern art in Europe. Works by Diego Rivera, on loan from Mexican collections, highlight the artist's involvement in the emergence of Cubism in Paris and establish a connection between European modernism and Mexican art history.
The exhibition is co-curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Natalie Zimmer, Curator of the Museum Berggruen; and Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator, Museo Jumex.
Alia Farid: Sin perfumes no hay paraíso
June 10–September 5, 2027
For her first exhibition in Mexico, Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid explores transnational ties through sculpture and film and by expanding on her long-term research on Arab and South Asian migration to Latin America and the Caribbean. The exhibition is centered on a new commission; a film installation that explores the presence of Arab communities and imagery in Mexico. From Beirut to Guadalajara and Quintana Roo, the exhibition looks at how the atmosphere of one geography is preserved inside another. An accompanying exhibition of rare books and printed matter culled from various official and unofficial archives will be installed in the lower level gallery.
Curated by Rosela del Bosque, Associate Curator, Museo Jumex.
Maurizio Cattelan: Paz amor muerte
September 29, 2027–February 20, 2028
Paz amor muerte traces central motifs in the artist’s practice, including animals, death, portraiture, and belief, with his typical playfulness and humor. The museum-wide retrospective includes more than 50 works from the mid-90s to recent pieces installed in the galleries and around the museum.
Curated by Francesco Bonami.
