Exhibitions in Mexico City
August 2026
August 2026 at a glance: 3 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 21 more were on view across the city.
Opened in August
La historia de cómo sentarse. Variaciones del asiento en México1 AugMuseo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
"The history of how to sit": 20th- and 21st-century chairs from MUAC's design collection trace a cultural genealogy of seating in Mexico.
Tamayo, Nieto, Toledo. Los años en París20 AugMuseo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
"The Paris Years": Oaxacan artists Rufino Tamayo, Rodolfo Nieto and Francisco Toledo, whose Paris stays fused pre-Hispanic and popular art with the avant-garde.
Tonos y sombras26 AugMuseo Nacional de Antropología · Free
"Tones and Shadows": 46 paintings by Afro-Mexican artist Baltazar Castellano Melo on the beliefs, dances and fishing life of Guerrero's Costa Chica. First-floor gallery; free.
Was on view in August
- México ante el mundo: 1930, año del primer Campeonato Mundial de Fútbolto 26 Sept
Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec
"Mexico facing the world": around 200 period costumes and furnishings from the museum's holdings portray Mexico in 1930, year of the first World Cup, plus panels of a 1924 Roberto Montenegro stained-glass window.
- ¡Y esto vivimos!to 26 Sept
Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec
Over 130 front pages and photographs from the sports daily Esto recall how Mexico lived the 1970 and 1986 men's World Cups and the 1971 women's tournament.
AztLÁn, túnel del tiempoto 27 SeptMuseo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
"Aztlán, Time Tunnel": the palace's first big survey of Chicano art, with 70+ works by 33 mostly Los Angeles-based artists and collectives. Final days.
Tamayo Horizontesto 27 SeptMuseo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
Late-career paintings by Rufino Tamayo, portraits, landscapes, nudes and still lifes such as Sandías (1968), from the founding collection and private lenders.
Tim Hecker. Wastelandsto 27 SeptMuseo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
A MUAC-commissioned sound piece in the Espacio de Experimentación Sonora blending ambient noise with field recordings from devastated US ecosystems.
El juego de pelota en Tenochtitlanto 30 SeptMuseo del Templo Mayor
The Mexica ballgame: 100+ finds from Tenochtitlan's main ball court, stone rings and player figures, plus two 3,700-year-old Olmec rubber balls from El Manatí.
Oficios de la tinta: Ali Kazmato 4 OctMuseo Franz Mayer
Crafts of Ink: video works by Turkish artist Ali Kazma on the creative process of writing, featuring Alberto Manguel and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.
World Press Photo 2026 + El Archivoto 4 OctMuseo Franz Mayer
World Press Photo's 70th-anniversary show in the cloister: this year's winners plus the most emblematic prize-winning images of seven decades of photojournalism.
Con todo y mi tristeza. Fátima Rodrigoto 4 OctMuseo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
Peruvian artist Fátima Rodrigo builds a walk-on stage from Latin American TV music-show and game-show sets, and the modernist styles they spread.
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[Des]ordenar la colección desde el géneroto 11 OctMuseo Nacional de San Carlos
"(Dis)ordering the Collection through Gender": paintings, sculpture and prints from the collection reread for the nude, women in religious art, power and violence.
Ante el eclipse. Arqueologías del arte en Méxicoto 18 OctMuseo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
"Before the Eclipse": 60+ artists who explored Mexico's pre-Hispanic past, land and popular culture between 1981 and 1991.
Marysole Wörner Baz. Redenciones marginalesto 25 OctMuseo de Arte Moderno
90th-anniversary survey of Marysole Wörner Baz: six decades of painting, prints and sculpture that redeem the discarded and silenced. Sala Gamboa.
Biodiseño Mx. Territorios vivosto 25 OctMuseo Franz Mayer
Mexico's first biodesign exhibition: emerging designers working with living systems to show design that is conscious of the interdependence of all living beings.
El imaginario del cuerpo heroico y sus avataresto 25 OctMuseo Nacional de San Carlos
"The Heroic Body and Its Avatars": artworks, teaching casts, imagery and audiovisual media critically tracing the Western classical ideal of the (male) body.
Studio Evolución. Diseño y vanguardia en la casa de Frida Kahloto 1 NovMuseo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo
Design and the avant-garde in Frida Kahlo's home: Bauhaus-style furniture by Gastón Chaussat's Studio Evolución, which Kahlo kept, with objects, models and photos.
Desde el umbralto 11 DecMuseo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
"From the Threshold": artists, collectives and activists challenge the political split between nature and humanity, lending the natural world sentience and spirit.
Museo Tamayo. Arquitectura y cosmotécnicato 3 JanMuseo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
The museum's own brutalist building by González de León and Zabludovsky, read through Yuk Hui's idea of "cosmotechnics", for its 45th anniversary.
La vida de las cosas. Naturaleza muerta y cultura materialto 10 JanMuseo Nacional de San Carlos
"The Life of Things": some 140 still lifes, sculptures, photos and objects from the 16th to 21st centuries, reread through material culture and the biography of objects.
México: ruta y destinoto 14 FebMuseo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)
"Mexico: Route and Destination" traces how painters, photographers, maps and tourist posters built Mexico's image as a travel destination in the early 20th century.
Alemania en la Colección Franz Mayerto 6 JunMuseo Franz Mayer
Germany in the Franz Mayer Collection: for the museum's 40th anniversary, a selection of ~300 German pieces its founder gathered, from writing cabinets to silver and rare books.
Durero: El primer artista viralto 6 JunMuseo Franz Mayer
Dürer: The First Viral Artist. The museum's 36 Dürer prints recast him as the first global image-maker, with interactive technology for a fresh look at the Renaissance.
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