Exhibitions in Mexico City
September 2026
September at a glance: 8 exhibitions opening, 6 closing, and 18 more on view across the city.
Opening in September
Julian Rosefeldt. Manifesto5 SeptMuseo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
A 13-channel film installation re-staging artists' manifestos, from Futurism and Dada to Fluxus and Dogma 95, to question the artist's role today.
Minia Biabiany. Nuestras escuchas5 SeptMuseo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
"Our Listenings": Guadeloupean artist Minia Biabiany explores the colonial legacy of chlordecone poisoning and ways of listening to land and water.
Alexandre Estrela. RedSkyFalls: Réplica12 SeptMuseo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
Luminous "sentinels" animated by animal movements react in real time to seismic signals from around the world, echoing folk earthquake-warning lore.
Entretejidas | Mextrópoli, 13o. Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad17 SeptAntiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
Exhibition ("Interwoven") presented with Mextrópoli, Mexico City's 13th Festival of Architecture and the City, on view at San Ildefonso through early December.
El Códice de Azcatitlan17 SeptMuseo Nacional de Antropología
The Codex Azcatitlan, on loan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, returns after nearly two centuries: the Mexica migration from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan, with codex facsimiles.
River Rouge — Yeni Mao19 SeptMuseo Anahuacalli
Yeni Mao's bronze and metal sculptures and architectural interventions link Ford's River Rouge plant, which shaped Rivera's Detroit murals, to the Anahuacalli's volcanic stone.
El evento de un hilo. Narrativas globales en los textiles25 SeptMuseo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
"The Event of a Thread": 16 contemporary artists on the stories woven into textiles, an ifa touring show joined by 10 textile works from the Tamayo collection.
Richard Prince: Cuéntamelo todo26 SeptMuseo Jumex · Free
"Tell Me Everything": Richard Prince's first major Latin American show, 140+ works from the 1970s on, including his Cowboys, Girlfriends, Jokes and Cartoons series.
Closing in September
- México ante el mundo: 1930, año del primer Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol26 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!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 tiempo27 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 Horizontes27 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. Wastelands27 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 Tenochtitlan30 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.
Also on through September
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.
La historia de cómo sentarse. Variaciones del asiento en Méxicoto 11 OctMuseo 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.
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.
Tonos y sombrasto 8 NovMuseo 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.
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.
Tamayo, Nieto, Toledo. Los años en Parísto 15 FebMuseo 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.
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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