Coming up in Mexico City
October 2026
October at a glance: 3 exhibitions opening, 9 closing, and 17 more on view across the city.
Permanent guide to October 2026 →
Opening in October
Álvaro Urbano: Helen16 OctMuseo Jumex · Free
Álvaro Urbano's immersive homage to Helen Fowler O'Gorman and her botanical world, evoking Juan O'Gorman's Casa Cueva in the Pedregal de San Ángel.
Raúl Silva: Gateway16 OctMuseo Jumex · Free
Peruvian artist Raúl Silva's first Mexican solo show: video, archives, painting and sculpture on undersea telecom cables and the rise of Cancún tourism.
Mockups before fuckups. Maquetas, prototipos y el oficio del diseño16 OctMuseo Franz Mayer
Models, prototypes and the craft of design: how error and correction drive design. Opens the new Design and Process gallery and Living Design Library.
Closing in October
Oficios de la tinta: Ali Kazma4 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 Archivo4 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 Rodrigo4 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.
![[Des]ordenar la colección desde el género exhibition image](https://stjzqvtsmrdsnxjcolnn.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/martin-and-lewis/registry/exhibitions/406666faecd3417e9c3418453d9487b5.webp?width=96&quality=75)
[Des]ordenar la colección desde el género11 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 México11 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 México18 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 marginales25 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 vivos25 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 avatares25 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.
Also on through October
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.
Alexandre Estrela. RedSkyFalls: Réplicato 22 NovMuseo 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 Ciudadto 6 DecAntiguo 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 Azcatitlanto 6 DecMuseo 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.
Julian Rosefeldt. Manifestoto 6 DecMuseo 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.
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.
River Rouge — Yeni Maoto 3 JanMuseo 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 textilesto 3 JanMuseo 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.
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.
Richard Prince: Cuéntamelo todoto 7 FebMuseo 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.
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.
Minia Biabiany. Nuestras escuchasto 14 FebMuseo 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.
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.
Opening in December 2026
Stay in the loop on Mexico City
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.