Wednesday, 20 de September de 2017
13:00

The nine moments of the history of photography are characterized by patrons, collectors, gallery owners and museums. Plantureux reviews the main figures in the preservation of photography, from the first collection of Hamel in 1839, to the development of specialized foundations after World War II.

Wednesday, 20 de September de 2017
14:00

Aldo Solano Rojas, in conversation with Andrés Gutiérrez, around the conciliation between modern Mexican design collecting and the rapport with contemporary interior design. The talk centers on how contemporary design may develop a synergy between actual trends with the objects’ historic relevance.

Wednesday, 20 de September de 2017
16:00

The photobook phenomenon has attracted attention from galleries, museums and art fairs worldwide, as well as from book collectors. Why do photographers see in photobooks the perfect opportunity for promoting their work? What future does the so called "photobooks phenomenon" has? Reverté is the editor-in-chief of Editorial RM (Mexico/Spain). He is also the cofounder of the RM Photobook Award, and the publisher of 'The Latin American Photoobook' and 'New York in Photobooks'.

Wednesday, 20 de September de 2017
17:00

In conversation with Allegra Cordero, independent curator, José Luis Cuevas (Mexico City, 1973) brings forward a series where symbolic resources prevail, based on a story line that suggests humanity’s end from an apocalyptic perspective, having as outcome a flashback to the origins.

Wednesday, 20 de September de 2017
18:00

Unlike many forms of investment, the value of precious stones prevails through centuries. Adriana Gutiérrez, founder of Ag47 Boutique Contemporánea, and Daniela Norinder, jewelry designer, explain the main factors that have established an increase in the value of precious stones throughout time.

Thursday, 21 de September de 2017
13:00

César Saldívar presents his new catalogue, based in the recreation of childhood in Ethiopia, part of the ART FOR CHILDREN project. In dialogue with writer Claudia Marcucceti, Saldívar will review his career and work, which is strongly linked to his constant implication in matters of social interest.

Thursday, 21 de September de 2017
14:00

This talk puts forward a reflective analysis on collecting and its manifestation through the work of Mexican artist Marianna Dellekamp, who has made clear the relevance of collecting and photographic documentation since 2007, leading to a reflection on the work of art’s identity and its transformations in the last years. Alivé Piliado, art historian, is curator at Museo Nacional de Arte.

Thursday, 21 de September de 2017
16:00

Discussion between Alejandro​ ​Robayo​, Founder of Parada 54 and Cecilia​ ​León​ ​de​ ​la Barra​, independent curator, on the distinctive design and elaboration processes that define vintage pieces, and how is authenticity determined by these elements. Further, the talk will focus on the revaluation of certain designers through the years and, specifically, on the most sought out Mexican design pieces since its recent reapparition in the global scene.

Thursday, 21 de September de 2017
17:00

On the 17th Century, great collections called 'Wunderkammer' or "cabinets of curiosities" developed in territories of present-day Germany, France, Belgium and Spain. Dissected animals and vestiges coexisted with other objects of striking nature. Among these objects, works of the most outstanding artists would be found. Villavicencio, museographer and curator at MUNAL, outlines the relevance of the cabinets for the definitions of artistic concept during the first centuries of the Modern Era.

Thursday, 21 de September de 2017
18:00

For Tercerunquinto, photography has been a key tool in the development of the documental processes for their interventions in specific places. Besides graphic arts, video and other objects, this technical and aesthetic resource has moved about the collective's work through different categories. Yvonne Venegas has mainly focused her work in picturing the privileged classes of Mexico, keeping a human perspective that provides the beholder a chance of developing personal opinions.

Friday, 22 de September de 2017
13:00

Dialogue between Deborah​ ​Klochko​, Executive Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego; Daniela​ ​Edburg​, visual artist; Alejandra​ ​Laviada​, visual artist and photographer; Gerardo​ ​Suter​, photographer; and Yvonne​ ​Venegas​, photographer; about the importance of contemporary Mexican photography behind MOPA's exhibition Point/Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography, 2000-2015, on view from September 30, 2017 through February 11, 2018.

Friday, 22 de September de 2017
14:00

Photographer, screenwriter and director, Tyler Shields​ will discuss his creative process, the cameras and editing tools he uses to create his works and the highlights of his career, among which is his recent photoshoot of Kathy Griffin holding a beheaded prop of Donald Trump’s head.

Friday, 22 de September de 2017
16:00

Hans​ ​Musielik​, photographer and independent photojournalist, is a contributor at VICE News. Through his lense, he captures the actors that have already been both visibly and invisibly incorporated into the daily life of societies. Carlos​ ​Álvarez​ ​Montero​, photographer, centers his work on the relationship between appearance and the creation of identity, with a particular interest in music as a characteristic axis of specific folklores and cultures.

Friday, 22 de September de 2017
17:00

Starting with the early beginnings of photography, Erica​ ​Overmeer​ –photographer and editor based in Amsterdam and Berlin– talks about the first pictures of architecture, and pictures directly related to an urban context, with critical references and contemporary approaches concerned with architecture and the build environment.

Friday, 22 de September de 2017
18:00

Conversation between Amanda​ ​de​ ​la​ ​Garza​, researcher and Associate Curator at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), and Irving​ ​Domínguez​, curator and visual arts critic, curators of the 17th Photography Biennale.

Saturday, 23 de September de 2017
13:00

Tania​ ​Franco-Klein​, artist; Arturo​ ​Delgado​, founder of Almanaque Fotográfica and Johann Mergenthaler​, curator of ZⓢONAMACO SOLO, discuss the trends of contemporary photography, focusing on the winner series of the UK Sony Photo Awards, included in Lens Culture 2017.

Saturday, 23 de September de 2017
14:00

Eduardo​ ​Limón​, Photography and Fashion editor at Cultura Colectiva, develops a talk on why vintage still images (documental or authorial) are given and received within an analogy of our contemporary aesthetic experiences which, in the artistic disciplines, are able to build different bridges to the account of what and who we are and what has already been left behind.

Saturday, 23 de September de 2017
16:00

Sunday, 24 de September de 2017
12:00

Itala Schmelz Herner, Director of Centro de la Imagen and Elena Navarro Diez, Artistic Director of FOTOMÉXICO, present the FOTOMÉXICO International Photography Festival 2017. Under the title Latitudes, the festival’s program will feature exhibitions by photographers from different continents and countries who aim to explore the geographical, anthropological and disciplinary diversity in present photographic production worldwide and in Mexico.

Sunday, 24 de September de 2017
13:00

Cristina Kahlo presents the exhibition 'Lo concreto', together with Luis Rius, Director of Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera, giving a unique perspective on architecture as subject of photographic investigation, and focuses in a series of buildings that are not explicitly represented, but their presence prevails through photographic framings. The show, currently on view at Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, exhibits 89 works on the dialogue between architecture and light.

Sunday, 24 de September de 2017
16:00

Our perception of the world changes according to the way we look at it. On present day, we conceive the world through images. Photography has become so common to the point that it is a daily mean of communication, a language, but the abilities to read and interpret a photograph in a deeper and critical way are not part of everyday life. Are we developing a universal visual and photographic vocabulary?

Thursday, 23 de August de 2018
13:00

INFRAMUNDO presents 20 photobooks by Latin American photographers, which where produced in the INCUBADORA DE FOTOLIBROS program in 2016 and 2017, that provided authors with the tools to develop their books with the support of international editors, designers and curators. INFRAMUNDO is a project by Hydra, created by Ana Casas Broda, José Luis Lugo and Ramón Pez, who will talk on the intersection of experiences, different narrative tools, hybrid production and collaborative practices.

Thursday, 23 de August de 2018
14:00

Authors of the INFRAMUNDO project will sign their photobooks and greet the audience.

Thursday, 23 de August de 2018
16:00

Vintage photography and the recovery of memory through the narratives of a community, or of what concerns us as individuals, are the starting point of this talk. Eduardo Limón, fashion and photography editor at Cultura Colectiva, proposes an exercise in historical revisionism, not as a strictly academic act, but as an opportunity for appropriation that involves new actions around it.

Thursday, 23 de August de 2018
17:00

While cataloging the negatives of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, the Archive team was struck by an important number of portraits with no dates or names. After a few years, the Archive decided to organize an exhibition requesting help form the public to identify the protagonists. The exhibition was presented at the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía this year, and about 44 characters were identified. With the participation of: Aurelia Álvarez Urbajtel, Jaime Moreno Villarreal, Ana Casas, and José Luis Lugo.

Friday, 24 de August de 2018
13:00

On view at Casa Wabi's Santa María's space, Anodino is an exhibition that features 16 photographs taken between 2010 and 2014, which record a series of sites and objects that refer to the social diaspora and depict abandonment as a phenomenon of time passing. With the participation of Carlos Iván Hernández, artist of the exhibition, Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, curator at Fundación Casa Wabi and Aglae Cortés Zazueta, artist.

Friday, 24 de August de 2018
14:00

Michael Slenske in conversation with Frida Escobedo and Iñaki Bonillas. The talk will focus on the intersections of analogue and contemporary technologies and materials, and how those relate to their practices (via architecture, photography, antiquity, and (art, social, political) history).

Friday, 24 de August de 2018
15:00

Roger E. Stoddard strongly warned about the danger of wishful thinking: “For bibliographers the most disheartening feature of such studies is the nature of the evidence." This conference, developed by Serge Plantureux, centers on lost daguerreotypes and the most famous photographic subject on earth: Abraham Lincoln. The temptation of impatient wishful thinking has misled several collectors, conservators, curators and auctioneers during the past 68 years, transforming the hunt into a mine field.

Friday, 24 de August de 2018
16:00

Conversation between Marcel Feil, Deputy Director, artistic affairs at Foam Amsterdam, and Arturo Delgado, director of Almanaque Fotográfica. The process of creation and establishment of Foam as a photography institution is the starting point to address issues such as institutional collecting, the privatization of art and institutional relations with artists, galleries and fairs.

Friday, 24 de August de 2018
17:00

This year, the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) brought together the works of nineteen Mexican artists in Point / Counterpoint, an exhibition that proposed an exploration of Mexico's political, economic and social changes. In this talk will focus on the process of development of the exhibition, which crafted an important cultural bridge, culminating in a publication. In this talk: Deborah Klochko, Alejandro Castellanos, Gerardo Montiel Klint, and Mauricio Ortiz.

Saturday, 25 de August de 2018
13:00

Please join photographer Todd Hido and Aperture’s Associate Publisher Amelia Lang in conversation. An internationally renowned artist, Hido explores the genre of landscape photography with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective and with a sense of intimacy. Known for photographing suburbia from the outside, he has also entered the interiors of these houses and integrated the human form into his work. This talk will also center on the central role of photobooks in his practice

Saturday, 25 de August de 2018
14:00

Pedro Slim, photographer and collector, in conversation with Deborah Klochko, director of the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), on the current state of photography collecting, with two starting points: the private collector and the institutional collector.

Saturday, 25 de August de 2018
16:00

Sunday, 26 de August de 2018
13:00

The Citibanamex Historical Archive is a memory site that currently guards and disseminates the historical and cultural wealth that remains within the walls of the Palace of the Counts of San Mateo de Valparaíso, which served as the headquarters of the National Bank of Mexico, and the actual location of the archive. A general inventory that describes more than a century of history is preserved. With the participation of: Fernando Corona Torres, coordinator of the Citibanamex Historical Archive.

Sunday, 26 de August de 2018
14:00

Rock, social revolution, art and political analysis become an amazing work that provides the reader with the pleasant, intelligent and analytical narrative of Federico Rubli Kaizer, within an unusual and revealing visual context provided by the photographs of Graciela Iturbide.

Sunday, 26 de August de 2018
16:00

Wednesday, 6 de February de 2019
19:00

The Portable Studio is a neutral territory zone, for communication and connection. This is a radical look at what connects us as individuals rather than divides us within society. Participatory performance that explores communication where ALEXANDMUSHI (Alex Nichols and Mushi Wooseong James) invite people to step into a box from 3-4 minutes to play. Portable Studio examines human connection while allowing people to play in the box and to connect to another person.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
12:00

Gregor Hildebrandt's characteristic media are cassette tape and vinyl, which he collages and assembles into paintings, sculptures and installations that appear minimalist but latent and romantic. Manuel Rocha Iturbide's work uses sound as the main vehicle of expression; as a backbone. Most of these works use different artistic languages that intertwine and interact, giving a temporal dimension to the plastic experience.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
13:00

The talk will focus on how the perception of what “good design” or “valuable design” has changed since the 1950s. Does design need to be expensive or exclusive to be considered valuable? How does the value of design differ from art? What is the value of design exhibitions and how do exhibitions contribute to the practice of design itself? Rob Giampietro is Director of Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Mario Ballesteros is Director and Chief Curator at Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
14:00

The performance consists of Shapiro wearing a mask covered with metal rings from recycled soda cans that resemble punk style chains. Little by little Shapiro goes unfurling the chains on the ground creating a spiral path through which the spectators are invited to enter while mentally repeating an intention and arriving at the center, where the artist waits for them with an object as an offering that serves as a reminder of the intention they imprinted on the road.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
14:00

In conversation with Kiki Mazzucchelli, Pablo León de la Barra will talk about the program he has been developing at MAC Niteroi, in Rio de Janeiro, since the beginning of 2017, and will specifically address performative activation projects of the institution.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
15:00

Glenn D. Lowry, Director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, will discuss MoMA’s ongoing expansion project and will speak with Inés Katzenstein, Curator of Latin American Art, about the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, of which she is Director, and MoMA’s upcoming plans to display Latin American art.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
16:00

Ruba Katrib, main curator of MoMA PS1 (Queens, New York), in conversation with José Esparza Chong Cuy, curator of New Proposals, about the role of the museum curator inside and outside the institution. After working for six years at the SculptureCentre in Queens as adjunct curator, Katrib was appointed curator at MoMa PS1, where she has developed exhibitions of artists such as Julia Phillips and Fernando Palma Rodríguez, showcasing her interest in art that is meaningful and political.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
17:00

Bob Colacello, writer, journalist and former editor of Interview magazine, talks with Eugenio López, President of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, about the legacy of Andy Warhol, whose last major exhibition at the Museo Jumex attracted 300,000 visitors in the summer of 2017.

Thursday, 7 de February de 2019
17:00

Building its concept on the artistic tradition of using the body as a medium in performance art and taking material inspiration from the Latin American tradition of ‘milagros’ (religious charms that depict the different body parts and thus physicalise the connecting between the body and our spiritual beings), We Always Carry Our Body questions the intertwined relationship between the body, the mind and the psyche and whether it’s even possible to think of them as separates.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
12:00

Two of the artists in LIFEWTR's inaugural series for Mexico and Latin America share their experience, emphasizing the process of inspiration, and how a product of mass circulation served to push them to go beyond their own limits and find new horizons in their own works. Participants: Rubén Ortíz-Torres (LIFEWTR artist), Ana Roldán (LIFEWTR artist) and Jose Falconi (LIFEWTR moderator and curator).

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
13:00

José Luis Blondet, Curator of Special Projects at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), in conversation with José Esparza Chong Cuy, curator of New Proposals, about the role of the museum curator inside and outside the institution. The conversation will address the exhibitions Blondet has curated at the museum, including Various Small Fires (2015) and Liz Glynn: The Myth of Singularity (2016); as well as his experience at the SITE biennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
14:00

Alessio Antoniolli, Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network, on cross cultural dialogues in the context of hosting international residencies and commissioning exhibitions at Gasworks. He will present recent projects developed by Osias Yanov (Argentina) and Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa (Guatemala) at the institution.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
14:00

A non-verbal listening practice using the body. A chair is placed in a public space. One person sits down on the chair. The other person communicates by moving and manipulating the sitting person’s body. Once done, the roles are switched and it is the next person’s turn. To know someone requires listening and asking questions. This is a conversation around gender, generational gaps, projection, desire, tension, fantasy and the forbidden using the vehicle of the self and the other.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
15:00

LA-based writer and editor Michael Slenske is the founder of the project space Desert Center | Los Angeles. Angeleno artist Lauren Halsey, whose sculptural installations have been exhibited at numerous museums, is creating an architectural monument in her childhood home of South Central LA. Mexico City’s Frida Escobedo was the youngest architect chosen, in 2018, to design London’s Serpentine Pavilion. The three will discuss how public art is a vehicle for community organization and inclusion.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
16:00

Naomi Beckwith, senior curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in conversation with José Esparza Chong Cuy, curator of New Proposals, on the role of the museum curator inside and outside the institution. Beckwith served on the jury of the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), and has curated exhibitions such as Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen (2018) at MCA Chicago. She is currently developing an exhibition with designer and curator Duro Olowu, setting a dialogue between fashion and art.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
17:00

Laura Lima will talk about the role of performance in her practice, focusing specifically on the project Alfaiataria (tailor shop), held at the Pinacoteca del Estado de São Paulo in 2018. A team of tailors and seamstresses worked day by day throughout the exhibition. All of them produced a collection of costumes made on empty moldings, creating portraits that interpret, from their own knowledge and experiences, the ideas and designs of the artist.

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
19:00

Frank Dufour, professor at the School of arts, technology and emerging communication of the University of Texas at Dallas will comment from a phenomenological perspective the work, at the edge of art and science, of Mexican artists Marcela Armas, Gilberto Esparza and Iván Puig. How such artistic expressions transform our conceptual, intellectual and spiritual worldview? How art changes our experience and knowledge of the world? How art inspires science?

Friday, 8 de February de 2019
19:00

The Khodrdegraphies are a series of actions with acoustic guitars using coal on fabriano paper to realize different frottages on the strings of the instruments. The actions extend to the use of different string instruments (violin, jarana, mandolin, etc.), as well as experimentation with different types of charcoal and inked objects. Musical improvisations generate different graphic results that arise from the dialectic and constant interaction between sound and visuality.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
12:00

This panel will address the legacy of Rubén Ortíz-Torres as an artist in the Mexican scene. In conversation with José Falconi, curator who works in close collaboration with Ortíz-Torres, the panel will show the importance of his work and practice since the mid-1980s to establish a contemporary scene in Mexico and his subsequent work in the border area; as well as delve into the creation of the design for LIFEWTR and what this meant for this work.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
13:00

In reference to the commercial treaty TLACAN that is signed between Canada, United States of America and Mexicos with a small cake that will be offered to the audience. The tasting will highlight the gastro-economic reality that Mexico is beautiful and how much wounded it suffers from the submission to commercial desplants and the free transit of objects generated from the northern hemisphere and with the serious omissions in the fields of ecology, human and labor rights, culture and education.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
13:00

In contrast to the canon received in the 1990s, which recognises artists and works of undeniable relevance and well deserved influence, this project directed by Irene Tsatsos has chosen to open doors, search for and find the lesser-known histories and myths of artists and projects that informed the time, places and diverse practices of artists, the "radical local" moments that affected daily life and art. Participants: Irene Tsatsos and Michelle Fiedler.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
14:00

On its seventh edition, the Tequila 1800 Colección award will be allocated with the aim of promoting emerging talent. The jury is composed by Taiyana Pimentel (Director, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros - La Tallera); Magnolia de la Garza (Curator, Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel); Viviana Kuri (Director, del Museo de Arte de Zapopan); and Boris Hirmas (private collector).

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
15:00

The Portable Studio is a neutral territory zone, for communication and connection. This is a radical look at what connects us as individuals rather than divides us within society. Participatory performance that explores communication where ALEXANDMUSHI (Alex Nichols and Mushi Wooseong James) invite people to step into a box from 3-4 minutes to play. Portable Studio examines human connection while allowing people to play in the box and to connect to another person.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
16:00

There is a global demand for contemporary Asian art, from the United States to Europe and, of course, in Asia. Asian artists are increasing their international presence and receive great attention from international collectors. Participants: Tina Kim, Founder and Director of Tina Kim Gallery; Doryun Chong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of M+ Hong Kong; and Jérôme Neutres, Curator of Exhibitions and Director of Strategy and Development at the Grand Palais. Presented by Tequila 1800

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
17:00

The JSa Arquitectura / promotora Acquisition Award for Young Artists is an initiative established in 2018, with the aim of promoting cultural work in Mexico, the visibility of the economic contribution that the creative class makes to society, and a greater participation of young and emerging talent in the art market. Some of the creators present in the JSa Arquitectura / promotora collection are Troika, Álvaro Verduzco, Tláhuac Mata, Aldo Chaparro, and Osvaldo González.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
17:30

Through projects such as the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, the CONDESAdf hotel, Carlos Monsiváis's library -in collaboration with Francisco Toledo-, Pujol and Criollo restaurants, and the Juan Soriano Museum, Javier Sánchez, founder of JSa Arquitectura, and his partner Aisha Ballesteros, will talk about the challenges involved in cultural infrastructure.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
18:30

Raúl Alfaro Segovia is a specialist in the economics of culture and creativity. Chosen by Coolhunter among the 30 most influential people in creativity in Mexico under 30. Executive Director of the agency Industrias Creativas, he represents creative and cultural services as an economic sector for the Bank of Mexico.

Saturday, 9 de February de 2019
19:00

Lucien Shapiro dressed in a traditional palm rain cape (Carla Fernández collection) wears the mask of the "Marker": a baseball catcher mask transformed into a ceremonial object with feathers, quartz and stoppers. On the right hand, he carries a sharpening tool created by himself that he uses to make specific marks on clay, in the style of Japanese calligraphy, by creating works of art from a tool that is itself a work of art.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
12:00

Héctor Esrawe's work is a forward movement, his action in design feeds on the dynamics that surround him. Industrial and furniture design, interior design and even architecture are not objects isolated from the dynamics that define the contemporary world. The book presents a selection of Esrawe Studio projects in which we can appreciate the context, processes and working environments, as well as the cultural connections generated by this creative space.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
13:00

There is an established type of knowledge, which is the one proposed from the power and the hegemonic culture. For Oral Narrator, Gallardo proposes a space for an action in which an older adult woman will narrate, as if it were a story, the CV of Mexican women artists invisible in the history of art. María Cristina Urzaiz Mediz is an Oral Narrator. She is 82 years old.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
13:00

Entering the Historical Archive of the National Bank of Mexico implies facing and appreciating the values that since the beginning of the last century served as an antechamber for the custody of various financial assets -especially coins, bills, checks, bonds, stocks- that were housed by the Central Office of the most significant bank in the history of banking institutions in Mexico. The vault has been a witness of the passing of generations and guards and disseminates cultural wealth.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
14:00

There is an established type of knowledge, which is the one proposed from the power and the hegemonic culture. For Oral Narrator, Gallardo proposes a space for an action in which an older adult woman will narrate, as if it were a story, the CV of Mexican women artists invisible in the history of art. María Cristina Urzaiz Mediz is an Oral Narrator. She is 82 years old.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
15:00

There is an established type of knowledge, which is the one proposed from the power and the hegemonic culture. For Oral Narrator, Gallardo proposes a space for an action in which an older adult woman will narrate, as if it were a story, the CV of Mexican women artists invisible in the history of art. María Cristina Urzaiz Mediz is an Oral Narrator. She is 82 years old.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
15:00

Merging his experimental dimension with a professional know-how, Richard Yasmin incorporates a fresh approach while sticking to culture and traditional aspects, seeking to spread the marriage between tradition and trend. Through this conference, Richard will talk about his beloved city Beirut, how it’s impacting his design and way of thinking. Richard firmly believes that design is a powerful agent of change. Through his storytelling pieces, he wishes to inspire empathy and connection.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
16:00

There is an established type of knowledge, which is the one proposed from the power and the hegemonic culture. For Oral Narrator, Gallardo proposes a space for an action in which an older adult woman will narrate, as if it were a story, the CV of Mexican women artists invisible in the history of art. María Cristina Urzaiz Mediz is an Oral Narrator. She is 82 years old.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
16:00

The talk aims to show the close relationship between current art and that of the past, through the editions of graphic work and photography that have been carried out for almost 30 years by the Friends of the Museum Foundation. Different generations of artists from different disciplines and languages have reflected on the Museum, taking inspiration not only from the works of the great masters, but also from the building that houses them and from those who visit it.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
17:00

There is an established type of knowledge, which is the one proposed from the power and the hegemonic culture. For Oral Narrator, Gallardo proposes a space for an action in which an older adult woman will narrate, as if it were a story, the CV of Mexican women artists invisible in the history of art. María Cristina Urzaiz Mediz is an Oral Narrator. She is 82 years old.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
17:00

On the transforming capacity of public art and the role that popular art can play in it. Brainstorm on how to apply in CDMX the experience of other cities in which Juan Garaizabal, monumental sculptor, has intervened; related to the roots of the Mexican popular art, of which philanthropist Marie Therese Arango, founder and president of the Association of Friends of the Museum of Popular Art, is great passionate. All guided by Sofia Saenz de Santa Maria, curator and director of Proyecto H.

Sunday, 10 de February de 2019
18:00

Urban art intervention that seeks to make visible the art of the periphery in the center, "pericenter". Nezayork explores the socialization and participation of the public and other creatives in the work. Gold is the symbol of utopia, gold is the participation of the public in the construction of the piece, which implies the identity of the participants and their diversity; as an analogy of the community construction of the city of Neza.

Wednesday, 5 de February de 2020
19:00

Merike Estna, performative presence for “Empty vessels, empty eyes”, presented by Anaconda, text by Andrew Berardini, appears at the booth with continuous story unraveling at Karen Huber's booth ZMF11 once every day beginning at 7pm.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
12:00

José Falconi, curator for LIFEWTR® in Mexico, will engage in a dialogue with Victoria Villasana, Mexican textile artist from Guadalajara. Addressing Villasana’s trajectory –which goes from her beginnings working in a flower shop in East London to her return to her native Guadalajara—the conversation will focus on her evolving artistic techniques (which include embroidery and knitting), as well as her aim to always reach new audiences by appealing to unconventional canvases.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
13:00

Zoë Ryan, Chair and Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, speaks with Ana Elena Mallet, curator specializing in Mexican design, about the exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago from Sep 2019 to Jan 2020. The conversation will address the work of designers and artists in Mexico between 1940s - 1970s, including Clara Porset, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Cynthia Sargent and Sheila Hicks, showing the role Mexico played as the focal point for foreign artists and modern art.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
14:00

William J. Simmons (essayist and poet), Duen Sacchi (artist and trans*), Lara García (researcher), Lía García (La Novia Sirena, performance artist) and Mag De Santo (playwright) will examine some practices that challenge the status quo entrenched in colonial and hetero-patriarchal dynamics. The discussion will address the alliances between art, activism, feminism and queer thinking. The intention is to think and question the assimilation of queer/feminist discourses in global contexts.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
15:00

Sohrab Mohebbi, curator at SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY) will discuss contrasting curatorial models in a panel with José Esparza Chong Cuy, Executive Director/Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture, and curator of New Proposals, ZⓈONAMACO 2020.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
16:00

Over two decades, Marcella Echavarria and Kavita Parmar (The IOU Project) have worked with heritage textile communities due to a concern for the disappearing skill with the advent of new technologies. TEXTO is a global initiative focused on bringing together some of the world's most renowned craftspeople and activists, to showcase their work, to discuss the future of these crafts, to help create a marketplace, and to inspire the next generation to take these skills into the future.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
17:00

With an extensive career focused on Surrealism, Pedro Friedeberg's work ranges from furniture and sculpture, to graphics, painting and interior design; in his production there is an ambiguity between an object of artistic design and functional sculpture. The artist will talk to Déborah Holtz (Director Trilce Ediciones), Karen Cordero (Curator), and Alejandro Sordo (Director Friedeberg's Studio) about 'La casa irracional' published by Trilce Ediciones, the first book to detail his creative work.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
18:00

Aimé Iglesias (Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the Americas Society) in conversation with Tatiana Flores (Art History Department, Rutgers University) about the museum institution, that had and has historically a key roll in the configurations of what Latin American art is through exhibition programs and collecting policies. This conference will discuss how the historiographic renovation of the last 5 years has generated new ideas of Latin America in the museum.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
19:00

Merike Estna, performative presence for “Empty vessels, empty eyes”, presented by Anaconda, text by Andrew Berardini, appears at the booth with continuous story unraveling at Karen Huber's booth ZMF11 once every day beginning at 7pm.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
19:00

A dialogue between architect Frida Escobedo, artist Pedro Reyes and Milton Curry, Dean’s Chair at the University of Southern California School of Architecture. The weight of history, nostalgia, and future aspiration are often characterized as suspended in time. The panel discussion will explore methodologies of production that make these phenomena tangible and spatial, while also linking our senses to the political and social contexts that surround us all.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2020
20:00

The FEMSA Biennial presents it's fourteenth edition "Inestimable Chance" that will take place in Morelia and Pátzcuaro, in Michoacán, February 2020 - February 2021. Rosa María Rodríguez, FEMSA Cultural Program Manager; Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Artistic Director of the Biennial and Esteban King will discuss the project in which the modern heritage of Morelia and Pátzcuaro will be examined, primarily their public art: murals realized by O'Gorman, Grace and Marion Greenwood, Zalce and Philip Guston.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
12:00

José Falconi, curator for LIFEWTR® in Mexico, and Ana Cristina Flores Ponce, director of the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. (PAC), will present the “LIFEWTR® Fund for the Arts in collaboration with PAC”, and the selected projects for 2019. LIFEWTR®, through the Fund and PAC, supports the work of emerging social-practice artists across the country with the aim of expanding the reach of art into new communities, as well as promoting artistic practices that go beyond the traditional spaces.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
13:00

Artists Olaf Breuning and Miguel Calderón, and Kenny Schachter (Curator, art critic), talk to Pilar Villela (Artist and researcher). Art is not always a serious matter: artists who work with humor know that. Humor, like art, can be a very powerful tool, a way to assume a position through ambiguity that is also that of seduction. When we laugh at or just smile before an artwork we establish a complicity that opens the possibility of asking whether we are the addressees or the object of the joke.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
14:00

Tere Arcq (Art historian and curator), Donna Roberts (Art historian and Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland) and Daniel Garza Usabiaga (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO ARTE MODERNO), will focus on the well-known relationship between Surrealism and Mexico, explored through new perspectives such as internationalism and scientific paradigms, as well as little-known artists such as Gordon Onslow Ford and Jacqueline Johnson.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
15:00

"Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd" is a comprehensive overview of the museum's history and collection. The publication describes how Donald Judd developed his ideas of the role of art and museums from the early 1960s onward, culminating in the creation of Chinati. Jenny Moore (Director of The Chinati Foundation) and Humberto Moro (Curator) will discuss the significance of the publication for a unique museum and will highlight the additions included in this second edition.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
16:00

Both recently appointed to lead major contemporary art institutions on the global stage, Magali Arriola, Director of Museo Tamayo, and Kate Fowle, Director of MoMA PS1, NY, also have nearly twenty years of close collaboration. Sharing their thoughts on issues of art practice, curating, and critical institutional making today, They will give insights into their current thinking for the potential of art institutions to provide a platform for debate and access to artists’ perspectives on the world.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
17:00

Stephanie Seidel (Associate curator at ICA Miami) in conversation with Anna Goetz (independent curator, critic and curator of ZⓈONAMACO FORO) about their experiences, strategies and visions in working with collections and curating exhibitions. Countering established narratives and exhibition practices, they will discuss curatorial models that empower new forms of knowledge production.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
18:00

Artist Michael Lin will discuss his project for the Museo Jumex in relationship to his broader practice inside the galleries and in public space. Lin employs traditional and popular textile patterns to create large-scale paintings of architectural proportions. These interventions frame specific relationships between institutions and the public life that surrounds them. The conversation with Kit Hammonds (Chief Curator, Museo Jumex) will explore how art and design circulates through cultures.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
19:00

Marco Antúnez (JSª Marketing Manager), Juan José Kochen (Fundación ICA, architect) and Veronika Kolés (Curator). Development of Ar(t)chitecture that creates a dialogue through the power of creative minds and the artistic criticism, has enhanced the way the real estate business transforms the metropolis and the citizens' lifestyle. Art that becomes one with the people and the city landscape, and evolves to another approach to understand the world in the familiar spaces we call home.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
19:00

Maude Arsenault (Art and fashion photographer) will be signing Entangled, published by Deadbeat Club, at Booth ED43.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
19:00

Merike Estna, performative presence for “Empty vessels, empty eyes”, presented by Anaconda, text by Andrew Berardini, appears at the booth with continuous story unraveling at Karen Huber's booth ZMF11 once every day beginning at 7pm.

Friday, 7 de February de 2020
20:00

Simplicity In lines, shapes, forms, and a linear thinking approach found often in Architecture is from a similar vein which inspires Franz Klainsek to reduce things to its purest essence. To work on taking away instead of the need to add more. To do less is often a greater choice than to do more. To be at the core of creation -where one line or one motion can be enough. Franz Klainsek explores with a psychologist how to identify the meditative space of being enough.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
12:00

Gabriela Rangel (Artistic director, MALBA) moderates the conversation with Lucía Sanromán (Director, Laboratorio Arte Alameda), and the artists Magali Lara and Pablo Vargas Lugo. Over the last years, there has been an important critical manifestations that aspire to dismantle the system of the patriarchy. This panel aspires to debate the porosity or not of the international contemporary art system, in relation to the representation of women, fluid subjects and sexual and gender minorities.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
13:00

Conversation between Iñaki Bonillas (Conceptual artist), Yvonne Venegas (Photographer), and Michael Famighetti (Aperture’s Editor). This panel looks at the intersections of photography, design, and archives in Mexico City.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
14:00

On its eighth edition, the Tequila 1800 Colección award will be allocated with the aim of promoting emerging talent. The jury is composed by Taiyana Pimentel (Director, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, MARCO); Magnolia de la Garza (Director, Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel); Viviana Kuri (Director, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MAZ); and Boris Hirmas (collector).

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
15:00

Gallerist Patricia Conde, in conversation with curator Emma Cecilia García Krinsky, and photographer Patricia Lagarde. This panel aims to review female photographers with relevant artistic trajectories and will discuss the differences -existing or not- between the photographic work made by women and men, through the themes they portray and their perspectives.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
16:00

Megan Connolly (Founder of ChART Contemporary Consulting) moderates this panel with Patrick Charpenel (Director Museo del Barrio NY, and collector). Like it or not, the art world is changing. Thanks to the advent of Social Media and alternative collecting practices over the past decade, the art world has welcomed an influx of new collectors with the click of a finger. What does it mean to be an art collector in 2020? The panel will explore new forms and modes of collecting through storytelling.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
16:00

Clint Woodside (Photographer) will be signing Independence, a book published by Deadbeat Club, Booth ED43.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
17:00

Tatiana Cuevas (Director, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil), Cuauhtémoc Medina (Chief Curator, MUAC), and Tercerunquinto (Gabriel Cázares Salas and Rolando Flores Tovar) will present the exhibition's catalogue for "Tercerunquinto. Unfinished Work", curated by Taiyana Pimentel and Cuauhtémoc Medina, which has been shown at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), and will be exhibited in Mexico City in May 2020 at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
18:00

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (Art historian and curator specialized in Latin America) in conversation with Mexican artists Omar Barquet, Georgina Bringas and Perla Krauze, regarding contemporary abstraction in Latin America as an arena of resistance different from the modernist movement of the early XXth century. It is proposed as an investigation inserted in the ideological, symbolical and physical realities of the world, neither in opposition nor denial of it.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
19:00

Award presentation aimed to promote and make visible the work of women artists who participate in ZsONAMACO 2020. The award is open to all women artists in Main Section, New Proposals and FORO, who wish to take part in the residency program in Oaxaca. The winner will be awarded an artist residency at Casa Wabi and will develop a project that involves the local community of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Fundación Casa Wabi Jury: Bosco Sodi, Founder; Carla Sodi, Director; Paola Jasso, Curator.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
19:00

Merike Estna, performative presence for “Empty vessels, empty eyes”, presented by Anaconda, text by Andrew Berardini, appears at the booth with continuous story unraveling at Karen Huber's booth ZMF11 once every day beginning at 7pm.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2020
20:00

Michel Blancsubé (curator), Siglinde Langholz (artist), Jesús Mario Lozano (filmmaker), Catalina Lozano (curator) and Lorena Jáuregui (cultural promoter) present the book that rose from Foro ARTe: Art, Networks and Technology, realized in the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in 2018. The conversation reflects on the interconnectivity between art and technology, and how in this digital era technology mediates practically every vital experience.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
12:00

Objects realized with an aesthetic finality become antiquities as they travel through time, they survive by overcoming ordinary periods of human life across many generations. These objects reveal to us the history and awake our fascination for them. From this, the conversation “The lives of an antiquity” between Ana Ortiz (PhD in History and Civilizations), Hilda Urrechaga (antiquarian) and Alexandre Lemaire (collector) will be developed.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
13:00

Julieta González (independent curator), Mauricio Rocha (architect), Estela Treviño (coordinator of Photography at MPBA) and a representative of Jenkins, will present the book of the commissioned exhibition by artists Francisca Rivero Lake and Carla Verea on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. Lake Verea reinterpreted the iconic building with works realized in situ by means of photographs of architectural and decorative details printed in real scale.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
14:00

Ezequiel Farca + Cristina Grappin Studio presents its new book published by Casa Editorial Rizzoli. The publication details a collection of projects by the industrial designer Farca and architect Grappin and expands on their careers as the founders of the Studio.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
15:00

Ed Templeton (Artist and photographer) will be signing Hairdos Of Defiance, book published by Deadbeat Club, Booth ED43.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
15:00

Lee Photography Contest at ZⓈONAMACO, targeting students, to capture and portray the Lee Jeans brand, #moveyourlee.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
16:00

Conversation between Ana Casas Broda (INFRAMUNDO / Hydra), and Luis Arturo Aguirre, Laura Barrón, Diego Moreno, and Nelson Morales, four authors with international recognition, who will share their projects about identity and gender, the process of conceptualization and production in the special edition of their books, printed and bound by hand. Discover the editorial project INFRAMUNDO (INFRAWORLD) based on the experimentation of narrative tools, hybrid production and collaborative practices.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
17:00

Sol Henaro and David Miranda Flores talk about the first comprehensive monographic catalog of the Argentine artist Mauro Giaconi published by Temblores Publicaciones and Arróniz. The publication that features outstanding works from his career, will be included in the new collection of monographs by Temblores Publicaciones, the editorial stamp of Terremoto magazine. The goal of this serie is to give visibility to mid-career Latin American artists, and to provide critical studies about their work.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
18:00

Acquisition Award for Artists by AMBRA, the new real estate development brand from the heritage of JSª –architectural workshop of Javier Sánchez–, and artistic signature of the modern urban design in Mexico City through habitable art spaces within the buildings and neighborhoods. Jury: Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Álvaro Becker, Pedro Fernández Cortina, Sol Henaro, Juan José Kochen, Veronika Kolés, Avelina Lésper, Sofía Olascoaga, Ricardo Porrero, Javier Sánchez and Loreto Villarreal.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
19:00

Merike Estna, performative presence for “Empty vessels, empty eyes”, presented by Anaconda, text by Andrew Berardini, appears at the booth with continuous story unraveling at Karen Huber's booth ZMF11 once every day beginning at 7pm.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2020
19:00

Grupo Habita will award the best booth at ZⓈONAMACO, from a selection of the four fairs and its sections in this 2020 edition (ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO, ZⓈONAMACO FOTO including SOLO, ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN and ZⓈONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo, including Main Section, Modern Art, FORO Section, New Proposals Section and ZⓈONAMACO SUR).

Wednesday, 9 de February de 2022
18:00

Choreographic and installation piece inspired by the material transformation, in which the body carves itself into incinerated blocks of wood and coal pieces through distinct actions that provoke changes in its mass, shape, weight and volume. The residue of these actions generates a continuous landscape that is drawn and modified in space. Participants: Ana G. Zambrano (performer), Jo Ying Peng (Director at Vernacular Institute), Jesús Alberto Flores (gallerist and curator).

Wednesday, 9 de February de 2022
19:30

Fourth delivery of the photonovel series that records the adventures of Profunda Mol, an artistic project that Déborah Castillo has developed through the last 15 years and in which fiction, reality and Latin American kitsch mix to create a curious autobiography. Bordes profundos takes place in the city of Tijuana, where the protagonist intends to climb the ladder of regional power. The happening is presented for the first time in Mexico, and it will include a "norteño" band.

Thursday, 10 de February de 2022
13:00

Conversation about different personalities who came to America during the first half of the 20th century. Bergner, Porset, Grossman, Guermonprez, Anni and Joseph Albers, revisited traditional techniques and materials to inject them with new possibilities. The talk will address historical key figures in Mexican design and in Antunes’ artistic practice. Leonor Antunes (artist), Ana Elena Mallet (Independent curator specialized in design) and Viridiana Zavala (PhD candidate in Art History UNAM).

Thursday, 10 de February de 2022
14:30

Three museum curators come together to discuss the times we go through and how this affects institutional collecting, what are the critical challenges in sight, but also the opportunities that arise in moments of crisis like this one. Keyna Eleison (Artistic Director, Museu de Arte Moderna Río de Janeiro), Mauricio Marcín (Chief Curator, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil chief), María Wills (Director, Unidad de Artes, Banco de la República Bogotá), Luiza Teixeira de Freitas (Curator ZⓈONAMACO SUR).

Thursday, 10 de February de 2022
16:00

Ella Cisneros (Founder and President at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, CIFO) in conversation with Ilán Katz Mayo (Collector), about how to establish a curatorial line in a personal collection so that it acquires a meaning, a discourse and a personality of its own; the conversation will also address the social commitment of a collector and the different ways in which collecting can be expanded.

Thursday, 10 de February de 2022
17:30

Nicholas Baume (Artistic and Executive Director at the New York Public Art Fund) and Alberto Ríos de la Rosa (Curator at Casa Wabi). The conversation will focus on the challenges posed by the elaboration of a public art program in territories as dissimilar as New York and Puerto Escondido, as well as the impact of these practices in societies where they take place. Also, Baume’s most recent project in Mexico will be presented: the exhibition Huma Bhabha in Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca.

Thursday, 10 de February de 2022
19:00

Award presentation aimed to promote and give visibility to the work of women artists who participate in ZⓈONAMACO 2022. The award is open to all women artists in the Main Section, EJES and SUR sections, who wish to take part in the residency program in Oaxaca that benefits the local community around Fundación Casa Wabi. Jury: Bosco Sodi (Founder at Casa Wabi Foundation); Carla Sodi (Director at Casa Wabi), and Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, (Curator at Casa Wabi).

Friday, 11 de February de 2022
13:00

Pablo Boneu (artist), Alantl Molina (artist and art historian) and Javier Harari (Director at LMI) will discuss about the concept of chance in the creative process (the conception and production of a piece), its intervention in aesthetic phenomena, and how it operates within the finished piece, as well as concerns about authorship, appropriation, and plagiarism or convergence.

Friday, 11 de February de 2022
14:30

Magnolia de la Garza (Coppel Collection) in conversation with Sara Hermann (curator of ZⓈONAMACO FOTO). Photography collecting is an act of constant renovation. This medium has found itself present in our panorama for almost two centuries and, due to technological transformations, conceptual evolutions and expansions in the boundaries of art, collecting is always a challenge. The conversation will address the challenges of a private collection in the current context.

Friday, 11 de February de 2022
16:00

Mara Sánchez Renero (Sistema Nacional de Creadores and 1st place Rencontres de photographie D'Arles) signing "El Cimarrón y su Fandango", photobook published by Kahl Editions, that speaks to us in an allegorical way of the past of a Black community and its journey through colonial history, its integration into the territory and its current sense of identity within it. Booth F15 ALMANAQUE fotográfica.

Friday, 11 de February de 2022
16:00

The talk will address museum programs and the different ways of structuring and thinking about the institutional profiles for spaces dedicated to modern art. It will reflect on modern art collections in relation to the contemporary world. Marisol Argüelles (Director at Casa Estudio Diego Rivera-Frida Kahlo), Willy Kautz (Director at Proyecto Siqueiros Sala de Arte Público/La Tallera) and Natalia Pollak (Director at Museo de Arte Moderno), with Esteban King (curator of ZⓈONAMACO ARTE MODERNO).

Friday, 11 de February de 2022
17:30

The conversation will address the exploration of new formats, digital ecosystems, and independent economies for artists and hybrid projects, as well as the different ways of collecting in the metaverse. Tam Gryn (Art Director at Rally.io), Amor Muñoz (artist) and Alonso Cedillo (artist), in conversation with Direlia Lazo (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO EJES).

Saturday, 12 de February de 2022
13:00

Marielsa Castro Vizcarra (Associated Curator at Museo Jumex) in conversation with Óscar Cueto (artist). Within the framework of the exhibition "Acciones a distancia", they will talk about the MUME (Museo mexicano), the piece "De excepciones y milagros", and Museo Jumex’s initiative, "Museos en común". The three collaborative projects aim to take the museum out of its usual context so that it can interact with other communities.

Saturday, 12 de February de 2022
14:00

The Tequila 1800 Colección Prize has been awarded for 14 years in ZⓈONAMACO with the aim of promoting emerging talent. The jury is composed by Magalí Arriola, Director at Museo Tamayo; José Esparza, Chief Curator at Storefront New York; Humberto Moro, Deputy Artistic Director at Museo Tamayo; Ercilia Gómez Maqueo, Director, Fomento Cultural Cuervo.

Saturday, 12 de February de 2022
16:00

Four important Mexican museums directors address the current situations and share both the challenges and urgencies they face, but, above all, to imagine possibilities for the future. Magalí Arriola (Director at Museo Tamayo), Kit Hammonds (Chief Curator at Museo Jumex), Viviana Kuri (Director at Museo de Arte de Zapopan), and José Paredes (Director at Museo Universitario del Chopo). Moderators: Juan Canela (Artistic Director of ZⓈONAMACO) and Amanda de la Garza (Director at MUAC).

Saturday, 12 de February de 2022
17:30

The specialists will explore how the photographic has expanded and permeated all contemporary production. They will analyze, through their professional practices, the diverse ways in which photography is manifested in the contemporary scene have increased its critical potential. Carla Acevedo-Yates (Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) and Luis Graham Castillo (independent curator) in conversation with Sara Hermann (curator of ZⓈONAMACO FOTO).

Saturday, 12 de February de 2022
19:00

A conversation about the Wayúu project by Chilean artist Magdalena Correa, in the desert area of Alta Guajira, Colombia. Wayúu is a photographic and video dissection of the indigenous Wayúu population. The search for water is a constant struggle in this territory. Despite the unfavorable circumstances, the Wayúu have been able to resignify their precariousness through creativity, building an imagery rich in meanings. Magdalena Correa (artist), Antonia Cea (curator), Isolina Arbulú (gallerist).

Sunday, 13 de February de 2022
12:00

Aquí estubo Cauduro gathers, for the first time, the impressive work of Rafael Cauduro. Through more than 450 pages, the reader will discover the previously unpublished artist, his drawings and his diaries in an excellent edition that shows the developed process by the artist all the way to the conclusion of his works. The book features texts by Luis Martín Lozano, Juan Coronel Rivera, Gonzalo Vélez, Dina Comisarenco, and Gerardo Kleinburg.

Sunday, 13 de February de 2022
13:30

Ana Gabriela García (publishing editor), Yina Jiménez (curator and publishing collaborator), Virginia Roy (Associated curator at MUAC) present "ritmo volcán", the first monographic catalog by Minia Biabiany, whose artistic practice has become a key element when reflecting about the continual process of colonization in the Caribbean. She focuses her work on the perception of the environment, language structures, experiences, memories and temporalities.

Sunday, 13 de February de 2022
15:00

About the symbolic value of the object that transcends its creation; a revision on the role of the antiques' collector. It will also address the responsibility of having connections to other collectors, researchers, and institutions to enable the spreading of knowledge and the dissemination of cultural heritage. Héctor Rivero Borrell (Founding member RBM Consultores en Arte), Angélica Velázquez (Director Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas UNAM), Alfonso Miranda (curator ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN).

Sunday, 13 de February de 2022
16:30

Create your own story, with Ricardo Ripol (storyteller). Bring your family and listen to Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers' beloved story “The Day the Crayons Quit.” After the reading, we will give a kit to create your own story using your imagination.

Wednesday, 8 de February de 2023
14:00

Betsabeé Romero (artist) and Hans Herzog (independent curator) in conversation with Julio Patán (journalist). When Time Broke is the new publication by Romero who, by initiative of Heraldo Media Group, developed a compilation of texts by seven critics and curators of different countries where they talked about her work and the topics that have been addressed through her career such as: mobility, frontier and migration, indigenous and popular art, gender, recycling and public art.

Wednesday, 8 de February de 2023
15:30

Alberto Escamilla, Ofelia Medina (actress), Juan de Dios Ramírez, Miguel Rodarte (actor), José Velázquez (BLANCOPOP) and Ana Elena Mallet (curator). Presentation of an editorial project that celebrates the fashion, creativity and artistic sensitivity of BLANCOPOP, formed by fashion designers Juan de Dios Ramírez and Alberto Escamilla. The talk is about the journey that documents the "custom-made" path of the creatives and authors of many iconic images of Mexican pop-culture.

Wednesday, 8 de February de 2023
17:30

Vanessa Huppenkothen (journalist and TV host), Nataly Marcus (nutritionist), Ana Paula Ordorica (journalist) and Lorena Vieyra (architect) will present "The Benefit Method", which addresses conversations with health experts and sport personalities to understand what is to be healthy. By means of the journalist Ana Paula Ordorica, there will be conversations with information to inspire and motivate yourself to take your well-being to the next level.

Wednesday, 8 de February de 2023
18:30

Mark Bradford (artist) and Viviana Kuri (Director at Museo de Arte de Zapopan) about the exhibition "The Underdogs / Los de abajo", currently exhibited at Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), and the social engagement practice that Bradford has pioneered. In recent years, Bradford has begun working with young creative people from diverse backgrounds in education residences, which facilitate mentorship through artistic collaboration. Mark Bradford's photo (detail): Brandon Hicks | © Mark Bradford

Thursday, 9 de February de 2023
13:00

ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO presents: Contemporary Mexican Design: Perceptions from Overseas. Jorge Rivas (Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator and Chief of the Latin American Art Department of the Denver Art Museum, DAM), in conversation with Cecilia León de la Barra (Artistic Director of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO).

Thursday, 9 de February de 2023
14:30

María Lucia Alemán (Executive Director MAC Panama), Catarina Duncan (Curator Solar dos Abacaxis), Marta Mestre (Curator and Artistic Director Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães), Lucía Sanromán (Director Laboratorio de Arte Alameda), Luiza Teixeira (Curator ZⓈONAMACO SUR). Four women curators from different contexts talk on how programs are developed for decentralized spaces and also on the importance feminism and the feminine have within these frameworks and programs.

Thursday, 9 de February de 2023
16:00

Award presentation aimed to promote and give visibility to the work of women artists who participate in ZⓈONAMACO 2023. The award is open to all women artists in the Main Section, EJES and SUR sections who wish to take part in the residency program in Oaxaca that benefits the local community around Fundación Casa Wabi. Jury: Bosco Sodi (Founder of Casa Wabi Foundation), Carla Sodi (Director at Casa Wabi) and Alberto Ríos de la Rosa (Curator at Casa Wabi).

Thursday, 9 de February de 2023
17:00

Alonso Gorozpe (artist, community organizer), Maria Ríos (architect) and Marielsa Castro (Associate Curator Museo Jumex) about Museos en común, a project of Museo Jumex that gathers communities, artists and architects in order to create spaces where they can share practices, knowledge and experiences. This initiative also has the goal of creating long-term relations, as well as to reflect about the duties and responsibilities of the cultural institutions as social agents within the communities.

Thursday, 9 de February de 2023
18:30

Michael Sailstorfer (artist), Frank Steinhofer (author) and Polina Stroganova (gallerist), talk about the artist’s current exhibition at Proyectos Monclova and his latest book.

Friday, 10 de February de 2023
12:00

The Tequila 1800 Colección award has been awarded for 15 years in ZⓈONAMACO with the aim of promoting emerging talent.

Friday, 10 de February de 2023
13:00

Boris Hirmas (collector Mexico), Antonio Murzi (collector Panama) and Juan Canela (Artistic Director ZⓈONAMACO) will share with the audience the diverse decisions, procedures and complexities to take in consideration in shaping a contemporary art collection located in Latin America. Why and how to collect, how to take the first steps, how to articulate consistency into a collection or how to understand collecting as an agent which is part of the art ecosystem in our territories.

Friday, 10 de February de 2023
14:30

Michel Bancsubé (independent curator and researcher) Dan Cameron (independent curator), Darío Escobar (artist), María Minera (independent critic and researcher) and José Luis Falconi (curator and art critic) will present the catalog of Escobar's exhibition at Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL). Escobar's first paintings were influenced by the exceptional quality of Guatemala's baroque style. The exhibition offered the opportunity to activate these paintings in a suitable context for the first time.

Friday, 10 de February de 2023
16:00

Lorena Botello (Chief at the Documentation Center of Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil), Daniel Garza Usabiaga (independent curator), and Elva Peniche (independent curator). Moderator: Esteban King (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO ARTE MODERNO). From an innovative work review of diverse creators such as Juan O'Gorman and Clara Porset, among others, the conversation addresses the relationship of Latin American artists with the development processes and upgrading of this geographical region.

Friday, 10 de February de 2023
17:30

Alberto García-Alix (artist) and Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco (journalist, writer and art critic) will present the Spanish photographer's latest project "Fantasías del Prado", an evocative series in which great works of the art gallery of Museo del Prado are reinterpreted. This talk with Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco will analyze some of the fantastic images of this series, just as its creative process. They will discuss also the artist's trajectory and his famous photos of "La Movida Española".

Friday, 10 de February de 2023
19:00

Eugenio Merino (artist), Mariana Muñoz (Public Relations of Uriarte Talavera), Gabriela Rosso (Director of Rofa projects, RoFa Art, La Morada and Art Focus Latin America) and Pierre Valls (artist), will talk about the uses and abuses of the colonial object, which is understood as an artisan product linked to a performance, to a tradition and a history, such as the topic proposed: a conceptual review about the construction of stories and its relation with power from the artistic practice.

Saturday, 11 de February de 2023
13:00

José Esparza (Executive Director and Chief Curator,Storefront for Art and Architecture), Amada Maxwell (Global New Business, Artsy), Manuela Moscoso (Executive Director and Chief Curator, Center for Art, Research and Alliances), María Elena Ortiz (Curator The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), Direlia Lazo (Curator ZⓈONAMACO EJES). The talk will explore what it means to curate in the context of an art fair, from the perspective of curators who have worked in both institutional and fair settings.

Saturday, 11 de February de 2023
14:30

Performers: Alex Nichols, Ana G. Zambrano | Sound artists: Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran. PINKBOX is a sculpture, installation and performance created in 2022 by artist Alex Nichols. It is the size of a woman curled up 36”x32”x34”. Inside the box a woman moves. The box represents the complicated existence of boxes that society, culture, race, and gender place on individuals. This performance embodies a woman’s determination to overcome personal and social struggles as mother, wife and daughter.

Saturday, 11 de February de 2023
16:00

Magalí Arriola (Director Museo Tamayo), Rory Padeken (Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum), Roberta Tenconi (Curator Pirelli Hangar Bicocca Milano), Eugenio Viola (Chief Curator Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá) and Juan Canela (Artistic Director ZⓈONAMACO and Chief Curator MAC Panamá) will discuss how to imagine the development of artistic institutions in the astonishing times we are living in.

Saturday, 11 de February de 2023
17:30

Johan Trujillo (Director Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City), Carlos Acero (Director Centro de la Imagen of Dominican Republic), Amanda Hajjar (Exhibitions Director at Fotografiska, NY) and Sara Hermann (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO FOTO). Is photography more visible due to its inescapable presence in everyday life? Is the photographic language more accessible just because? The idea is to discuss practices that generate spaces for the visibility and circulation of photographic art.

Saturday, 11 de February de 2023
19:00

Palm Foundation, an independent organization, aims to empower historically marginalized creative communities in web3 by endowing critical education of diverse artists and developers on the Palm network. The Palm Foundation Partnership Series aims to create a bridge between digital art and IRL experiences. The 2023 Grant and Scholarship Program will be announced, as well as the winners of the award for artists participating at El Patio by ZⓈONAMACO of ABC Art Baja California festival

Sunday, 12 de February de 2023
11:00

Performers: Alex Nichols, Ana G. Zambrano | Sound artists: Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran. PINKBOX is a sculpture, installation and performance created in 2022 by artist Alex Nichols. It is the size of a woman curled up 36”x32”x34”. Inside the box a woman moves. The box represents the complicated existence of boxes that society, culture, race, and gender place on individuals. This performance embodies a woman’s determination to overcome personal and social struggles as mother, wife and daughter.

Sunday, 12 de February de 2023
12:00

Manuel Lozano (artist), José Manuel Quintana (CEO PUG SEAL) and Rafael Uriegas (artist), in conversation with Aldo Sazen (artist). The conversation focuses on how art has always been behind great business, from the power of a logo to the strength of a mural. Regardless of genre, art makes a difference as long as it has a story to tell.

Sunday, 12 de February de 2023
13:30

Ana Garduño (researcher, PhD in Art History UNAM), Angélica Velázquez (Director Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas UNAM), Alfonso Miranda (Curator ZⓈONAMACO Salón del Anticuario). The objects own those who own them and shape their maker. An affirmation of the "I am" inherited from the illustrated cabinet, aiming at reorganizing the world and beautifying it. The talk is a reflection on the role of the collector, the ownership of the object, the coding and decoding beyond useful beauty.

Sunday, 12 de February de 2023
15:00

Pablo Boneu (artist), Javier Harari (Director at LMl), Anna Korotkova (artist) and Johan Trujillo (Director at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City). Starting with the famous reflection by French author Pascal Quignard: "The image we are missing" the four speakers conceive this parameter as a key point for the compression of their aesthetic processes, linking their expressive possibilities to transcend the material and to contribute to the game of ideas and art revelations.

Sunday, 12 de February de 2023
16:30

Ricardo Ripol: Story-teller. We invite you to listen to Maurice Sendak’s 1963 Children's Picture Book classic: "Where the Wild Things Are". Afterwards we will offer a special art and craft activity to our younger audience. Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of wild things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
13:00

Javier Sosa (President of PPG Comex), Claudia Contreras (Director of Marketing LATAM), Lizeth Galván (Director of ColorLife Program), Norman Montiel (Professional Liaison Manager). Comex, through the ColorLife Trends Program, has been committed for sixteen years to supporting leaders in Mexico's creative industries. Through the use of color, it inspires and assists professionals to beautify their projects according to the trends that govern each year in different markets. In the context of the 20th anniversary of ZⓈONAMACO and recognizing the significance of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO, Comex joins this effort and will for the first time grant the Comex Prize to emerging Mexican design. This award seeks to encourage, support, and contribute to the professional development of young Mexican designers in their career and contribute to the learning process that involves their continuous participation in a commercial platform with international projection.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
13:00

"Enlace" is a photo-performance created in 1978 by Gretta Sarfaty, where the artist manipulates and intertwines a heavy nautical rope. The work displays the entanglement of a huge rope, engaging in a sinuous duel with the artist's body, evoking sexual tension and symbolizing gender oppression and violence. This piece will be presented for the first time at ZⓈONAMACO by the artist La Maga in four sessions throughout the opening day of the fair (1 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm; and 7 pm).

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
13:00

ROLF ART presents the performance work of renowned Argentine artist Verónica Meloni (1974). The durational performance entitled “La Caricia”, from the series “objects-almost-objects” (2019-2024), is a live sculptural process where the artist insists on accelerating the erosion time of the unequivocal signs of all representation.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
14:00

Book Presentation: "40 Years of Polvo de Gallina Negra. Feminist Art in Mexico" | Julia Antivilo Peña (co-author, researcher and artist) in conversation with Mónica Mayer (artist). The book “40 years of Polvo de Gallina Negra. Arte feminista en México” seeks to make known a decade of work by the feminist art group Polvo de Gallina Negra (PGN), created in June 1983 in Mexico City by Maris Bustamante and Mónica Mayer, whose artistic proposals, both in the street and in art institutions, were marked by their irreverent and disruptive character. This publication reflects part of the documentary material from Polvo de Gallina Negra’s archive and celebrates a genealogy of Latin American feminist artists.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
15:30

Alejandra España (visual artist) and Abraham Villavicencio (Chief Curator at Museo Franz Mayer). Moderator: Diego García Chavolla (Artistic Director and Partner of CAM GALERÍA). In this talk, some of the research and creative processes that the artist Alejandra España has developed in the last five years will be discussed, to conceive paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, goldsmithing, graphic works, author’s books, and folding screens that are currently exhibited at Museo Franz Mayer. The works are a fascinating encounter between the subtle contemplation with which España approaches nature to find an intimate universe of memories, fantasies and dreams. The conversation will also develop theoretical influences that have marked the España’s poetics, and will propose some ideas, as lines of flight, that arise from her work.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
15:30

Enlace is a photo-performance created in 1978 by Gretta Sarfaty, where the artist manipulates and intertwines a heavy nautical rope. The work displays the entanglement of a huge rope, engaging in a sinuous duel with the artist's body, evoking sexual tension and symbolizing gender oppression and violence. This piece will be presented for the first time at ZⓈONAMACO by the artist La Maga in four sessions throughout the opening day of the fair (1 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm; and 7 pm).

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
17:00

Jorge M. Pérez (Founder and CEO of The Related Group, and collector) in conversation with Tobias Ostrander (Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator at Large, Latin America, Tate). The dialogue will explore Jorge M. Pérez's influential journey as an art collector and patron. We'll discuss his profound impact on contemporary art, including his notable projects like Espacio 23 in Miami. Pérez's visionary role and significant contributions to the global art and culture scene will be highlighted, showcasing his commitment to nurturing and shaping the artistic landscape.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
17:30

"Enlace" is a photo-performance created in 1978 by Gretta Sarfaty, where the artist manipulates and intertwines a heavy nautical rope. The work displays the entanglement of a huge rope, engaging in a sinuous duel with the artist's body, evoking sexual tension and symbolizing gender oppression and violence. This piece will be presented for the first time at ZⓈONAMACO by the artist La Maga in four sessions throughout the opening day of the fair (1 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm; and 7 pm).

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
18:30

Santiago Fernández Suárez (Vice President of P&C, Motor and Specialty) and Daniel Aguirre (Underwriter Sr. Fine Art) | Jury: Carmen Cebreros (curator, researcher and professor), Amanda de la Garza (General Director of Visual Arts and of Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM), and Isaura Ruiz (in charge of AXA México Collection). As part of ZⓈONAMACO’s 20th anniversary, AXA Mexico will present for the first time the "AXA Mexico Art Prize'' to promote the development of emerging contemporary Mexican artists. The selected work will be acquired to become part of the art collection of the French insurer, which has supported the preservation and care of art in Mexico for the past 15 years.

Wednesday, 7 de February de 2024
19:00

Enlace is a photo-performance created in 1978 by Gretta Sarfaty, where the artist manipulates and intertwines a heavy nautical rope. The work displays the entanglement of a huge rope, engaging in a sinuous duel with the artist's body, evoking sexual tension and symbolizing gender oppression and violence. This piece will be presented for the first time at ZⓈONAMACO by the artist La Maga in four sessions throughout the opening day of the fair (1 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm; and 7 pm).

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
12:00

Michel Blancsubé (independent curator), Robert Janitz (artist), Suzanne Hudson (art historian, critic and professor at the University of Southern California, LA), Karla Niño de Rivera (Curator and Exhibitions and Collections Coordinator at Museo Anahuacalli). Moderator: Bernardo Saenger (Director, Saenger Galería). The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, a pyramid-shaped structure of volcanic stone, was envisioned as the last residence of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Today, it serves as a repository for Rivera's extensive collection of pre-Columbian art. In 2022, German artist Robert Janitz, who recently settled in Mexico City, was invited to showcase his work there. This catalog captures the extraordinary interplay between pre-Hispanic aesthetics and Janitz's contemporary vision. As an outsider, Janitz had the liberty to engage with the compelling elements of Anahuacalli—the vibrant colors, rich textures, and visionary architecture. He installed large-scale paintings throughout the museum, ingeniously amplifying and distorting Rivera's pervasive decorative motifs, thereby crafting an experience that is both metaphysical and spiritual.

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
13:00

Juan Canela (Chief Curator MAC Panamá), Patrick Charpenel (Executive Director El Museo del Barrio, NY), Zélika García (Founder ZⓈONAMACO), Daniel Garza Usabiaga (PhD in History and Art Theory and independent curator), Enrique Guerrero (Founder and Director Galería Enrique Guerrero), Pablo León de la Barra (Latin American Art Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY), Silvia Ortiz (Co-Founder Travesía Cuatro). Moderator: Direlia Lazo (Artistic Director of ZⓈONAMACO). Voices integral to ZⓈONAMACO over its 20-year journey—including section curators, artistic directors, Selection Committee members, and gallerists—will join the fair's founder to reflect on ZⓈONAMACO's influence on both Mexican and international art scenes. Looking back to its inception in Mexico City in 2004, they'll discuss the evolution of contemporary practices and approaches to art, charting the fair's transformative journey up to the present day.

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
14:00

Gabriela Rosso (Director, RoFa Projects), Rosalia Banet (artist) and Consuelo Díaz (craftswoman from Uriarte Talavera). This moment serves as a recognition of Mesoamerica's traditional cultivation system, manifested through an altar dedicated to the goddess Coatlicue, alongside 12 uniquely crafted Talavera objects, each intervened by a different female artist. It's a celebration of the artisanal painting process and the expertise involved in bringing to life the empowered visions of these artists, all unified through contemporary art strategies. This gathering is not just a presentation; it's a testament to a commitment to ecofeminism, highlighting its multifaceted, intersectoral approach and its dedication to environmental care and community well-being.

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
14:30

Miguel A. López (Co-Curator of Toronto Art Biennial), Vivian Crockett (Curator at New Museum, NY), Matheus Morani (Researcher and assistant curator at Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro), danie valencia sepúlveda (Editor-in-chief of Terremoto). Moderator: Bernardo Mosqueira (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO EJES). This panel brings together curators devoted to exploring and broadening the nexus between pleasure and politics. Through a fusion of their individual experiences and insights, the discussion seeks to underscore the critical role of pleasure and healing, especially poignant in an era marred by brutal conflicts and the far-reaching impact of a global pandemic.

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
16:00

Amanda de la Garza ( General Director of Artes Visuales and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM), Ana Elena Mallet (Curator specializing in design), Cuauhtémoc Medina (Chief curator at MUAC). Moderator: Cecilia León de la Barra (Director of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO). The significance of housing a design collection in a Mexican museum cannot be overstated. These collections serve not only as a forum for discourse but also as a custodian of tangible cultural expressions. Documenting, preserving, and caring for design objects that encapsulate Mexican cultural heritage are vital. Constructing narratives from a Mexican design collection is crucial. It's about more than just curation; it's about fostering appreciation and promoting understanding. This endeavor illuminates the role of design objects in our daily lives, turning everyday artifacts into portals of cultural knowledge and reflection.

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
17:30

Marking its fourth year, this residency award continues to honor and elevate the exceptional work of women artists featured at the fair. Fundación Casa Wabi, a non profit foundation, is committed to nurturing a vibrant dialogue among national and international artists, designers across various disciplines and the local communities of Oaxaca’s coast. Casa Wabi's artistic residencies in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, are deeply integrated with social and cultural initiatives, reflecting the center's commitment to a socially engaged and culturally rich artistic practice which benefits the communities surrounding the house. Jury: Dakin Hart (Curator at Casa Wabi), Carla Sodi (Director at Casa Wabi), and Mariana Vinalay (Liaison at Casa Wabi).

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
18:00

Presentation of the Fountainhead Arts Residency Prize to a selected artist from the ZⓈONAMACO EJES section, who will complete an artistic residency at Fountainhead Arts in Miami in 2025. Fountainhead is a preeminent artist residency focused on elevating and nurturing artists' voices; its 550+ alumni roster includes some of the most recognizable artistic talent working in the world today. The prize will be awarded by Nicole Martinez (Fountainhead Arts Residency Associate Director).

Thursday, 8 de February de 2024
18:30

Luis Carrera-Maul (Founder and Director, Lagos, Mexico City), Nicole Martinez (Associate Director, Fountainhead Residency, Miami), and Mariana Vinalay (Liaison, Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca). Moderator: Direlia Lazo (Artistic Director of ZⓈONAMACO). This discussion will center on the pivotal role of art residencies as transformative spaces that catalyze artists' career trajectories. It will explore the various residency formats, delving into their objectives and methodologies, tailored to the unique social and cultural contexts of each organization. Additionally, the dialogue will address the challenges these programs face and the strategies employed to secure their long-term sustainability.

Friday, 9 de February de 2024
12:00

The Tequila 1800 Colección award has been awarded for 16 years in ZⓈONAMACO with the aim of promoting emerging talent.

Friday, 9 de February de 2024
13:00

Tatiana Cuevas and Paola Santos Coy in conversation with Gabriela Rangel (Artistic Director at Galeria RGR). Presentation of the book published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition held from February 10 to April 29, 2023 at RGR Gallery to commemorate the centenary of Jesús Rafael Soto’s birth (Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela 1923 - Paris, France 2005), curated by Tatiana Cuevas and Paola Santos Coy.

Friday, 9 de February de 2024
14:30

Raphaël Fonseca (Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, Denver Art Museum), Alberto Ríos de la Rosa (Curator at PAC Art Residency, Houston), Virginia Roy (Associate Curator, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City). Moderator: Luiza Teixeira de Freitas (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO SUR). In this thought-provoking talk, we will explore the profound concepts of generosity and care within contemporary art, as well as their transformative potential in our lives and communities. Through engaging dialogues and insightful examples, the speakers will examine how artists, curators, and patrons alike are redefining the boundaries of generosity, innovative collaborations, and socially-conscious initiatives, from acts of kindness to philanthropy; this talk will dive in the fundamental role that care plays in nurturing our connections with others. How acts of care and empathy within the contemporary art scene can transform the way we experience art but also contribute to a more compassionate and interconnected artistic landscape.

Friday, 9 de February de 2024
16:00

Tatiana Cuevas (Director at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil), Mireida Velázquez (Director at Museo Nacional de San Carlos), and Dafne Cruz (Researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM). Moderator: Esteban King (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO ARTE MODERNO). This panel explores how readings of modern art collections in institutional settings can be influenced and informed by the contemporary milieu. It includes a discussion with the current directors of two INBAL museums and a researcher with extensive experience with these collections, offering a multifaceted perspective on the relevance of these artworks today.

Friday, 9 de February de 2024
17:00

ROLF ART presents the performance work of renowned Argentine artist Verónica Meloni (1974). The durational performance entitled “La Caricia”, from the series “objects-almost-objects” (2019-2024), is a live sculptural process where the artist insists on accelerating the erosion time of the unequivocal signs of all representation.

Friday, 9 de February de 2024
18:30

ORLAN in conversation with Leïla Godet Voight (Founder and Curator of Fundación la Cúpula) and Eduardo Mier y Terán (Founder and Director of Galería Terreno Baldío). ORLAN is a globally recognized French feminist artist, renowned for her multidisciplinary approach. Since the 1990s, she has provocatively challenged societal beauty standards through her series of performance surgeries, earning significant attention and acclaim. In this engaging dialogue, ORLAN offers insights into her life and body of work, revisiting pivotal moments of her artistic journey. This discussion promises a closer look at the influential career of this eminent figure in international contemporary art.

Saturday, 10 de February de 2024
12:30

Montserrat Castañón (Founder and Creative Director of Ángulo Cero), Luca Mariolini (Co-Founder of Design CACAO) and Pilar Obeso (Design Curator). Moderator: Joel Escalona (Co-Curator of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO EMERGENTE). In this dialogue, three prominent figures from the design market ecosystem will share their insights. They will provide perspectives on the driving forces behind design creation, highlight the crucial elements that merit in-depth examination, and discuss the values that foster the marketing and consumption of design.

Saturday, 10 de February de 2024
13:00

Gabriela Rosso (Director, RoFa Projects), Rosalia Banet (artist) and Consuelo Díaz (craftswoman from Uriarte Talavera). A recognition of the traditional cultivation system in Mesoamerica through an altar to Coatlicue goddess and the intervention of 12 objects created in Talavera intervened by 12 female artists. This is a presentation of the painting process and the mastery of the artisan expressing the artists' empowered proposals; all of them united by the contemporary art strategies. An ecofeminist committed proposal, and its transversal, intersectoral nature and care for the environment and its community.

Saturday, 10 de February de 2024
14:00

Magnolia de la Garza (Executive Director at Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection), Karen Grimson (Curator and Cultural Program Director at Craig Robins Collection), and Therese Möllenhoff (Director at Canica Art Collection). Moderator: Ana Sokoloff (Founding Partner of Sokoloff + Associates). Directors from prominent private art collections in Europe, the United States, and Mexico will engage with Ana Sokoloff in a comprehensive discussion. They will dissect the nuanced responsibilities associated with managing a private collection and its subsequent impact on the art ecosystems of their respective regions. Additionally, the dialogue will cover how these private collections act as catalysts for dialogue and connection within the art community, fostering engagement through curated exhibitions, institutional partnerships, and an array of public and educational initiatives.

Saturday, 10 de February de 2024
15:30

Alfonso Barrera (Co-Founder and Director Polvoh Press, Oaxaca), Gerardo Nolasco (Founder Transmatter, Germany), Damián Ortega (Founder Alias, Mexico City). Moderator: Daniela Gil (Managing Director and Editorial Coordinator, Alias). The dialogue will delve into the realm of independent publishers specializing in artistic projects. Founders from various projects will recount their journey within the publishing market, shedding light on the challenges they encounter. They will also discuss the creative and discursive liberties that fuel their exploration of independent publishing's potential, along with the significant role these publishers play in the cultural and artistic communities.

Saturday, 10 de February de 2024
17:00

Aldeide Delgado (Founder and Director of Women Photographers International Archive, WOPHA, Miami), María Santoyo (Director at PHotoESPAÑA), and Yvonne Venegas (photographer). Moderator: Luis Graham Castillo (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO FOTO). This panel seeks to scrutinize the contemporary landscape of photography. It aims to examine photography's interplay with other artistic mediums, the influence of emerging technologies on its evolution, its prominence in the international art sphere, and its significance in the realm of art collection.

Saturday, 10 de February de 2024
18:30

Andrea Lerdo (Executive Director at PALM Foundation) and Amor Muñoz (interdisciplinary artist) in conversation with Iván Abreu (visual/sound artist and technologist). In this era of technological redefinition, the art ecosystem is undergoing significant transformation. The discussion will navigate the vibrant confluence of electronic and digital art with emerging technologies like cryptocurrency, NFTs, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It will explore how these innovative elements are reshaping the creation and appreciation of art, marking a revolutionary shift in the artistic landscape.

Sunday, 11 de February de 2024
12:00

Mariano Badaracco (artist), Alex Cheetah (co-creator, Immersia), Luis Díaz (installation artist), Panchito López (performance artist), Óscar Serrano (Microenormous performance director). Moderators: Jose Manuel Quintana and Sergio Celis (Co-Directors, Microenormous). The dialogue will center on the rise of immersive experiences in Mexico, delving into the art trends that characterize these activations and the pivotal role of artists in crafting installations. It will further explore how performance art and installations within a space possess the unique ability to forge a connection with the audience, drawing them into a singular, captivating realm and creating an experience that stimulates and engages.

Sunday, 11 de February de 2024
13:00

This prize emerges as a standout philanthropic award, conceived in partnership with the Erarta Foundation, presenting an unprecedented $100,000 USD – the largest cash prize ever in art fair history. This substantial amount will be shared equally between the artist and the gallery, reflecting the prize's unique and equitable structure. Moreover, the distinctive feature of this esteemed award is its selection process, with the recipient being chosen by the attendees of the art fair, truly embodying the interactive and inclusive nature of the prize.

Sunday, 11 de February de 2024
14:30

Giovana Jaspersen (Director at Museo Franz Mayer), Daniel Liebsohn (collector and cultural manager) and Alfonso Miranda (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO). Moderator: Boris Hirmas (collector and entrepreneur). The so-called "antiques" have been the crucible of collecting. Objects coated with symbols that have been desacralized and allude to a past time to revitalize the discourses of the present. A network of signifiers of transversal collecting that, in harmony by contrast, merge into a hyper-contemporary everyday life. A conversation between collectors and cultural managers to engage in a review of the object in its historical, museum dimension and the controversies surrounding the trafficking of those objects, their repatriation in the face of the war mutiny and bordering on the identity and symbolic processes involved, as well as the conservation of the heritage of those works that deconstruct and reconstruct function, time and beauty.

Sunday, 11 de February de 2024
16:00

Cecil Bolaños (artist), Pablo Boneu (artist), Paulina Camu (linguist, application developer), Alantl Molina (photographer and musician), Rogelio Séptimo (photographer and cultural manager), Omar Torres (artist). Moderator: Javier Harari (LMI Director). New currents conceive the informational parameter as crucial in understanding aesthetic processes: creating new art involves revealing contents and concepts, not just exploring new forms. Embracing this concept, the Laboratorio Mexicano de Imágenes (LMI) brings together a diverse group of artists, scientists, and innovators in aesthetic trends for meaningful discussions. The goal is to emphasize that art should not be confined within separate disciplines but should instead embrace a comprehensive visual approach that considers all possible perspectives.

Wednesday, 5 de February de 2025
13:00

Jeanette Escobar (Vice President of Clients, Quality and Communication) and Santiago Fernández (Vice President of Cars and Damages) | Jury: Sonya Santos Garza (Independent cultural promotor), Daniel Garza Usabiaga (Director of Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes), and Daniel Aguirre Vargas (Art insurance expert). Within the framework of the 21st edition of ZⓈONAMACO, AXA Mexico will present for the second time the “AXA Mexico Art Award” to promote the development of Mexican contemporary women artists. In addition to the recognition, the winning work will be acquired to form part of the collection of the French insurance company that has supported the preservation and care of art in Mexico for 16 years.

Wednesday, 5 de February de 2025
14:00

Fountainhead Arts Residency Prize x ZⓈONAMACO | Nicole Martinez (Associate Director of Fountainhead Arts Residency) and Kathryn Mikesell (Co-Founder of Fountainhead Arts). Presentation for the second year of the Fountainhead Arts Residency Prize to a selected artist from the ZⓈONAMACO EJES section, who will complete an artistic residency at Fountainhead Arts in Miami in 2026. There will also be a talk with the winning artist about the artistic projects. Fountainhead is a preeminent artist residency focused on elevating and nurturing artists' voices; its 550+ alumni roster includes some of the most recognizable artistic talent working in the world today.

Wednesday, 5 de February de 2025
15:30

Starbucks presents: Art + Coffee in Starbucks | Violedith Ballesteros (Store Material & Furniture Development at Starbucks), and Gabriela Rentería (Design Manager at Starbucks). Moderator: Cecilia León de la Barra (Director of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO). A discussion exploring the Starbucks Art Program, an initiative that embodies the brand’s values through collaborations with emerging artists to create cultural narratives that enrich its spaces and foster connections with the public. The talk will cover topics such as the artistic process, the integration of Mexican talent into the industry, and the importance of making design and art accessible to all Mexicans. The conversation will also examine Starbucks’ strategy for strengthening community ties through art and design, along with its plans for 2025, focusing on art and its commitment to Made in Mexico initiatives.

Wednesday, 5 de February de 2025
17:00

A conversation between Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD (Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator at Large of Latin American and Latin Diasporic Art at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden). Estrellita B. Brodsky and José Roca will explore how institutional and private collecting, along with philanthropy, can further understanding of Latin American and Latin Diasporic Art within a global context. Their discussion will explore collections and curatorial projects including at The Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, New York, Tate Modern, London, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, as well as at ANOTHER SPACE, New York, Brodsky's non-profit exhibition program.

Wednesday, 5 de February de 2025
18:30

A conversation between Daniel Garza Usabiaga (Director of Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes), Taiyana Pimentel (Director of Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey), and Manuel Segade (Director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía). The conversation brings together museum directors to discuss strategies that address institutional and contemporary challenges. Topics include sustainability, inclusion in museum management, and engagement with diverse audiences, as well as market trends and their relationship with their institutions' curatorial approaches.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2025
12:00

Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros (curator and art critic), Delmari Romero Keith (curator and art historian specializing in contemporary Latin American art), Héctor Tajonar (art and politics specialist). Moderator: Rodrigo Martínez Romero (internationalist, University of Amsterdam). The book addresses the performance Parangolé by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica within conceptual art and as a synchronic movement of the international neo-avant-garde. The speakers will discuss this action that vindicates art power as a poetic-political claim through atavistic references and ancestral rituals: residual memories that appropriate the favela and the carnival, and that seek to manifest the link with the corporal and nature rhythms through dance, representing as well, a critique of the “status quo” of the time.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2025
13:00

Pablo Boneu (artist), Enrique Hernández Lemus (Director at Laboratorio de Biología computacional de sistemas y genómica integrativa, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica), Rubén Mira (writer, editor and cultural promoter). Moderator: Javier Harari (director of LMI). Does AI’s imminent development and its potentials threaten the current status of art? Is today's art paying enough attention to the near future as a topic and as a problem? These two questions lead to a larger issue: What will be the magnitude and risks of the upcoming changes regarding the human monopoly loss on creativity and on the forms in which we know it today? The speakers will interact as well with the audience by proposing brief interventions that symptomatically arise from these questions in order to create and develop an environment of common thinking.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2025
14:30

César González-Aguirre (Independent curator) and Lior Zisman Zalis (Independent transdisciplinary researcher) in conversation with Bernardo Mosqueira (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO EJES). This panel gathers curators and researchers who have dedicated their work to studying and developing artistic, curatorial, and institutional practice as practices of/for freedom. By intertwining their experiences and ideas, this encounter will focus on one of the most important topics of our time, highlighting the responsibility and power of art in moments of political crisis, social turmoil, and risks for democracy.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2025
16:00

Carla Fernández (designer and founder of Carla Fernández fashion house) and Mario García Torres (artist) in conversation with Cecilia León de la Barra (Director of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO). Art and design have a lot and nothing in common, sometimes they appear to be similar or completely different. There are artists who design functional objects and designers who make works of art. The speakers will discuss the similarities and parallels existing today between design and contemporary art.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2025
17:15

Jury: Dakin Hart (Artistic Director of Casa Wabi), Carla Sodi (Director of Casa Wabi) and Mariana Vinalay (Liaison at Casa Wabi). Marking its fifth year, this residency award continues to honor and elevate the exceptional work of women artists featured at the fair. Fundación Casa Wabi, a non-profit foundation, is committed to nurturing a vibrant dialogue among national and international artists, designers across various disciplines and the local communities of Oaxaca’s coast. Casa Wabi's artistic residencies in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, are deeply integrated with social and cultural initiatives, reflecting the center's commitment to a socially engaged and culturally rich artistic practice which benefits the communities surrounding the house.

Thursday, 6 de February de 2025
18:00

Ekaterina Feldmann (Coordinator of Patiño Artistic Residencies), Bárbara Foulkes (Coordinator of Educational Communication at Museo Anahuacalli), and Laura Hakel (Curator of the Collection and Artistic Projects at Fundación Ama Amoedo). Moderator: Direlia Lazo (Artistic Director of ZⓈONAMACO). The conversation will reflect on the impact that art residencies generate in artists' careers, how they influence their practices through experiences in different contexts, and the creation of opportunities through cultural exchanges and international collaborations. Additionally, the challenges in managing these spaces will be analyzed.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
12:00

Fundación Patiño (as sponsoring institution) and Daniel Liebsohn Gallery will present the Patiño-Liebsohn Award consisting of USD $5,000 in celebration of the Bolivian Bicentennial, with the aim of promoting the work of ZⓈONAMACO participating galleries in the Main Section and in the EJES and SUR sections, whose proposals seek to establish bridges between artists and territories. The Patiño Foundation will also award two international artists and a Bolivian artist participating in ZⓈONAMACO 2025 with the Patiño Artistic Residencies in Villa Albina, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As part of its agenda for the Bicentennial of Bolivia, the Fundación Patiño inaugurates its residency program in Villa Albina with the aim of promoting the exchange of ideas between national and international artists and the community that surrounds the Villa.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
13:00

Tequila 1800 Collection Award has been held for 16 years within ZsONAMACO with the purpose of supporting emerging talent.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
13:30

J. Mauricio Sánchez Patzy (Bolivian sociologist, historian, writer and teacher) in conversation with María Amparo Clausell (Director of Museo de El Carmen) and Daniel Liebsohn (collector and cultural manager). Fundación Patiño celebrates the Bolivian Bicentennial with its participation as ZⓈONAMACO 2025 sponsor with a talk about the Baroque as the artistic and intellectual movement that permeated the creation of a shared identity between Bolivia and Mexico, both in the Jesuit missions and their music, as in the Viceregal art and architecture. The mestizo Baroque is an artistic, aesthetic and philosophical key period for the understanding of Mexico and Bolivia, which bond these countries and all Latin Americans. This movement is part of the idiosyncrasy and continues to be manifested in contemporary Mexican and Bolivian art.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
14:30

Pilar García (Curator of the Artistic collection of Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC-UNAM), María Mercedes González (Chief Director of Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia), and Claudia Segura (Conservator and Chief Curator of Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, ​​MACBA). Moderator: Direlia Lazo (Artistic Director of ZⓈONAMACO). A conversation between museum representatives with modern and contemporary art collections from Mexico, Spain, and Colombia will focus on the processes of acquisition and collection management. They will also discuss the relevance of diverse and inclusive artist representation; the connection between collections and local communities, the implementation of digital technologies, and networks of collaboration between museums to promote exchanges of works and experiences.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
16:00

Mónica Amieva (Pedagogical curator and researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM), Sol Henaro (Director of Museo Universitario del Chopo), and Vânia Leal (Director of Special Projects of the Amazon Biennial Cultural Center). Moderator: Manuela Moscoso (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO SUR). A group of leading curators will discuss the challenges and opportunities of curating in the current context. This talk will explore how curators respond to the changing dynamics of contemporary art, addressing issues such as experimentation, north/south dynamics, and the need to reconfigure traditional narratives. Guests will share their experiences and perspectives on how they address these challenges in their own practices, and also around the future of curating in an increasingly interconnected and diverse world.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
17:15

Carlos Amorales (artist) and Pablo Soler Frost (writer) in conversation with Sigismond de Vajay (artist and KBB editor). Presentation of the artist's book Riots on the Moon / Disturbios en la luna by visual artist Carlos Amorales in collaboration with writer Pablo Soler Frost, both Mexicans. The work is a conceptual play-based exercise through artificial intelligence programs both to generate texts as images, as well as a theatrical script about the social unrest that caused a fictional economic crisis similar to that of 2008 in today's world, where the gap between rich and poor has radically increased.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
17:30

Dancing Society® presents the internationally renowned classical pianist Francesco Tristano alongside jazz pianist turned electronic music master, Guti (Gabriel Podliszewski), to perform Another Paradise in an avant-garde unmissable musical experience. For the first time in Mexico City, the Yamaha C7X classical piano merges with a house music set during ZⓈONAMACO, to create a unique and captivating proposal.

Friday, 7 de February de 2025
18:30

Erik Castillo (Independent art critic and curator), Pedro Friedeberg (artist), and Alejandro Sordo (Curator and Manager of Pedro Friedeberg). Moderator: Diego García Chavolla (Artistic Director and Partner of CAM gallery). A talk between art professionals who will discuss the creation of Aterbil Ogolatac, an artist's book that gathers ten years of creative work by Pedro Friedeberg. The title plays with the word "libreta" which is "notebook", written backwards in Spanish, and reflects on a process of continuous practice where the artist incorporates drawings and thoughts on a weekly basis. This labyrinthine catalog brings together the author's diverse interests, inspired by the medieval Book of Hours, travel logs and Lewis Carroll stories.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2025
12:00

Ling Ling joins ZⓈONAMACO in promoting emerging talent through the creation and exhibition of a special artwork, selected to be displayed in Ling Ling's lobby. This collaboration fuses cutting-edge gastronomy with the most current artistic expressions.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2025
13:00

Pedro Arturo Ruiz (Creative Director and Partner of ÁLBUM, and Brand and Communication Creative Director at Candor), Montserrat Piña (Industrial designer), and Federico Stefanovich (Industrial designer). Moderator: Jorge Diego Etienne (Co-Curator of ZⓈONAMACO DISEÑO EMERGENTE). The talk will present diverse perspectives on the direction design is taking in Mexico and Latin America. Relevant topics such as the processes and results that are at the forefront and how they influence their current practices will be discussed.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2025
14:30

Valentina García Burgos (Director of Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo), Jennifer Josten (Associated Professor at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh), and David Miranda (Curator at Museo Experimental El Eco). Moderator: Esteban King (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO ARTE MODERNO). The conversation involves three museum professionals from Mexico and the United States to discuss the possible futures of modern artworks and collections in Latin America. What messages do the works of the last century send us regarding our future? What are the challenges faced by museums in relation to the safeguarding and interpretation of the pieces? How can we imagine possible futures for a modernity that is increasingly receding on the horizon of time, but that nevertheless continues to challenge us?

Saturday, 8 de February de 2025
16:00

Tonatiuh López (Content Coordinator at Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, PAC), Alejandra Pérez Zamudio (Director of Luna Córnea, Centro de la Imagen), and Patricia Lagarde (photographer). Moderator: Luis Graham Castillo (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO FOTO). The conversation focuses on the production of photographic images and what they manage in contemporaneity: for the public, for those who create them, for the global archives and collective thought. The talk converges visions from the artistic, the curatorial and the institutional to articulate current assessments of the photographic, the narratives in which it is inserted and its circulation.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2025
17:15

Gabriela Rangel (Independent curator and writer, Artistic Director of RGR gallery), Magali Lara (artist), María Minera (art critic, independent researcher and cultural activist), and Virginia Roy (Curator at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC). A conversation about the exhibition “Magali Lara: Stealing What Belongs to Me” at RGR gallery curated by Gabriela Rangel, which proposes the cessation of patriarchal prejudices that usually regulate and limit female desire, and instead, establish a horizontal and playful relationship between the artist and the spectators.

Saturday, 8 de February de 2025
18:30

Kōan Jeff Baysa, MD (Founder of the Honolulu Biennial, and Creative Director of iBiennale), Alejandro Campins (visual artist), and Laura Salas Redondo (Art historian, curator and the book's co-editor). Moderator: Niurma Pérez Zerpas (Director of the Galleria Continua Cuban venue and co-editor of the book). The book Return Journeys / Viajes de retorno, published by Hatje Cantz Publishing House, reviews the most important work series by Cuban artist Alejandro Campins. His paintings are the sedimentation of knowledge and journeys, imagined or real. Campins selects geographies, architectures and landscapes that were once scenes of splendor, prosperity, culture, wars or ideologies, but today remain as abandoned spaces, vandalized by hatred and forgotten by history. His paintings speak of impermanence, that state of a philosophical nature that demonstrates the relativity of values and the fragility of reality.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2025
12:00

Bibiana Davo (Landscape designer and CEO Devas) and José Manuel Quintana (CEO Pug Seal), in conversation with Aldo Sazen (Art historian and Passus Atelier Interior Designer). The conversation will address the relevance of creating projects merging art and architecture, landscaping and interior design, to create spaces that generate feelings.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2025
13:15

This award emerges as an outstanding philanthropic recognition, conceived in alliance with the Erarta Foundation, by presenting, for the second time, an unprecedented amount of USD $100,000 –the highest prize awarded at an art fair. This large sum will be divided equally between the artist and the gallery, showing the unique and equitable structure of the prize. Furthermore, another distinctive feature of the award is its selection process, since the winning work is chosen by ZⓈONAMACO attendees, reflecting the interactive and inclusive nature of the award.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2025
14:30

Andrés Blastein (Mexican Modern Art Collector), Gabriela Lobo (Director of Christie's Mexico), Rodrigo Rivero Lake (Antiquarian), and Rafael Tovar López-Portillo (rector of Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana). Moderator: Alfonso Miranda (Curator of ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO). In an art observatory, the so-called “antiques” have found a voice in their own right, where the symbolic value leads us to understand our cultural heritage. The object-salon has a solid presence in the hyper-contemporary world and in harmony by contrast, its dialogue with the current manifestations finds new knowledge that reinforce beauty’s value. SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO turns ten years old and from ZⓈONAMACO we weave a conversation between collectors and cultural managers within the art market, to engage in a review of the object in its historical and museal dimensions, as well as its controversies of materials and meanings in political corrections times. All these works challenge the frontier between history, art, design and functionality.

Sunday, 9 de February de 2025
16:00

Minerva Anguiano (Art historian and essayist), Juan Pérez Figueroa (Subdirector of Galería de Arte Mexicano, GAM), and Gina Jaramillo (Cultural journalist and Art historian). Moderator: Eréndira Derbez (Writer and Art historian). After years of research in the gallery's archive (among others), the book Inés Amor y los primeros años de la Galería de Arte Mexicano focuses on the founding of the GAM during Cardenismo and the repercussions on the art system in Mexico. In 2025, Galería de Arte Mexicano celebrates 90 uninterrupted years of work.