Museo Jumex: The Autumn Season

Events & Exhibitions · Mexico City

Museo Jumex closed two shows on 30 August and opens three that run to 7 February 2027. The whole autumn programme lands in a six-week window, and then holds for four months.

By Josh Stein · Founder, Art of NOMA, Mexico City · writing on the emerging-art market since 2023

What is changing

Museo Jumex sits in Plaza Carso in Polanco, in a David Chipperfield building, and it is the single most consequential contemporary art institution in Mexico. Its programme turns over twice a year, and this is the turn.

Two exhibitions ended on Sunday 30 August. Objects of Glory: Iconic Moments in the History of Football had been up since 10 June; Diffuse Visions since 7 March. Then the museum opens three new shows across four weeks, and every one of them runs to 7 February 2027 — the same closing date.

Richard Prince: Tell Me Everything

Opening 26 September, this is the largest institutional exhibition in Mexico City this autumn. Prince is among the most argued-about American artists of the last fifty years — the rephotographed Marlboro cowboys, the Nurse paintings, the joke paintings, and the appropriation cases that followed them. Whatever position you hold on that work, a survey of it at this scale does not come to Mexico often.

For a collector, an appropriation-art survey is a useful thing to walk through before buying anything in an edition. It is a long argument about what originality is worth, staged in one room.

Two more on 16 October

Álvaro Urbano’s Helen and Raúl Silva’s Gateway open the same day. Urbano is a Spanish artist who builds theatrical, botanical installations that treat an exhibition space as somewhere abandoned and then reoccupied. Both run to 7 February 2027.

From 16 October the museum holds three concurrent shows for nearly four months — an unusually long, stable programme. If you are planning a trip and cannot come in September, nothing is lost.

When to go

Two sensible windows, now that the August shows have closed. Late September, which pairs Prince with the galleries that opened for GAMA Week on 3 September. Or February, when all three Jumex shows are still up and Mexico City Art Week (3–7 February 2027) brings the fairs to town. February is the densest, and the most expensive.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Museo Jumex — exhibition dates, read 27 Aug 2026

All dates were read from the museum’s own website on 27 August 2026. Exhibition dates change; confirm with the venue before travelling.