Capping a decade of trailblazing exhibitions and programs that have established it as one of Mexico’s foremost contemporary art institutions, Museo Jumex will celebrate its 10th anniversary beginning November 2023.
Founded in Mexico City as the principal platform of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo by philanthropist and collector Eugenio López Alonso, Museo Jumex has earned international recognition for its dual mission: introducing works by renowned global artists to Mexican audiences and promoting the work of contemporary Mexican and Latin American artists. To mark the anniversary, the museum is presenting a building-wide exhibition drawn from the Colección Jumex, guest-curated by Lisa Phillips, and will publish a commemorative volume through Rizzoli International Publications.
“I am deeply proud of everything Museo Jumex has accomplished over the past decade and look forward to the insights and experiences we will offer our wide and diverse audience in the future,” said Eugenio López Alonso. “Museo Jumex has contributed to a thriving Mexico City contemporary art culture with international reach, where innovative art from around the world shares the stage with outstanding works by artists from Mexico and Latin America. To everyone who has participated in our 10-year journey to this milestone, I give my thanks.”
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The 10th anniversary exhibition, titled Everything Gets Lighter, features works by 70 international artists from the Colección Jumex. Spanning pieces created between 1964 and 2020, the exhibition traces the collection’s evolution while foregrounding poetic and personal responses to light—understood both as illumination and as a metaphorical lifting from gravity. Everything Gets Lighter invites visitors to consider themes of ecology, identity, society and spirit through striking contemporary sculptures, installations and paintings. The exhibition also includes Olafur Eliasson’s large-scale plaza sculpture Waterfall (1998).
In 2024 Rizzoli will publish a book documenting Museo Jumex’s exhibitions over the past decade, featuring contributions from artists and curators who have played significant roles in the museum’s program, including Jeff Koons, Melanie Smith, Jessica Morgan, Humberto Moro, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Patrick Charpenel, María Minera, David Chipperfield and Massimiliano Gioni.
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The museum’s public plaza has hosted a number of monumental installations, creating visible landmarks and encouraging public engagement. Notable projects include Urs Fischer’s Lovers (2022), Gonzalo Lebrija’s Breve Historia del Tiempo (Brief History of Time) (2020) and Jeff Koons’s Seated Ballerina (2019). Other site-specific and participatory projects—such as Fritz Haeg & Nils Norman: Proposals for a Plaza; Rirkrit Tiravanija: UFO (Universal Fantastic Occupation); and Michael Lin: Mariposa B1-09—have activated the plaza as a space for interaction.
Central to Museo Jumex’s mission is making contemporary art accessible to broad audiences. The museum pairs exhibitions with a robust program of public, community and educational initiatives both on-site and off-site. Offerings include workshops, lectures, artist talks, guided tours, symposia, family activities, school programs, volunteer outreach and digital projects, collectively reaching thousands of people each year.