Featured Events in Mexico City in August, 2025 (June Updated)

The Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts (MPBA) pays tribute to the legacy of Jalisco-born painter Jorge González Camarena with an exhibition commemorating the 45th anniversary of his death. This exhibition not only evokes his prolific career but also allows us to reflect on the transformation of Mexican muralism. After the boom of the 1920s and 1930s, this movement gave way to a new generation of artists in the 1940s and 1950s. During this period, Camarena's contemporary muralists reinterpreted the movement's traditions, seeking to renew the iconography and ideals of the Mexican Revolution in their monumental works. This exhibition offers an in-depth look at the mural Liberación (1963), the last mural commissioned by the INBA specifically for the Palace of Fine Arts, a work in which González Camarena synthesized the new visual languages ​​that contributed to perpetuating the post-revolutionary cultural utopia.

Artist Gabriel Orozco’s latest solo exhibition, “Politécnico Nacional,” is currently on view at the Jumex Museum in Mexico City. As the artist’s first museum exhibition in Mexico City in nearly two decades, the exhibition includes approximately 300 works, including small sculptures, installations, photographs, drawings, paintings, assemblages, and games. Through the artist’s close collaboration with curator Briony Fer, the exhibition incorporates the various techniques and concepts that the artist has developed since the 1990s, including rotation, symmetry, and the representation of time, thus bringing new perspectives to his creative practice.

The Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts, through the National Museum of Art, present the temporary exhibition Germán List Arzubide. Life is in the letters, which tells of an avant-garde character, a reference for the cultural life of the 20th century in Mexico. The exhibition seeks to recognize the great influence of Germán List Arzubide, who was linked to the cultural, ideological, social and pedagogical development in our country. With nearly 300 pieces, the public will be able to admire artistic work, photographs, puppets, bibliography, handwritten documents and correspondence, which pay tribute to the writer born in Puebla. The exhibition is enriched with pieces by Diego Rivera, Aurora Reyes, Ezequiel Negrete Lira, Juan Leonardo Cordero, Francisco Arturo Marín, Luis Arenal, Isaías Cervantes, Enrique Gottdiener and Ramón Alva de la Canal, among others.