Islera
Islera was born as an independent platform for dissemination, artistic experimentation and cultural cooperation in 2020. Currently, it presents alternative works of contemporary art, while seeking to integrate and promote the practices of local youth and encourage the diversity of audiences.
They also organize meetings, workshops and collaborations. They have a digital store where you can purchase pieces by their artists such as Nora Sacristán or Tamara D. Tamayo. To visit it you must make an appointment on their social networks. It is located at Adolfo Gurrión 118, in La Merced.
LABOR
Pedro Reyes exhibited, a few weeks ago, his pieces carved in stone and paintings on paper in the exhibition “Canto a un dios mineral” (Song to a mineral god). Created in 2009 by Pamela Echeverría, the gallery works with artists whose processes are based on scientific, political and sociological research.
Five exhibitions are presented each year. Four of them focus on artists represented by the gallery and the fifth represents the joint vision of the gallery and the artists about the contemporary context. LABOR mixes young and mid-career artists, both Mexican and international, including: Erick Beltrán, Terence Gower, Jan Peter Hammer, Irene Kopelman and Teresa Margolles, among others. Appointments are required to visit.
Nordenhake Gallery
The space was designed and remodeled by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and curator and art historian Toni Sarduñí Viñas. The gallery, originally from Sweden, arrives in Mexico City in 2020 to open a new venue. Nordenhake consists of two courtyards, the main one housing different types of works by national and international contemporary artists. In the middle part, there are the offices and the showroom where pieces by artists such as Francis Alÿs, On Kawara, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Iñaki Bonillas and Dexter Dalwood, among others, are exhibited. A must-see in the Roma neighborhood.
Karen Huber
Located in the Historic Center, this gallery’s mission is to be a platform for cultural development. Since its establishment in 2014, it has focused its attention on the analysis, discussion and reconsideration of the contemporary painting panorama, both in its conceptual and formal aspects.
Among the artists it represents are both Mexicans and foreigners, whose contribution has been fundamental to the development of the art scene in Mexico City. We encourage meeting spaces to reflect, rethink, dialogue and deepen the field of painting.
Union Gallery
It is an independent project that was born in 2019. It is in one of the most iconic neighborhoods of the city, La Lagunilla neighborhood. Its objective is to exhibit, promote, disseminate and be the link between a new sector of collectors and artists who live and document their contexts and the periphery of the big cities.
This year, 2024, they celebrated five years in which we added 25 exhibition projects. Currently, they have a new location in the Roma Sur neighborhood. Among its artists are Critian Aguilar, Uriel Lópex, Itzamna Reyes and Helio Santos. They also collaborate in special projects and art fairs such as Clavo.
Hilario Galguera Gallery
It is an independent project that was born in 2019. Established by Hilario Galguera and Rosa María Ortega, it opened in 2006 as a space for the discussion and promotion of Mexican and international contemporary art, with a solo show of Damien Hirst titled The Death of God. Towards a better understanding of life without God aboard the Ship of Fools.
Since then, it has exhibited and disseminated
the work of artists characterized by relevant and complex proposals at a conceptual, social, political and formal level, as well as by their rigor and aesthetic precision. In addition, the space where it is located is already a unique work of architecture. Among the artists it represents are: David Bailey, Willem Boel, James HD Brown, Peter Buggenhout and Maxime Brigout, among others.
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