Mexico City

Design Week Experience

October 6 - 11, 2026

Join a small group for an immersive exploration of Mexico City’s vibrant art and design scene during Design Week, 2026. This curated five-night experience offers behind-the-scenes access to the artists, designers, galleries, and creative spaces shaping one of the world’s most dynamic cultural capitals.

Guests will attend key Design Week exhibitions and events, visit leading contemporary art galleries, and step inside private artist studios for intimate conversations and a closer look at the creative process. Throughout the week, we will explore the city through carefully selected cultural experiences, exceptional dining, and meaningful encounters with the people defining Mexico’s artistic landscape.

The group will stay together in a beautiful private residence with a chef, creating a relaxed setting for shared meals and conversations. The program includes dinners at some of Mexico City’s most celebrated restaurants, including Pujol and Café Nin, as well as a unique evening of figure drawing inspired by the city’s long tradition of artistic practice.

With a private driver throughout the experience, guests can move effortlessly between studios, galleries, museums, and Design Week venues while enjoying a thoughtfully curated introduction to Mexico City’s creative community.


  • Afternoon

    • Airport arrivals

    • Check-in at the residence

    • Chef-prepared lunch/snacks available throughout the afternoon

    • Time to settle in

    Evening

    • Welcome presentation

    • Chef prepared dinner at residence

  • Morning / Early Afternoon

    Afternoon

    Evening

    • Early Dinner

    • Opening Reception: Print

  • Morning

    Afternoon

    Evening

    • Figure drawing session led by Adam Harrison

    • Chef prepared dinner at residence

  • Morning

    Afternoon

    Evening

    • Design Week opening parties and receptions

  • Morning

    Afternoon

    • Lunch at Pujol

    • Design week event: Content Design

    • Free time to rest or return to galleries/design week exhibitions

    Evening

    • Chef-prepared dinner at the residence

  • Morning / Early Afternoon

    • Chef prepared breakfast at residence

    • Departures

The Schedule

Keep in mind, the schedule may change somewhat depending on the current exhibitions and events happening. Not every event and exhibition has been published.

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Museums

Mexico City is home to some of the world’s most remarkable museums, where history, modernism, and contemporary creativity come together. During the experience, we will select a curated group of museum visits based on the most compelling exhibitions taking place during Design Week.

As new exhibitions are announced throughout the year, the final museum itinerary will be tailored closer to the dates of the program, ensuring guests experience the most relevant and inspiring shows. Rather than rushing through every institution, we focus on meaningful visits that allow time to engage with the art, architecture, and ideas behind each space.

Museo Nacional de Antropología

The Museo Nacional de Antropología is widely regarded as one of the most important museums in Latin America, offering an extraordinary journey through the civilizations that shaped Mexico’s cultural history.

Located in Chapultepec Park, the museum houses iconic works such as the Aztec Sun Stone alongside vast collections of Maya, Olmec, Teotihuacan, and Mexica artifacts.

Its striking modernist architecture and beautifully curated galleries provide visitors with a deeper understanding of Mexico’s indigenous heritage, making it an essential experience for anyone interested in art, archaeology, history, and design.

Museo Kaluz

Museo Kaluz is a dynamic cultural institution located in a beautifully restored historic building overlooking Alameda Central in downtown Mexico City.

The museum is known for its outstanding collection of Mexican art spanning the 18th century to the present, featuring works that explore the country’s landscapes, social history, and evolving cultural identity.

Blending classical architecture with contemporary exhibition design, Museo Kaluz offers visitors an intimate and thoughtfully curated experience that connects historic Mexican painting with modern artistic dialogue, making it an important stop for collectors, artists, and travelers interested in Mexico’s visual culture.

Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo

The Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo offers a rare glimpse into the personal and creative lives of two of Mexico’s most influential artists, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

Designed in 1931 by pioneering architect Juan O’Gorman, the interconnected modernist houses are considered one of the first examples of functionalist architecture in Latin America.

Preserved with original furnishings, studios, and personal objects, the museum allows visitors to experience the intimate environment where Rivera and Kahlo lived and worked, while also exploring the artistic and political energy that shaped modern Mexican art in the twentieth century.

Museo Anahuacalli

Conceived by Diego Rivera as a “City of the Arts,” the Anahuacalli Museum was designed to house his vast collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts within a monumental structure built from volcanic stone sourced from the surrounding Pedregal landscape.

Inspired by ancient Mesoamerican temples, the building merges architecture, ecology, and artistic expression into a deeply immersive experience that feels both ancient and modern.

Beyond its remarkable collection of over 2,000 pre-Columbian objects, the Anahuacalli serves as a living cultural center where contemporary art, music, dance, and performance.


Artist Studio Visits

One of the most meaningful parts of the experience is the opportunity to step inside the studios of artists working in Mexico City today. Away from the gallery setting, guests will experience the creative process firsthand — seeing works in progress, learning about artistic practices, and engaging in conversations directly with the artists.

Our studio visits will introduce guests to a diverse group of contemporary artists, including Carlito Dalceggio, Alexis Mata (Ciler), Nicolás Guzmán, Eric Saucedo, Daniela Terroba, and Said Dokins. Each artist brings a unique perspective, exploring themes ranging from identity and urban culture to abstraction, material experimentation, and contemporary visual language.

These private visits offer a rare opportunity to understand the ideas, techniques, and environments behind the work — creating a deeper connection between artists, collectors, and the creative community shaping Mexico City’s future.

Carlito Dalceggio

Carlito Dalceggio is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, sculpture, installation, video, and public murals—blurs the boundaries between art, ritual, and lived experience.

Working nomadically from cities like Mexico City, Istanbul, and Paris, he draws on influences ranging from Día de los Muertos and Sufi traditions to Beat poetry, modernism, and jazz, creating a vivid visual language that is both folkloric and futuristic.

His immersive projects—murals, temples, performances, and large-scale installations—propose a borderless, participatory world in which art functions not as a commodity but as a transformative, almost shamanic force, reflecting his broader mission to connect cultures and reimagine contemporary mythology.

Said Dokins

Said Dokins is a multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, and researcher whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, performance, video, photography, and public space interventions, alongside curatorial and cultural management projects.

His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris and the Sharjah Art Museum, while in Mexico he is the founder and president of Sociedad Dokins for New Artistic Practices A.C., an organization focused on expanding access to art and engaging diverse communities.

His recent projects further integrate urban art with science and technology, including collaborations with the Science Gallery and the Art, Science and Technology Laboratory at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Alexis Mata

Alexis Mata is a Mexico City–based artist whose practice spans collage, drawing, painting, installation, and digital media, evolving from a street artist to creating materially diverse yet conceptually cohesive body of work.

Marked by a strong social and political undercurrent, his work frequently engages themes of death, violence, beauty, and the contradictions of an idealized yet corrosive past.

Mata explores visual archetypes through processes of fragmentation—glitch, pixelation, and cut—reconfiguring classical imagery into new compositions that question authorship, representation, and aesthetic value across analog and digital formats. His work has been widely exhibited in both institutional and gallery contexts in Mexico and internationally.

Nicolás Guzmán

Nicolás Guzmán is a multidisciplinary artist from Xalapa, Veracruz, whose work explores materiality, perception, and visual experience through a practice rooted in painting.

Influenced by Abstract Expressionism and conceptual art, he works across painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and printmaking.

Guzmán has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museo Rufino Tamayo, the Museo de la Ciudad de México, and The Mexican Museum, and has participated in major art fairs such as ZONA MACO.

His work is included in important public and private collections in Mexico and abroad.

Daniela Terroba

Daniela Terroba is a Mexico City–based visual artist whose work explores abstraction, perception, and the transformation of images through painting, monotype, photography, video, drawing, and installation.

A graduate of La Esmeralda’s Visual Arts program, her practice often focuses on how images shift and evolve through repetition and material experimentation.

In her most recent body of work, Terroba explores the connection between the spiritual and the physical through surreal, organic forms inspired by the interior of the body and the biblical story of the Annunciation.

Her installations and paintings create immersive environments that feel both intimate and otherworldly, blending references to anatomy, nature, and imagined landscapes.


Art Galleries

Mexico City’s contemporary art scene is one of the most dynamic in the world, bringing together internationally recognized galleries, established artists, and a new generation of creative voices. During the experience, we will visit a curated selection of galleries that reflect the diversity and energy of the city’s art ecosystem.

Visits will include leading institutions such as Kurimanzutto, OMR, and Galería Hilario Galguera, alongside emerging galleries and independent projects including Ambar Quijano Gallery, Saenger Gallery, and Georgina Pounds Gallery. Together, these visits provide insight into both the established foundations of Mexico City’s art market and the artists, spaces, and ideas shaping its future.

Through exhibitions, conversations, and behind-the-scenes access, guests will experience the depth and evolution of contemporary art in Mexico City.

Kurimanzutto

Founded in 1999 by Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri with the early support of artist Gabriel Orozco, Kurimanzutto has become one of the most influential contemporary art galleries in Latin America.

Originally conceived as a nomadic, experimental project without a fixed exhibition space, the gallery staged early shows in unconventional locations across Mexico City, including markets, airports, and parking lots, reflecting its commitment to risk-taking and collaborative artistic practice.

Today, its striking warehouse-style space in San Miguel Chapultepec—designed by architect Alberto Kalach—hosts exhibitions by internationally renowned artists while maintaining a strong connection to Mexico City’s creative and intellectual culture.

OMR Gallery

Founded in 1983 by Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra, OMR is one of Mexico City’s most established and influential contemporary art galleries.

Located in the heart of Roma Norte, the gallery has played a pioneering role in shaping the city’s contemporary art scene by championing both emerging and internationally recognized artists across Latin America and beyond.

Originally housed in a historic Porfirian mansion overlooking Plaza Río de Janeiro, OMR relocated in 2015 to a striking renovated brutalist building on Calle Córdoba, reflecting its commitment to experimentation, architecture, and interdisciplinary practice.

Known for its ambitious exhibitions and participation in major international fairs such as Art Basel and Zona MACO, OMR has become a cornerstone of CDMX’s global cultural identity while continuing to support innovative, socially engaged artistic production

Galeria Hilario Galguera

Founded in 2006 by Hilario Galguera, Galería Hilario Galguera is one of Mexico City’s most internationally recognized contemporary art galleries, known for bringing globally influential artists into dialogue with the Latin American art scene.

Located in the historic San Rafael neighborhood in a restored early twentieth-century mansion, the gallery gained international attention as the first gallery worldwide to represent Damien Hirst outside the United Kingdom.

Since its founding, it has developed a program that balances major international figures with leading Mexican and Latin American artists, emphasizing conceptual rigor, political reflection, and ambitious installation-based practices.

Through museum-quality exhibitions, publications, and participation in major international art fairs, Galería Hilario Galguera has played a significant role in positioning CDMX as a major center for contemporary art and cultural exchange.

Ambar Quijano Gallery

Founded by curator and art advisor Ambar Quijano, Ambar Quijano Gallery is a contemporary art space in Mexico City dedicated to fostering critical dialogue, experimentation, and socially engaged artistic practices.

Located in the Escandón neighborhood, the gallery rejects the neutrality of the traditional white cube by integrating the domestic character of its 1960s building into its exhibition design, creating a more intimate relationship between artwork, architecture, and audience.

Through a program of physical and online exhibitions, public initiatives, and educational programming, the gallery champions emerging and international artists whose work addresses contemporary social, political, and cultural questions.

Saenger Gallery

Founded in 2019 by Bernardo Saenger, Saenger Galería is a contemporary art space located in the historic Tacubaya neighborhood of Mexico City that has quickly become a dynamic presence within the city’s evolving art landscape.

Emerging from the publishing platform Saenger Editores, the gallery is known for fostering close collaborations between artists, curators, collectors, and institutions while championing both emerging and established voices from Mexico and abroad.

Housed in a sprawling industrial-style venue with dedicated Main and Project Rooms, Saenger Galería emphasizes experimentation across painting, sculpture, installation, and interdisciplinary practices, often highlighting material exploration and conceptual depth.

Through ambitious exhibitions, international art fair participation, and a commitment to accessibility and dialogue, the gallery reflects the energetic and globally connected spirit of CDMX’s contemporary art scene.