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.

Restaurants

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.

Pujol

Pujol - Enrique Olvera's flagship restaurant in Polanco, open since 2000. It's widely considered the benchmark for modern Mexican fine dining — holding two Michelin stars and a longstanding spot on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list. The seasonal tasting menu rotates every few months, and the signature dish, mole madre, is a mole that's been kept simmering and refined for over a decade, now one of the most recognized plates in Mexican gastronomy.

Tennyson 133, Polanco IV Sección, Miguel Hidalgo

Café Nin

Café Nin - Elena Reygadas's more casual project, tucked into Colonia Juárez since 2017. Inspired by the literary cafés of the 20th century, it's designed as a spot to linger — for breakfast, lunch, or a slow afternoon of coffee and conversation. Expect fresh breads and pastries from Panadería Rosetta throughout the day, alongside a menu that draws on a mix of world cuisines rather than sticking to one lane. A relaxed, neighborhood counterpart to Reygadas's more formal restaurants.

Havre 73, Colonia Juárez

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.