Past
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Un posible jardín by Javier Peláez
at Casa Siza, curated by Christian Barragán November 7 - 30, 2024 Similar to the Kleingärten in Berlin, which were built with the aim of having a refuge separate from the home to rest from the daily routine, the exhibition Un posible jardín [A Possible Garden] has been designed by Javier Peláez with the purpose of having an additional place to his studio in which he has, in his words, “the opportunity to assume [another] part of my nature”, and even more, a physical and mental place where the choice to paint flowers expresses “a shameless position in the face of my interest in the threatening beauty of poisonous flowers, which have at the same time the potential to heal and to make sick”. Read more -
Popocatéptl (Love is in the Air) by Robert Janitz
at Casa Siza October 3 - November 3, 2024 DIOTIMA In works of art , we encounter technical characteristics , material s and executions as elements that exist, progress, disappear or linger on. Evolution as a principal and ineffable characteristic of art. Robert Janitz’s work reminds us of the importance of the patience and silence of contemplation, inviting us... Read more -
NO ERES TÚ, SOY YO by Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes
in collaboration with guadalajara90210 September 28 - November 16, 2024 Manuscript Found in a Book of Joseph Conrad In the shimmering countries that exude the summer, the day is blanched in white light. The day is a harsh slit across the window shutter, dazzle along the coast, and on the plain, fever. But the ancient night is bottomless, like... Read more -
Una línea en construcción (Fuga incidental) by Enrique Hernández
at Project Room September 12 - November 4, 2024 Since October 2021, the Project Room at Saenger Galería has developed a curatorial program in collaboration with guest artists who specifically appropriate the exhibition space. On this occasion, Saenger Galería presents the first solo exhibition of tapatío artist Enrique Hernández in Mexico City, “Una línea en construcción (Fuga incidental)”, curated... Read more -
errare ab origine by Lutz Braun
at Main Room September 12 - November 9, 2024 “Errare ab origine” is the first solo exhibition in Mexico by the German artist Lutz Braun (Schleswig, 1976). Translated from Latin as “to go astray from the origin”, but also “to go wrong from the start”, this debut show brings together some thirty paintings in various formats which combine realist and abstract elements to form scenes in which landscapes, animals and people co-exist in a way that is both familiar and intriguing. Read more -
Se vende Serie by Alfedo Gallegos Mena
in collaboration with LaNao Galería, curated by Michel Blancsubé August 31 - October 16, 2024 The series exhibited here, created in 2020, holds a peculiar place in Gallegos Mena's work, as it is the only one that tackles a current sociopolitical and ecological issue, in contrast to the aforementioned series that are more rooted in the “aesthetic-seductive realm.” Read more -
Piedritas bajo la Almohada
Curated by Christian Barragán at Casa Siza August 29 - September 28, 2024 Saenger Galería presents Spanish artist Alain Urrutia's first solo show in Mexico, Piedritas bajo la Almohada (Pebbles under the pillow), an exhibition that kicks off Saenger Galería’s curatorial program at Casa Siza. Read more -
April 2024 by Alexander Wertheim
at Main Room June 20 - September 7, 2024 The exhibition “April 2024” by Alexander Wertheim (Germany, 1995) stems from a visit of several months to Mexico City over the course of this year, a period in which the artist made use of a provisional studio where he produced the paintings that make up the solo show installed in the main space of the Saenger Gallery. Read more -
bulto/niebla/piel by Jorge Rosano Gamboa
Curated by Christian Barragán at Project Room June 20 - September 7, 2024 The most recent series of paintings by Jorge Rosano Gamboa (Mexico City, 1984), draws its potential for synthesis and abstraction from the pre-Columbian universe. Read more -
Afterimage by Rachel Hellmann
Curated by Christian Barragán at Project Room April 18 - June 15, 2024 SAENGER Galería presents Afterimage, Rachel Hellmann’s second individual exhibition in Mexico. The exhibition articulates three bodies of work, strongly correlated with each other, where a series of fabric pieces hand-sewn on sheets of Dura-Lar and some paintings on paper and wood that were inspired by them dialogue, ranging from two-dimensional support to sculptural. Read more -
Change Nothing by Víctor Rodríguez and Fernada Brunet
Curated by Christian Barragán at Main Room April 18 - June 15, 2024 SAENGER Galería is pleased to announce Change Nothing a duo exhibition by Mexican artists Fernanda Brunet and Víctor Rodríguez. Hosted in the gallery’s main hall, the exhibition presents the work of both artists together for the first time, sharing not only the same space, but also fundamental characteristics of their approach to painting, in which the two have found close responses between one another; a detailed study could show that those approaches between Brunet and Rodríguez are sometimes of a technical nature while on other occasions they are philosophical and also circumstantial. Read more -
Scent of Time: Horizontes Temporales by Yoab Vera
at Casa Gilardi February 5 - 24, 2024 Saenger Galería presents the work of Mexican artist Yoab Vera (Coyoacán, 1985), based on a series of evoked horizons, arranged at Casa Gilardi, designed by the architect Luis Barragán between 1976 and 1978. Vera proposes land surfaces, vertical and horizontal, that anticipate places and long for homes. The load of... Read more -
Cronografías negras by Iván Trueta
Curated by Michel Blancsubé at Main Room February 1 - April 13, 2024 Objects, things, act. The artwork is particularly active. What I am saying is that we are different after coming across items defined as artistic in the same way that we are transformed by readings, movies, trips, people, etc. Although defined as useless compared to functional tools, artworks fulfill tasks that nurture our reflection, stimulate our sensitivity, and provoke our emotionality.
Iván Trueta Segovia's first individual exhibition at Saenger Galería brings together around fifty compositions staged dynamically in the main space of the venue and in its project room. Most consist of graphite on paper or canvas. They all come from a work started 4 years ago by the artist who is revisiting the 5 homes occupied by his family since their move from Franco's Spain to Mexico during the Second World War. Solitary nails, walls strewn with lost textures and other accidents due to actions already completed and for the most part forgotten accompanying architectural details, facades, and interior views, as well as 18 objects, intimate and silent witnesses of times past, which the artist's family took fleeing Europe. Several times synthesized in an accumulation of layers of black dust on flat areas: inalienable historical time, life and its mark, the work of compiling past moments and the time of production, already brought together now by the shadows they left in a spectrum fragmented black. Read more -
Fractured Memories
Curated by Christian Barragán at Project Room November 9, 2023 - January 20, 2024 Saenger Galería is pleased to present, Fractured Memories, the first solo exhibition of artist Christopher Stewart in Mexico, hosted in the gallery’s Project Room. The exhibition comprises a selection of recent paintings and works that date back to both the recent (2019) and remote past (1995), which allows us to draw an arc in time within the artist's process that explores the transit, weariness, and reconfiguration of memory. Read more -
Body Snatchers by Benjamín Torres
Curated by Rodrigo Torres Ramos at Main Room November 9, 2023 - January 20, 2024 Body Snatchers continues a long-term investigation, focused on the compilation of visual materials found in the public spaces of cities such as Tokyo, Paris and CDMX. For this project, Torres has focused his attention on characters and caricatures, as well as on the monuments and commemorative sculptures ubiquitous in Mexico City, all found in his wanderings. Read more