Colección Jumex, Art gallery in Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
Colección Jumex is a contemporary art museum in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, part of the Plaza Carso development and facing the Museo Soumaya. David Chipperfield's first building in Latin America, it opened in 2013 with 1,600 m2 of exhibition space over five levels, including a basement gallery whose marble floor is Martin Creed's site-specific Work No. 1347. A sawtooth roof lights the top-floor gallery.
Eugenio López Alonso bought his first Mexican artwork in 1994 and co-founded Chac Mool Gallery in Los Angeles that year, the symbolic start of Fundación Jumex. The collection was first shown publicly in 2001 at Galería Jumex, a 1,400 m² space in the Grupo Jumex juice plant in Ecatepec de Morelos. Museo Jumex opened in November 2013 in Polanco, designed by David Chipperfield, and in 2024 marked its tenth anniversary there with a Damien Hirst retrospective.
The gallery displays works by Mexican and international contemporary artists through rotating exhibitions. You can see how creators from different parts of the world engage with similar themes and express their visions.
The museum is located at Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303 and offers free admission Tuesday through Sunday. Extended Saturday hours are available, and complimentary lockers on the lower level help you store belongings during your visit.
The basement gallery's marble floor is itself an artwork: Work No. 1059 by British artist Martin Creed, made for this space. The museum also cancelled a planned Hermann Nitsch exhibition in 2015, a decision publicly criticised by curators and collectors.
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