Gallery Weekend Mexico City will celebrate its fifth edition with an extensive program of exhibitions and activities

• Discover art through the galleries, get to know the artists, and enjoy the city.

Mexico City, July 24 2017.-  Gallery Weekend Mexico City (GWCDMX) is an event organized by Código Magazine where the most important galleries of the country participate. This year it will celebrate its fifth anniversary from September 21th to the 24th with an extensive program of exhibitions and activities around the work of 70 artists from 10 different nationalities and generations.

GWCDMX’s first edition was conformed by 13 galleries; this year, on its fifth edition,  34 galleries located in different neighborhoods such as Polanco, Lomas, San Miguel Chapultepec, Roma-Condesa, Juárez and San Rafael will take part of it. This year gathers galleries like kurimanzutto, Galería Alterna, Galería Luis Adelantado, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Breve, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Galería Hilario Galguera, and Galería Mascota, among other galleries from Mexico City and other cities within the country, including Guadalajara, Monterrey, and San Miguel de Allende, reuniting the most important Mexican galleries.

Additional to the exhibitions, two more activities will be hosted at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City: ArtTalks (September 23rd), a series of talks around the current condition of art, collecting, and the art market; and PaperWorks (September 23rd and 24th), an art book fair that on its third edition will reunite some of the most relevant international publishers specialized on the edition and publication of art, architecture, photography and essay books.

Polanco and San Miguel Chapultepec galleries will offer cocktails for their openings on  September 21st from 19 hrs; likewise, the galleries from Roma, Condesa, Juárez and San Rafael, will have their openings on September 22nd on the same schedule.

All the participant galleries will remain open to the public on September 23rd, from 11 to 19 hrs, and on September 24th from 11 to 18 hrs, presenting new artworks in previously unseen shows of Contemporary and Modern Art. There will be free transportation to take visitors across the different galleries´s neighborhoods from September 23rd to the 24th.   

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About Gallery Weekend México City

Gallery Weekend was created in 2013 with the purpose of celebrating art by increasing the exposure of the active national art scene and its most vivid places, art galleries. GWCDMX program focuses on galleries, being aware that these exhibition spaces and their shows remain vital for artistic production, and the current discussion around art. Galleries are the places where production, exhibition, and the art market meet. Throughout its five editions, GWCDMX has expanded its number of participant galleries –from 15 on the first edition to 34 in the last one–, and equally, on the number of its attendees –from 10 thousand in 2013 to 30 thousand in 2016. Mexico City was one of the first cities to implement this exhibition format that activates and benefits from the cultural infrastructure that exists in the city.