Mexico City Art Week 2027: Zona Maco Tickets, Free Satellite Shows and Where to Stay

The fair at Citibanamex

The fair runs from 3 until 7 February 2027. It is where the market sorts itself out, so go on your first full day and give the rest of the trip to the galleries. Contemporary art fills most of the halls, with smaller sections for modern art, design and photography, plus a curated part called EJES. In 2026 the Wednesday was an evening opening only, from 17:00 to 20:00, and the long days started on the Thursday.

Prices for 2027 are not out yet, so treat last season's as a guide. A single day cost $475 and the Wednesday opening $570. A four-day pass was $1,600, with a service charge on top of all of them.

Getting there is the awkward part. Citibanamex is on Avenida del Conscripto, and from Roma or Condesa you should allow 45 minutes to an hour each way by car. Arrange your ride back before you go in. If you can't stand convention halls, skip the fair altogether, because the free galleries are the better week anyway.

Salón ACME in Juárez

ACME is the room people talk about afterwards. It takes over Proyecto Público Prim, a neoclassical mansion on General Prim that stood abandoned for decades. The peeling paint, worn wood and old graffiti have been left where they were. Artists come from an open call, galleries show solo projects, and the biggest work goes in the open courtyard.

The 2027 edition runs from 4 until 8 February. Wear flat shoes, as the floors and staircases are uneven and the upper storeys are the best of it. It's about 10 minutes' walk from Roma or Condesa, and a few minutes from Metro Insurgentes.

Galleries that cost nothing

Galería OMR is the easiest one to reach, at Córdoba 100 in Roma Norte, in a 1970s concrete block that was once a record and book shop. It's open Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 18:00, and 11:00 to 16:00 on Saturday. The gallery also has a warehouse space, the Bodega, on Dr. Liceaga. That one opens Wednesday to Friday from 12:00 to 18:00, and you ring the bell to be let in.

A few streets south, PEANA shows young Mexican and Latin American artists in a Roma Sur townhouse on Tlaxcala. It's open Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00, until 18:00 early in the week and a little earlier on Friday and Saturday. Last season it opened its new shows on 29 January, before the fairs, so the Roma walk is worth doing even if you arrive early.

Over in San Miguel Chapultepec, kurimanzutto fills a converted 1949 timber yard on Gobernador Rafael Rebollar. It's one vast hall under the original wooden ceiling, with skylights and lava-rock walls. It's open Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00, to 18:00 early in the week and 16:00 on Friday and Saturday. It shuts completely between shows while the next one is installed, so check before you make the trip.

Galería Hilario Galguera runs three rooms in the city, which means checking which one your show is in. The main one is a corner house on Francisco Pimentel in San Rafael, open Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 17:00 and Saturday until 14:00. Another sits in the central patio of the Mondrian hotel in Condesa, so you can see a show and then eat.

Barragán's house and street

Casa Luis Barragán is the booking to make before you buy a flight. The architect's own house is on General Francisco Ramírez in Daniel Garza, behind a blank grey street wall. Inside there's a hot-pink vestibule, a double-height living room and a walled roof terrace of coloured planes.

The guided tour lasts about 50 minutes, in Spanish or English, and runs on Monday, Tuesday and Friday. It is capped at six people with no exceptions, outside guides can't lead it, and nobody under 12 gets in. The self-guided route takes about 30 minutes on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, with staff on hand for questions. Self-guided slots are released around two months ahead and guided ones around six weeks ahead; the guided dates go fast. Timed slots come only from the house's own website, which posts no price in advance. The garden and terrace are outdoors and close in rain. Metro Tacubaya is about 10 minutes' walk away.

LABOR is a few doors along the same short street, free, behind a plain unmarked door, and good on research-driven political work. It's open Tuesday to Thursday from 11:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 11:00 to 15:00. Like kurimanzutto, it closes between exhibitions. The Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura museum is on this street too, which makes three stops in one walk.

The ranch outside the city

La Cuadra San Cristóbal is the Barragán image you have already seen. It's a horse ranch in Los Clubes, in the State of Mexico, under an hour's drive out. There's an enormous flat magenta wall, a long stone drinking trough and a shallow water mirror fed by the Fuente de los Amantes. Tours start on the hour from 11:00, Tuesday to Saturday, and run about an hour. Admission was $700 last season, less with an INE or INAPAM card. You book a slot on its own site.

Museums for the gaps

Museo Jumex on Plaza Carso is free, and it has the strongest contemporary programme in the city. Richard Prince's 'Tell Me Everything' runs until 7 February 2027, which covers the whole of art week. It's open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, and until 19:00 on Saturday. The Soumaya is next door, so two museums and lunch fit into one stop.

Museo Tamayo is a low grey concrete building half buried in the trees of Bosque de Chapultepec, on Paseo de la Reforma. Entry is $95 and free for everyone on Sunday. It's open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:30, and it takes cash or Visa and Mastercard only. A major international biennial is staged here until 7 February 2027. Take Metro Line 1 or 3 to Chapultepec, or Metrobús Line 7 to Gandhi.

MUAC has the most rigorous curating in town. It sits at Ciudad Universitaria in the far south, so give it its own half day rather than wedging it into a fair day. Entry is $60, half price for everyone on Sunday and free on Thursday from 18:00 to 20:00. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 on weekdays and 11:00 at weekends, to 18:00, and to 20:00 on Thursday and Saturday.

Where to stay

Stay in Roma Norte or Condesa. The Roma galleries, ACME and most of the eating are all walkable from there, and the fair is the one thing you'll need a car for. If you want art near the room, the Mondrian on Aguascalientes in Condesa has a gallery room in its patio. Staying west instead, around San Miguel Chapultepec, puts you within a walk of kurimanzutto and Barragán's street.

Booking and closed days

Book Barragán's house and the ranch the moment slots appear, as both cap numbers hard. Almost everything else is shut on Monday, and the galleries in the west can close for days while a new show goes up.

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