Past
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Their Silhouettes Bristled with Razors
Naomi Rincón Gallardo 3 Feb - 5 Apr 2025 PEANA is thrilled to announce Their Silhouettes Bristled with Razors, Naomi Rincón Gallardo's first solo exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition is the premier in Mexico of her video Eclipse . Eclipse announces the end of a world in the chiaroscuro of multiple daily extinctions. For the ancient Nahuas, the... Read more -
Aguas verdaderas
Federico Pérez Villoro 7 Nov 2024 - 7 Jan 2025 PEANA is thrilled to announce Aguas Verdaderas, Federico Pérez Villoro's second solo exhibition at the gallery. In the exhibition Aguas verdaderas, Federico Pérez Villoro explores the domestication of water and the environmental impacts of hydroelectric industries. Aiming to challenge the technical expectations of a variety of navigation technologies, his work... Read more -
Calyx Imaginalis
Vica Pacheco, curated by Dea López 19 Sep - 23 Oct 2024 PEANA is pleased to announce Vica Pacheco's first solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition presents itself as an essay exploring the anatomy of Vica Pacheco’s sonic universe and the creatures that inhabit it, many of which oscillate between botanical spaces and the delicate boundary of fiction. Calyx Imaginalis recovers... Read more -
Isla Eléctrica
Carolina Fusilier, curated by Gaby Cepeda 5 Jun - 31 Aug 2024 PEANA is pleased to announce Carolina Fusilier's first solo exhibition with the gallery. This body of work emerges from a fiction based around real socio-political events, the recent history of human hands radically manipulating the landscape in the name of a near-divine logic of progress. The engine behind this leap-forward... Read more -
Cutting Stock
Tenant of Culture 11 Apr - 11 May 2024 PEANA is excited to announce its participation in Condo Mexico City 2024 , hosting Soft Opening , London with a solo exhibition by Tenant of Culture . Condo is a large-scale collaborative exhibition of international galleries founded by Vanessa Carlos in 2016. The initiative encourages the evaluation of existing models,... Read more -
Forms Under the Influences
Julia Rometti 5 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 PEANA is pleased to present Forms Under The Influences , the first solo show of Julia Rometti with the gallery. The exhibition presents a narrative of space, where an heterogeneous collection of conditions, events, materials and speculations, all intertwined with the space itself, are envisaged as characters reenacting themselves, interplaying... Read more -
a room of her own
Louis Eisner & Lukas Gschwandtner 10 Nov - 20 Dec 2023 PEANA is thrilled to present “a room of her own” an exhibition with works by Lukas Gschwandtner and Louis Eisner. Through this exhibition Gschwandtner seeks to recreate, site-specifically, an entire room with what he calls 'canvas fossils'. Gschwandtner’s presentation is a personal reinterpretation of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's bed sitting room designed... Read more -
Saliva
José Eduardo Barajas 2 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 The first solo exhibition of José Eduardo Barajas at PEANA consists of sixteen new paintings using a combination of traditional painting techniques and contemporary imagery, they will be accompanied by a sound piece that explores the gallery's space. What may be seen as an instantaneous, almost erroneous aspect of image-making... Read more -
Inverse Sátiro Envy Pt. I & II, Curated by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio
ASMA & Julio Ruelas 7 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 Part I You were a lugubrious traveler of the realm of terror, with your fearsome face and weary expression, you rode on the lust of the billy goat, dragging the long darkness of your cloak. - Enrique González Martínez, to Julio Ruelas There is nothing more bohemian than the cursed... Read more -
Double Portrait
Em Rooney 20 Apr - 20 May 2023 Double Portrait is Em Rooney's first solo exhibition in Mexico and at PEANA. The artist's multimedia practice is anchored in a study of film, photography, and the material indices of these seemingly ephemeral, auratic genres. Earlier iterations of her work can be seen in sculptural containers framing analogue photographs, the... Read more -
We pass too quickly through this place of birth and deathAdrián S. Bará
Adrián S. Bará 7 Feb - 1 Apr 2023 We pass too quickly through this place of birth and death o “pasamos demasiado deprisa por este lugar de nacimiento y muerte” es la primera exhibición individual de Adrián S. Bará en PEANA. La frase se inspira en el libro The Emperor of Poetry traducido de Conquered Nations por Chen... Read more -
A quien le canta el viento
Sol Oosel 3 Feb - 25 May 2023 In Sol Oosel's first exhibition for PEANA in Monterrey, two stone menhirs named Las Coristas welcome us at the entrance of the gallery. In addition to the sculpture, seven paintings, a film and two sculptures that project still images are on display. The components of the exhibition are a direct... Read more -
On The Surface
Manuela García 26 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, CDMX, MX Manuela García. On The Surface comprises a set of nine small-scale and two large-scale works that examine the logics of the painterly surface. Composed of soft brushstrokes in different shades of red and blue, which together animate fragmented geometric shapes, the surfaces of García’s work... Read more -
Nibbling Ribs
Isaac Olvera 21 Oct 2022 - 13 Jan 2023 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX This exhibition brings together a selection of works derived from one of the artistic investigations most extensive of Olvera: Natasha (2016-2022). This long-term project blurs the boundaries between performance, dramaturgy and text, and is located in a rather unknown, close to poetry and a mystique... Read more -
Retrato de un Artista / Portrait of an Artist
Adrián S. Bará, Ana Mazzei, ASMA, Carlos H. Matos, Manuela de Laborde x Luis Orozco Madero, Manuela García, Lucas Cantú, Rodrigo Hernández, Ximena Garrido-Lecca 24 Sep - 14 Nov 2022 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, CDMX, Mx Your picture is still On my wall, on my wall The colors are bright Bright as ever Daniel Johnston Portrait of an Artist / Portrait of an Artist is the first exhibition in PEANA’s new space in Mexico City with the participation of Adrián S.... Read more -
Futuristic FlowerLeo Marz
Leo Marz 5 Feb - 1 Oct 2022 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX PEANA is pleased to present Futuristic Flower, a solo exhibition by Leo Marz curated by Laura Orozco. Futuristic Flower explores the visibility and circulation of everyday objects and those that derive from the artistic endeavor; and reviews how both operate and present themselves in the... Read more -
The memory we don’t recall
Héctor Zamora, Roger White, Tezontle, Jorge Satorre, SANGREE, Pedro Reyes, Gala Porras-Kim, Jerónimo Elespe, Manuela de Laborde, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, ASMA 21 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 MAIN GALLERY PEANA IN COLLABORATION WITH LABOR, MTY, MX PEANA and LABOR are pleased to present the exhibition The Memory We Don’t Recall, a group show that will be on display during the course of four weeks at PEANA, from November 21st to December 23rd. The exhibition brings together the... Read more -
Para Morelio
Rafa Esparza, Romeo Gómez López, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Ana Segovia, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Julio Galán 9 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX PEANA is pleased to present Para Morelio, a group show that originates from a re-reading of Julio Galán’s body of work and the Neo-Mexicanism painting history. Curated by Deslave (Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts) and Ana Pérez Escoto, the exhibition gathers the work of Rafa... Read more -
Más allá del mundo, hay letras
Federico Pérez Villoro 19 Jun - 15 Oct 2019 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX Ours is a time of hybrids: of organism and machine, limb and tool, thought and code, intelligence, and processor. Those relationships that were alarming dichotomies that troubled our predecessors are now intrinsic ways of our operating. However, even when understanding and closely interacting with technological... Read more -
Half Blood Princess
ASMA 11 Jun 2019 - 14 Feb 2020 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX. PEANA is pleased to present Half Blood Princess an exhibition of new works by artist duo ASMA. The exhibition echoes a mythological open narrative of an encounter at the shore of a lagoon. Some fragments of this narrative suggest a hybrid being, a recognition of... Read more -
Usando este cuerpo, pensando en la fuente
Tomás Díaz Cedeño 27 Mar - 10 Jun 2019 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX The new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. Robert Smithson The proportion between the natural and the artificial, as well as the continuous interaction between empirical belief systems and scientific methodologies, constitute the central axis of the artistic production of Tomás Díaz... Read more -
Syncretic Something / Algún Sincretismo
Mariela Gutiérrez 31 Jan - 7 Mar 2019 Mariela's practice takes place at different times and locations simultaneously; matter is flexible and timeless, time is not linear, nor space a place restricted to a measure. By means of diverse materials of common use, Mariela generates domestic architectures, some made to exist during a moment or even to be... Read more -
Prima Materia
Ana Montiel, Alison Kudlow, Andrea Galvani, Faivovich & Goldberg, Mario Navarro, Barb Smith, Liat Yossifor, Gonzalo Lebrija, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Bosco Sodi, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Tezontle, Adrián S. Bará, Tove Storch, Ernesto Solana, Diego Orendain. 22 Sep - 26 Oct 2018 PEANA OFF-SITE MINNEWASKA STATE PARK, NY, US. The group exhibition PRIMA MATERIA echoes the alchemist’s thought of the existence of a prime matter that brings everything into being, the original component of the universe. In Aristotle’s philosophy, the concept involves nature in both a physical and a metaphysical viewpoint, referring... Read more -
Spirit Painting
Nina Beier, José León Cerrillo, Simon Fujiwara, Nathan Hylden, Christian Jankowski, Marie Lund, Benoît Maire, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Diego Salvador Ríos, Eduardo Sarabia, Alejandro Romero, Sangree, Ariel Schlesinger 11 Sep 2018 - 10 Feb 2019 MAIN GALLERY PEANA, MTY, MX In 1981, an exhibition titled A New Spirit in Painting was presented at the Royal Academy in London. It sought to revalue the role of painting in an era where the focus of attention was more practical, linked to postmodern movements such as conceptual art,... Read more -
We Tried It and It’s True
Liza Lacroix & Moch Hahn 10 Sep 2018 - 10 Feb 2019 PEANA, MTY, MX. The taste is mellow and full. The color is clear and warm. And the aroma is very pleasant. No matter how you measure, it’s a true value. What else is there for us to say? Except try it. It’s true. An exhibition with works by Liza Lacroix... Read more -
Common Forms
Doug Ashford, Heather Guertin, Nevine Mahmoud, Eamon Ore-Giron, Gabriel Rosas Alemán. 6 Sep - 6 Nov 2018 MAIN GALLERY, CURATED BY OWEN DUFFY PEANA, MTY, MX. This exhibition is a love letter to the common form, a type of recent abstraction related to the utopian movements of modernism. In the early twentieth century, modernists like Joaquín Torres García and Luis Barragán pursued geometries that were, supposedly, universal.... Read more -
Twice told Tales
Jippies Asquerosos, Dulce Chacón, Pedro Noigandres, Pablo Rasgado, Melanie Smith and Marco Treviño. 2 Feb - 15 Mar 2018 Twice-Told Tales is a journey through the work of a group of artists who resort to dismantling as a mean to rethink the ways in which images recall a fragmented present. Artists in this exhibition give a second skin to the narratives that order the chaos of the world through... Read more -
You Are Here
Megan Pahmier, Peter Brock, Ricardo González, Barbara Smith, Mario Navarro, Veronika Pausova, Isa Carrillo, Javier M. Rodríguez, Federico Pérez Villoro, Francisco Ugarte, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Adrián S. Bará & Claudia Peña Salinas 9 Nov 2017 - 15 Jan 2019 French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) introduces the idea of phenomenology — perception on the ground of experience, which involves sensing and the senses— to the study of visual art in mid-twenty century. For him, phenomenology offers a mean for understanding subjectivity as mechanism to interconnect with what is around us.... Read more -
Piedras Vivas
Tezontle 1 Jun - 15 Aug 2017 In their debut solo exhibition, Piedras Vivas, Mexico City-based collaborative duo Tezontle offer works that function between found object and sculpture, cast and form, archaeology and invention. Revealing traces of their fabrication, the works in the exhibition point to the active and composite nature of national and cultural narratives, history... Read more
