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POV VISITS OF A MUSEUM THAT ISN’T A MUSEUM

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When we think of a place where works of art are exhibited, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a museum. But have you ever thought that you can also find works of art inside a shopping mall?
We invite you to participate in this activity where, after a tour through Arte Abierto Collection works, you can share your POV (point of view) by creating a TikTok video.

To enjoy this activity, we recommend bringing your cell phone with the TikTok app pre-installed.

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The Collection Chronicles: POV Visits of a Museum That Isn’t a Museum
Visit + Workshop

  • THU.AUG.21.2025
  • 4:00PM – 5:30PM
  • Open to the general public
  • Limited seating | Free admission
  • Amphitheater Arte Abierto

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PUBLIC PROGRAM

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The Collection Chronicles is a program that offers different ways to explore Arte Abierto’s permanent collection. Through various activities that invite the public to experiment and play with the works—regardless of their prior knowledge—participants will be able to inhabit spaces for dialogue where contemporary art is experienced in a close and collective way, open to multiple interpretations.
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Arte Abierto has a solid collection of works by highly relevant artists in the field of contemporary art on loan. Some of these installations and works were selected or commissioned from the very beginning of ARTZ, which was conceived as a small city where users can enjoy spaces for recreation, leisure, exercise, work, residential life, and art, all in one place. This fosters social cohesion and facilitates encounters between people through its spaces, creating bridges between everyday life, art, and contemporary culture.

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES

MAGNETIC PROJECTION

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Contemporary art doesn’t follow rules or fixed interests. It isn’t governed by pre-established values; in fact, it unfolds in multiple directions, influenced by the context, experience, and thinking of each artist.

With this idea as a starting point, we invite families to explore some pieces from Arte Abierto Collection. During the visit, we will explore some concepts and processes that shape contemporary practices. At the end, each family will collaboratively create a conceptual portrait, freely combining techniques such as painting, drawing, pastels, collage, writing, or object appropriation.

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The Collection Chronicles: Magnetic Projection
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  • THU.AUG.14.2025
  • 4:00PM – 5:30PM
  • Open to the general public
  • Limited seating | Free admission
  • Amphitheater Arte Abierto

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PUBLIC PROGRAM

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The Collection Chronicles is a program that offers different ways to explore Arte Abierto’s permanent collection. Through various activities that invite the public to experiment and play with the works—regardless of their prior knowledge—participants will be able to inhabit spaces for dialogue where contemporary art is experienced in a close and collective way, open to multiple interpretations.
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Arte Abierto has a solid collection of works by highly relevant artists in the field of contemporary art on loan. Some of these installations and works were selected or commissioned from the very beginning of ARTZ, which was conceived as a small city where users can enjoy spaces for recreation, leisure, exercise, work, residential life, and art, all in one place. This fosters social cohesion and facilitates encounters between people through its spaces, creating bridges between everyday life, art, and contemporary culture.

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES

ARCANA FOOTPRINT

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In this visit, we will explore how tarot can be used as a narrative and interpretive tool for art, and how art constructs a personal narrative. We will conclude the tour with an instant print workshop, in which, using simple materials such as disposable plates, vegetables, and fruits, we will print an engraving that tells our life story based on a brief introduction to the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. This activity is an opportunity to explore creativity, life narratives, and the connection between art and tarot.

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The Collection Chronicles: Arcana Footprint
Visit + Workshop

  • THU.AUG.07.2025
  • 4:00PM – 5:30PM
  • Open to the general public
  • Limited seating | Free admission
  • Amphitheater Arte Abierto

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PUBLIC PROGRAM

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The Collection Chronicles is a program that offers different ways to explore Arte Abierto’s permanent collection. Through various activities that invite the public to experiment and play with the works—regardless of their prior knowledge—participants will be able to inhabit spaces for dialogue where contemporary art is experienced in a close and collective way, open to multiple interpretations.
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Arte Abierto has a solid collection of works by highly relevant artists in the field of contemporary art on loan. Some of these installations and works were selected or commissioned from the very beginning of ARTZ, which was conceived as a small city where users can enjoy spaces for recreation, leisure, exercise, work, residential life, and art, all in one place. This fosters social cohesion and facilitates encounters between people through its spaces, creating bridges between everyday life, art, and contemporary culture.

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

THE COLLECTION CHRONICLES

The Collection Chronicles is a program that offers different ways to explore Arte Abierto’s permanent collection. Through various activities that invite the public to experiment and play with the works—regardless of their prior knowledge—participants will be able to inhabit spaces for dialogue where contemporary art is experienced in a close and collective way, open to multiple interpretations.
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Arte Abierto has a solid collection of works by highly relevant artists in the field of contemporary art on loan. Some of these installations and works were selected or commissioned from the very beginning of ARTZ, which was conceived as a small city where users can enjoy spaces for recreation, leisure, exercise, work, residential life, and art, all in one place. This fosters social cohesion and facilitates encounters between people through its spaces, creating bridges between everyday life, art, and contemporary culture.

The Collection Chronicles are held at Arte Abierto Pedregal and are free-of-charge.

UGO RONDINONE

long last happy, 2020

Neon, acrylic glass, translucent foil, aluminium.

Ugo Rondinone uses poetry and language as a basis to explore emotions that deeply impact human beings. LONG LAST HAPPY (2020), a ten-meter-long neon sign made up of rainbow-striped letters, is part of his Rainbow poems series. The title of the piece refers to a collection of short stories by the writer Barry Hannah.

For Rondinone, this piece is a poetic statement addressed to passersby, a message of eternal happiness that is timeless and unites people across millennia and continents.

A rainbow is a bridge that unites everything with everyone.

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UGO RONDINONE

(Switzerland, 1964)

Recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, Rondinone is an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. The breadth and generosity of his vision of human nature have resulted in a wide range of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects, installations, videos, and performances. His hybridized forms, which borrow from ancient and modern cultural sources alike, exude pathos and humor, going straight to the heart of the most pressing issues of our time, where modernist achievement and archaic expression intersect.

Ugo Rondinone was born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. He studied at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna before moving to New York in 1997, where he lives and works to this day. His work has been the subject of recent institutional exhibitions at Belvedere, Vienna (2021) Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Petit Palais, Paris, Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Venice (2022), The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Storm King, New York, The Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2023), Museum SAN, Wonju, Museum Würth 2 and Sculpture Garden, Künzelsau, The Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland and Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2024). In 2007 he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

REMOTE PULSE, 2019

Installation with heart rate sensor board.

Remote Pulse is an interactive installation consisting of two pulse-sensing stations that are interconnected over the Internet. When a person places their hands on one station automatically the persono in the other station feels their pulse, as the plates vibrate in sync with the heartbeath of the remote person, and viceversa. Two lights indicate the hearthbeat of both persons as well.

This piece was originally presented as part of Lozano-Hemmer’s Border Tuner installation across the US-Mexico border, with one station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and the other in El Paso, Texas. For the exhibition Latidos, the stations were interconnected between Arte Abierto, in Mexico City and the Museo Amparo of Puebla. Now both stations are located in the architectural complex of Artz Pedregal.

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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

(Mexico, 1967)

Interdisciplinary artist whose work has been focused in developing interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance. His main interest is to create platforms for public participation, usign technology as a language of our time, and as an inevitable yet questionable vehicle. He was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work has been presented at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA),among other spaces.

ERICK MEYENBERG

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE, 2022

Ceramic sculpture

During a trip to Japan, Erick Meyenberg saw and filmed a chrysanthemum on a Tokyo cementery after falling because of a typhoon. The scence reverberated in the artista due to a personal momento he was going through that made everything around him look fragmented. Thus, from the Japanese philosophy and technique of Kintsugi, which consist of repairing broken ceramics, highlighting the joints to underline their value and beauty despite their fractures, he had the ide of making a sculpture of the dismembered petals of that flower –considered the imperial emblem of Japon–. Meyenberg then thought that the sculpture had to rise from the ground just as Aphrodite rose from the waters; its forms recover the strenght and movement ow water, while its color reflects the love and eroticism embodied by Aphrodite. The Kintsugi metaphor invite to reconize the beauty that exits even in the fragments or breaks that are part of life.

This work represents the first time that Meyenberg works with ceramics. It was conceived specifically for his video-installations Things We Do for Love, commissioned by Arte Abierto, and was produced at Cerámica Suro workshop in Guadalajara.

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ERICK MEYENBERG

(Mexico, 1980)

Interdisciplinary visual artist who sees painting as a fundamental element of expression, although he also explores other media such as sound installation, drawing, collage, video and performance. In his work, he shows a special interest in literature, history, social sciences, and natural sciences. His work has been exhibited in spaces such as Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Museo Tamayo, inSite / Casa Gallina, Biennial of the Americas, Arts University of Berlin, among others.
Representative in the Mexico Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale (April, 2024) with the project ‘Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre’, along with curator Tania Ragaso.

JULIA CARRILLO

ESE PUNTO EN EL ESPACIO, 2021

Ese punto en el espacio (That Point in Space) (2021) is an optical artifact that shows the capacity of geometry and reflective matter to guide light and build simulated spaces that challenge our gaze. When looking inside the piece, you can observe a game of infinite reflections that, in turn, generate a parallel scenario in relation to our position in real physical space.

Conceived as a light sculpture, the effect it produces is the result of a precise composition in which a series of mirrors are arranged geometrically. The abstraction that is generated represents, for Julia Carrillo, a tribute to The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges in which a point in space contains the four corners of the universe, that is, the Whole.

The art piece was created and commissioned especially for the Luz Instante exhibition that was presented at Arte Abierto in 2021 and which brought together seven works by Carrillo focused on the exploration of light.

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JULIA CARRILLO

(Mexico, 1987)

She studied mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the San Carlos Academy and studied at the New York School of Visual Arts (SVA). She has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. She is currently a researcher at C3 (Center for Complexity Sciences, UNAM) and is a beneficiary of the Young Creators program of the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA).