Galería Karen Huber Gallery in Mexico City
Juárez · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
Galería Karen Huber operates from the Juárez district as a mid-career oriented contemporary art space with a program that bridges local production and broader Latin American and international dialogues. Founded with a clear emphasis on sustained artistic development, the gallery represents a roster of artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, and conceptual practices, often foregrounding materially driven approaches alongside more research-based work. Its exhibitions tend to privilege formal rigor and process, presenting projects that balance aesthetic concerns with underlying conceptual frameworks. Rather than pursuing rapid turnover, the program suggests a measured rhythm, with recurring collaborations that allow artists to build continuity over time.
Within the context of contemporary art in Mexico City, the gallery occupies a position that reflects the city’s layered ecosystem, where commercial galleries often intersect with artist-run initiatives and institutional platforms. Its presence in Juárez situates it within a zone that has become increasingly active, contributing to a network of spaces that extend beyond the more established clusters. At the same time, participation in international art fairs and engagement with collectors outside Mexico signal an outward-facing dimension that aligns it with a broader circuit. In this sense, it forms part of the evolving landscape mapped through galleries in Mexico City, where local specificity and international visibility are not mutually exclusive but operate in parallel, shaping how contemporary practices circulate between contexts.
Selected Artists
Allan Villavicencio
Mexican
A Mexico City-based artist whose multidimensional practice spans painting, drawing, collage, and assemblage to interrogate urban space, perception theory, and the imaginary landscapes generated by everyday surroundings.
Lucía Vidales
Mexican
A painter whose work centers the body as figure, gaze, and painted surface itself, exploring liminal uses of color and layered mark-making informed by the lasting impact of colonial and historical imaginaries on contemporary bodies.
Ana Segovia
Mexican
A Mexico City painter who draws on film stills from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre to interrogate hypermasculine archetypes, queering national identity through fluorescent palettes and cinematographic compositions.
Othiana Roffiel
Mexican
A painter whose practice oscillates between abstraction and figuration, building an evolving visual language drawn from memory and imagination to create enigmatic landscapes that merge the anthropomorphic, vegetal, and ethereal.
Luis Hampshire
Mexican
An Oaxaca-based artist whose practice encompasses drawing, collage, found objects, and assemblage as a visual inquiry into diverse ways of conceiving painting, navigating the tension between abstraction and figuration.
Ad Minoliti
Argentinian
An Argentine non-binary artist whose geometric abstract painting and participative environments engage feminist and queer theory, drawing on Latin American abstraction traditions to challenge binary structures of identity, gender, and normativity.
Selected Exhibitions
Goodbye Ebony Horse
Ian Grose
The South African painter's first solo show at the gallery, presenting new works that introduce a more metaphorical and theatrical dimension to his practice, working from memory and imagination rather than photographic references.
Todo Este Tiempo, Toda Esta Pintura: 11 Años de la Galería Karen Huber
Ad Minoliti, Alejandra Laviada, Alejandro García Contreras, Alida Cervantes, Allan Villavicencio, Ana Segovia, Andrew Birk, Andrew Holmquist, Carolina Fusilier, Cecilia Granara, César Rangel, Christian Camacho, Daniel Horowitz, Edgar Cobián, Endy Hupperich, Eric Valencia, Eugenia Martínez, Eva Ayache-Vanderhorst, Ian Grose, Jerónimo Ruedi, Kanako Namura, Keke Vilabelda, Kristi Kongi, Lucía Vidales, Luis Hampshire, Malù Dalla Piccola, Manuel Forte, Manuela Solano, Marc Breslin, Merike Estna, Nicole Chaput, Othiana Roffiel, Rafael Uriegas, Yann Leto
A survey of 34 artists marking the gallery's eleventh anniversary, tracing the evolution of its painting-focused programme from inaugural participants to current collaborators, spanning feminist, queer, formal, and cross-disciplinary approaches.
Lucía Vidales – Cute & Wild
Lucía Vidales
A solo exhibition presenting new paintings where Vidales builds a fantastical universe populated by curious creatures, exploring a tension between innocence and mischief while examining the entangled fates of human, animal, and painted bodies.
Allan Villavicencio – El Borde en Donde Estar
Allan Villavicencio
A solo exhibition investigating pictorial space as a zone of tension between interior and exterior, treating each canvas as a fragment of a larger whole that unfolds across the gallery, reflecting on painting's place within contemporary image culture.
Superficies de Revolución
Allan Villavicencio, Alejandro García Contreras, Ernesto Solana, Jeanie Riddle, Lucía Vidales, Merike Estna
A curated group exhibition bringing together six artists whose practices interrogate painting's formal and conceptual boundaries, exploring surface, volume, and the pictorial through diverse material and geometric approaches.
Othiana Roffiel – Rehearsal of Becoming
Othiana Roffiel
A solo exhibition presenting a new body of paintings conceived without photographic references, drawing on memory, imagination, and the subconscious to build an evolving visual language that merges the abstract, figurative, and bodily.
Luis Hampshire – Cuerpo Vasija
Luis Hampshire
Hampshire's third solo show at the gallery, presenting a hybrid body of work in which canvases double as sculptural vessels, held upright on clay and metal structures, exploring the body as container and the fluid boundary between painting and three-dimensional form.
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