Galería Mascota Gallery in Mexico City
Cuauhtémoc · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
Galería Mascota operates within the more experimental segment of contemporary art in Mexico City, positioned between artist-run initiatives and a younger generation of commercial galleries that privilege flexibility over fixed market alignment. Located in Cuauhtémoc, it reflects the broader spatial dynamics of the city’s art scene, where exhibition-making often unfolds in hybrid or adaptive environments rather than traditional white-cube settings. Its program tends to emphasize emerging and mid-career artists, frequently engaging practices that move across installation, performance, video, and text-based work, with an attention to process and temporality rather than discrete objects.
The gallery’s curatorial direction is marked by an openness to collaboration and informal modes of production, aligning it with a wider network of galleries in Mexico City that prioritize experimentation and critical discourse. Exhibitions often adopt provisional or research-oriented formats, sometimes blurring the boundaries between exhibition, event, and social gathering. Within the local context, this positions the space as part of a distributed ecosystem where independent initiatives and smaller galleries sustain a parallel rhythm to more established institutions. While its international presence is less defined by large-scale fair participation, its relevance emerges through the circulation of artists and ideas across similar scenes globally, contributing to an understanding of Mexico City as a site of ongoing artistic production rather than a strictly market-driven hub.
Selected Artists
William Anastasi
American
A founding figure of American Conceptual and Minimal art, Anastasi developed body-driven drawing practices — including Subway Drawings and blind works — exploring chance, movement, sound, and the unconscious as generators of mark-making.
Charlotte vander Borght
Belgian
A Brussels-born, New York-based sculptor who repurposes industrial materials and architectural salvage — such as NYC subway seats and modernist façade panels — to reflect on programmed obsolescence, everyday objects, and collective memory.
Michel François
Belgian
A Brussels-based conceptual artist whose multimedia practice — encompassing sculpture, video, photography, and printed matter — examines contradictions between public and private life, power structures, and the transformation of everyday materials and found objects.
Marie Hazard
French
A Paris-based weaver who combines handloom techniques with digital printing, photography, and text fragments, treating weaving as a form of writing that registers memory, bodily movement, and the material history of craft traditions.
Wyatt Kahn
American
A New York artist who constructs wall-mounted multi-panel works that hover between painting and sculpture, using shaped raw canvas and geometric forms to question illusory representation and explore the spatial boundaries of minimalist abstraction.
Michael Ross
American
A New York artist working for over three decades at radically small scale, assembling wall-mounted sculptures from found hardware, scraps, and miscellaneous objects that question the relationship between scale, presence, and conceptual gesture.
Yves Scherer
Swiss
A Swiss, New York-based artist whose figurative sculptures, lenticular prints, and installations explore the porous boundaries between celebrity culture, fan fiction, personal memory, and mediated identity in the digital age.
Selected Exhibitions
Rallador
Roger Herman
A solo presentation by Los Angeles-based painter Roger Herman, introducing new works to the gallery's Roma Norte space in what marks the artist's first exhibition at Galería Mascota.
Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François
Ann Veronica Janssens, Michel François
A two-person exhibition pairing two major Belgian artists whose practices converge around sensory experience, material transformation, and the interrogation of perception, space, and everyday reality.
La Sombra que Teje en Mí
Marie Hazard
A solo exhibition of woven works by French artist Marie Hazard, curated by Marie Perennès, weaving together handloom techniques, photography, and text fragments in a meditation on memory, craft, and material language.
Looking Through the Other Eye - Left is Right and Right is Left: Drawings by Sculptors
William Anastasi, Mitchell Anderson, Liz Glynn, Liam Gillick, Marie Hazard, Avantgardo, Jane Benson, Antoine Catala
A curated group exhibition organized by artist Wyatt Kahn examining the drawing practices of sculptors, tracing the overlooked relationship between three-dimensional thinking and works on paper across multiple generations.
Type
Lawrence Weiner, Bedwyr Williams, Hana Miletić, Ryan Gander, Soil Thorton
A curated group show organized by Adam Carr treating the gallery as a blank page, assembling text and language-based works in vinyl, neon, and paint to explore the visual, political, and communicative dimensions of typography and written language.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Machteld Rullens
A solo exhibition by Belgian artist Machteld Rullens developed during a residency in Mexico City, transforming cardboard, resin, and paint into sculptural compositions that blur boundaries between fragility and strength, play and architectural form.
Ouroboros
Emily Kraus
The first solo exhibition in Mexico by British painter Emily Kraus, presenting ten large-scale canvases produced through a mechanized looping process that embeds cyclical time, repetition, and material memory directly into the surface of each work.
Time Repair
Michael Ross
A second solo presentation by New York artist Michael Ross featuring a series of intimate wall-mounted sculptures assembled from found hardware and discarded materials, probing the relationship between scale, presence, and the subversive potential of the miniature.
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