House of Gaga Gallery in Mexico City
Roma Sur · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
House of Gaga is a commercial gallery with locations in Mexico City's Roma Sur neighborhood, Guadalajara, and Los Angeles, operating since at least 2007 — a span that positions it as one of the more durably independent voices within contemporary art in Mexico City. Founded with a distinctly unconventional sensibility, the gallery has built a roster that moves fluidly between Mexican and international artists, combining established figures such as Cosima von Bonin, Peter Fischli, Trisha Donnelly, and R.H. Quaytman with emerging and mid-career practitioners. Its program resists easy categorization, embracing conceptual, text-based, and image-driven work alongside painting, installation, and more hybrid practices. The curatorial approach favors a certain irreverence and intellectual specificity, reflected in exhibition titles and thematic groupings that frequently reference subcultural references, literary sensibilities, and cross-disciplinary affinities.
Within the broader landscape of galleries in Mexico City, House of Gaga occupies a distinctive position as a gallery that maintains genuine transatlantic and transnational exchange rather than merely gesturing toward it. Its tri-city structure allows for a programmatic coherence that travels — Guadalajara functions not as a secondary venue but as a distinct programmatic site with its own exhibition history. The gallery has participated in major international art fairs, extending its visibility well beyond Latin America. This international reach, combined with a consistent commitment to artists working across conceptual and material registers, gives House of Gaga a profile that is simultaneously rooted in the Mexican context and legible within the wider circuits of contemporary art production.
Selected Artists
Cosima von Bonin
German
Known for large-scale installations that combine sculptural objects, textile elements, and cultural references drawn from music, film, and consumer culture, often produced in collaborative frameworks.
Trisha Donnelly
American
Works across performance, sound, image, and object, developing an enigmatic practice that resists straightforward interpretation and operates through unpredictable formal and conceptual ruptures.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
Mexican
A painter whose elaborately crafted works incorporate embroidery and automotive references, weaving together feminist inquiry, queer desire, and the politics of labor and technology.
R.H. Quaytman
American
Develops a rigorous body of work structured as chapters, using silkscreen, gesso, and geometric patterning to interrogate the conditions and history of painting as a discipline.
Laura Owens
American
A painter engaged in the expanded possibilities of the medium, combining digital processes, hand-painting, and graphic languages to explore how images are made, circulated, and read.
Moyra Davey
Canadian
Her practice weaves together photography, essay film, and archival research, frequently drawing on literature, psychoanalysis, and personal history to examine memory, feminism, and domestic life.
Peter Fischli
Swiss
One half of the celebrated duo Fischli/Weiss, he has continued to engage with questions of everyday life, humor, and philosophical inquiry through sculpture, film, and installation.
Klara Lidén
Swedish
Creates installations and performances that address urban space, social norms, and the body, often incorporating found materials and architectural interventions to challenge structures of control and habitation.
Selected Exhibitions
Viral Flooring
Nicolas Ceccaldi
A solo presentation by the Montreal-born artist exploring surfaces, digital aesthetics, and the spread of images and objects through contemporary culture via installation and mixed media works.
Storage
Josef Strau
A solo exhibition by the Vienna-born, New York-based artist and writer whose practice weaves together text, object-making, and conceptual inquiry into conditions of production and display.
The Ritz
Cosima von Bonin
A solo exhibition by the German artist presenting her characteristic blend of sculptural and textile works that draw from leisure culture, music references, and collaborative modes of making.
ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
Peter Fischli
A solo presentation by the Swiss artist examining everyday logic and philosophical humor through sculptural and installative works that probe ordinary experience and the absurdity of systems.
Gagalajara: Una revisión
Julien Ceccaldi, Elizabeth Englander, Genoveva Filipovic, Karla Kaplun, Matthew Langan-Peck, Calvin Marcus, Heji Shin, Emily Sundblad
A group exhibition revisiting the gallery's Guadalajara program through a selection of artists associated with its history, surveying recurring aesthetic and conceptual preoccupations across the roster.
Sprinkles
Maggie Lee
A solo exhibition by the New York-based artist and filmmaker whose practice combines personal archive, collage, video, and handmade elements into immersive and emotionally layered environments.
Amistades Particulares, 17 años de Gaga
A curatorial survey marking seventeen years of the gallery's history, organized by Mariana Munguía and Luis Fernando Muñoz, bringing together artists from across the gallery's extended program.
Blood Everywhere
Richard Hawkins
A solo presentation by the Los Angeles-based artist whose practice combines painting, collage, and appropriated imagery to explore desire, queer iconography, and art historical reference.
Explore Mexico City
Three ways of reading the contemporary art landscape of Mexico City.
