• Salón ACME presents its edition No.12 which will take place from February 6 to 9, 2025 at Proyectos Públicos, during Art Week in Mexico City.
  • The Curatorial Council of this year's Call is composed of: Fernanda Brenner, Keyna Eleison, Rosario Güiraldes, Helena Lugo, Haydeé Rovirosa, and José Noé Suro.
  • More than 1,600 applications were received from countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Canada, China, Korea, and Japan, among others.
  • The selected artists from the Call will be announced on December 12, 2024.
  • The invited state is Veracruz, with the curation of Rafael Toriz (Xalapa, 1983), essayist, curator, and cultural critic, who will present the exhibition Contornos de una barca alucinada.
  • The curation of Bodega is in charge of Enrique Giner de los Ríos (Brighton, 1979), who will present the show titled Yendo de la cama al living.
    -For the second time, the Sala section will be curated by Terremoto. The Patio will present a work by Mexican artist Julieta Gil.
  • The Projects section will present the work of 25 invited artists making specific site interventions.
  • For the second consecutive year, in partnership with Feria de Arte Material, the IVP (International Visitors Program) will be presented, inviting international curators and a series of talks on Saturday, February 8, 2025.
  • The celebration program will include La Fiesta del Viernes: Salón Alemán, an itinerant project by Eduardo Sarabia, presented for the first time in Berlin in

Open call

The main exhibition, resulting from the Open Call, brings together the work of dozens of artists from different nationalities, generations, and contexts. More than 1,600 applications were received, and the selected artists will be announced on December 12, 2024.

Curatorial council

Fernanda Brenner, Brazil

Founding director of Pivô in São Paulo and Salvador, and advisor of Latin American art for the Kadist Art Foundation. Based in São Paulo and Brussels, she trained as a filmmaker and production designer before becoming a curator. Since 2017, she has been a contributing editor for Frieze magazine. Among her recent projects is the curation of Luiza, an exhibition by Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth at the Tamayo Museum.

Keyna Eleison, Brazil

Keyna Eleison is a curator, writer, researcher, Griot heir and shaman, storyteller, singer, and ancestral chronicler based in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a degree in philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a specialization in art and architecture history, and a master's degree in art history from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She is currently Co-General Curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, scheduled for 2025.

Rosario Güiraldes, Argentina

Rosario Güiraldes is a visual arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she organizes exhibitions, collaborates with artists, and manages the museum's contemporary art collection. Among her upcoming exhibitions at the Walker Art Center are a retrospective of Abdias Nascimento (2027), for which she received a curatorial grant from the Warhol Foundation; the group show Ways of knowing (2025); and an exhibition of artist Walter Price (2024). Previously, she was an associate curator at The Drawing Center in New York. Güiraldes holds a master's degree from Bard College and a bachelor's degree from the University of Buenos Aires.

Helena Lugo, Mexico

Helena Lugo is an art historian, researcher, writer, and curator. She received her MFA in contemporary art curating from Goldsmiths College. She has worked on projects such as Salón ACME, MMAC Juan Soriano, and Chalton Gallery and has written multiple articles for art dissemination magazines, essays in books, and wall texts. Currently, she is the Director of Terremoto.

Haydeé Rovirosa, Mexico

Haydeé Rovirosa worked as Chief Curator of Ex Teresa, was director of Art&Idea and founder of Temístocles 44, currently she is an independent curator, and has taught art classes and seminars in museums and cultural institutions, she has a master's degree in museums from the Ibero-American University and a doctorate in Comparative Mythologies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, she is part of the board of PAC and is a member of the Friends of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum Association.

José Noé Suro, Mexico

José Noé Suro is known for being the owner of Cerámica Suro, a recognized ceramics factory located in Guadalajara, Mexico. Born into a family with a long tradition in ceramics production, Suro has managed to merge this heritage with contemporary art, turning his factory into a space for collaboration between artisans and internationally renowned artists. Since 2023, he has directed and managed Plataforma in Guadalajara, a space dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art.

Guest state: Veracruz

The guest state this year is Veracruz, curated by Rafael Toriz (Xalapa, 1983), essayist, curator, and cultural critic. He has been an advisor to the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Argentina and Director of Exhibitions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A writer and exhibition designer interested in the intersections between art and anthropology, he has worked as a curator of visual arts, literature, and archaeological heritage with exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, and the United States. Beneficiary of various arts promotion institutions, he has been a speaker at museums, cultural centers, and universities inside and outside Mexico, where he writes for magazines, digital media, newspapers, and collective books.

He will present the exhibition Contornos de una barca alucinada: “The intention of this exhibition —articulated as a fandango— is to account for the profound richness and plurality of the artistic scene of Veracruz; a polyhedral and mestizo place where the landscape is always an a rmation and its opposite: whether it is painting or ceramics, as well as engraving, video, lithography, sound art, textiles, installation, sculpture, digital art, or photography, Veracruz is a place traversed by a delicate combinatory, a raw beauty, and a spirit of vanguard that reinforces its historical condition as a gateway to the New World: in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, tradition has always been ruptured. And it is from the transfigured fragments of that tradition that this map is suggested—more celestial than terrestrial—about the different sensibilities that share not so much an origin as a hallucinatory path.

Bodega

Curated by Enrique Giner de los Ríos (Brighton, 1979) will offer a collective exhibition titled Yendo de la cama al living (Going from the bed to the living room). Bodega is one of the main sections of Salón ACME to present a group exhibition. Each year, a national or international curator is invited to articulate this exhibition.

The work of Enrique Giner de los Ríos focuses mainly on the editorial field, on topics of art, architecture, and design, producing books for artists and various cultural institutions. He also writes for a large number of publications in Mexico and abroad. He was editor for 10 years of the magazine Animal, where he collaborated closely with a wide variety of artists. He recently published the children's book Come see Mexican art, which takes a journey through the history of art in the country in a didactic way. In 2024, he was the curator of the exhibition Casa Ideal at Proyecto Multipropósito, an exhibition that included the work of more than 70 artists around that theme through models, photography, painting, and drawing. That same year, he also curated the exhibition of the artist Rafael Uriegas, Ocaso tropical, at Galería de Arte Mexicano (GAM). From 2017 to 2024, he was part of the board of the University Museum of El Chopo.

Projects

The curation of Projects is, for the fourth consecutive year, led by Ana Castella, director of Salón ACME since 2023. Curator and cultural manager with 20 years of experience in the field of contemporary art. Graduated from Central Saint Martins, with a degree in Art, Design, and Environment. This edition features 25 projects, with platforms from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and the United States.

Sala

For the second consecutive year, the editorial section is curated by Terremoto. Conceived as a critical platform to weave together artistic and curatorial practices marginalized by the modern-colonial legacy in the hemisphere, Terremoto has become the main bilingual independent network and medium on contemporary art in our continent and the Caribbean.

Patio

Patio is a section dedicated to large format installations. Located in the central part of the house, this space is intended to display site-specific works. Each edition an artist is invited to develop a proposal.

Julieta Gil (born in 1987, Mexico City) has been invited to this section for Salón ACME no. 12. She creates her work from a deep analysis of how power structures materialize as symbols that occupy public space. Experimenting with digital and analog media, her process originates from routine walks and participation in public protests in her hometown, meticulously documenting public architecture, monuments, and statues. Gil's recording system consists of photogrammetric scanning procedures traditionally used to create 3D models as simulations of physical objects. Gil conceives methodologies that record and catalog her bodily interaction with them, configuring and materializing them in a way that questions the very idea of the archive. Gil's practice encompasses installation, sculpture, 3D representations, and time-based media, incorporating themes of feminism, fiction, memory, and technology with a focus on confronting narratives.

In 2020, Gil received the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology for her project "Nuestra Victoria," conceived as a response to government censorship surrounding a prominent monument in Mexico City that served as a site of protest and intervention by feminist groups. She has exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Art Museum, the SCAD Museum of Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Tamayo Museum, the Alameda Art Laboratory, and the Digital Culture Center, among other institutions. In 2022 - 2023, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Technology in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon. Her work is part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.