The year 2024 is coming to an end and, while many leave the city, those of us who stay know that CDMX has a special magic at this time of year. It is a time to discover unique festivals that celebrate the change of year with music, art and good food, or to take advantage of the quieter days to visit exhibitions that remind us why this city is a cultural epicenter.
Here is our selection of plans to close the year, enjoy the best of the city and start 2025 with the highest energy.
LAST DANCE OF 2024
December 27 - 21:00 pm
Revuelta Queer House
Close 2024 with a party that promises to be anything but conventional at Revuelta Queer House, a space that redefines the party as a place of encounter, freedom and resistance. In charge of setting the beat will be Mister Tron, known for his ability to create sets that mix genres and eras, making them irresistible for the dance floor.
ODISEA
December 31
21:00 pm
General Prim 32, Juárez
The night will be headlined by a live show from Midnight Magic NY, who will bring their disco-funk sound straight from New York. The line-up also includes talents such as Alonso Rivero, Boyanza Rec Collectors and Jawar, who will keep the energy high. As if that weren't enough, the event will feature a tropical pop-up courtesy of Los Paraíso, ideal for those who don't miss the hottest dance floors. The gozadera will be guaranteed with acts such as Los Norteños del Sur, Tonga Conga, Love Miss Mara and Real Cumbia Activa, who promise to turn the night into a true sonic odyssey.
NEW YEAR'S EVE AT PIAZZA PASTICCIO
December 31 - 20:00 pm
Praga 33, Juárez
Start the evening (and your year) off right with an antipasti bar, followed by a 7-course menu designed by chef Matteo Zega. The menu includes a glass of sparkling wine to toast the new year 2025. They will have live music throughout the dinner and later the beats of @chulalalula promise to get everyone dancing.
Reservations by Whatsapp or OpenTable.
END OF THE YEAR AT SALAZAR
December 31 - 19:00 pm
Bid farewell to 2024 at Salazar with a special menu that includes delicacies such as foie gras torchon, lobster roll, prime rib wagyu and shrimp sabayon, each dish designed to delight even the most demanding palates. The night doesn't end with the food: you can also enjoy an open bar and live music by a DJ, creating the perfect atmosphere to celebrate in style. The cost is $3,200 per person, and you can reserve your place through OpenTable.
BRAVA'S NEW YEAR'S EVE
December 31
Welcome the year in a place where good vibes, a spectacular menu and an unparalleled view combine to welcome the new year in the best way. Get ready for a night full of style, delicious food and an ambiance that promises to be as special as the date deserves. But no sparklers (because this is not Masaryk).
NYE AT UTRAMARINOS
January 1st 2025
To celebrate the new year, Ultramarinos invites you to enjoy the first day of 2025 with its unique menu full of new additions. Discover a different proposal for these dates and live unforgettable moments in a warm and festive atmosphere with Chef Lucho Martinez.
JUMEX MUSEUM
DÉBORA DELMAR: LIBERTY & SECURITY
Until January 5, 2025
Débora Delmar (Mexico, 1986) explores in her work the effects of gentrification, consumerism and urban surveillance, analyzing how architecture physically and symbolically impacts our surroundings. In LIBERTY & SECURITY, she reflects on the privatization and homogenization of public space as a consequence of globalization, highlighting how elements such as fences, security devices and commercial signs symbolize ideologies of control and uniformity.
Her artistic practice addresses the circulation of objects, images and people in globalized contexts, examining physical and symbolic barriers that define class, access and identity. Through installations that evoke functional and minimalist non-places, Delmar questions the normalization of these spaces as promoters of uniformity and consumption.
SILUETAS SOBRE MALEZA
Until January 5, 2025
Siluetas sobre maleza is a group exhibition that brings together six Latin American artists from different generations to reflect on the relationship between bodies and territory. Through media such as installation, performance, video and painting, the works dialogue with diverse landscapes of the region, from the archaeological site of Yagul in Mexico to the Amazon and the archipelago of Guadalupe.
The show transforms the exhibition space into an immersive landscape that probes the political, historical and affective dimensions of the environment, articulating narratives deeply rooted in the artists' cultural and geographic context. Inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta and her iconic Silueta series, the title of the exhibition suggests how bodies, like weeds, impact and are impacted by the territory they inhabit. Each piece reveals the close link between body and nature, projecting a contemporary vision of the construction of the landscape and its symbolic transcendence.
New Year's Eve Hours
Tuesday - Friday | 10AM - 5PM
Saturday | 10AM - 7PM
Sunday | 10AM - 5PM
Monday | Closed
31.DEC.2024 | 10AM - 2PM
CLOSED
01.JAN.2025
ALAMEDA ART LABORATORY
VARIATIONS ON THE MURMULLE BY FÉLIX BLUME
Until February 16, 2025
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro
Formed by 6 sound installations, Variaciones sobre el murmullo is a sort of symphony where 6 discrete songs of what happens in nature when we stop to listen to it. Through them, that strange impasse of the world that can only be heard in silence is present: the murmur.
The aesthetic material with which Blume works is sound. Although video and installation are a constant in his work, these artistic genres are rather mediations with which the artist works to explain sound as a kind of dimension not only visible from the plane, the thickness and depth, but above all its acoustic dimension.
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
$45 / Sunday Free Entry
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART MUNAL
DIÁLOGOS DE VANGUARDIA
Until January 12, 2025
Tacuba 8, in Centro Histórico
The Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, through the National Museum of Art, and with the commendable support of its Board of Trustees, present the temporary exhibition Diálogos de vanguardia. The Pearlman Collection at the National Museum of Art.
Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Diego Rivera, Joaquín Clausell, Roberto Montenegro, Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl), José Clemente Orozco, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Félix Parra and Germán Gedovius.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm.
Tickets for the museum are purchased on the day of your visit, directly at the museum's ticket office. There is no advance purchase or reservation.
KURIMANZUTTO GALLERY
AN UNLIKELY INVENTORY: DIALOGUES WITH SURREALISM
Until January 11, 2025
C. Gobernador Rafael Rebollar 94, San Miguel Chapultepec
Surrealism, conceived by André Breton in 1924, sought to liberate the imagination from the unconscious by rejecting rational perceptions of the world. In 1938, Breton declared Mexico "the surrealist place par excellence", highlighting its connection to the movement, albeit with a simplified vision.
On the centenary of the First Surrealist Manifesto, kurimanzutto presents Unlikely Inventory, an exhibition that brings together contemporary works and works by historical artists such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Wolfgang Paalen, exploring the influence and legacy of Surrealism in Mexican and global art.
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm/ Friday and Saturday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
RGR GALLERY
OPEN WORK. MAGDALENA FERNÁNDEZ
Until January 11, 2025
Gral. Antonio León 48, Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec
Monotypes, drawings, paintings and installations with rods occupy the space of the RGR Gallery, evoking a model of artistic production similar to the one that semiotician Umberto Eco conceived in the early 1960s: the "opera aperta". According to Eco, while the work of art reflects the variables and contingencies of its context -history, language, gender, sexuality, ideology and culture-, only the material of art can provide adequate information for the form it adopts. In this sense, every work of art, both past and present, is open-ended.
The exhibition prepared by Fernández for the closing of RGR's 2024 program includes a set of splendid works that, on the one hand, investigate the trajectory of bodies in movement to the point of their disintegration and, on the other, invite the public to create a poetic field in an open work where all meaning is possible.
Hours: Monday to Wednesday from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm/ Friday and Saturday from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm.
CARRILLO GIL ART MUSEUM
THE FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY
Until January 26, 2025
Revolución 1608, colonia San Ángel
The Ministry of Culture and Inbal are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (MACG) with the inauguration of Coquín, a monumental sculpture by Minerva Cuevas, and the work El futuro fue ayer, which adorns the exterior fence of the museum.
Coquín combines elements from pre-Hispanic pieces to form a symbolic scene with figures of a woman, a bird, a turtle, a rabbit and a toad, evoking the spirituality of the Mayan cosmovision. For its part, El futuro fue ayer reflects on the connection between past and future, highlighting the relevance of cultural heritages today.
The museum will be closed on January 1st.
TAMAYO MUSEUM
IN CONVERSATION WITH THE COSMOS BY DAVID MEDALLA
Until March 30, 2025
Av. P.º de la Reforma 51, Polanco
In Conversation with the Cosmos is a comprehensive survey devoted to the late Filipino artist David Medalla (1938-2020). The exhibition contextualizes the elusive and experimental practice of an artist whose work spanned the kinetic, performance, and participatory art movements. Medalla's life and work cultivated intimate forms of exchange between collaborators, friends and lovers in the service of "cosmic propulsions," "impromptus" and "improvisations," and other supernatural propositions. This exhibition presents the accumulation of a creative life imbued with an anti-institutional ethos and a commitment to impermanence and change.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
OTHER WORLDS
Until February 23, 2025
Group exhibition that brings together the work of a group of more than forty artists working individually and collectively in Mexico City at the time. This year the second iteration of the exhibition OTR*S MUND*S was presented, an experimental format that considers the infrastructure of the museum as a material for artistic inquiry. The exhibition arises from conversations about sound production and music in the resonant architecture of the museum and is organized with artists and collaborators from diverse disciplines who live and work in a broader context of the country. OTHER WORLDS imagines the museum as a musical instrument through which a series of disparate interventions examine the specific institutional and experiential conditions of its spaces. The exhibition unfolds as a cacophonous sequence of events and encounters that reflect the current state of artistic thought in Mexico.
