MEXICO CITY.- In conjunction with the 2026 World Cup, Museo Jumex will present Football & Art. A Shared Emotion through July 26, 2026. This exhibition explores the various intersections between contemporary art and soccer as cultural, aesthetic, and social expressions.
Curated by Guillermo Santamarina, the exhibition addresses themes of gender, community, identity, and globality, while analyzing both the playful power of games and their critical and political dimensions.
Santamarina states, “I see soccer as a field of thought, critical and deliberative. A playground for creativity. A universe that intertwines with art, sharing similar parame- ters, related challenges and achievements, and often, that same emotion: the feeling of being alive.”
Through paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and videos—encompass- ing both historical works and pieces commissioned specifically for this exhibition— Football & Art. A Shared Emotion examines how this sport, extending beyond the field and the stadium, functions as a common and universal language.
The exhibition design, created by architect Mauricio Rocha and his studio, otfers a spatial reinterpretation of the elements that shape the soccer experience. Drawing on references to dirt fields, locker rooms, and structures specific to the game, the design transforms the galleries into an environment that links the global spectacle of the stadium with the everyday practices of the sport. It establishes a dialogue be- tween architecture, the body, and visual culture that accompanies and expands the exhibition route.
For this exhibition, Museo Jumex commissioned works from artists Diego Berruecos, Iaki Bonillas, Sofa Echeverri, and Tercerunquinto.
The commissioned works address, through ditferent artistic languages, the ways in which soccer articulates collective imaginaries, systems of representation, and structures of cultural circulation, while aftending to both its atfective dimensions and its social and political implications.
In the Museo Jumex plaza, the collective Tercerunquinto, composed of Gabriel Czares and Rolando Flores, presents Tribunas (2026), a sculptural installation con- ceived specifically for this sefting. The work is based on the collective’s practice of
exploring the boundaries between public and private spaces. The installation con- sists of seats salvaged from the recent renovation of the Azteca Stadium, which have been affixed with steel plaques bearing the names of Mexican soccer players. This evokes collective memory, national identity, and the rituals of soccer.
The installation comes to life through a public program that includes literary, perfor- mative, and musical activities, as well as the broadcast of sports games, emphasiz- ing encounter and shared experience as central dimensions of the piece.
Football & Art. A Shared Emotion features the following artists: Franco Aceves Humana, Francis Als, Marco Arce, Gina Arizpe, Gustavo Artigas, Diego Berruecos, Iaki Bonillas, Mark Bradford, Alejandro Cartagena, Maurizio Caftelan, Leda Catunda, Nicola Costantino, Rodolfo de Florencia, Wim Delvoye, Sofa Echeverri, Daro Escobar, Pedro Friedeberg, Gabriel Garcilazo, Gabriela Gonzlez Leal, Napolen Habeica, Jonathan Hernndez, Graciela Iturbide, Clotilde Jimnez, Nstor Jimnez, Jetf Koons, Ivn Krassoievitch, Alejandra Laviada, Mauricio Limn, Pablo Lpez Luz, Sarah Lucas, Jess Lugo, Roman Manfredi, Natalia Marmolejo, No Martins, Francisco Mata Rosas, Manuel Mathar, Santiago Merino, Ricardo Milla Hierro, Marta Minujn, Rodrigo Moya, Hassan Musa, Wangechi Mutu, Newton, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, Juan O’Gorman, Damin Ortega, Alberto Perera, Paul Pfeitfer, Iln Rabchinskey, Carlos Reygadas, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Mauricio Rocha, Betsabe Romero, Oswaldo Ruiz, Sector Reforma (Javier Crdenas Tavizon, Santino Escatel, Alejandro Fournier), Renard, Melanie Smith, and Rafael Ortega, Juergen Teller, Tercerunquinto, Francisco Toledo, Benjamn Torres, Marco Trevio, Adam Wiseman, Marek Wolfryd, Xie Nanxing, Ana Zambrano, ngel Zrraga, and Nahum B. Zenil.
With this exhibition, Museo Jumex reaffirms its commitment to artistic practices that engage with popular culture, sports, and everyday life. Football & Art. A Shared Emotion not only celebrates the aesthetics of the game but also invites reflection on soccer’s power to bring communities together and transcend borders, at a time when the entire world is united around the sport.
