INDEX Art Book Fair will hold its next edition from January 15 to 18, 2026, contributing to the positioning of Mexico City as an international point of reference for the promotion and dissemination of art-related publications.
With kurimanzutto as its main venue, the fair will bring together this year more than one hundred editorial projects from Mexico and abroad, highlighting cultural plurality through diverse voices that encompass decolonial, feminist, queer, and experimental perspectives, fostering a global and inclusive dialogue.
For the first time, it will introduce its new ZINDEX section at a new venue, Rebollar, Proyectos Públicos, a space dedicated to zines and publications of immediate circulation. This section will focus on self-managed projects, emerging publishers, and collectives working with risograph printing, hand printing, alternative formats, and periodical publications.
The Public Program will explore the critical potential of shadow and opacity in contemporary cultural production, inspired by concepts such as “darkness” as a subversive refuge and a form of resistance to the visibility imposed by the regime of light. This edition will feature: 11 book presentations; 3 conversations that contest memories, publishing, and sound in art; 2 performances that explore vulnerability and desire through humor and excess; 3 hands-on workshops; and other transversal projects that promote encounters with non-hegemonic languages.
The keynote lecture will be given by Françoise Vergès (France, 1952), a leading decolonial feminist, anti-racist thinker and activist, in dialogue with Sayak Valencia (Mexico, 1980), an academic, essayist, poet, and transfeminist performer known for her analysis of gore capitalism. Together, they will explore emancipatory forms of resistance in a conversation that promises to enrich the debate on opacity and liberation.
The main nave of kurimanzutto will be intervened by Mexican artist Damián Ortega (1967) through Alias Editorial, and by Colombian artist Oscar Murillo (1986), who will activate Social Mapping, a participatory project that invites the public to draw collectively on large canvases throughout the event.
The visual identity of this edition has been created by German graphic designer Manuel Raeder (1977), a specialist in artists’ books, exhibitions, and typography.
