INDEX Art Book Fair will hold its next edition from January 15 to 18, 2026, contributing —as it does every year— to positioning Mexico City as an international reference point for the promotion and dissemination of art-related publications.
With its main venue at kurimanzutto and a new venue for ZINDEX at Rebollar, Proyectos Públicos, both located in San Miguel Chapultepec, the fair will bring together this year more than one hundred publishing projects from Mexico and abroad. It will highlight cultural plurality through diverse voices that encompass decolonial, feminist, queer, and experimental perspectives, fostering a global and inclusive dialogue. For the first time, INDEX introduces its new section ZINDEX, a space dedicated to zines and immediately circulating publications.
This new section will gather self-managed projects, emerging publishers, and collectives working with risograph printing, manual printing, alternative formats, and periodical publications, expanding the fair’s editorial languages and practices. 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 imposed visibility of the luminous regime.
This edition offers a rich and engaging program, featuring 11 book presentations addressing topics ranging from Brazilian visionary art to childhood ecologies and Black feminisms; 3 panel discussions that challenge memories, editions, and sound in art; 2 performances that explore vulnerability and desire through humor and excess; 3 hands-on workshops (including 2 activities specially designed for children, inspired by Mexican traditions); and transversal projects such as Originaria – tikinpiya miyek tlatolmeh –, which promotes encounters with non-hegemonic languages. Together, these activities reflect the fair’s cultural richness, connecting independent publishers from Latin America, Europe, Asia, and beyond, in a space that celebrates the diversity of marginal and community-based forms of knowledge.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Françoise Vergès (France, 1952), a leading decolonial, anti-racist feminist thinker and activist, widely known for her work on the intersections of race, gender, and decolonization — including the co-founding of the collective Decolonize the Arts and books such as A Decolonial Feminism — in dialogue with Sayak Valencia (Mexico, 1980), an academic, essayist, poet, and transfeminist performer recognized for her analysis of gore capitalism, which critiques neoliberal violence from queer and border perspectives. 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, while Colombian artist Oscar Murillo (1986), renowned for exploring migration and shared culture in his multidisciplinary practice, will activate Social Mapping, a participatory project inviting the public to collectively draw 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.
