As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the FEMSA Collection opens the exhibition Constellations and Drifts: Art from Latin America in the FEMSA Collection at the Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), offering new perspectives that highlight the depth and significance of one of the most influential collections of 20th- and 21st-century contemporary Latin American art. The exhibition will be on view March 20 to August 9, 2026
Over five decades, the FEMSA Collection has gathered works by artists of distinct generations that reflect the evolution, complexity, and diversity of artistic production in the region, with a special emphasis on Mexican art. With 170 works by more than 100 Latin American artists, the exhibition offers the most comprehensive presentation of the collection to date in Mexico, while offering a compelling look at how it continues to evolve.
Far from being organized as a chronological journey, Constellations and Drifts proposes a curatorial structure based on five curatorial themes, or constellations, which draw connections and establish relationships between works from different eras, geographies, and generations.
Curated by Eugenia Braniff, Paulina Bravo, and Beto Díaz Suárez, curators of the FEMSA Collection, and Adriana Melchor, an independent curator, the exhibition is organized around five constellations: Territories, Architectures of Colonization, Debating Abstraction: Geometry and Form in Latin America; Alchemy, and Identities, all of which reflect the curatorial vision currently guiding the development and direction of the collection.
