Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Feb. 8–Apr. 5, 2026
From February 8 to April 5, 2026, La Cuadra will host an exhibition curated by Pablo León de la Barra that proposes a poetic dialogue and an imagined encounter between the work of artist Félix González-Torres (American; b. 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba; d. 1996, Miami, USA, due to complications from AIDS) and the architectural spaces of Luis Barragán (b. 1902, Guadalajara, Jalisco; d. 1988, Mexico City) at La Cuadra, built in 1968 as private stables on the outskirts of Mexico City and one of the architect's most emblematic works.
This exhibition is the first solo presentation of González-Torres' work in Mexico City since his exhibition at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (2010) and, previously, at the Museo Rufino Tamayo (1998). González-Torres' work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Mexico City, including projects at Ninart Centro de Cultura, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo Jumex, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Casa del Lago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Galería Mascota, and kurimanzutto.
About Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres (American; b. 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba; d. 1996, Miami, USA, due to complications from AIDS) was one of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Through a wide variety of media and processes—including deliberately common materials such as candy, stacks of paper, billboards, and puzzles—many of his works have the ability to continually manifest themselves in the present, simultaneously questioning permanence and notions of value. González-Torres's works generate a dialogue with both the exhibiting institutions and the public, raising questions about the permeable and artificial divisions between public and private, authorship as a collective act, and shared responsibility for social transformation.
His first institutional solo exhibition took place at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1988). Other notable solo presentations during his lifetime include Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995), which traveled to the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (1995), under the title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape), and to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1996), under the title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma); as well as the three-venue exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1994).
González-Torres is one of only two artists to have represented the United States posthumously at the Venice Biennale (2007).
Among the most significant exhibitions of his work are those held at the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2024–2025); Dia Beacon, New York (2024–2025); Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2022); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2021); Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); PLATEAU and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012); a traveling retrospective in six venues organized by WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, with stops at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2010–2011); the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2008); Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2006–2007); and the Serpentine Gallery, London (2000).
In May 2026, a major solo exhibition of his work will open at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum in Madrid.
The exhibition will be open to the public with free admission for residents of the Municipality of Atizapán de Zaragoza and national or international students throughout the exhibition. Access will be by appointment only through the website: lacuadrabarragan.org