Celebrating one of our country’s ancestral beverages, and if you’re looking to get out of the city for a weekend, this event is ideal for you, as this festival allows you to discover the history and part of the culture surrounding mezcal.
Organized by a Tlaxcala-based company specializing in cultural, gastronomic, and artisanal events, Tierra Mezcal Fest seeks to showcase the Mexican identity and pride behind this beverage through four themed stations. By exploring them, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a special raffle.
Among the activities, specialists will also teach attendees how to identify aromas, appreciate nuances, discover flavors, and understand the differences between the various varieties through guided tastings, pairings, and creative workshops.
- When: August 22 and 23.
- Where: Centro Tolzú, Toluca.
Expo Pan 2026
With more than 200 stands dedicated to baking, as well as more than 100 activities, this expo is perfect for food lovers, whether they enjoy baking themselves or simply tasting the results.
Featuring renowned chefs, competitions, workshops, and more, Expo Pan expects to welcome around 40,000 visitors this weekend. Entrepreneurs and those looking to learn from leading experts will have the perfect opportunity to gain knowledge or simply spend an enjoyable time.
- When: August 19–20.
- Where: WTC (World Trade Center).
Exhibitions You Won’t Want to Miss in Mexico City
“Living Systems” by Olga Burkard (final days)
Swiss artist Olga Burkard presents a visual exploration of coexistence, photographic transformation, and image ecologies with the exhibition “Living Systems.”
The exhibition brings together a selection of works that propose a dialogue between different systems of representation, giving rise to abstract compositions in which hybrid forms emerge, evoking organisms, landscapes, and imaginary ecosystems. Within these visual spaces, the images appear to grow, transform, and interact with one another, suggesting constant dynamics of coexistence and mutation.
Recognized for her research into images and visual transformation processes, Olga Burkard develops an interdisciplinary practice that questions the boundaries between observation, abstraction, and the construction of new imaginaries. Her work has been exhibited internationally and stands out for creating compositions that expand the possibilities of photography into experimental and poetic territories.
- When: Through August 20.
- Where: CLAROSCURO Gallery.
Annie Leibovitz: Soccer 2026 (final days)
This exhibition marks the photographer’s return to the world of soccer, forty years after creating the iconic images of the 1986 Mexico World Cup.
Bringing together more than 130 pieces that connect those historic photographs with a new series created for the 2026 World Cup, Leibovitz shifts attention away from monumental settings toward the bodies, gestures, and humanity of soccer players, showing that her interest is no longer in constructing epic images, but in portraying the people behind the sporting spectacle.
Among those featured are players such as Guillermo Ochoa, Edson Álvarez, and Julián Quiñones, photographed away from the major stadiums and closer to the everyday spaces where passion for the game is born.
- When: Through August 30.
- Where: National Museum of Anthropology.
Dalí: Scenery of a Dream
In this exhibition, visitors can explore eight themed rooms dedicated to the relationship between dreams, cinema, and surrealism, featuring more than 80 original works by the famous painter Salvador Dalí.
The exhibition includes monumental sculptures, paintings, drawings, engravings, and immersive experiences inspired by the surrealist universe of the Spanish artist. It will also feature a monumental 10-meter canvas created for a collaboration between Dalí and film director Alfred Hitchcock.
One of the most important aspects of this exhibition is that the vast majority of the pieces have never before been exhibited in Latin America.
- When: Through August 31.
- Where: UNAM Autonomy Palace.
“Cabinet of Curiosities” Exhibition
Inspired by the ancient European cabinets of curiosities—also known as chambers of wonders or Wunderkammern—the exhibition revisits one of the great intellectual traditions of the Renaissance: bringing together objects capable of encapsulating a vision of the world. Long before the emergence of modern museums, these spaces incorporated fossils, scientific instruments, maps, rare books, works of art, and natural specimens within the same cultural framework, where science, art, and history coexisted closely.
The exhibition Cabinet of Curiosities by Ricardo and María Laura Salinas: Passion for Collecting and Knowledge presents one of the broadest and most representative selections created to date from this collection. More than 300 pieces are organized into ten thematic sections featuring fossils, ancient cartography, rare books, historical documents, scientific instruments, Mexican art, and photography, along with objects connected to the exploration of the territory and the visual construction of Mexico.
- When: Through October 25.
- Where: University of Liberty Gallery. Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Groups and Other Artistic Revolts: Networks and Collectives in Mexico
The selection of works and materials in this exhibition seeks to analyze the formation of groups and their production based on some of the events that shaped their genealogies. It also presents reciprocal relationships among groups and their participation in exhibitions, salons, political demonstrations, and activity programs.
The exhibition is organized around five thematic elements: Latin America in Dispute; Fronts and Movements; Irreverence and Subversion; The Institutionalization of Groups; and Collectivities in Drift, providing an account of the intensity of the activities carried out by these groups.
This exhibition will be displayed in rooms 4 through 8.
- When: Through August 30.
- Where: University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC).
World Press Photo 2026 + Archive
This commemorative exhibition marking the seventy-year history of World Press Photo presents a selection of the most representative winning photographs from the last seven decades.
The exhibition provides an opportunity to revisit the most iconic images that have impacted the world, while also highlighting the importance of photojournalism in the present day.
- Where: Franz Mayer Museum.
Networks and Trajectories of Mexican Art
This exhibition proposes a new critical reading of the construction of discourses surrounding Mexican art and national identity between 1910 and 1950.
The exhibition explores the relationships between art, politics, history, and cultural institutions in post-revolutionary Mexico, bringing together works by central figures of this period, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Remedios Varo, Rufino Tamayo, Olga Costa, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Juan O’Gorman, among others.
The exhibition also takes Anita Brenner’s book Idols Behind Altars as its starting point, intertwining anthropology, art history, and journalism through her perspective.
- Where: Museum of Modern Art.
Leonora Carrington: Magical Labyrinth
In this immersive experience, visitors can enter Leonora Carrington’s universe in Mexico City by exploring a labyrinth where surrealism comes to life through monumental sculptures, art, and immersive spaces inspired by the artist.
Throughout a series of rooms, visitors will see a total of 11 large-scale sculptures, as well as original works including engravings, lithographs, and personal objects, completing a sensory journey that makes visitors feel as though they have entered a unique artistic world.
- When: Through September 2.
- Where: Center for Immersive Arts (CAI), Gral. Prim 90.
Re-release of Trainspotting
To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Cinemex is bringing back to the big screen one of the cult films that defined the 1990s and marked a turning point in the careers of director Danny Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor.
Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film tells the harsh and poignant story of a group of young heroin addicts from the suburbs of Edinburgh, whose only aspirations in life are to consume addictive substances and obtain dirty money. However, the only one who appears capable of escaping this self-destructive fate is its protagonist, Mark Renton, who embarks on a journey of self-exploration in an attempt to escape his toxic environment.
Source: forbes
