New collaborations, fashion and design, in the panorama of the Franz Mayer Museum of 2025

In an unusual act, in order to Change the modelthe Franz Mayer Museum (MFM) announced its exhibition program for 2025, which includes new collaborations with renowned foreign enclosures, such as Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.

In most cases, the dates of the stays of the samples are about to refine. The emphasis is on fashion, engraving, photography, embroidery, architecture and popular culture.

At a press conference, Giovana Jaspersen, director of the MFM (Avenida Hidalgo 45, center), indicated that since its arrival at the site, two years ago, the influx of visitors increased from 80 thousand to 400 thousand annually, something that has been “product Of the programming and of consolidating in an increasingly clear way certain lines of work, themes, that although the museum began to work for some time, we did not have this annual clarity.

We also seek to have a lot of balance. In 2024 we went a lot to the presence of fashion. Now, the design and fashion part will take a lot of strength, while we will continue with the photo line. That, apart from being one of Franz Mayer’s great passions, includes our project with more pleasant breath: World Press Photo, which has generated a ritual audience that comes year after year to visit the exhibitionas well as other photographic samples.

Last year the architecture project began in Franz, one of the current lines of work of the enclosure, as well as Franz Diveo, a photo in Franz and Fashion in Franz.

Embroider the fire, Exhibition of the Spanish Marta Moreno (Úbeda, 1982), includes pieces of her series Hanabi, Inspired by the first historical records of pyrotechnics, specifically in the catalogs created in 1877 by Jinta Hirayama, in Yokohama.

These catalogs, designed with slices in the style of the Japanese stamp to exhibit fireworks and colors of fireworks, have been reinterpreted by Moreno in textile format.

With yarn threads, the artist embroiders and gives volume to each canvas, numbering them and transforming them into unique pieces that combine history and technique. The sample will be inaugurated today at 6:30 p.m.

For February it is announced Essential: European engraving teachers, itinerant exhibition that was already in Toluca. It includes works from the MFM engravings collection, which has names such as Durero, Rembrandt, Brueghel and Goya.

March promises to be the most intense month in what is inaugurated. Antonio: Indomitable fashion, He will offer sketches, photographs, attire, films and magazines of the Puerto Rican Fashion Illustrator Antonio López, who influenced his style that resumed elements of popular culture in the 70s and 80s of the last century, and that contrasted with a French school.

In the collective They design, 1965-2025, 27 Mexicans of different generations will show their wide production in the editorial design. It is about making people visible behind the process of a bookfield in which women have had a strong participation, Jaspersen said. Ideas in transit: not built. Enrique Norten/Ten Architects, It includes 15 non -materialized projects.

Also scheduled for March, Design Mexico It has to do with the National Design Award, by the same name. Celebrates production and institutions that create innovative systems to improve the quality of life.

In June, the French duo Pierre & Gilles, which combines photography and painting, will explore the construction and validity of symbols present in popular culture, in his work and in the permanent collection of the MFM.

For July a Surprise exhibitionin addition to house the results of the International PHROTOPERIODISM CONTEST World Press Photo 2025, which meets seven decades of existence.

Japan: from myth to manga, It shows that he travels from Victoria & Albert Museum, promises to be a great attraction for the regular and new public of the MFM. It revolves around a nostalgia not so distant around the first video games such as Nintendo and the Anime, which show the influence of Japanese culture in the world.

October is the month of the traditional expoaventa Orchids, carried out in the context of the fiftieth anniversary of orchideology in Mexico, in addition to remembering Franz Mayer’s interest in this plant. The first exhibition will also open in the country of American photographer Rodney Smith, The end begins here, whose black and white shots focus on the facet of their production related to surrealism.

The year closes with the sample Fashion today! Latin American fashion design, made in collaboration with The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology and the Matters Matters collection.