TONO Festival 2025

The the third edition of TONO Festival 2025 features over twenty artists and collectives from around the world and take place from March 25 - April 6th across museums in Mexico City and Puebla

TONO announces the third edition of the TONO Festival across Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico. For two weeks, from March 25-April 6th, TONO will premiere a series of new and existing video installations and performance commissions and present music events and screenings with today's leading artists at museums across both cities. Programming will take place across Museo Anahuacalli, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Casa del Lago UNAM, Museo Universitario del Chopo UNAM in Mexico City and Museo Amparo in Puebla, as well as off-site evening music programming.

TONO is continuing its annual initiative of collaborating with international institutions on screening programs. This year, TONO is working with Sophie Cavoulacos, film curator at The Museum of Modern

Art, New York, to present a program of short films from the MoMA collection that traces iconic artist collectives of New York’s downtown at the turn of the 1980s as well as an evening with the contemporary artist Valentin Noujaïm for a series of screenings in Mexico City. TONO is also collaborating with the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian and will present a selection of videos by TONO 2025 artists at their H BOX video gallery in Lisbon.

The festival in Mexico will feature new and existing installations by Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic, Delia Beatriz, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Carolina Fusilier, Saodat Ismailova, Luiz Roque, and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. TONO is producing a new video and subsequent live performance by Eartheater and Freeka Tet, as well as a performance commission by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane co-produced with MUDAM, which will tour to Luxembourg later in the spring, and a performance commission by Jota Mombaça co-produced with Wiels which will later tour to Brussels. With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, TONO will present a solo lecture-performance by Adam Linder.

TONO is collaborating again with TONO 2023 artist Alberto Bustamante on evening music programming and will work with him on programming video art for the Traición stage of Axe Ceremonia music festival during the second weekend of the TONO Festival.

More information about scheduling and specific programming can be found on the TONO website.

Image: Saodat Ismailova, Two Horizons, 2017, two-channel HD video, color, 4.1 sound, 24' [film still], Courtesy of the artist