TONO 2026

TONO announces the fourth edition of the TONO Festival across Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico. For over two weeks, from March 6-22nd, 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 Casa del Lago UNAM, Museo Jumex, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, La Laguna Bodega, and Casa De La Acequia in Mexico City and Museo Amparo in Puebla.

In Mexico City, there will be live programming by Tino Sehgal, Space Afrika, Franziska Aigner and Kelman Duran, and Kianí del Valle. TONO is working with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on a live program with Eli Keszler on the occasion of his retrospective at Museo de Arte Moderno, as well as an event with Melanie Smith on the occasion of "Melanie Smith: Un tiempo de libertad en que el mundo había sido posible" at Museo Jumex.

TONO is continuing on its mission of collaborating with international institutions. This year, TONO will bring dance pieces to the festival–working with 99 Canal (New York) to tour Alexa West's "Jawbreaker" and with Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels to bring Alessandro Sciarroni and his company to Mexico City. TONO is also planning a special evening with Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie with a performance by the artist Avantgardo.

In Puebla, TONO will organize an exhibition by Ho Tzu Nyen that will be on view from March 4th through April 27th. TONO has invited Bangkok Kunsthalle’s moving-image curator Rosalia Namsai Engchuan to curate a selection of works by Thai filmmakers and video artists, including Jeanne Penjan Lassus, Montika Kham-on, Oat Montien, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Harit Srikhao, Wannawat Suwannarath, and Chulayarnnon Siriphol.

CDMX events:

March 6 – Opening of TONO

March 7 – Tino Sehgal: This Joy

March 8 – Tino Sehgal: This Joy

March 10 – Tino Sehgal: This Joy

March 12 – Space Afrika: YOBS

March 13 – Alexa West: JAWBREAKER

March 14:

Alexa West: JAWBREAKER

Melanie Smith: A Time of Freedom When the World Had Been Possible

March 17 – Workshop: Alessandro Sciarroni: Save the Last Dance for Me

March 18:

Performance: Alessandro Sciarroni: Save the Last Dance for Me

Workshop: Alessandro Sciarroni: Save the Last Dance for Me

March 20 – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer with Eli Keszler: Jardín Inconcluso

March 21 – Kiani del Valle

March 22 – TONO Closing Celebration

Image: Montika Kham-On, Siamese Futurism, 2021. Courtesy of the artist