Fundación Casa de México Explores Museo Dinámico with Coppel Collection

Key facts

• The exhibition "Fue de día, fue de tarde, fue fantástico" is on view at Fundación Casa de México in Madrid from September 29, 2026, to January 24, 2027.
• Curated by Magnolia de la Garza, director of the Coppel collection, the show features around fifty works by a similar number of artists.
• The exhibition explores the Museo Dinámico, a Mexican abstraction movement active mainly between 1962 and 1967, founded with the support of architect Manuel Larrosa and painter Miguel Salas Anzures.
• The Museo Dinámico had no fixed venue, program, or leadership and operated largely in occupied houses, embracing dance, poetry, theater, and happening.
• The Coppel collection, assembled by Agustín Coppel Luken and Isabel Coppel, is one of Mexico's most extensive contemporary art holdings.
• The exhibition is organized into five sections, including intimate early experiments, poetry/performance/music, architecture, and a closing group on celebration and transition.
• Lilia Carrillo is a central interlocutor in the show, with a brief career that absorbed Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism after entering the French scene in the 1950s.
• Artists in the exhibition include Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alberto Gironella, Anri Sala, Antoni Tàpies, Bas Jan Ader, Carlos Amorales, Daniela Rosell, Dayanita Singh, Dominique González-Foerster, Enrique Guzmán, Fernando García Ponce, Fernando Ortega, Félix González-Torres, Francis Alÿs, Francisco Ugarte, Gabriel Orozco, Gordon Matta-Clark, Guillermo Kuitca, Haris Epaminonda, Helen Frankenthaler, Jack Goldstein, James Lee Byars, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Jorge Méndez Blake, Joseph Cornell, Julio Galán, Laura Lima, Lawrence Weiner, Leonor Antunes, Lilia Carrillo, Liliana Porter, Manuel Felguérez, Maria Luisa Pacheco, Mario García-Torres, Marta Minujín, Miguel Calderón, Néstor Quiñones, Oscar Murillo, Pedro Coronel, Sarah Grilo, Tunga, Ulises Carrión, Valie Export, Vicente Rojo, Vivian Suter, and Zao Wou-Ki.