2019-2020
Mexico is Mexico
It has been almost a century since the first I Mexican folk art exhibition, organized by Gerardo Murillo ‘Dr. Atl’ and Katherine Anne Porter, opened with the purpose of showing the country’s cultural richness. They worked under the premise that the modernization of arts should be taken as a national project, seeking inspiration in folk arts and demonstrating than Mexico is composed of diverse cultures.
Mexico is Mexico presents today, under Murillo’s and Porter’s same criteria, a selection of contemporary design objects created in locations so diverse, as Mexico City, Oaxaca, Guadalajara, Queretaro, Merida, Guanajuato and Taxco.
These objects are, without doubt, a reflection of the country’s present reality and diverse identity, defined by the historic bond that has linked artisans with design since the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920) to our present time.
2019
Tazones, Floreros y Jarras
With inspiration in the early 20th century Cubism, Nicholai Wiig Hansen shapes the Raawii universe through experimental sketching and modelling techniques. The outcome ensures refined simplicty in the geometrical shapes and colors that have been translated into functional everyday objects.
2018-2019
Tejiendo Historias de Diseño
Casa Gutiérrez Nájera and Odabashian, develop this project with the participation of professionals related to design, from different locations and disciplines. The exhibition “Weaving Design Stories, Contemporary Perspectives from the Silk Road” presents a historical-geographical review and showcases six proposals that seek to point out the influences, interconnections and the flows of culture between The Americas and Spain.
2017-2018
Compra sólo lo que te sirva
Utilitario Mexicano is an alphabet in construction of simple, useful and beautiful objects that have traditionally been part of Mexican life. It is an endless search for utensils and objects in danger of extinction that make up a collection of Creole artifacts somewhere between the industrial and the artisanal. It is a brand that portrays our country, its homes and its history.
El Utilitario has to its credit more than 1,500 objects, each one with its uses and history, chosen for some particular reason, whose common characteristic is its utility. Products that were not made to be forgotten or replaced quickly, but were made with the firm purpose of lasting. Created in blacksmith, carpentry, lathe and ceramic workshops, these objects survive with the imprint of uniqueness that makes each one different, imperfectly beautiful and valuable.
2015-2016
La Revista Fragmentada
The first CGN exhibition dedicated to editorial design, this exhibition traces the creative process of Sada y el bombón, an independent magazine of urban culture in central Mexico published from the city of Querétaro.
This exhibition shows the editorial production process from the creation of Sada y el bombón, the importance of print media, the voices of the editorial team and the development of content.
2014-2015
Pirwi: Procesos
An exhibition that seeks to bring the design process closer to the visitor. Through virtual models, scale models, volumetric, tests and prototypes that validate the final result, the exhibition shows that the processes and their different stages resolve ergonomic, efficiency, aesthetic and constructive factors.
2014
Exposición Colectiva de Diseñadores CGN
On this occasion, among the 25 pieces on display there are silver objects, wooden toys, metal furniture, high-temperature ceramics and a graphic intervention.
2013-2014
Nouvel Studio Collection
The objective of the exhibition is to promote the collaborations of Mexican architects and designers alongside Nouvel Studio, in addition to recognizing Nouvel's trajectory as a Crystal Laboratory (founded in 1994), showing experimentation and quality in manufacturing, proudly contributing to promote Mexican design.
2013
55 CM
We invited creatives from all over the Mexican Republic to develop a piece that did not exceed 55cm in any of its dimensions, which resulted in 38 objects from 20 different designers.
2012-2013
Inside Innovation Lab
The first architecture exhibition at Casa Gutiérrez Nájera shows the building's design and construction process with large-format images by photographers Iwan Baan, Paul Rivera and Guido Torres. In addition blueprints, models and a video of conceptualization of the project are part of the exhibition.
2012
Colectivo Hecho a Mano
This exhibition presents different proposals based on crafts, combining and contrasting materials, processes and places of origin. The proposals avoid national folklorismus
showing new creation processes in design.
2012
Inspiración Local, Diseño Global
2011-2012