TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, returning March 6–22 with a slate of new and existing video installations, performance commissions, music events, and screenings across Mexico City and Puebla. Programming will span major institutions including Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Casa del Lago UNAM, Museo Jumex, and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, with additional exhibitions at Museo Amparo in Puebla.
This year’s live program includes work by Tino Sehgal, Space Afrika, Franziska Aigner, and Kelman Duran. TONO will also organize a dedicated exhibition by Ho Tzu Nyen and debut a special project by Mexican artist Avantgardo. In conjunction with his retrospective at Museo de Arte Moderno, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will collaborate with the festival on a new live program, while Melanie Smith will participate in an event timed to her exhibition at Museo Jumex.
Further international partnerships continue to expand TONO’s reach. The festival will bring dance pieces to Mexico via collaborations with 99 Canal (touring Alexa West’s Jawbreaker) and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, which will present choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni. TONO is also planning a joint evening with Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, and has invited Kunsthalle Bangkok’s moving-image curator Rosalia Namsai Engchuan to curate a selection of works by Thai filmmakers, linking practitioners across the Global South.
In parallel with the festival, TONO is co-producing Camille Henrot’s forthcoming exhibition Água Viva at São Paulo’s Instituto Bardi, organized as part of the 2025 France–Brazil Cultural Season. The show revisits two of Henrot’s foundational works—Is it possible to be a revolutionary and love flowers? and Grosse Fatigue—and introduces a new sculpture inspired by Clarice Lispector’s The Stream of Life.
More detailed scheduling and program information will be released closer to March.
