Interactive Art Festival, Mexico City Feb 1 - 8, 2026
Join us for a week of raw, unfinished art in the heart of Mexico City.
Performance art
50 artists at work
Interactive installation
A new form of Interactive Art Festival
Work In Progress is an interactive art festival dedicated to the act of creation from Feb 1 - 8, 2026 in Mexico City. We are peeling back the curtain on the artistic process. This is a living document where you don't just look at art—you watch it breathe. Come immerse yourself in the workflow of artists as they craft, struggle, and build. No filters, no polish—just the raw, honest energy of work in progress.
WHAT YOUNEED TOKNOW
What: New interactive & immersive art festival – join the creative process like never before! When: Feb 1-8, 2026 Where: Nicaragua 23 Bis, and multiple artist studios accross the city How: Arrive curious, comfortable, and ready to explore. Wander freely through immersive installations, scheduled moments & interactive experiences.
Buy TicketYour Map to the Mess
Raw state
Step inside Work in Progress. This schedule is not a list of events but a way of moving through unfinished ideas, open studios, and shared moments. From the opening night at Nicaragua 23 Bis to intimate guided sessions at Croma, each stop offers direct access to the rhythms, tensions, and realities of making art in Mexico City.
Nicaragua 23 bis
Everyday
Tathagata:Impulses toward emerging narratives for unfolding realities
Format: Streaming Podcast Duration: 60-90 mins everyday Tathāgata is defined as someone who "knows and sees reality as-it-is" (yathā bhūta ñāna dassana). Gata ("gone") is the past passive participle of the verbal root gam ("go, travel"). Āgata ("come") is the past passive participle of the verb meaning "come, arrive". In this interpretation, Tathāgata means literally either "the one who has gone to suchness" or "the one who has arrived at suchness".
Nicaragua 23 bis
Feb 1st
WIP Press Preview
An exclusive preview for press and VIPs featuring a work-in-progress tour of the entire building.
Nicaragua 23 bis
Feb 1st
WIP Opening Reception
The first night inside WIP. Music, drinks, and early encounters with the artists. A raw preview of the week ahead.
Nicaragua 23 bis
Feb 2nd
Performance: Julia Barrios de la Mora - Gota fría
Gota fría is a time-based work in which a melting ice popsicle becomes the work itself. Cold and humidity briefly interrupt the senses, allowing a different bodily experience.
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Nicaragua 23 bis
Feb 2nd
Artist Dinner
A communal dinner led by Jerry and CDMX artists for VIP guests, collectors, curators, and press. A living artwork shaped around conversation and shared food.
Nicaragua 23 bis
Feb 6th
WORKSHOP: Pablo A Medina - THE WAY OF PAINTING - MEXICO CITY
A co-creation workshop facilitated by Pablo A. Medina. 16 individuals will gather to co-create a large-format, abstract painting emphasizing color, layering and mark-making. Intuition will be our only guide.
the "process" gallery
On view, unfinished
Our video grid captures the essence of the Process Gallery, where art comes alive through motion and time. Relive the festival's energy as you watch installations evolve, performances ignite, and artists push boundaries in this unique interactive experience.
Meet the Makers
Studio live
Discover the visionaries behind Work In Progress. Our roster of artists, curators, and collaborators brings diverse backgrounds and innovative practices to Mexico City, from bioart explorations to sculptural experiments and urban interventions.
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Pía Watson Dávalos
Multidisciplinary Artist
Pía Watson Dávalos
Pía Watson Dávalos presents Telepática Universal and Cluster Cloud, two interconnected works in progress that explore subtle perception, collective intuition, and shifts between immersion and distance. Through participatory action, silent exchange, and spatial experience, the projects test whether intention, coincidence, and sensory awareness can generate shared patterns. By inviting visitors to transmit, receive, move, and reflect, the work examines how perception is shaped by proximity, attention, and the environments we inhabit together.
02
Anni Garza Lau & Derzu Campos
Curators
Anni Garza Lau & Derzu Campos
Anni Garza Lau and Derzu Campos are artists exploring somatic communication, hybrid computational systems, and tensions between body, emotion, and technology. Campos, a Goldsmiths MFA graduate, investigates symbiotic and post-human scenarios through transmedia projects. Garza Lau, a media artist, addresses digital information's impact on society, creating immersive environments and critical narratives. Both are members of Mexico's National System of Art Creators. Their collaborative work examines how digital systems shape human experience.
03
Sam Slipkovich
Visual Artist, Fiber Artist
Sam Slipkovich
Sam Slipkovich will lead a hands-on workshop introducing participants to filet crochet, starting from the basics and gradually building toward the skills needed to create independent tapestry-style projects. The workshop emphasizes patience and process rather than completion, allowing participants to learn at their own pace. Through guided instruction and shared making, Sam frames crochet as both a technical skill and a historically rooted, human-centered practice that resists speed, industrialization, and artificial intelligence.
04
Deborah L. Morris
Visual Artist, Textile Artist
Deborah L. Morris
Deborah L. Morris is a visual artist whose textile-based practice centers on touch, material presence, and participation. For this work in progress, she constructs an evolving knotted structure using dyed cotton rope and locally sourced materials, allowing the piece to grow through weaving, labor, and collective contribution. Through haptic engagement and collaborative making, the work explores connection, exchange, and the physical intertwining of cultures, materials, and bodies.
05
María Naidich
Artist, Sculptor, Installation Artist
María Naidich
María Naidich is a visual artist working in sculpture and installation whose practice explores glass, stones, and geological materials at the threshold between the natural and the artificial. Through archival research, material experimentation, and speculative narratives, her work challenges anthropocentric ideas of nature and material stability, bringing together glass processes and heterotopic stories rooted in history, fiction, and the magical.
06
Matías Meszaros Cervantes
Sculptor, Ceramic Artist
Matías Meszaros Cervantes
Working across sculpture, research, and political science, Matías Meszaros Cervantes' practice centers on process, learning, and material exploration through ceramics. Manos en la Masa unfolds as a guided studio visit that opens into an informal, hands-on session where visitors engage with clay, drawing, and conversation, emphasizing experimentation, shared knowledge, and the tactile experience of working with ceramic materials.
07
Valentina Guerrero Marin
Visual Artist, Glass Artist
Valentina Guerrero Marin
Valentina Guerrero Marín proposes two open studio visits that share her working process with glass, inviting the public to engage with her material research, tools, and methods. Based in Mexico City and born in Chile, her practice explores environmental crisis, climate colonialism, and speculative futures through glasswork and other media, using material as a carrier of historical and collective narratives.
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Fernando Polidura
Visual artist, Jewelry designer
Fernando Polidura
Fernando Polidura's process emerges from lived experience of chronic corporeality, where genetics, medical diagnosis, and social perception intersect. Check Socket is conceived as a metaphorical inquiry laboratory in which visitors witness finished and in-progress works and engage in dialogue, collectively observing vulnerability, dependency, and shared forms of care.
09
Maria Paulina Moncada
Multidisciplinary Artist
Maria Paulina Moncada
Paulina Moncada is a Colombian artist whose practice explores time, repetition, and perception through drawing, painting, and mechanical processes. Her work reflects on inexactitude and cyclical experience as ways of inhabiting time.
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Centro - Doctores
The historic center has some of Mexico City's most notable buildings, including the cathedral, public institutions, and the remains of Templo Mayor. Doctores, close by, feels more local and residential, with everyday activity, small workshops, and a few interesting buildings from the mid twentieth century, along with some small cultural spaces.
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Condesa - San Miguel Chapultepec
Condesa has a very social and international atmosphere, with cafés, restaurants, and places where people meet and spend time. San Miguel Chapultepec is quieter and more residential, but it is home to one of the most important galleries in Latin America, which has attracted other spaces and bookstores around the neighborhood.
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Roma - La Juárez
Roma is one of the most active, known, creative areas in the city, with galleries, cafés, vintage shops, and small independent projects set inside old houses and mixed use spaces. La Juárez has grown in visibility in recent years, combining new cultural spaces with early twentieth century architecture and a lively neighborhood feel.
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Santa María la Ribera
Santa María la Ribera centers around the Kiosco Morisco, which works as a natural starting point to explore the neighborhood. From there, the area offers traditional restaurants, old cantinas, and a few community and cultural spaces, all within a quiet residential setting that keeps a strong sense of local identity.
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Coyoacán
Coyoacán has a clear artistic atmosphere linked to the history of important Mexican artists who lived there. The neighborhood brings together markets, plazas, museums, gardens, and many interesting houses from the nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. It is farther from the center, but it is a place that invites walking and spending time.
