At 25, Kurimanzutto is Everywhere All At Once

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For one afternoon in February, the hottest taqueria in Mexico City was inside a former lumberyard in the neighborhood of San Miguel Chapultepec, not far from Luis Barragán’s famed Casa Gilardi. It was there, at Kurimanzutto, that the art world gathered during the 20th anniversary of the influential Zona Maco fair to toast Gabriel Orozco, who had just opened an acclaimed exhibit that was a shared milestone for both the artist and the gallery he helped establish 25 years ago.

Back then, co-founders Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri brought a gonzo approach to exhibiting, staging provocative, genre-busting shows off the beaten path—in a shipping container, in an amusement park bumper car ride, even inside their apartment. Today, Kurimanzutto has its flagship and a New York City space in Chelsea, where a solo show dedicated to the late John Giorno, whose estate it represents, is on view.

The gallery also represents Sarah Lucas, who was the subject of a hailed 40-year retrospective at Tate Britain; Rirkrit Tiravanija, who has been with the gallery since its inception and whose first U.S. survey closed at MoMA PS1 in March; and Petrit Halilaj, whose roof garden commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opens this month. Halilaj's first solo exhibit in Latin America, Runik, is on view through April 7 at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

Latin America will take center stage at the 60th Venice Biennale (April 20 through November 24) thanks to its Brazilian curator, Adriano Pedrosa, and Kurimanzutto has four artists in the mix, including the sculptor Wilfredo Prieto in the Cuban pavilion, and Ana Segovia, Bárbara ­Sánchez-Kane and Wangshui in the main exhibit. Its title: “Stranieri Ovunque—­Foreigners Everywhere.”

Lead image: A view of Gabriel Orozco (through April 27) at Kurimanzutto Mexico City.

This story appears in the April 2024 issue of Town & Country, with the headline "The Shape of Brushstrokes." SUBSCRIBE NOW

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