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50 emerging artists will convert an entire building in Juarez, Mexico City into a re-imagined version of their home studio.

50 Pop-up Artist Studios

Feb 4-7, 2026

A temporary city of artist studios and tiny art bars in the heart of Mexico City's Art week.

Proposals for studio designs and artwork to be created welcomed

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We seek to subvert both the art fair and the art studio. By transplanting the act of creating into a public market, we play with the conditions under which art is produced and consumed.

Vision

No finished artwork here. It's all a work in progress.

Here, art is conceived and made. Process takes precedence over product.

It's a rejection of the static art object in favor of the unfolding and the yet-to-be-determined

50

60

Gallery-represented artists creating art from inside their studio over three nights

Estimated daily attendance during Art Week 2026

Mexican artists presenting across 4 exhibitions of avant garde contemporary art

Facts

2,000

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Mini art bars custom designed and staffed by gallerists

Features

Studio

City

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Artist studios

Blocks of studios will alternate between silent and open studio. Artists can also fill their workspace with detritus and ephemera that can be given away to the general public.

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Interactive art

Less about looking, more about living the art — this fair brings performance and artists into direct conversation with the audience.

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Tiny art bars

Like Tokyo's Golden Gai district of mini bars, these pop-ups will reflect the personalities of the galleries they represent, and allow for engagement with the public in novel ways.

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Late-night art

Art, when removed from the constraints of the daytime fine art world, becomes more intimate, immersive, and unpredictable. The bars also help.

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Live auction

Artists who opt-in can participate in an art installation in which their single piece of work is silent auctioned in real-time as they make it, with price reflected on a public leaderboard.

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Collector-focused

With Wednesday exclusively for VIP collectors as well as VIP-only hours 4-6pm during general admissions days, we have programming targeted towards serious collectors.

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Contact

@novo.coll

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