As Museo Jumex concludes its residency in the SLG’s Fire Station Galleries, we’re celebrating by spotlighting a few of the artists from this extraordinary collection, including many we’ve had the pleasure of presenting.
Since opening in 2013, Museo Jumex has become a dynamic hub for contemporary art, championing experimentation, research, and public engagement. The Jumex collection includes works by Jean Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mike Kelley, Gabriel Orozco, Louise Bourgeois and Judy Chicago.
These highlighted works offer a glimpse into the breadth and vitality of a collection shaped by a bold, forward-looking vision.
Ana Pellicer, Collar de Oaxaca, 1981
Ana Pellicer was a Mexican sculptor, artist and jewellery maker. Together with her husband James Metcalf, she founded an important art school, the Adolfo Best Maugard School of Arts and Crafts, dedicated to the promotion of traditional coppersmith techniques in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán.
Pellicer worked with local women, empowering them to learn new skills, make their own independent income and to promote traditional Mexican art.
In the 1980s, Pellicer, alongside some women from her school, sculpted a set of giant jewellery designed to fit the Statue of Liberty. Though the statue has never worn the Collar de Oaxaca, the work proposes the addition of indigenous Mexican elements to the larger-than-life, French-designed sculpture, while also reflecting on what liberty in America means today, a century after the statue’s construction.
Gabriel Orozco, Atomist: Making Strides, 1996
Gabriel Orozco is one of Mexico’s leading contemporary artists. In 2025, Museo Jumex presented Orozco’s first museum exhibition in Mexico since 2006. Orozco constantly challenges the concept of what art can be, how it is created and what it focuses on.
Speaking about his work Atomist: Making Strides, Orozco said: “I always liked sport photographs, but most of them, over time, they get boring. I’m overlapping two images of movement. In one hand, the photograph of figures in movement, and on the other hand, a geometric shape that has movement. The geometric intervention on top of the photograph makes the movement of the bodies in the photograph more relevant, to be perceive in a different way. So I am canceling, and revealing that movement, and that image through this geometric pattern on top.”
In 2015, the SLG unveiled a permanent garden designed by Orozco with support from 6a architects and horticulturists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lawrence Weiner, Peace and Quiet One Here One There Before the Explosion, 2000
American artist Weiner is one of the most important conceptual artists of his generation, known since the 1960s for his engaging and influential work presenting art as a language form.
The Jumex Collection features several pieces by Weiner. Peace and Quiet One Here One There Before the Explosion is displayed on the Museo Jumex cafe wall for visitors to stop and read.
Weiner is also part of the SLG’s collection. His work AT A DISTANCE TO THE FOREGROUND, the artist’s first public work in London, is installed on the SLG’s Fire Station building and is visible from the street below.
Ana Segovia, I’ve been meaning to tell you, 2023
Mexican artist Ana Segovia makes paintings that subvert the heteronormativity of popular culture. He revisits mythical scenes and figures from industries like film and sports, examining idealised models of masculinity.
Segovia’s work, I’ve been meaning to tell you, depicts scenes from an unrealised film written by the artist, drawing inspiration from ‘80s teen movies such as Footloose and Dirty Dancing.
Sarah Lucas, Bunny Gets Snookered #4, 1997
A prominent member of the Young British Artists of the late 1980s, Sarah Lucas’s work challenges ideas about the female body in mainstream culture and art.
Bunny Gets Snookered is a series by Lucas of several misshapen female bunny figures made from fabric stuffed into flesh-coloured tights. The sculptures are lounging, many of them sit with their legs open, held to their chairs by clamps.
Her often-humorous self-portraits in the South London Gallery collection were taken throughout the 1990s. They reflect changes in thinking around gender, identity and sexuality, as well as Lucas’ own relationship to her appearance.
Museo Jumex is in residency at the South London Gallery from May 2025 – January 2026. The residency consists of two exhibitions, Part 1 and Part 2, sharing a hand-picked selection of works from the collection by Museo Jumex’s Chief Curator, Kit Hammonds.
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