These exhibitions are part of B-LA-M, a three-year cultural exchange designed to deepen dialogue between the artist-run communities in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
Opening reception
Thursday, October 23, 6 pm
Location
El Hub
Calle de Mesones 86
06090 Mexico City, MX
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1st Floor
NEVUS
Exploring personal strength and beauty through the lenses of politics, history, and nationality
Artists: Carlos Álvarez-Montero (MX), Carsten Becker (DE), Brenda Castro (MX), Alfredo Esparza-Cárdenas (MX), Stella Geppert (DE), Kathrin Köster (DE), Sean Noyce (US), Luz Ricano (MX), Alystair Rogers (US), Alberto Rodríguez (MX), Vabianna Santos (US), Katya Usvitsky (US)
Ojo Arte (Mexico City), in collaboration with Frontviews (Berlin) and Noysky Projects (Los Angeles), presents Nevus, a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring artists from Mexico City, Berlin, and Los Angeles. The exhibition is part of B-LA-M, a three-year cultural exchange designed to deepen dialogue between the artist-run communities in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
The term nevus, also commonly known as a “beauty mark”, evokes a feature that alternates between allure and imperfection. Unlike the common mole or wart, which is often deemed undesirable, the nevus is paradoxically both a blemish and an ornamentation. Its beauty is reliant on social norms and historical standards as much as individual perception. Throughout history, the nevus has been imitated and idealized, serving as symbols of status, individuality, and distinction that highlights their otherwise “unblemished” outer beauty.
In this vein, Nevus brings together works that mark the lived experience of the artist, drawn from personal histories shaped by cultural, political, and geographic forces. Their narratives include acts of resilience, belonging, and transformation. Each work operates as a “mark” that alternates between identity and environment; beauty and imperfection; and individual and community.
As these disparate expressions meet, shared patterns begin to emerge, revealing a glimpse into the ways identity is inscribed upon the body, the mind, and the environment. Nevus thus becomes an exploration of how the personal becomes shared, how the invisible reveals, and how the mark can transform the vulnerable into a source of power. The exhibition invites reflection on identity as a territory in continuous negotiation, where the individual and the collective intertwine to give meaning to our contemporary existence.
2nd Floor, Room 15
Between the body and belonging
Artists: Francisco Diego (MX) & Stella Geppert (DE)
The German Stella Geppert and Mexican artist Francisco Diego engage in a dialogue between matter and language. Through movements, objects, and hybrid words, they explore the shifting boundary between the personal and the collective, between the loss and the search for identity. Their work emerges from the friction between languages and territories: when one tongue merges with another, a new sense of belonging arises. In that in-between space —where the body remembers and language transforms — both artists ask what it still means to inhabit without erasing what was already there.
In the dialogue between Stella Geppert and Francisco Diego, a pair of embroidered socks and a wall covered in words speak about what is lost when we try to fit in. The phrases mix languages like someone searching for a place where their voice feels their own. Between what is seen and what is left unsaid, the works reveal the distance between how we are seen and how we truly feel. There is tenderness, but also fatigue: empathy appears as a fragile gesture against the habit of not looking. In that honesty, simplicity becomes depth.
About B-LA-M
B-LA-M is a three year art exchange created to deepen the relationships between the independent art scenes of Berlin, Los Angeles & Mexico City.
Mexico City will host art collectives from Berlin & Los Angeles in fall of 2025, from Oct 23 through Nov 7. Our city-wide exhibitions will be accompanied by a interdisciplinary program of screenings, performances, readings, exhibition tours, and more. Los Angeles is slated to host Mexico City and Berlin, Oct 28 - Nov 4, 2026.
Carlos Álvarez-Montero (MX)
Carsten Becker (DE)
Brenda Castro (MX)
Alfredo Esparza-Cárdenas (MX)
Francisco Diego (MX)
Stella Geppert (DE)
Kathrin Köster (DE)
Sean Noyce (US)
Luz Ricano (MX)
Alystair Rogers (US)
Alberto Rodríguez (MX)
Vabianna Santos (US)
Katya Usvitsky (US)