TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced its 2026 lineup, running March 6–22 across Mexico City and Puebla. The program includes video installations, performance commissions, music events, and screenings at venues such as Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Casa del Lago UNAM, Museo Jumex, Museo de Arte Moderno, and Museo Amparo. Featured artists include Tino Sehgal, Space Afrika, Franziska Aigner, Kelman Duran, Ho Tzu Nyen, Avantgardo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Melanie Smith. International collaborations bring dance works via 99 Canal and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, and a joint evening with Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. The festival is also co-producing Camille Henrot’s exhibition Água Viva at São Paulo’s Instituto Bardi.
This edition matters because TONO continues to strengthen its role as a platform for time-based and moving-image art, bridging institutions across Mexico and fostering global partnerships with venues in Berlin, Bangkok, and São Paulo. The festival’s emphasis on cross-border collaboration and its inclusion of artists from the Global South highlights a growing trend in biennial-style events to decentralize contemporary art discourse and support experimental, durational works that often fall outside traditional gallery programming.