Pace Gallery’s $450,000 sale of a Julian Schnabel painting from 2023 leads the initial slate of reported transactions from Zona Maco 2025, which kicked off on Wednesday, February 5th.
The 21st edition of Zona Maco features some 200 galleries from across 29 countries. Mexico City’s premier art fair, taking place at the Centro Cinitbanamex, is at the heart of a week packed with events and satellite fairs, including Material and Salón Acme. The vibrant local gallery scene is also abuzz,g with standout exhibitions on view through the weekend.
Notable institutional attendees at this year’s fair—the largest in Latin America—included Jorge Pérez of the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak; and trustee groups from the Brooklyn Museum, SFMOMA, and ICA LA, as reported by ArtNews.
Zona Maco 2025 arrives amid U.S. president Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico. The tariffs are currently paused until next month. Still, galleries reported optimism about commercial activity throughout the VIP day.
“The energy at this fair is jubilant and full of genuine passion and curiosity,” Paul Henkel, founder of Palo Gallery, said in a statement sent to Artsy. “Given the choppy waters of the last few months, it has been a breath of fresh air seeing all these collectors eager to buy and learn.”
Below is a selection of notable early sales reported by galleries at Zona Maco 2025.
Top reported sales at Zona Maco
In addition to the Schnabel work, Pace Gallery’s reported sales included:
- A 2023 painting by Mary Corse for $400,000.
- Alicja Kwade’s mixed-media sculpture Trans-for-Men 7 (2023) for €380,000 ($392,000).
- A 2023 sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset for $110,000.
- A large-scale painting by Kylie Manning for $85,000.
- Two paintings by Alejandro Piñeiro Bello for $48,000 and $25,000.
- A ceramic sculpture by Yoshitomo Nara for an undisclosed amount.
Sean Kelly Gallery’s reported sales included:
- Kehinde Wiley’s Congo Study II (2024) for $225,000.
- A Janaina Tschäpe painting for $100,000–$125,000.
- A Jose Dávila painting and multiple sculptures in the range of $65,000–$100,000 each.
- A work by Anthony Akinbola for $30,000–$50,000.
- A work by Ana González in for $20,000–$30,000.
- A work by Brian Rochefort for $20,000–$30,000.
- A selection of works on paper by Marina Abramovic, Idris Khan, Sam Moyer, and Rebecca Horn in the range of $10,000–$40,000 each.
Mexico City stalwart OMR’s reported sales included:
- A work by Jorge Méndez Blake for $100,000–$120,000.
- A work by Sebastian Silva for $80,000–$100,000.
- A work by Jose Dávila for $80,000–$100,000.
- A work by Alicja Kwade for €50,000–€70,000 ($51,000–$72,000).
- A work by Juana Subercaseaux for $10,000–$18,000.
- A work by Angel Cammen for $10,000–$15,000.
Other reported sales at Zona Maco
- Swivel Gallery sold eight of its nine paintings by Rodrigo Ramírez for $9,000 each and one sculpture by the artist for $8,000. The artist and gallery are shortlisted for the Erarta Foundation Art Prize, which awards $100,000 to an artist and gallery in the Ejes section, which is dedicated to emerging artists and galleries.
- New York gallery Marc Straus reported selling a $170,000 painting by Antonio Santín.
- LAMB reported sales of works by Alma Berrow, Tiago Mestre, Marco Bizzarri, and Daisy Dodd-Noble, each in the range of $10,000–$30,000.
- Palo Gallery reported the sale of Lewinale Havette’s The Tempest (2024) for $3,750.
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