Damien Hirst: To Live Forever (For a While)
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
March 23 – August 25, 2024

Museo Jumex will present To Live Forever (For a While), a museum-wide exhibition celebrating the work of leading British artist Damien Hirst. The exhibition will be the artist’s first exhibition presented by a museum in Mexico and will be the centrepiece of the museum’s 10th anniversary celebration.

Damien Hirst (UK, 1965) is one of the most internationally known artists working today. To Live Forever (For a While) surveys his extraordinary practice, and through it, the range of means with which we seek to delay and deflect the inevitability of death, be it through medical science, religion, art, or indeed wealth. A persistent interplay between the beauty and horror of life in Hirst’s work lends it a contemporary gothic tone. Locating death as part of culture, Hirst’s practice provokes discussion on what art can be today and how it reflects contemporary life.

Installed throughout the entire museum, the exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the artist’s work between 1986 and 2019, featuring 57 works including installations, sculptures, and paintings. It features some of Hirst’s most iconic series including Medicine Cabinets, Natural History, Spin Paintings, Cherry Blossoms, and spot and butterfly paintings.

Hirst’s ten-meter tall The Virgin Mother (2005), will be installed on the museum’s outdoor plaza throughout the run of the exhibition. The work is one of a series of large scale works derived from anatomical teaching models. Damien Hirst: To Live Forever (For a While), is organized by Museo Jumex in close collaboration with Damien Hirst and with advisory curator Ann Gallagher. The works on view have been lent to Museo Jumex by international public collections as well as private lenders.

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