A new Frida Kahlo Museum is coming to Mexico City

Museo Casa Kahlo, a caller depository dedicated to the beingness and enactment of Mexican creator Frida Kahlo, volition unfastened this autumn successful Mexico City, the artist’s household announced this week. 

The caller depository volition beryllium located astatine Casa Roja (Red House) successful the borough of Coyoacán. The spot belonged to Kahlo’s parents and was aboriginal owned by the creator and her sisters. It was donated by Kahlo’s grand-niece, Mara Romeo Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo’s representation remains a acquainted show successful neighborhoods crossed Mexico. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro)

The announcement was made successful New York by Kahlo’s closest surviving descendants and heirs —  Kahlo’s grand-niece Mara Romeo Kahlo, her girl Mara Deanda Kahlo, and Kahlo’s great-grand-niece Frida Hentschel Romeo.

“For the archetypal time, the dependable of the household volition beryllium astatine the bosom of however Frida’s communicative is told,” Romeo told Vogue.

“This depository isn’t conscionable astir her enactment — it’s astir her world. It’s astir however the radical closest to her shaped who she became. And it’s besides astir the surviving household — those of america who transportation her bequest forward,” she said. 

Designed by the Rockwell Group, the depository volition grounds idiosyncratic items that person ne'er been shown before, focusing connected Kahlo’s idiosyncratic beingness and her family, including her begetter Guillermo, who played a cardinal relation successful her creator development. The depository volition besides show dolls, jewelry, covering and Kahlo’s precise archetypal lipid painting.

Never-before-seen idiosyncratic items and creation volition beryllium displayed astatine Museo Casa Kahlo. (Wikimedia Commons)

Museo Casa Kahlo volition besides show what is believed to beryllium the artist’s lone existing mural. 

The task has been promoted by the recently created Kahlo Foundation, a non-profit enactment based successful New York that seeks to sphere the artist’s bequest and beforehand Mexican and Latin American arts and cultures. The instauration besides plans to found the Kahlo Art Prize, a biennial grant for innovative modern artists, arsenic good arsenic assistance programs.

The caller depository is adjacent the Casa Azul (Blue House) museum, which was Kahlo’s puerility home, and wherever she aboriginal lived with her husband, Diego Rivera. It is besides the spot wherever Kahlo died. 

Casa Azul volition proceed to beryllium portion of the depository complex, which is managed by the Fideicomiso de los Museos Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo spot and administered by the cardinal slope of Mexico.

Museo Casa Kahlo volition beryllium located adjacent the iconic Casa Azul, pictured here, successful Coyoacán. (María José Martínez /Cuartoscuro)

It hosts a postulation of artworks by Kahlo, Rivera, and different artists, on with the couple’s Mexican people art, pre-Columbian artifacts, photographs and idiosyncratic items.

Museo Casa Kahlo is scheduled to unfastened Sept. 27 nether the absorption of Adán García Fajardo, an world astatine the Museum of Memory and Tolerance successful Mexico City.

With reports from The New York Times, Arts News and Vogue