photo: eike walkenhorst
bárbara sánchez-kane
1987, Mérida, Mexico
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane is a Mexican fashion designer and visual artist working across sculpture, painting, performance, and installation. His practice centers on the charged encounter between clothing and the body—a site where power, desire, and identity are continually shaped and negotiated. His works foreground the anxieties and fears embedded in daily life, in order to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic society. By dissecting and reconfiguring everyday objects and cultural symbols, Sánchez-Kane subverts established narratives, imbuing familiar forms with new significance and revealing the complexity, instability, and fluidity inherent in personal and collective identity. Sánchez-Kane received the CHANEL Next Prize in 2026.
Sánchez-Kane lives and works in Mexico City.
bárbara sánchez-kane
ff número 1, 2025
c-print, paper size
50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 15.9 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
ff número 3, 2025
c-print, paper size
16 x 20 cm (6.2 x 7.8 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
ff número 6, 2025
c-print, paper size
40.6 x 50.8 cm (15.9 x 20 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
look 8, 2025
belts, buckles, bronze
175 x 100 x 64 cm (68.8 x 39.3 x 25.1 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
look 3, 2023
belts, rivets, polyester and metal
210 x 140 x 50 cm (82.6 x 55.1 x 19.6 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
look 2, 2023
belts, rivets, polyester, metal
203 x 216 x 44 cm (79.9 x 85 x 17.3 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
prêt-à-patria, 2024
itinerant performance presented in foreigners everywhere at the arsenale for the 60th venice biennale
duration: 6 min 23 sec, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
bárbara sánchez-kane
prêt-à-patria, 2024
itinerant performance presented in foreigners everywhere at the arsenale for the 60th venice biennale
duration: 6 min 23 sec, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
bárbara sánchez-kane
prêt-à-patria, 2024
itinerant performance presented in foreigners everywhere at the arsenale for the 60th venice biennale
duration: 6 min 23 sec, edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
bárbara sánchez-kane
que se vaya la poesía si es necesario aquí solo queda un poema desecho, 2, 2023
bronze with green marbled patina
27 x 20 x 21 cm (10.6 x 7.8 x 8.2 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
que se vaya la poesía si es necesario aquí solo queda un poema desecho, 3, 2023
bronze with green marbled patina
27 x 20 x 21 cm (10.6 x 7.8 x 8.2 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
que se vaya la poesía si es necesario aquí solo queda un poema desecho, 4, 2023
bronze with green marbled patina
24 x 19 x 13 cm (9.4 x 7.4 x 5.1 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
mártires, eremitas y penitentes, 2023
bronze with patina
15.5 x 31.5 x 9.5 cm (6.1 x 12.4 x 3.7 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
botas machete, 2022
leather boots, carbon steel blade machete, steel blade, polyurethane foam, chrome coating
25 x 8 x 60 cm (9.8 x 3.1 x 23.6 in.)
bárbara sánchez-kane
zapatos silla monoblock, 2022
vinyl leather fabric and bronze
28 x 8.5 x 13 cm (11 x 3.3 x 5.1 in.)
installation views of bárbara sánchez-kane: coro de soles menores, cheruby, shanghai, 2025. courtesy of cheruby. photo: ling
installation views of bárbara sánchez-kane: coro de soles menores, cheruby, shanghai, 2025. courtesy of cheruby. photo: ling
installation views of bárbara sánchez-kane: coro de soles menores, cheruby, shanghai, 2025. courtesy of cheruby. photo: ling
documentation of bárbara sánchez-kane: aguas frescas, mudam luxembourg, 2025.
photo: eike walkenhorst
documentation of bárbara sánchez-kane: aguas frescas, mudam luxembourg, 2025.
photo: eike walkenhorst
documentation of bárbara sánchez-kane: aguas frescas, mudam luxembourg, 2025.
photo: eike walkenhorst
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, collegium, arévalo, 2025. photo: roberto ruiz
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, collegium, arévalo, 2025. photo: roberto ruiz
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: ¿cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, collegium, arévalo, 2025. photo: roberto ruiz
documentation of bárbara sánchez-kane: young boy sánchez-kane, dover street market, paris, 2024. photo: oriane robaldo
documentation of bárbara sánchez-kane: young boy sánchez-kane, dover street market, paris, 2024. photo: mark blower
documentation of bárbara sánchez-kane: young boy sánchez-kane, dover street market, paris, 2024. photo: oriane robaldo
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane in foreigners everywhere, 60th venice biennale, 2024. photo: nick ash
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane in foreigners everywhere, 60th venice biennale, 2024. photo: nick ash
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane in foreigners everywhere, 60th venice biennale, 2024. photo: nick ash
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: new lexicons for embodiment, kurimanzutto, new york, 2023. photo: dan bradica
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: new lexicons for embodiment, kurimanzutto, new york, 2023. photo: dan bradica
installation view of bárbara sánchez-kane: new lexicons for embodiment, kurimanzutto, new york, 2023. photo: dan bradica
Selected solo exhibitions and performances include: Moda Hoy, Ayer y Mañana!, Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato, Mexico (2026); Coro de Soles Menores, CHERUBY, Shanghai, China (2025); ¿Cuántos ángeles caben en la punta de un alfiler?, Collegium, Arévalo, Spain (2025); Aguas Frescas, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City (2025); traveled to Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2025); and Performance Space New York (2026); New Lexicons for Embodiment, kurimanzutto, New York (2023); Sánchezkaneismo, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2022); Prêt-à-Patria, as part of Siembra, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2021); Latino Couture, Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City (2020); Macho Sentimental vol. II, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Macho Sentimental vol. I, Grand Tour Studio, Milan (2018); Vast Graveyard of the Missing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) (2017), among others.
Selected group exhibitions include: Un lugar de ambiente. Legado y disidencia, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2026); Trigger, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn (2024); Objects of Permanence, Abrons Arts Center, New York (2023); Diseño en femenino. México 1940–2022, Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (2022); Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan (2022); OTRXS MUNDXS, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2020); Prince·sse·s des villes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), among others.
His work has been included in international biennials, including: VOCAL, Bienal de Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico (2026); Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale (2024).
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