FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2025

Alday Hunken Gallery presents multiple exhibitions and art fairs around the United States and Europe
Eight months since its launch, Alday Hunken Gallery and its visionary young founders are just getting started

Vai Jong Hunken and Alfonso Alday Vergara, Alday Hunken Gallery

Los Angeles, CA – Alday Hunken Gallery announces upcoming exhibitions around the United States and Europe, including Hamptons Art Fair in partnership with Memento Gallery, Atlanta Art Fair, SCOPE in Miami, and the Venice Contemporary Art Biennale in 2026. 

The gallery’s founders, Vai Jong Hunken and Alfonso Alday Vergara, both come from Mexico City, offering an exciting perspective on the city’s growing art scene and its place on the international stage. Alday Hunken’s program facilitates a dialogue between Mexico City and Atlanta, giving us a closer look into the complexities of the art scene in both cities. The founders aim to revolutionize the gallery system through “hypercuration”, a term they use to describe their practice of working across a multitude of spaces to provide the best context for each individual artwork. 

Alday Hunken Gallery is dedicated to showcasing contemporary art that explores identity, cultural context, and the environment, providing a platform for artists who challenge traditional boundaries through innovative material practices, fostering innovation, dialogue, and collaboration. The gallery’s mission is to empower underrepresented voices and inspire new cultural perspectives through transformative art. While cultural context is an important aspect of their program, Alday Hunken’s artists emphasize abstraction over figuration, breaking away from the history and potential clichés of identity-based practices and providing context through subtle, material cues and expressive gestures. 

While they do not exclusively represent female-identifying artists, they do make this a critical part of their program and are very much inspired by the Burns Halperin Report, which showcases the aggressive representation disparity that prevails in the art world, and most importantly, by the fact that both founders were raised by strong, highly intelligent women.

Please find more detailed information about their exhibition program below:

Ileana Moreno, Talisánima, 2024, oil and acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 160 x 110cm (+frame)

Ileana Moreno and Samuel Thurman: Speculative Futures
Atlanta, GA
May 31 – July 6, 2025

Memento Gallery is pleased to announce the highly anticipated dual exhibition of artists Ileana Moreno and Samuel Thurman, titled Speculative Futures. Memento Gallery and Alday Hunken Gallery join forces in this thought-provoking exhibit to present captivating contemporary art to their discerning audience. 

Speculative Futures explores how to channel spiritual symbolism, ancestral memory, and speculative design into transformative, future-facing forms. Through the divine geometries of Samuel Thurman’s 3D-printed lamps and the mythic-feminine hybridity of Ileana Moreno’s ritual-infused artworks, the exhibition presents a world where the sacred is reimagined—not as something of the past, but as a living, evolving presence. These artists collapse temporal boundaries by either fusing digital fabrication and ancient ritual, or sacred intention and pop femininity. Thurman and Moreno invite viewers into a meditative space of possibility. In this exhibition, relics are not fossils—they are blueprints for what’s to come.

Left: Mariana Paniagua, Objeto 8, 2017, mixed media 150 x 150cm. Right: Anna Van den Hoevel, Meta, 2023, mixed media, 35 x 35cm

Dual(real)ities
Atlanta Art Fair
Atlanta, GA
September 25 – 28, 2025 

Dual(real)ities at the Alday Hunken booth at Atlanta Art Fair centers on the idea of dialogue—between cultures, geographies, and artistic vocabularies. By bringing together artists from Berlin, Mexico City and Atlanta, the exhibition explores how distinct contexts can resonate across conceptual and formal lines, forging unexpected affinities and shared inquiries. The exhibition features work by artists Anna van den Hoevel, Gladys Mendez, Christa Collins, Mariana Paniagua, and Yumnia Duarte. 

The presentation is structured around a series of duets: pairings of artists whose work, while rooted in their own cultural and material realities, reflects a compelling synergy. These curated pairings highlight thematic cohesion, complementary practices, and generative contrast. Whether through symbolism, or materiality, each duet invites the viewer into a conversation that transcends boundaries.

True to Alday Hunken Gallery’s mission, the selection emphasizes emerging voices in contemporary art as the gallery continues to champion artists whose work challenges conventions while remaining grounded in the specificity of place. These are practices that engage the poetic and political dimensions of identity, memory, and transformation.

Rather than a static presentation, the booth becomes a site of encounter. This approach not only reflects the transnational scope of our gallery’s programming but also underscores the gallery’s commitment to building bridges between local and global art scenes. Through these conversations, Alday Hunken aims to foster a space of mutual recognition and creative friction—where emerging voices are amplified, and where difference becomes the ground for deeper connection.

Left: Ileana Moreno, Latex, 2022, oil on paper 40 x 30cm. Right: Gordon Massman, The Valkyries, 2025, mixed media, 335 x 335cm.

SCOPE Art Show
Miami, FL
December 2 – 7, 2025

The exhibition features new works by artists Ileana Moreno, Anna van den Hoevel, Gordon Massman, Mariana Paniagua, and Julian Madero.

Venice Contemporary Art Biennale
Venice, IT
May 9 – November 11, 2026

The exhibition features work by artists Anna van den Hoevel, Paula Cortazar, Mariana Paniagua, Kristen Giorgi, and Adriana Monterrubio.