Frida Kahlo “arrives” at MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, from 3 October 2025 to 4 January 2026, for the first time in Greece, as the next stop in the list of more than twenty cities where the exhibition “Frida Kahlo – Her Photos” has been presented internationally.
The exhibition reveals aspects of the inner world of the internationally recognised artist from Mexico through 241 unpublished photographs representing different periods and people in her life, and provides a new perspective on the turbulent life of one of the most mysterious and iconic figures in Latin American art.
An Archive and a well hidden Collection
Despite the importance of photography to Frida, a major part of her collection of photographs was hidden away from the public for several decades. When she died, in 1954, her husband Diego Rivera donated their house – known as the Blue House (Casa Azul), in Mexico City – to the Mexican people, so that they could turn it into a museum about Frida’s life and work. This was the beginning of what is nowadays the Frida Kahlo Museum, one of the most popular museums in the world.
Although Diego Riveira gave Frida’s artworks and objects to the museum, he asked to lock a part of them away from people’s curious eyes. That is the main reason why this personal archive, which included more than six thousand photographs, some drawings, letters, medicines and clothes, was closed for five long decades. A Blue House’s bathroom was the chosen place to save those treasures, and therefore gained an almost mythical aura.
It was only in 2003 that the numbed archive was opened. A selected part of the newly found photographs was transformed into this exhibition under the title “FridaKahlo – Her Photos” presented in MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
Curated by: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
An exhibition by:
Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Archives.
Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust
Worldwide tour managed by:
TerraEsplêndida, Produção Cultural
©Frida Kahlo, by Guillermo Kahlo, 1932. Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust