Founded in 2007 by Moisés Cosío Espinosa, Fundación M (formerly Alumnos 47) is currently located in the Pedregal neighborhood, in southern Mexico City, and is dedicated to supporting the creation, research, and dissemination of contemporary art in Mexico.

Alumnos 47 was created as a library specializing in contemporary art and soon evolved into a curatorial and publishing program that lasted more than a decade. As part of this project, a mobile library was created to bring the collection’s titles to a wider audience, thereby promoting art and literature through various workshops in areas of the metropolitan region with limited cultural infrastructure. At the same time, the foundation supported young artists by acquiring their work and presenting experimental exhibitions at its former headquarters in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood, a way to encourage explorations that do not limit their production to exclusively commercial criteria. These projects were carried out in collaboration with emerging curators and independent spaces, thereby benefiting various actors within the local contemporary art network.

Today, Fundación M remains true to its original mission and continues to contribute to research on contemporary culture and education, supporting the careers of young artists through the acquisition of artworks and financial support for educational projects. As a result, Fundación M’s collection has become a benchmark in Mexican contemporary art collecting and offers a comprehensive, accurate, and reliable overview of recent artistic production in Mexico. Over the past 15 years, the foundation has assembled more than 700 works by both Mexican and international artists across media such as painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, collage, digital art, textiles, and video. This clearly demonstrates Cosío’s commitment to the artists of his generation and those to come, thanks to his questioning of the role of a private collection within the art world’s ecosystem.