***Cover photo:Frida Kahlo photographed by Guillermo Kahlo, 1932. Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust

***Interior slider photo:Frida Kahlo in New York, United States. Photo by Nicholas Murray, 1946. Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Archives. Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust

Frida Kahlo ” arrives ” at the MOMus Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki, from 3 October 2025 to 4 January 2026, for the first time in Greece, as the next destination in the list of more than twenty cities where the exhibition “Frida Kahlo – Her Photos” has been presented internationally.

The exhibition reveals, through 241 unpublished photographs representing different periods and people in Frida Kahlo’s life, aspects of the personal world of the internationally acclaimed Mexican artist and offers a new perspective on the turbulent life of one of the most mysterious and iconic figures of Latin American art.

Frida Kahlo paints “Portrait of My Father, Guillermo Kahlo.”
Photograph by Gisèle Freund, 1951.
Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Archives.
Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust

An archive – A hidden collection

Despite the importance of photography to Frida Kahlo, much of her collection of photographs remained hidden from the public for several decades. When she died, in 1954, her husband Diego Rivera donated their home – known as Casa Azul (Blue House), in Mexico City – to the Mexican people to be turned into a museum about her life and work. This was the beginning of what is now the Frida Kahlo Museum, one of the most popular museums in the world.

Frida Kahlo with a Xoloitzcuintli at the Blue House (Casa Azul).
Photograph by Lola Álvarez Bravo, circa 1944.
Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Archives.
Bank of Mexico, Fiduciary in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum Trust

Although Diego Rivera gave Frida Kahlo’s artwork and artifacts to the museum, he asked that some of it be kept out of sight of prying eyes. This is the main reason why this personal archive, which included more than six thousand photographs, some drawings, letters, medicines and clothes, remained closed for five whole decades, locked in a bathroom in Casa Azul, acquiring an almost mythical aura.

This particular archive was only uncovered in 2003. A selected part of the newly acquired photographs was transformed into the exhibition entitled “Frida Kahlo – Her Photos”, which is also to be presented at the MOMus Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki.

Curated by: Pablo Ortiz Monasterio