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EXHIBITIONS
The museum hosts 3-4 major
exhibitions each year.
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BECOMING: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WEDGE COLLECTION
Curated by Kenneth Montegue
September 12 - December 21, 2008
The Wedge Collection of photographic works explores themes of black identity by artists from Canada, the United States and throughout the African Diaspora.
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection offers a look at the various ways in which notions of personal and cultural identity have been created, challenged, or affirmed. Through portraiture, the works in the exhibition trace an evolving politics of representation. From documentary photography to works investigating a postmodern subjectivity, the exhibition features historical as well as contemporary responses to the question of identity.
Kenneth Montegue is a Toronto-based collector of African and African-American photography who is lending part of his Wedge Collection for the exhibition.
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Wayne Salmon, Mr. MacKenzie |
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BROADCAST
Curated by Irene Hofmann and co-organized by iCI, New York, and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
September 12 - December 21, 2008
Broadcast explores ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio.
Curated by Irene Hofmann, executive director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Broadcast features thirteen works from the early 1970s to the present by an international group of artists, including single-channel monitor-based videos, video-projection works, photography, installations, and interactive broadcasting projects.
Artists in this exhibition include:
Dara Birnbaum
Chris Burden
Gregory Green
Doug Hall, Chip Lord and
Jody Procter
Christian Jankowski
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
neuroTransmitter
Antonio Muntadas
Nam June Paik
TVTV (Top Value
Television)
Siebren Versteeg
Broadcast is co-organized by iCI, (Independent Curators International), New York, and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and circulated by iCI. Continue reading...
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Siebren Versteeg, CC, 2003 |
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considering DETROIT
AND considering ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABLE DESIGNS FROM DETROIT
May 10 - July 27, 2008
considering Detroit and considering Architecture open at 7 pm May 10 and runs through July 27.
considering Detroit is the first in a projected series that will explore contemporary art somehow linked to the Detroit area, and document this recent artistic activity. considering Detroit will include five visual artists, one poet, and a collective. They are:
Ellen Cantor
Maurice Greenia Jr. (Maugre)
Jim Gustafson
Allie McGhee
Heather McGill
Gordon Newton
artist collective TIME STEREO
In conjunction with MOCAD's considering DETROIT show, considering Architecture: Sustainable Designs from Detroit will also be on view. This show will include the designs, architecture and products of several local area architecture firms and highlight their projects that include "green" or sustainable design practices. Continue reading...
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Gordon Newton, Untitled (Swordfish), courtesy Wayne State University |
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ReFUSING FASHION: REI KAWAKUBO
February 8 - April 20, 2008
One of the most elusive fashion designers in the world, Rei
Kawakubo of Japan, is known for remaking the forms of clothes.
Her sweaters full of holes, jackets with only one sleeve
and dresses that are part dress and part pants are unique,
yet always wearable. She says she wants to "design clothes
that have never yet existed." Her innovative fashion, unique
methods of fabrication and collaborations with artists working
in many different fields including the great modern choreographer
Merce Cunningham, will be explored in a unique installation
of her work at MOCAD. The exhibition will include over 40
key garments, costumes from and film of the Cunningham performance,
photographs, runway footage and ephemera.
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Snoop Dogg, 2005 by Alex Melamid |
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WORDS FAIL ME
Curated by Matthew Higgs
September 16, 2007 - January 20, 2008
Opens September 15 at 7pm
Matthew Higgs curates the Fall 2007 show at MOCAD.
Artists in the show will include: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tauba
Auerbach, Anne-Lise Coste, Martin Creed, Sam Durant, Peter Fischli, Ryan
Gander, Siobhan Liddell, Jonathan Monk, Philippe Parreno, Jack Pierson, Carl
Pope, Kay Rosen, Ron Terada, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Weiss and Jennifer West.
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SHRINKING
CITIES
In collaboration with Cranbrook Art
Museum
February 3 - April 1, 2007
Shrinking Cities, a project by Germany's Federal Cultural
Foundation, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, explores a form
of urban development that has become a global phenomenon.
Starting in 2002, local teams were commissioned in Detroit
(USA), Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), Ivanovo (Russia), and
Halle/Leipzig (Germany) to investigate and document processes
of urban shrinking. In more than fifty exhibition contributions,
artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, culture experts,
and sociologists reveal and illuminate the changing realities
of these cities. Continue
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Poster announcing call for proposals.
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MEDITATIONS
IN AN EMERGENCY
Curated by Klaus Kertess
October 28, 2006 - April 22, 2007
Click to see exhibition catalogue.
We seem to be residing in a world in which nature has frequently
come to be referred to as a terrorist; and terrorism has come
to be thought of as natural. Tornadic conditions prevail spiritually,
mentally, and physically. Now directly, now obliquely, now
with humor, never preaching, the artists included in the opening
exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Detroit, explore
this dark moment. Continue
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