The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is where adventurous minds encounter the best in contemporary visual, literary, music, and performing arts. A responsive center for diverse audiences, MOCAD presents art that contextualizes, interprets, educates and expands culture, pushing us to the edges of contemporary experience.


4454 Woodward Ave
Detroit MI, 48201
Tue/Wed/Sat/Sun 
11 am – 5 pm
Thu/Fri 
11 am – 8 pm

EXHIBITIONS

Established in 2006, experience dynamic exhibitions in a repurposed car show room. MOCAD offers a diverse overview of national and international artworks in a range of media, see the art of our time in three galleries plus Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead.

MEMBERSHIP

Join us in making MOCAD a hub for the exploration of new ideas in contemporary art. Become a MOCAD member today.

DONATE

When you donate to MOCAD you help to support the incredible artists, performers, and speakers who travel from near and far to bring their work to us as well as cultural vibrancy to the city.

EVENTS

Throughout the year, MOCAD hosts music, literary events, performing arts, and educational programs. View our upcoming events.

UPCOMING EVENTS


19 September 2019

MUSIC: HVOB

HVOB (Her Voice over Boys) create beautifully emotive minimalist electronic dance music. The Austrian duo of Anna Müller and Paul Wallner are acclaimed for their live show, with Rolling Stone naming HVOB “one of the best live acts in the world”. This concert is presented in partnership with MeanRed Productions.

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22 September 2019

THICKET: MELANIE JANISSE-BARLOW, with special guests LYNN CRAWFORD, ANNA VITALE + LETO RANKINE

Thicket is a masterful book. Stories, images, dreams, ideas, and elements of dailiness weave through and nestle within Janisse-Barlow’s gorgeous, and absorbing, stanzas. I read and re-read these poems, finding something new each time. As the poet herself observes: ‘Pass us over and we can slip back and forth unannounced.

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26 September 2019

Performance: Martin Creed

PERFORMANCE — Martin Creed: Getting Changed

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28 September 2019

Film + Talk + Music: RUDEBOY

FILM + TALK + MUSIC: RUDEBOY

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28 September 2019

RUDEBOY Detroit premiere screening and Q+A with DON LETTS

Combining archive footage, interviews, and drama, RUDEBOY tells the story of Trojan Records by placing it at the heart of a cultural revolution that unfolded in the council estates and dance floors of late 60’s and early 70’ Britain, and how that period of immigration and innovation transformed popular music and culture.

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