COMMUNITY OPENING
Community Opening
Saturday, April 25, 11AM to 5PM
MOCAD
Loris Gréaud, Portrait, 2024. Photo/Video Credits: Grégoire Léon-Dufour. © Loris Gréaud, Gréaudstudio, ADAGP 2026.
The Museum reopens with exhibitions of Detroit-based artists Carole Harris, Martha Mysko, and Olayami Dabls, whose practices have profoundly shaped the city’s creative landscape, alongside a project by Paris-based artist Loris Gréaud at Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, exploring Detroit as a site of global resonance and cultural transmission. Visitors are invited to visit the refreshed café and galleries, get hands-on in MOCAD’s Learning Studio, and experience a conversation between Jova Lynne and Olayami Dabls reflecting on themes of Detroit Cosmologies. This opening event brings together art, dialogue, and community.
Bio
Since the early 2000s, Loris Gréaud has been following an atypical trajectory on the international contemporary art scene. He produces unique environments whose narrative is fraught with paradoxes and its linearity often troubled by disruptive elements. Rumours, poetry, viruses, architecture and demolition, academism and self-negation are all regularly invoked in his work, which strives to bring together physical and mental spaces on a single surface.
Gréaud has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Musée du Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the ICA London, Kunsthalle Wien, Tel Aviv Museum of Art… and his works are part of prestigious international collections such as, le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Collection François Pinault (Venise); Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris); Nam June Paik Art Center (Korea); and Hirshhorn Museum (Washington).
For over 20 years, the artist systematically requests that no biography or chronological order be published.
