Featuring the artists Kevin Beasley, Jerry Birchfield, Julia Christensen, Jacob Ciocci, Lenka Clayton, Hilary Harnischfeger, Frank Hewitt, Leza McVey, Scott Olson, Michael E. Smith, Reverend Albert Wagner, and Lauren Yeager.
June 28, 2013 — October 13, 2013
October 8, 2012 — September 1, 2013
Katharina Grosse’s vibrant, massively scaled paintings invite viewers to physically encounter color. Using the expanded platform of architecture, Grosse takes on ceilings, walls, and floors as “canvases,” creating a heightened awareness of space. Grosse is the first artist to be featured in MOCA Cleveland’s new annual Atrium Commission series.
May 3, 2013 — August 11, 2013
Light from the sun takes 8.3 minutes to reach the Earth. Light from the stars of distant galaxies can travel for thousands of years before we see it. When we look up at the sky, we are looking back in time.
March 16, 2013 — June 9, 2013
In addition to their solo art practices, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have collaborated on a number of projects that investigate perception and immersive environments. The Paradise Institute is one of their most ambitious and complex works to date, exploring the psychological effects of cinema.
March 16, 2013 — June 9, 2013
MOCA Cleveland presents Kate Gilmore’s first solo museum exhibition, featuring a newly commissioned work. Gilmore’s performances involve physical challenges, which combine elements of humor and discomfort to address female identity, labor, and resistance.
January 18, 2013 — April 14, 2013
Corin Hewitt will convert the Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Gallery into a combined studio, theatrical stage, and exhibition space, using the walls as a site of activity. Shifting and unsettled, Hewitt's project will draw audiences into a dialogue about artistic process, and the museum as a space for production.
David Altmejd, Walead Beshty, Jeremy Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Grosse, David Hammons, Jacqueline Humphries, Oliver Husain, Gordon Matta-Clark, Corey McCorkle, Henrique Oliveira, Barry Underwood, William Villalongo, Jennifer West, Rachel Whiteread, and Haegue Yang
October 8, 2012 — February 24, 2013
A new MOCA Cleveland. Dramatic structure. Dynamic galleries. The inaugural exhibition at MOCA Cleveland’s new building takes an in-depth look at how artists engage with architecture and concepts of space.
Jeremy Blake, David Hammons, Oliver Husain, Corey McCorkle, Jennifer West, Haegue Yang
October 8, 2012 — February 24, 2013
This series explores how artists have used time-based media to engage space and architecture through duration, performance and embodied perspective.
October 8, 2012 — December 30, 2012
Dazzling with energy, David Altmejd’s sculptures are both mesmerizing and grotesque. For his installation at MOCA Cleveland, Altmejd has created one of his largest vitrine work to date, drawing viewers into his unique vision of entropy and regeneration.