For the Winter/Spring Intermission period, MOCA is pleased to present "Two Moon July," an experimental television production which brought together video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman and directed by Tom Bowes.
September 26, 2014 — January 18, 2015
Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the visualization and drawing practices of master chef Ferran Adrià. The exhibition emphasizes the role of drawing in Adrià’s quest to understand creativity. His complex body of work positions the medium as both a philosophical tool—used to organize and convey knowledge, meaning, and signification-—as well as a physical object—used to synthesize over twenty years of innovation in the kitchen.
Jennifer Steinkamp
September 26, 2014 — January 18, 2015
ADVISORY 1/17/15: Due to a technical difficulty, this work is temporarily off view until further notice.
Jennifer Steinkamp creates highly detailed, digital animations of motifs from nature. Projected at a large scale, they respond to the architectural spaces in which they are shown and play with the limits of perception by opening up an almost otherworldly sense of space. Both ephemeral and immersive, Steinkamp’s animations feature branches, flowers, vines, and trees that shift and sway as if propelled by a swirling breeze.
September 26, 2014 — January 18, 2015
Kirk Mangus (1952-2013) was an internationally recognized ceramicist, and a dedicated teacher and mentor for almost 30 years at Kent State University. His prolific output of ceramics and drawings drew on a multitude of influences, from comics to prehistoric animal figures, modernist abstraction, Japanese woodblock prints, and folk, Meso-American, and Asian and ceramic traditions. Kirk Mangus: Things Love is the artist’s first comprehensive museum survey. The exhibition explores the breadth of his practice, philosophy of making, and influence in the region and beyond.
Contemporary Tibetan Video Art
September 2, 2014 — September 25, 2014
Anonymous @ MOCA Cleveland
September 2 - 25, 2014
Gund Commons | Free and open to all
Gund Commons | Free and open to all
Curated by Rachel Perera Weingeist
Organized at MOCA Cleveland by Christian Whitworth
Organized at MOCA Cleveland by Christian Whitworth
June 27, 2014 — August 31, 2014
Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent is the first full-scale survey of more than thirty years of work by Corita Kent (1918-1986). A teacher at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and a civil rights, feminist, and anti-war activist, Corita, as she is commonly referred to, was one of the most popular American graphic artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout her rich and varied career, she made thousands of posters, murals, and signature serigraphs that combine her passions for faith and politics.
June 27, 2014 — August 31, 2014
Hans Op de Beeck works with a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video, photography, painting, and writing. Introducing strange elements to familiar characters and locations, Op de Beeck creates an uncertain sense of time and place. His still lifes, landscapes, and interiors explore how our vision of the world is shaped by a blend of genre, imagination, and memory. This exhibition presents Op de Beeck’s black-and-white video Staging Silence (2) (2013).
June 9, 2014 — June 27, 2014
FREE and open to all
On view during regular Museum hours in Gund Commons
Cecily Brennan, Sophie Calle, Jim Campbell, Vija Celmins, TR Ericsson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Spring Hurlbut, Rosemary Laing, Steve Lambert, Kesang Lamdark, Teresa Margolles, Kris Martin, Matt Mullican, Oscar Muñoz, Takashi Murakami, Mike Nelson, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Pedro Reyes, Dario Robleto, Guido van der Werve, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz
March 7, 2014 — June 8, 2014
DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death explores how contemporary artists use their individual practices to capture, react to, reflect on, and make sense of mortality. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, video, installation, drawing, and mixed media artworks by artists both living and deceased. Works range from reflections on one’s imminent death to expressions of grief, memory, and transcendence. Rather than a study of the forces that cause death, the exhibition investigates mortality to identify and reinforce the most powerful characteristics of life.
March 7, 2014 — June 8, 2014
Sara VanDerBeek uses photography, sculptural forms, and performative gestures to explore the construction of images and the passage of time. VanDerBeek’s most recent bodies of work relate to cities, such as Detroit and Baltimore, which have personal, historical, or political meaning for the artist, as well as distinct urban features. These projects consider cities through material and momentum, with the resulting works approaching each site’s core spirit.