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At moCa, we support and amplify the work of artists who represent what's next— in Cleveland and beyond. moCa's Annual Fund directly supports day-to-day operations. Support Take home art! Donate Annual Fund Institutional Giving Patrons Join us for a chance to take home an incredible work by an Ohio artist. Thu. NOV 14 6-9PM at the Shoreby Club 40 Shoreby Drive Bratenahl, OH 44108 $150/person includes: ◼ 1 Raffle Ticket ◼ Drinks ◼ Bites ◼ Valet Hosted by Steve Sokany, Katy Dix Brahler, and Kim Myers For more information, please contact: Zakia Frontz, Senior Advancement Officer 216.658.6934 zfrontz@moCacleveland.org

Explore art and yourself at moCa events. New art, new perspectives, and new connections: find the right fit for you. Free activities in Cleveland, art talks, and parties to explore your creative side. Events Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Explore art and yourself at moCa events: find the right fit for you. August 28, 2026 Fall 2026 Opening Night Celebration Celebrate the opening of a new season of art! + more Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Talks ↓ All Events moCa NOW moCa Saturday Parties Talks

Ohio NOW: Benefit & Art Raffle Thank you for attending the Ohio NOW event in support of moCa Cleveland! Your generosity and spirit made for a wonderful evening of art and conversation. Spot yourself in the gallery below. Photos by Ned Sanders III @photocredned.

Winter/Spring 2025 Preview Party Thank you for attending the Winter/Spring 2025 Exhibition Preview in support of moCa Cleveland! Thank you for celebrating the artists, partners, and supporters as we start a new season of Art Now, in progress . Spot yourself in the gallery below. Photos by Ned Sanders III @photocredned.

Proxy or Absentee Bid Form Interested in proxy or absentee bidding? Please fill out the form below and include the artworks that you are interested in. You will be contacted by a moCa representative to confirm your bid range and collect payment information. Absentee bids for the Live Auction will be represented by the auctioneer. Proxy bids for the Silent Auction will be added by a moCa Representative at the fairest price within your range and onsite competitive bids. Proxy or absentee bids may be submitted through Thursday, May 14 at Noon. First name Last name Email Phone Select all of the works that you are interested in bidding: Multi choice Nina Chanel Abney, Magic McArthur Binion, Berkeley: Suite: 11 Linda Butler, Silverware, from The Italian Series Timothy Callaghan, Blue Skies, Pink Lies Andrea Chung Tomory Dodge, Lover Halim Flowers Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled David Huffman, Many Rivers Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, Skyscape #6 Small Sarah Kabot, NYT December 2018 Lori Kella, Euclid’s Mirror Lisa Kereszi, Girls, Show World Center, Times Square, NYC Catherine Lentini, Untitled Michael Loderstedt Siwa Mgoboza, Les Êtres D’Africadia (Masquer) II Siwa Mgoboza, Les Êtres D’Africadia II Mr. Brainwash, Run DMC Ruby Palmer Laura Naples, Novella Whitney Oldenburg, Safe and Sound Judith Salomon, White Vase with Colors Doug Sanderson Corrie Slawson, Cloud Cover Over/In the Pantheon Edra Soto, por la señal #28 Fred Tomaselli, Untitled Barry Underwood, Linear Construction 13, Jacksonfield Frederic Weber, Untitled #112 Submit

Thank you for attending this year's Palate/ette event in support of moCa Cleveland! Your generosity and spirit made for a wonderful evening of art and conversation. Spot yourself in your hues-of-blues in the gallery below. Photos by Natasha Herbert Photography and Asia Simmons.

Cleveland native and acclaimed music producer BIG DUKE, along with hi-fi audio-jewelry designer T10 Bespoke, have collaborated to create a fully customized in-ear computer to benefit moCa Cleveland and Big Brothers and Sisters of Greater Cleveland. Auction BID TO WIN Cleveland native and acclaimed music producer BIG DUKE, along with hi-fi audio-jewelry designer T10 Bespoke, have collaborated to create a fully customized in-ear computer to benefit moCa Cleveland and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland. This inspirational personal audio system valued at $6,500 features in-ear computers and charging case hand-made to reflect Big Duke’s insignia, the red, white, and black color scheme of his Alma Mater Glennville High, and the "Art Now, In Progress" mission statement of moCa Cleveland. BID NOW Unique materials: Cast bronze coated in matte black PVD. Brushed finish with carved enamel raised lettering. Mirror polished obsidian, black YPPZ ceramic zirconia for charger covers and ear computer forms. Custom leather inset with moCa-inspired geometric art and Big Duke logo rondel in black brushed cast bronze PVD and color enamel insert. What is an in-ear computer? In-ear computers are capable of doing much more than traditional wired or wireless earphones. For example: Stream music in full 96/24 high-resolution (no separate hi-res player required) Connect to and control nearly any other connected device (full IFTTT integration on board) Open platform: Runs the Bragi OS for hearables with Nano a.i. on board Capable of downloading and running hearables apps that extend and enhance functionality lt in 9-axis gyroscope for positional and momentum feeds movement data to connected appsBui Fully programmable Voice/Touch/Non-verbal Mouth/Head-motion control interfaces (patented) Twin Cadence Hi-Fi DSP’s for incredible personalized audio tuning and enhancement capabilities Stunningly clear telephony, plus ability to run apps that enable secure voice-activated walk- ie-talky communication to selected individuals or groups without the need to dial or conference Bionic ears are badass. Forward-thinking companies around the world are busy dreaming up exciting and incredible new use cases for ear computers. With T-10’s you can tap directly into the early stages of Singularity–the frontier where man and machine converge to become one.

Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Wall to Wall Carpets by Artists Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 ∆ Alighiero e Boetti, Untitled , 1994, wool and cotton, 146 x 116 inches. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. © Alighiero e Boetti. ∆ Alighiero e Boetti, Untitled , 1994, wool and cotton, 146 x 116 inches. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. © Alighiero e Boetti. ∆ Alighiero e Boetti, Untitled , 1994, wool and cotton, 146 x 116 inches. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. © Alighiero e Boetti. Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Wall to Wall Carpets by Artists Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists studies some of the best contemporary art through the lens of craft: the woven carpet. Featuring 30 artists from across the globe, the exhibition shows this object to be a powerful locus of meaning today, one that cuts across issues of design, art, décor, production, and geopolitics. The “artist carpet” is a form that bears a long and distinguished historical pedigree, from Raphael and Peter Paul Rubens, to Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, and Joan Mirò. Yet, Wall to Wall takes as its point of departure a history of art rather than history of medium, focusing on the ways in which these objects advance relevant ideas and practices today. Unlike exhibitions that examine artist carpets through an ethnographic lens detached from the world of art, Wall to Wall proposes that these carpets function in a continuum of modern art history as a critical form that is accelerating in use and application. The exhibition asks the simple question: Why? Wall to Wall is structured by five basic categories for comparative analysis: “Eastern,” Geometry, Icon, Text, and Materiality. Starting with progenitor Alighiero Boetti, one of the first contemporary artists to employ craft traditions in foreign ethnic contexts as a form of readymade, Wall to Wall explores artists whose work in carpets taps into, and bridges, traditional and histories from East to West, such as Faig Ahmed and Ken Lum. Pierre Bismuth, whose works draws upon mathematical and architectural traditions, is considered alongside Daniel Buren, whose signature stripes, applied to a carpet, reference form as well as frame. Artists like Joseph Kosuth apply their ongoing critical exploration of language and relationships to the carpet, while others like Polly Apfelbaum emphasize the carpet’s common function as something to walk on. Some, like Christian Jankowski, realize gestural practices like drawing and mapping in carpet-form, while others like Alexandra Kehayoglou transform the carpet into a lush fiber landscape. Franz West’s floral motif is featured, literally, wall-to-wall in the exhibition, while Maurizio Cattalan’s quirky, digitally-printed carpets are presented on the spine of the Museum’s externally-visible Donna + Stewart Kohl Atrium. The role of production and delegation is tended to as well in Wall to Wall . Carpets demonstrate the process spectrum, from the handmade to the industrially manufactured. The featured carpets represent diverse approaches to collaboration as well: artist and weaver, artist and designer, artist and producer, artist and commercial business. These relationships reveal the blurring of traditional domains between art, craft, and design, and emphasize shifts in artisanal traditions and weaving centers across the globe. Wall to Wall raises questions about the geopolitics of production and the art market as expressed in the carpet, and the ways in which both respond to and express the significance of the artist in creating value and demand. The artist carpet models the interwoven nature of art, design, craft, industry, and sociocultural politics today. With range and depth, Wall to Wall reveals how and why artists are advancing contemporary art practice through this ancient yet persistent medium. Artists: Faig Ahmed, Polly Apfelbaum, Stefano Arienti, Alan Belcher, Guillaume Bijl, Pierre Bismuth, Alighiero Boetti, Mircea Cantor, Flavio Favelli, Liam Gillick, Christian Jankowski, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Joseph Kosuth, Ken Lum, Marilyn Minter, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Morris, Paulina Olowska, Jorge Pardo, Richard Prince, Julião Sarmento, Nedko Solakov, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig. Major support for Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists is provided by Westlake Reed Leskosky. Generous support is also provided by Bello Design and Mannington Commercial. Community support is provided by InterContinental Hotel Cleveland. All 2016-2017 exhibitions are funded by Leadership Circle gifts from an anonymous donor, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle Jeschelnig-Shan and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All MOCA Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum's Board of Directors, patrons and members. Opening night celebration supported by BakerHostetler. About the Curator Cornelia Lauf Cornelia Lauf received her PhD in art history from Columbia University and began her career at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Lauf is the founder of Camera Oscura, an alternative space devoted to craft, art, and agriculture in Tuscany. She has organized exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Casa di Goethe, Rome; and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome. Lauf was a founding partner of Three Star Books, Paris, a publishing house devoted to artist’s books. She co-founded the curatorial agency Golden Ruler in Rome and continues to act as its artistic director. She lives and works in Rome. Installation Images

Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anders Ruhwald Unit 1: 3583 Dubois Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 ∆ Anders Ruhwald, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, 2016 . Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Volume Gallery, Chicago. Photos: Jerry Birchfield. ∆ Anders Ruhwald, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, 2016 . Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Volume Gallery, Chicago. Photos: Jerry Birchfield. ∆ Anders Ruhwald, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, 2016 . Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Volume Gallery, Chicago. Photos: Jerry Birchfield. Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anders Ruhwald Unit 1: 3583 Dubois 3583 Dubois Street, in Detroit, Michigan, no longer exists. While the dilapidated 7,000 square-foot brick apartment building at this location still stands, the city has reassigned its address as 2170 Mack Avenue. It is a subtle change, but one that underscores a metaphoric loss of this place’s history. Like so many in Detroit and cities like it, this abandoned building holds memories waiting to be erased or revived. In his installation, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, Anders Ruhwald repositions the building’s identity, intertwining its past, present, and future. The exhibition presents several life-sized rooms and corridors based on a permanent installation that Ruhwald is creating in one apartment of this building, which the artist purchased in 2014 and is actively restoring. Ruhwald is converting the rooms in Unit 1 into abstracted spaces using materials from the building and neighborhood along with his signature ceramic works. Across the installation, fire is a key element that serves as material, process, and subject matter. Something that both consumes and transforms, fire is an ideal vehicle for Ruhwald’s exploration of destruction and renewal. Using charred wood, ash, molten glass, found objects, and black-glazed ceramics, Ruhwald meticulously composes an immersive, richly sensorial experience that is at once dramatic, nostalgic, and uncanny. Like the permanent installation, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois at MOCA Cleveland is both a memorial and a proposal in which materials and forms coalesce to retell (and thus reclaim) the past, animate the present, and suggest a shifted future. Organized by Megan Lykins Reich, Deputy Director Generous support for Anders Ruhwald: Unit 1: 3583 Dubois is provided by The Danish Arts Foundation. All 2016-2017 exhibitions are funded by Leadership Circle gifts from an anonymous donor, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle Jeschelnig-Shan and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All MOCA Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum's Board of Directors, patrons and members. Opening night celebration supported by BakerHostetler. About the Artist Anders Ruhwald Anders Ruhwald (1974, Randers, Denmark) lives in Detroit. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. In the past decade, Ruhwald has had more than 20 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (United Kingdom), The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), the Saarinen House (Detroit). His work has been featured in more than 80 group exhibitions at venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Fondation d’entreprise Richard (Paris), Pinakotek der Moderne (Munich), Taipei Yingge Museum (Taiwan), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen). His work is represented in over 20 public museum collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), The National Museum (Sweden), The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), and Taipei Yingge Museum (Taiwan). In 2011, he was awarded the Gold Prize at the Icheon International Biennial in South Korea. He also received a Danish Art Foundation three-year work-stipend in 2010 and the Sotheby’s Prize (UK) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2007. For his permanent project at 3583 Dubois, Ruhwald has earned grants from the Knight Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the Danish Art Foundation. Ruhwald has lectured and taught at universities and colleges around Europe and North-America since 2006, he was an associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently he is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, USA. Installation Images

Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anthony Discenza A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 ∆ Entry to Stair A at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Dean Kaufman. ∆ Entry to Stair A at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Dean Kaufman. ∆ Entry to Stair A at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Dean Kaufman. Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anthony Discenza A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats Anthony Discenza (1967, New Brunswick, NJ) is a conceptual artist who explores the production and distribution systems of mass media and the messages it generates. With a distinct interest in the relationship between textual, auditory, and visual systems of representation, Discenza often combines a variety of forms. A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats (2012) is a single-channel sound installation that presents a series of unlikely juxtapositions that are both humorous and confounding. Throughout his work Discenza is distinctly interested in presenting his audience with the intricate intersection of textual, auditory and visual information systems. In A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats a professional voice-actor reads an ongoing series of phrases such as: “Think Le Corbusier meets Red Lobster meets the Wonderbra. Think Straight Outta Compton meets Watership Down,” in a rich baritone that evokes a dramatic Hollywood movie or newscast. The tone of the voice actor formally mirrors the strategic ways that the mass-media conveys information. As the narrator evokes the theatrical absurdity of the dramatic, yet droll, voiced-over narrative of a film or a television commercial, Discenza offers a critique of the way mass-media uses language. Similarly, the work’s endless stream of absurd combinations contradicts its ironic title. Rather than coming to a universal understanding, Discenza’s monologue of nonsensical juxtapositions invites us to reflect on the oversimplified ways that advertising and cinema package and sell culture. Heard in the MOCA stairwell, the audio installation both comments on and upends the role of a passive audience. Anthony Discenza: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats is curated by A. Will Brown, Assistant Curator About the Artist Anthony Discenza Anthony Discenza (1967, New Brunswick, New Jersey) lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. He received an MFA from California College of the Arts (2000) and a BA from Wesleyan University (1990). Discenza is one-half of the collaborative entity HalfLifers, along with Torsten Z. Burns. HalfLifers fuses humor with a low-fi, improvisational approach to explore narratives of control and crisis embedded in technologic culture. Discenza’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (2015); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, BE (2012); and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2010). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2015); San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (2015); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (2014); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2012); The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (2012); and The Whitney Biennial, New York, NY (2000).

Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Acts of Speech Liz Magic Laser Yael Bartana Metahaven Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 ∆ Liz Magic Laser, The Thought Leader , 2015, single-channel video, 9:22, production still. Featuring actor Alex Ammerman. ∆ Liz Magic Laser, The Thought Leader , 2015, single-channel video, 9:22, production still. Featuring actor Alex Ammerman. ∆ Liz Magic Laser, The Thought Leader , 2015, single-channel video, 9:22, production still. Featuring actor Alex Ammerman. Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Acts of Speech Liz Magic Laser Yael Bartana Metahaven Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Acts of Speech presents four video artworks that explore ideas of agency and political participation in relation to the 2016 Presidential election on November 8. Presented in Gund Commons, MOCA’s free public event space, this series asks us to consider the ways that the free expression of language—written, spoken, signed, or otherwise—is a powerful act that is ours to take. Acts of Speech includes works by Liz Magic Laser (1981, New York), Yael Bartana (1970, Israel), Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk’s Dutch design studio Metahaven (founded 2007), and Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), the South Korea based duo of Marc Voge and Young-hae Chang (founded 1999). Each work will be screened in Gund Commons for three and a half weeks. Liz Magic Laser’s The Thought Leader (2015) playfully critiques the Ted Talk format with a child actor reading a Fyodor Dostoyevski text from 1864 that poses questions about an individual’s role in society. Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’ AH (2016) is a text-based, jazz infused, animated narrative that offers an intimate dialogue about the experience of both observing and being profiled—racially, ethnically, and culturally—that takes place in the United States and around the world. Yael Bartana’s True Finn (2014) is a faux reality-show docudrama that explores a geopolitical atmosphere of Nationalism. While Laser’s contribution considers the value of individualism amongst a society of many, Bartana and YHCHI’s works depict a challenging instance in which individualism becomes a cause for isolation. Further exploring this sense of isolation in an urban context, Metahaven’s City Rising (2014) invites us to consider how digitally-mediated experiences can both empower and suppress our voices today. Acts of Speech is curated by A. Will Brown, Assistant Curator Screening Schedule September 23 – October 19 Liz Magic Laser The Thought Leader, 2015 Single-channel video, sound 9:22 minutes Courtesy of the artist and Various Small Fires, LA October 20 – November 15 Yael Bartana True Finn, 2014 Single-channel video, sound 50:38 minutes Courtesy of the artist and Petzel Gallery, NY November 16 – December 12 Metahaven City Rising, 2014 Single-channel video, sound 10:40 minutes Courtesy of the artists December 13 – December 31 Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries AH, 2016 HD QuickTime video, sound 17:32 minutes Courtesy of the artists All 2016-2017 exhibitions are funded by Leadership Circle gifts from an anonymous donor, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All MOCA Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum's Board of Directors, patrons and members. About the Artists Liz Magic Laser Liz Magic Laser (1981, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University (2003) and an MFA from Columbia University (2008). She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2008) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2009). Her performances and videos intervene in semi-public spaces such as bank vestibules, movie theaters and newsrooms, and have involved collaborations with actors, dancers, and a variety of trained and untrained performers. Her recent work appropriates the dominant performance techniques and psychological strategies used by the media and politicians to sway public opinion. Most recently, her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2013) the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (2013); DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas (2013) and Mälmo Konsthall, Mälmo, Sweden (2012). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions including: Research and Reporting, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2012); Evidence of Accumulation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2012); the Performa 11 Biennial, New York (2011); and Backroom, MoMA PS 1, New York (2010). Yael Bartana Yael Bartana (1970, Israel) is an artist who explores the imagery of cultural identity. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (1996), the School of Visual Arts, New York (1999) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2000). In her photographs, films and installations Bartana critically investigates her native country's struggle for identity. Central to the work are meanings implied by terms like “homeland”, “return” and “belonging”. Bartana investigates these through the ceremonies, public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective identity of the nation state. Bartana’s work has been shown in numerous leading museums and biennials including: On Cohabitation: Films by Yael Bartana , The Banff Centre, Alberta (2016) which traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2016); Inferno , Stedelijk Myuseum, Amsterdam, NL (2016); 31st Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (2014); You imagine what you desire , 19th Biennial of Sydney, PAMM, Sydney (2013); Inferno, Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2013); 2013 Carnegie International Pittsburgh, PA (2013); ); Universes in Universe the 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2012); and in 2011 Bartana represented Poland in the 54th edition of the Venice Biennial. Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries is a Seoul based collaboration between Young-hae Chang and Marc Voge that was founded in 1999. YHCI creates internet based flash-animation texts set to their own music. Early pioneers of internet based video art, their work investigates a range of societal, cultural and interpersonal issues while referencing concrete poetry, film, and the news media. Their work has been shown in major art institutions including: Les Amands De Beaubourg / The Lovers of Beaubourg, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007); BUST DOWN THE DOORS!, Kunsthalle Wein, Germany (2007); END CREDITS, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2007); The Art of Sleep, Tate Modern, London, UK (2006,); Young- hae Chang Heavy Industries Black on White Gray Ascending New Museum, New York (2007). Metahaven Metahaven is an Amsterdam based design and research studio founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 1997. Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice uses the vocabulary of graphic design as a means of knowledge production, using it as a tool to analyze organizational models and power structures. They make films, videos, publish books and essays, work on commissioned and self-initiated projects, and collaborate on conferences and policies. Metahaven’s work has been in international group and solo exhibitions including: Metahaven: The Sprawl , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2015); Your Time is Not My Time, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015); Black Transparency, Future Gallery, Berlin (2015); Metahaven Selected Projects: 2010-2014, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (2014); Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud, MoMA PS1, New York (2013); and Metahaven, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (2009). Select Images

Jan 27-May 14, 2017 Lisa Oppenheim Spine Jan 27-May 14, 2017 ∆ Lisa Oppenhein, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician. ,2016, dye sublimation print on aluminum 41 3/4 x 24 inches (left panel); 41 3/4 x 36 7/8 inches (right panel); 41 3/4 x 60 7/8 inches (overall). Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. ∆ Lisa Oppenhein, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician. ,2016, dye sublimation print on aluminum 41 3/4 x 24 inches (left panel); 41 3/4 x 36 7/8 inches (right panel); 41 3/4 x 60 7/8 inches (overall). Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. ∆ Lisa Oppenhein, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician. ,2016, dye sublimation print on aluminum 41 3/4 x 24 inches (left panel); 41 3/4 x 36 7/8 inches (right panel); 41 3/4 x 60 7/8 inches (overall). Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Jan 27-May 14, 2017 Lisa Oppenheim Spine Lisa Oppenheim: Spine is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Bringing together three bodies of work, the exhibition takes poetic inspiration from the notion of the spine and its relationship to the natural world, the body, and labor. Central to the exhibition is a series of early 20th century photographs by Lewis Hine that have been repurposed by the artist. A documentary photographer and sociologist, Hine is well-known for his photographs that document the conditions of immigrant and child labor in American mills and factories. Appropriated from the Library of Congress’ photographic archive, the images depict adolescent textile workers—primarily young women with physically misshapen backs—that Hine photographed to illustrate the damaging effects of textile manufacturing on the spine. With her singular approach to re-processing photography, Oppenheim has printed the images life-sized and bisected each image at the vertical points of the figure’s spine, creating an intimacy between the subject and the photograph itself. Oppenheim's repurposed Lewis Hine portraits are accompanied by a series of new jacquard loom woven textiles derived from jpegs of Pre-Colombian textiles found in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Together these works explore the poetic relationship between labor, the evolution of industrial textile production, and analog to digital processes. Echoing the spine's strength and density, the exhibition is anchored by a series of new Landscape Portraits. In this body of work, Oppenheim makes photograms from paper-thin slices of wood, using the same arboreal species to frame the images. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog made in collaboration with independent writer and curator Karen Archey, to be launched in May 2017. Designed by Chad Kloepfler, the publication features contributions by Archey, exhibition curator Andria Hickey, art historian Maika Pollack, and poet Laura Solomon. Generous support for Lisa Oppenheim: Spine is provided by Harriet Warm and Dick Blum, with additional support from Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, the Anselm Talalay Photography Endowment, and the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. All 2017 exhibitions are funded by Leadership Circle gifts from an anonymous donor, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle Shan-Jeschelnig and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All MOCA Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum’s Board of Directors, patrons, and members. About the Artist Lisa Oppenheim Lisa Oppenheim (1975, New York, NY) lives and works in New York. She received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1998 and an MFA in film and video from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2001. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program for studio art in 2003. In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shpilman International Photography Prize from the Israel Museum. Recently, she has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (2015), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2014), Grazer Kunstverein (2014) and notable group exhibitions including Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles (2015), Photo-Poetics, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin and Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015), AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014), and New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (2013). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Milwaukee Art Museum, among others. Installation Images