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EXHIBITIONS

The museum hosts 3-4 major exhibitions each year.


 
 

considering DETROIT
AND considering ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABLE DESIGNS FROM DETROIT

May 10 - July 27, 2008

considering Detroit and considering Architecture open at 7 pm May 10 and runs through July 27.

considering Detroit is the first in a projected series that will explore contemporary art somehow linked to the Detroit area, and document this recent artistic activity. considering Detroit will include five visual artists, one poet, and a collective. They are:

Ellen Cantor
Maurice Greenia Jr. (Maugre)
Jim Gustafson
Allie McGhee
Heather McGill
Gordon Newton
artist collective TIME STEREO

In conjunction with MOCAD's considering DETROIT show, considering Architecture: Sustainable Designs from Detroit will also be on view. This show will include the designs, architecture and products of several local area architecture firms and highlight their projects that include "green" or sustainable design practices. Continue reading...

Gordon Newton, Untitled (Swordfish), courtesy Wayne State University
 

ReFUSING FASHION: REI KAWAKUBO
February 8 - April 20, 2008

One of the most elusive fashion designers in the world, Rei Kawakubo of Japan, is known for remaking the forms of clothes. Her sweaters full of holes, jackets with only one sleeve and dresses that are part dress and part pants are unique, yet always wearable. She says she wants to "design clothes that have never yet existed." Her innovative fashion, unique methods of fabrication and collaborations with artists working in many different fields including the great modern choreographer Merce Cunningham, will be explored in a unique installation of her work at MOCAD. The exhibition will include over 40 key garments, costumes from and film of the Cunningham performance, photographs, runway footage and ephemera. Continue reading...

Photo by Corine Smith
 

HOLY HIP-HOP!
NEW PAINTINGS BY ALEX MELAMID

February 8 - April 20, 2008

Click to see exhibition catalogue.

Icons from the world of hip-hop music will be the subject of an extraordinary exhibition of portraits by Russian-born American painter Alexander Melamid, the outspoken artist who once had his work dismantled and bulldozed by the Soviet government. Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit from February 8 through April 20, 2008. Holy Hip-Hop! marks the first-ever solo show for Melamid, who is world-famous for his collaborative partnership with fellow Russian-born artist Vitaly Komar. A fully-illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Continue reading...

Snoop Dogg, 2005 by Alex Melamid
 

WORDS FAIL ME
Curated by Matthew Higgs
September 16, 2007 - January 20, 2008
Opens September 15 at 7pm

Matthew Higgs curates the Fall 2007 show at MOCAD. Artists in the show will include: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tauba Auerbach, Anne-Lise Coste, Martin Creed, Sam Durant, Peter Fischli, Ryan Gander, Siobhan Liddell, Jonathan Monk, Philippe Parreno, Jack Pierson, Carl Pope, Kay Rosen, Ron Terada, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Weiss and Jennifer West.

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STUFF: INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF BURT AARON
May 12 - July 29, 2007

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is proud to present STUFF: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron. Featuring over 100 works of art by over 75 artists, this show brings rarely seen work from a private collection to the public eye.

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SHRINKING CITIES
In collaboration with Cranbrook Art Museum
February 3 - April 1, 2007

Shrinking Cities, a project by Germany's Federal Cultural Foundation, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, explores a form of urban development that has become a global phenomenon. Starting in 2002, local teams were commissioned in Detroit (USA), Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), Ivanovo (Russia), and Halle/Leipzig (Germany) to investigate and document processes of urban shrinking. In more than fifty exhibition contributions, artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, culture experts, and sociologists reveal and illuminate the changing realities of these cities. Continue reading...


Poster announcing call for proposals.

 

MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY
Curated by Klaus Kertess
October 28, 2006 - April 22, 2007

Click to see exhibition catalogue.

We seem to be residing in a world in which nature has frequently come to be referred to as a terrorist; and terrorism has come to be thought of as natural. Tornadic conditions prevail spiritually, mentally, and physically. Now directly, now obliquely, now with humor, never preaching, the artists included in the opening exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Detroit, explore this dark moment. Continue reading...