Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA ) is located in Los Angeles , California . Founded in 1976 by art collectors, MOCA is one of the most important institutions for contemporary art in the USA.
The complex on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles is a playful arrangement of reddish, geometric blocks and a design by the architect Arata Isozaki , who described it as a “small village in the valley of the skyscrapers”. In addition to works by Franz Kline , Mark Rothko , Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg as well as works by Antoni Tàpies , the museum houses a collection of paintings and sculptures by some new Californian artists, which you will encounter again in many of the city's major galleries.
In Geffen Contemporary , located further east at 152 North Central Avenue, a former repair shop for police cars, the somewhat more avant-garde works of the MOCA are on display. Another location of the museum is the Pacific Design Center at 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood , with exhibits of contemporary architecture and design.
The museum was run from June 1, 2010 to summer 2013 by the New York gallery owner and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch . In 2014, the director of the New York Dia Art Foundation , Philippe Vergne , was appointed the new director of the MOCA.
On July 31, 2018, the museum announced that Klaus Biesenbach will move to MOCA as director of MoMA PS1 in March 2019 .
Web links
- MOCA website
- Barbara Kutscher: Philippe Vergne at MOCA. It's the perfect marriage . Handelsblatt , January 23, 2014:
Individual evidence
- ↑ Message ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the MOCA (PDF; 201 kB)
- ↑ Claudia Bodin: The new man in LA ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. art Das Kunstmagazin , January 17, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2014
- ↑ The German curator Klaus Biesenbach, previously head of MoMA PS1 in New York, is the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles . In Monopoly from July 31, 2018
Coordinates: 34 ° 3 '11.7 " N , 118 ° 15' 2.9" W.