Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu, Contemporary art museum in Tianfu Software Park, Chengdu, China.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (MoCA) occupies a building designed by architect Liu Jiakun in the Tianfu Software Park, at 219 Tianhua 2nd Road in the Wuhou District high-tech zone. It opened in 2011 and is funded and run by the state-owned Chengdu High-Tech Zone Investment Co. Ltd. Its galleries host temporary exhibitions of modern and photographic art rather than a permanent collection display.
The museum opened in 2011 in a building designed by architect Liu Jiakun, funded and operated by the state-owned Chengdu High-Tech Zone Investment Co. Ltd. Art historian and critic Lü Peng served as its first director. By 2014 it had no permanent collection on display but hosted temporary modern and photographic art exhibitions, including retrospectives of Tony Cragg, Michael Pinsky and Picasso, and a collaboration with the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
The museum's first director was the art historian and critic Lü Peng, known for his writings on Chinese art of the 1990s. Its programme has brought retrospectives of Western artists such as Tony Cragg, Michael Pinsky and Picasso to Chengdu, alongside exhibitions of Asian artists. A collaboration with the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris presented works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Ange Leccia and Philippe Parreno.
The museum stands at 219 Tianhua 2nd Road in the Chengdu High-Tech Zone, Wuhou District, inside Tianfu Software Park. As of 2014 it had no permanent collection on display, so what you see depends on the temporary modern art and photography exhibitions running at the time. Check the current programme before travelling.
The museum's first director was Lü Peng, an art historian known for his writings on Chinese contemporary art. Its building was designed by architect Liu Jiakun and funded by the state-owned Chengdu High-Tech Zone Investment Co. Ltd. In 2014 the museum still had no permanent collection on display, showing only temporary exhibitions.
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