![]() ![]() The museum would not disclose the cost of the changes at the Geffen. I asked Barbara Kruger if she could imagine helping us create an institutional facade that looks like a facade and not a backside.” All of the sudden, it became an urgency to think about that. “And with people using the Metro, there’s a lot of foot traffic there. “Everyone was telling us, ‘The backside of your building on Alameda looks a little bit like the storage of a museum, not a museum itself,’” Biesenbach said. MOCA wouldn’t reveal what the new mural will look like, just that it will address art and what the museum means for the city, and that it will be “provocative.” Another outdoor Kruger mural is now in the works, which will appear on the east side of the Geffen facing Alameda Street. It was paid for by Kwon, the museum revealed on Thursday. Last year MOCA unveiled a Barbara Kruger mural, “Untitled (Questions),” on the Geffen exterior facing Temple Street. One suggestion: Address the eastern exterior of the building. Biesenbach said he asked everyone: What would you do here? “It was, ‘Let’s look at this together’ and they all gave us incredible, valuable advice,” Biesenbach said. Dance Project, and Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, were among them. The other side will be 14,500 square feet dedicated to Wonmi’s Warehouse Programs.ĭuring the last year, Biesenbach said, he toured the Geffen space with artists, curators, arts administrators, theater and dance professionals, projection and sound technology specialists and others, asking them for feedback about how to revamp the space. One side of the Geffen will house 27,000 square feet of flexible space for exhibitions like the ones the Geffen currently presents. Other upgrades include theatrical lighting and audiovisual systems for music and performance. The new Geffen Contemporary will include an “artist bar and restaurant” that will flow onto the adjacent plaza. In 2018, the Geffen Contemporary was closed for six months between “Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance” and the opening of the Laura Owens and Zoe Leonard surveys. But that also has led to long periods when the space is closed between exhibitions, as de-installation and the next show’s installation can be complicated and laborious. It’s been torn up and reconfigured by artists for exhibitions. The Geffen Contemporary is a vast, pliable space where MOCA has encouraged experimentation. ![]() When we can watch everything on Instagram and YouTube, it seems to be that people want to see one-on-one - that’s what people are longing for.” “All of the sudden performance seems to be the new authentic. “I see Warehouse Programs becoming its own institution within MOCA,” Biesenbach said in an interview this week about the changes, adding that the new space is very much of the moment. When MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach took the reins a year ago, he said revamping the exhibit space physically and conceptually was top of mind. ![]()
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