Exhibitions & Gallery Activations
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Our indoor galleries are definitely not hibernating this season.
Catch new collaborations with Williams College Museum of Art, in-gallery activations, and so much more:
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Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust
On view beginning February 1
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| In Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, Anna Ting Möller, Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, and New Red Order invoke disgust to scrutinize power structures. Representing bodies beyond skin — mutilated figures and overflowing fleshy wetness — these artists interrogate the limits of traditional kinship, capitalist systems, and colonialist structures. Artworks made from ceramics, kombucha scoby, and photogrammetry pick at the sutures of society and uncover the ways in which responses of disgust can be (re)programmed. |
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Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier
On view beginning February 1
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| In 2019, Iceland constructed the first memorial to mark the death of its Okjökull glacier. Since then, funerals have been held around the world to mark the melting of glacier bodies. These rituals of collective grief amplify the current state of climate emergency while expressing the intimate entanglement of human and environmental well-being. Consisting of an experimental documentary film and a photographic installation, Ohan Breiding’s Belly of a Glacier connects this act of mourning to ongoing practices of preservation that strive to protect the ice — a material that contains both remnants of the past and the conditions of a future world.
Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier is co-organized by the Williams College Museum of Art and MASS MoCA. |
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Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary
On view beginning Saturday, February 23
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| For more than a decade, Alison Pebworth has been inspired by a 19th-century neurological disorder called Americanitis. With vague and capacious symptoms ranging from abnormal fatigue to premature baldness, a diagnosis of Americanitis essentially pathologized the anxiety and ennui that plagued many Americans in the wake of industrialization and urbanization. Pebworth’s Cultural Apothecary asks us to consider the root causes of the cultural ills that contribute to our anxiety today, and to work together towards tools for healing. Her installation at MASS MoCA will offer an experimental space for embodied, in-person connection, curiosity, and exploration as an antidote to division, loneliness, and isolation. |
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In Conversation: Petra Szilagyi & Bayo Akomolafe
Saturday, April 12, 5pm
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| Amid the ongoing constellation of crises impacting contemporary life around the globe, institutional and governmental responses can feel frustratingly inadequate. Petra Szilagyi creates artworks that respond with reflection and absurdity — like Bless Your Hard Drive, a prayer room for a benevolent future for the internet currently on view in Like Magic. Join Szilagyi and post-humanist thinker Dr. Bayo Akomolafe for an experimental conversation about possible alternative responses to the crises that shape our lives today. |
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Slow Art Day
Saturday, April 12
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| Did you realize that the average viewer spends only 21 seconds in front of a work of art? Let’s change that, together! Come celebrate International Slow Art Day and connect more deeply to what you see in our galleries. Enjoy a slow-looking tour at noon or 2pm – it’s chilled-out fun for all ages! |
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MASS MoCA Support
Programming at MASS MoCA is made possible in part by the Barr Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, the Thompson Family Foundation, and the Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation. MountainOne is MASS MoCA’s Lead Community Sponsor.
Thank you, MASS MoCA members and key funders, for your generous support.
All images courtesy of the artist.
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