Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu


The Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu in Chengdu, China is a Chinese museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across China and around the world. Chengdu MOCA is located at Chengdu Tianfu Software Park.At 8 September 2018 they had no permanent exhibition

History

The museum, designed by the architect Liu Jiakun, was opened in 2011. Construction of the museum was funded by Chengdu High-Tech Zone Investment Co. Ltd., a state-owned company.
The art historian, critic and curator Lv Peng became the museum's first director. Lv Peng is known for his publications History of Chinese Contemporary Art: 1990-1999 and A History of Art In Twentieth Century China
In 2014, the museum did not yet have a display of its permanent collection, but had opened its gallery for exhibits of modern art and photography.
In addition to hosting exhibitions from Asian artists the museum has hosted retrospective surveys of western artists including: Tony Cragg, Michael Pinsky and Picasso and have collaborated with institutions such as the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris to show the works of Dominique Gonzalez–Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Ange Leccia and Philippe Parreno