Open to the public, free of charge. Kick off your Sunday morning with a special tour of MOCCA's Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival exhibitions: Part Picture and Past Picture: Photography and the Chemistry of Intention. The tour will be led by artist Jimmy Limit. Limit’s installations, photographs, artist books and photogenic sculptures explore the distribution and […]
Offered to moccamigos members ($150) moccamigos member and emerging contemporary art collector, Geoffrey Plant-Richmond, opens up his home and personal contemporary art collection. A blend of Canadian contemporary painting, photography, sculpture and local and international urban art, Geoff's collection features works by such artists as Alex Bierk, Brian Rideout, Jeff Bierk, Nick Bierk, Trevor Wheatley […]
Celebrate the start of the summer season – and MOCCA's last exhibition on Queen Street West – by joining us for the launch of the Queen West Yacht Club, or QWYC. Developed by Toronto/Montreal artist Dean Baldwin, this unique exhibition features a fictitious social venue insitu at the MOCCA on the occasion of its closing exhibition. Stay tuned for […]
Diane Borsato will be producing Sogetsu-style Ikebana flower arrangements using objects and left-over materials from museum installations and receptions. She will be working on the ephemeral sculptures in the gallery on Saturday June 27th and on Friday July 24th. The arrangements will be on view for approximately one week following their construction. Diane Borsato is […]
Join us in the sun for a morning of fun collaboration and group construction (followed by destruction!). Inspired by the active spaces, installations and structures of Dean Baldwin: Q.W.Y.C., artist collective VSVSVS will help participants use recycled materials, cardboard, tape, props and more to build giant forts for our own special Mini MOCCA get-together. Participants will build their own structure before collaborating […]
Offered to all MOCCA Members Join us as Assistant Curator Su-Ying Lee leads MOCCA members on an insightful tour of our Summer exhibitions.
What better way to understand Dean Baldwin’s work than doing what the artist does best - mixing cooking and eating into the art-making process! During this week’s Mini MOCCA, we will replace crayons, glue sticks, and paint brushes for aprons, mixing bowls, and spoons as we create fun food experiments from start to feast. Toronto’s Science + […]
SCHOOL is organized by Jonathan Adjemain and Xenia Benivolski and co presented with No Reading After the Internet. SCHOOL is a series of informal school-type seminars for people of any and all educational backgrounds. Two of the four-week sessions will take place at MOCCA, and will be led by cheyanne turions and Leila Timmins (July 19th […]
Co-presented with 8-11 Screening of How to improve the World at 6:30-7 BBQ 7-8pm A radioactive wand is waved, an Olympic flame is beamed across the sky, and a coal mine burns forever beneath the Earth. A history of energy proceeds not just through rational gestures, but through the stuff of magic, of stealing from […]
Open to the public and free of charge Kick off your Sunday morning with a special tour of MOCCA’s current exhibitions: Q.W.Y.C. and Drama Queens. The tour will be led by artist Dean Baldwin. Organized by the moccamigos.