MOCA is excited to present the first major survey exhibition in Canada of Canadian-French artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Kiwanga creates installation, sculpture, and performance as well as video and sound pieces to explore the relationships between historical narratives, systems of power, and the use of material within these contexts.

For her exhibition at MOCA, Kiwanga presents five new commissions, including a site-specific version of her ongoing sisal installations on the Museum’s free-of-charge Ground Floor, as well as flooring and window interventions. These are presented alongside key existing artworks, such as an updated series of inflatable vivariums from 2020, The Marias, 2020, and Vumbi, 2012.

Through this curated selection, Kiwanga expands on her research into how botany has long held a relationship to exploitation and acts of resistance and how plant life has and may intervene in the rejuvenation of contaminated environments.

Remediation will open at MOCA Toronto as part of the Spring 2023 exhibition alongside artists Athena Papadopoulos, Susan for Susan and Serkan Özkaya.

MOCA has invited artist Emmanuel Osahor to create an exhibition that includes a new painting, a photographic wallpaper and ceramic works for the museum’s North End Gallery.

Osahor’s artwork engages with beauty as a necessity for survival and a precursor to thriving. His paintings depict natural spaces as complicated sanctuaries in which manifestations of beauty and care are ever present. By means of energized brushstrokes, he draws the viewer into these fictional garden scenes, offering imaginary but recognizable spaces as potential sites for contemplation and wellbeing.

Specifically for MOCA, Osahor has composed an installation that brings the sky, in a multiplicity of hues, into focus as a site of wonder and possibility. In dialogue with his uninhabited painting, a series of palm-molded ceramic birds add life and whimsy, as well as an additional reference to the importance of the artist’s hand for his craft.

These days is a rumination on the prospect of a good future and an invitation to engage in a sustained meditation on the individual and collective processes necessary for meaningful shared experience.

MOCA is excited to present the first major survey exhibition in Canada of Canadian-French artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Kiwanga creates installation, sculpture, and performance as well as video and sound pieces to explore the relationships between historical narratives, systems of power, and the use of material within these contexts.

For her exhibition at MOCA, Kiwanga presents five new commissions, including a site-specific version of her ongoing sisal installations on the Museum’s free-of-charge Ground Floor, as well as flooring and window interventions. These are presented alongside key existing artworks, such as an updated series of inflatable vivariums from 2020, The Marias, 2020, and Vumbi, 2012.

Through this curated selection, Kiwanga expands on her research into how botany has long held a relationship to exploitation and acts of resistance and how plant life has and may intervene in the rejuvenation of contaminated environments.

Remediation will open at MOCA Toronto as part of the Spring 2023 exhibition alongside artists Athena Papadopoulos, Susan for Susan and Serkan Özkaya.

MOCA has invited artist Emmanuel Osahor to create an exhibition that includes a new painting, a photographic wallpaper and ceramic works for the museum’s North End Gallery.

Osahor’s artwork engages with beauty as a necessity for survival and a precursor to thriving. His paintings depict natural spaces as complicated sanctuaries in which manifestations of beauty and care are ever present. By means of energized brushstrokes, he draws the viewer into these fictional garden scenes, offering imaginary but recognizable spaces as potential sites for contemplation and wellbeing.

Specifically for MOCA, Osahor has composed an installation that brings the sky, in a multiplicity of hues, into focus as a site of wonder and possibility. In dialogue with his uninhabited painting, a series of palm-molded ceramic birds add life and whimsy, as well as an additional reference to the importance of the artist’s hand for his craft.

These days is a rumination on the prospect of a good future and an invitation to engage in a sustained meditation on the individual and collective processes necessary for meaningful shared experience.