MAMCO
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (French: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain; MAMCO) is the contemporary art museum of Geneva, which opened in 1994. The building is a former factory building, with 3500 m2 of exhibition space, it is the largest contemporary art museum of Switzerland.
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The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (French: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain; MAMCO) is the contemporary art museum of Geneva, which opened in 1994. The building is a former factory building, with 3500 m2 of exhibition space, it is the largest contemporary art museum of Switzerland.
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Since opening in 1994, MAMCO has organised over 450 temporary exhibitions, collection displays and collaborative projects focused on modern and contemporary art. Its recent programme has included thematic surveys such as Inventaire and Land Art & Earthworks, summer "special edition" group exhibitions, and solo or focused presentations devoted to artists including Olivier Mosset, Christian Marclay, Jeremy Deller, Julia Wachtel, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, General Idea, Ian Burn, Emma Reyes, Tishan Hsu, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Thek, Erica Pedretti and Paul Neagu.
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Christian Bernard (1994-2015) Lionel Bovier (2016-present)
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1973
MAMCO established.
1973
MAMCO is recorded from 1973.
Collection
MAMCO's collection comprises almost 6,000 works created between the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, with about half of the holdings available through the museum's online catalogue. The museum has particularly strong collection of works by Siah Armajani, John M Armleder, Tobias Kaspar, Guy de Cointet, Sylvie Fleury, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Philippe Thomas and Franz Erhard Walther. It also includes substantial groups of works by Louise Lawler, Christian Marclay, Maurizio Nannucci, Nam June Paik and General Idea, alongside works by Helen Frankenthaler, Gordon Matta-Clark and Frank Stella. The collection has grown mainly through donations, bequests and targeted acquisitions rather than through a standing acquisitions budget. Since 2017, MAMCO has also expanded its holdings through its In Course of Acquisition project at artgenève, which the museum said had brought around sixty works into the collection by 2026.
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- 1.Convention de subventionnement 2016-2019 de la Fondamco. Ville de Genève. 2.
- 2.Office cantonal de la statistique (OCSTAT). T 16.02.5.01: Fréquentation des musées de la Ville de Genève et des musées privés du canton. Statistique Genève.
- 3.Anderson, Mitchell. Lionel Bovier on his new position at MAMCO / Geneva. Flash Art. 9 March 2016.
- 4.Timeline. MAMCO Genève.
- 5.Exhibitions – Now. MAMCO Genève.
- 6.Museum. MAMCO Genève.
- 7.Exhibitions – Before. MAMCO Genève.
- 8.Collection – Catalogue. MAMCO Genève.
- 9.https://mamco.ch/en/1017/Catalogue/5117/Tobias-Kaspar-Rented-Life-Lot-8-2020-2021
- 10.MAMCO, from Memory. MAMCO Genève.
- 11.Nouvelles Images: Donations, Bequests, and Acquisitions 2016–2017. MAMCO Genève.
- 12.MAMCO x Art Genève: In Course of Acquisition. MAMCO Genève.
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