LOS ANGELES, CA.- Season highlights include the much-anticipated MONUMENTS, which juxtaposes decommissioned Confederate statues with contemporary artworks; and MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi, the artist’s first solo museum show in Los Angeles.

Additional highlights include Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds, an exhibition exploring how artists construct imaginative and personal networks; Tracing Performance, Fictions of Display, showcasing collection works that consider the relationship between objects, theater, and performance; and the U.S. debut of Wael Shawky’s acclaimed Drama 1882.

Offering a dynamic array of perspectives and a wide-ranging program, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is pleased to announce its 2025 exhibition schedule. The museum’s season invites visitors to engage with artistic visions and artworks that reflect and respond to the stories shaping our times. The program weaves together ambitious collection-based exhibitions and solo presentations by leading contemporary artists, experimental thematic shows, and provocative explorations of history through contemporary art.

At MOCA Grand Avenue, Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds (March 2, 2025–January 4, 2026) showcases over 80 works from the museum’s celebrated collection, exploring how artists construct imaginative, intimate, and alternative networks. The third installment of the relaunched MOCA Focus series, MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi (June 29, 2025–March 15, 2026), presents the Los Angeles–based artist’s ornate and stylized paintings in her first solo museum show in the city. Tracing Performance, Fictions of Display (June 29, 2025 – March 15, 2026) highlights works from the permanent collection by more than two dozen artists that consider the rich relationships between objects, theater, and performance.

At MOCA Geffen, Wael Shawky: Drama 1882 (February 20–March 16, 2025) has its U.S. debut following a widely praised presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale. The operatic film installation explores historical counter-narratives as part of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs. Fall brings the much-anticipated exhibition MONUMENTS (October 23, 2025–May 24, 2026), co-organized by MOCA and The Brick (formerly LAXART). Juxtaposing decommissioned Confederate monuments with contemporary artworks, MONUMENTS invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings of these highly charged symbols and their implications in the present day.

Johanna Burton, Maurice Marciano Director of MOCA, stated: “In 2025, we continue building on MOCA’s incredible legacy of presenting exhibitions that speak directly to the present moment while drawing from history in deeply resonant ways. This season’s exhibitions encourage our audiences to connect with new ideas, reflect on art’s role in shaping place, and explore how contemporary art can illuminate the complexities of our world. MOCA is proud to create a platform for artists who engage in and inspire critical thought, dialogue, and imagination.”

Clara Kim, MOCA’s Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, adds: “Our 2025 exhibitions demonstrate the extraordinary range of expressions in contemporary art—from large-scale explorations of artists’ personal and social worlds to groundbreaking solo projects and historical reexaminations. Whether addressing the construction of history, personal mythologies, or the politics of representation, these exhibitions challenge and inspire us to rethink and re-imagine our relationship to time, place, and culture.”

MOCA concludes its presentation of Josh Kline: Climate Change on January 5, 2025 at MOCA Grand Avenue. The critically acclaimed exhibition offers an immersive suite of science-fiction installations that imagine a future sculpted by a ruinous climate crisis and the ordinary people destined to inhabit it. Through May 4, 2025, MOCA presents Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, a landmark exhibition reexamining the postwar art movement of photorealism and tracing its lineages among a new generation of artists today; and MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia, the first U.S. solo presentation of the artist’s work, featuring a new work commissioned for the exhibition plus two recent bodies of work at MOCA Grand Avenue. Olafur Eliasson: OPEN, the ambitious site-specific installation by the celebrated Icelandic-Danish artist, presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, remains on view through July 6, 2025 at MOCA Geffen.

Through its 2025 exhibition program, MOCA invites critical reflection, meaningful dialogue, and deeper connections with contemporary art and its impact within culture and society.