The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts launches immersive art installation series

RICHMOND, VA.- In May 2025, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) will launch REWIND<
“Since its inception, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been a platform for exhibiting cutting-edge works of contemporary art,” said Director and CEO Alex Nyerges. “Our new series ––- REWIND<
“The series pushes the elasticity of genres and media to highlight artists working at intersecting disciplines,” said Valerie Cassel Oliver, VMFA’s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and REWIND<
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VOLUMES by Ezra Masch | May 15–17, 2025

VOLUMES is an immersive audio-visual experience that uses technology and live sound from percussion instruments to activate a site-specific light sculpture. Local percussionists will activate the installation, connecting sound, light and space. Tickets to see VOLUMES are sold out.

Ellen Fullman and JACK Quartet in Concert | Coming in 2026

This evening concert will feature Ellen Fullman performing on her iconic Long String Instrument and accompanied by the New York–based JACK Quartet. As the closing program for the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Cardbirds, Fullman will debut a VMFA-commissioned composition celebrating Rauschenberg’s practice as a groundbreaking artist who experimented with movement and material. The commission and exhibition, on the advent of the artist’s centennial celebration, are sponsored by a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

STAGED: Three Deuces by Jason Moran | Coming in 2027

VMFA recently acquired STAGED: Three Deuces by musician, composer and visual artist Jason Moran. In this architectural reimagining of the historic jazz venue, Moran acknowledges the power of jazz lore and the shifting social and political realities that shaped the genre. At a time when the popularity of jazz reached its peak in New York City, venues like Three Deuces were systematically destroyed by development and urban renewal. The devasting effects for the jazz world was the loss of historic venues that inspired generations of musicians. Designed to reimagine the club’s cramped stage, Moran has “restaged” the architecture replete with a piano, upright bass and drum kit. While not being activated through live performance, the Spiro piano will play with Moran’s prerecorded performances from the swinging jazz songbooks played throughout the North, as well as prison work songs from the same era associated with the South, to shed light on the complexity of Black life in America during this era.