NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art today announced its 2027 commissions for the Museum’s facade and Great Hall. Danh Vo (born 1975, Bà Rịa, Vietnam), who lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City, has been selected for The Genesis Facade Commission and will create new work for the four niches of The Met Fifth Avenue’s Beaux-Arts facade that will be on view September 16, 2027, through June 13, 2028. Inside the Museum, Sandra Mujinga (born 1989, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo), who lives and works in Oslo, will present a site-specific installation for The Great Hall, on view November 4, 2027, through April 4, 2028, bringing her sustained inquiry into visibility, concealment, and memory to the space where the vast majority of visitors to The Met Fifth Avenue enter.

These projects are the latest in The Met's series of contemporary commissions that invite artists to create new works in dialogue with their own practice, The Met collection, the building, and its audiences. They come as construction advances on the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, the new wing for modern and contemporary art designed by Frida Escobedo, which broke ground in September 2026 and will open in 2030. While those galleries take shape, The Great Hall Commission and The Genesis Facade Commission remain the Museum’s most visible platforms for living artists, bringing contemporary practice into the spaces visitors encounter first.

"Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga both treat history as something alive and unsettled and are deeply attuned to the ways objects and bodies carry meaning across time" said Max Hollein, The Met's Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. "Vo takes apart the objects through which history is told, from monuments to family heirlooms, and reassembles them in ways that reveal how constructed and fragile our shared narratives can be. Mujinga creates figures that hover between presence and disappearance, asking who is seen, who chooses to remain unseen, and what it means to take up space. With a collection spanning thousands of years of art, The Met is a natural partner for both artists. Visitors will meet Vo’s project on Fifth Avenue and be greeted by Mujinga's as they enter The Great Hall, so that together these commissions frame the very experience of arriving at the Museum. As we look ahead to the opening of the Tang Wing in 2030, our contemporary commissions remain central to our commitment to the art of our time."

“With a light but transfiguring touch, Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga create artworks that unfix and vivify our relationship to the past. They are two of the most inventive and essential artists of our time,” said David Breslin, The Met’s Leonard A. Lauder Curator in Charge, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Danh Vo has long explored how objects hold histories, personal and political, often in ways that are layered or unresolved. This gives him a singular way into a building whose very purpose is to hold and contextualize very layered and unresolved collections for our millions of engaged visitors. Sandra Mujinga thinks carefully about who is seen, who chooses not to be, and what remains when a body leaves a room. In The Great Hall, where visitors gather, situate themselves, and move on, those questions become a new materiality in her deft hands. We’re thrilled that Danh and Sandra have taken on these projects that hold a mirror onto The Met, the artist, and the world.”

“A facade is the place where the museum meets the street and it is also an expression of its values over time,” said Danh Vo. “How to create a work that meets the intensity of this invitation? An approach that finds relevance for the institution, for me as an artist, for New York? I know that anything I place within that frame will have the opportunity to be in conversation with a world of objects, and with the many people who made and cared for them.”

“The Great Hall is a place of arrival and passage, where people are almost always on their way somewhere else,” said Sandra Mujinga. “I am drawn to spaces like this, where presence is fleeting and attention is divided, and to the figures who might keep watch over them. I am honored to create work for The Met, and to think alongside its collection about how bodies are remembered and what slips away.”

For The Genesis Facade Commission, Vo will develop new work for the four niches designed by architect and founding Museum Trustee Richard Morris Hunt, which remained empty from the facade's opening in 1902 until the commission series began in 2019. Vo's practice attends to a wide range of objects with personal, collective, and symbolic resonances. Exhibitions of his work might include objects as varied as a medieval Catholic sculpture, photographs, a historical chandelier, a letter transcribed by the artist’s father, monumental copper sculptures, or live mushrooms, presented in often unexpected relationships that prompt new reflections. That approach offers a resonant point of departure for a site defined by its classical vocabulary. The project is the eighth in the series for The Met Fifth Avenue’s historic exterior, following commissions by Wangechi Mutu (2019), Carol Bove (2021), Hew Locke (2022), Nairy Baghramian (2023), Lee Bul (2024), Jeffrey Gibson (2025), and, this year, Liu Wei, whose Genesis Facade Commission work, Speculation, is on view through June 8, 2027. Vo’s commission is the fourth under the Museum’s multiyear partnership with Genesis.

Mujinga’s project continues the series of commissions for The Met’s Great Hall, which has previously featured work by Kent Monkman (2019), Jacolby Satterwhite (2023), and Tong Yang-Tze (2024). Working across installation, sculpture, performance, sound, and digital media, Mujinga often conjures spectral figures that resist fixed identities and legibility, while drawing upon artifacts of archaeology and speculative creatures from both the deep past and distant future. Her installation will respond to the scale, architectural context, and perpetual movement of The Great Hall, considering the politics of being seen and the traces that bodies leave behind. The project builds on Mujinga’s history of presentations in New York, including her solo exhibition Worldview at Swiss Institute (2021); the New Museum Triennial (2021); Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, at the Guggenheim Museum (2023); and Sunless Mouths, an installation and performance at Park Avenue Armory (2025).