Olafur Eliasson: OPEN

Date: Friday, January 31, 2025 from 12:30pm to 4:00pm

Location: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Type: Exhibition, Conversation, Experience L.A., Arts, Arts Now

Genre: Art & Design, Science & Technology, Experience L.A.

Olafur Eliasson: OPEN
An Experience L.A. Event
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Little Tokyo

Olfafur Eliasson: OPEN is on view through Sunday, July 6. To visit on your own, go to moca.org.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free and open to current USC students only. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:45 a.m. on campus. Students will travel together on the Metro E Line to the Little Tokyo/Arts District station and return to campus at 4 p.m. Lunch will be provided.

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DESCRIPTION:
USC students are invited to experience a guided tour of Olafur Eliasson: OPEN at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Little Tokyo. In line with the Berlin-based, Icelandic-Danish artist’s career-long exploration of light and color, geometry, and environmental awareness, OPEN playfully engages with material and immaterial qualities of the museum’s architecture. A series of large-scale optical devices designed specifically for MOCA Geffen will respond to the building itself, as well as to the everchanging atmosphere of Los Angeles. Visitors will encounter a dazzling range of sensory experiences that harness the laws of geometric optics to address feelings and concepts of embodiment, perception, and participation.

Please be advised that Olafur Eliasson: OPEN features low lighting in some galleries and one artwork with flashing lights.

Olafur Eliasson: OPEN is among the more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. This landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is a Getty Initiative.

 



Olafur Eliasson: OPEN is organized by José Luis Blondet, Senior Curator, and Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator, with Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, Curatorial Assistant, and Anastasia Kahn, former Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices.


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