National Museum of Contemporary Art

National Museum of Contemporary Art may refer to:

National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea)

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (국립현대미술관) is a national museum located in Gwacheon, South Korea.

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Coordinates: 37°25′52″N 127°01′12″E / 37.43111°N 127.02000°E / 37.43111; 127.02000

Museum of Contemporary Art

There are many museums named the Museum of Contemporary Art (often shortened to MoCA or MOCA). They include:

Africa

Asia

Australia

Canada

Europe

Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)

The Museum of Contemporary Art (German: Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It is a heritage site of national significance.

In addition to classic media such as painting and sculpture, it also collects video art. Focal points of the collection include the work of Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeff Wall and current American art (Robert Gober, Elizabeth Peyton, Matthew Barney). The Museum of Contemporary Art displays works of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and the Kunstmuseum Basel. Since 2003, all holdings of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation that are not shown in the museum are housed in the Schaulager in Muttenz.

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Coordinates: 47°33′26″N 7°35′27″E / 47.55722°N 7.59083°E / 47.55722; 7.59083

Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

Museum of Contemporary Art (Serbian: Музеј савремене уметности/Muzej savremene umetnosti) in Belgrade is an art institution which collects and displays work produced since in 1900 in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. The museum also organizes international exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It was founded in 1958 as the Museum of Modern Art and was the first Contemporary Art museum in Europe. The building is a masterpiece of Ivan Antić, one of the former Yugoslavia's most prominent post-war architects. The permanent exhibition numbers more than 35,000 works of art.

Departments

The museum has several departments and collections:

Contemporary art

Contemporary art is art produced at the present period in time. Contemporary art includes, and develops from, postmodern art, which is itself a successor to modern art. In vernacular English, "modern" and "contemporary" are synonyms, resulting in some conflation of the terms "modern art" and "contemporary art" by non-specialists.

Scope

Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognizing that lifetimes and life spans vary. However, there is a recognition that this generic definition is subject to specialized limitations.

The classification of "contemporary art" as a special type of art, rather than a general adjectival phrase, goes back to the beginnings of Modernism in the English-speaking world. In London, the Contemporary Art Society was founded in 1910 by the critic Roger Fry and others, as a private society for buying works of art to place in public museums. A number of other institutions using the term were founded in the 1930s, such as in 1938 the Contemporary Art Society of Adelaide, Australia, and an increasing number after 1945. Many, like the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston changed their names from ones using "Modern art" in this period, as Modernism became defined as a historical art movement, and much "modern" art ceased to be "contemporary". The definition of what is contemporary is naturally always on the move, anchored in the present with a start date that moves forward, and the works the Contemporary Art Society bought in 1910 could no longer be described as contemporary.

List of national museums

A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation.

The following is a list of national museums:

Australia

Argentina

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina