The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography, with a permanent collection of over 18,000 works. As an international hub, MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists, and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming.
Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976 as an intimate and comprehensive visual study center for students, educators, and general audiences alike, MoCP presents public programs and exhibitions that foster a greater understanding of the artistic, cultural, and political implications of the image in our world today.
MoCP continues to offer a stimulating and innovative forum for the collection, creation, and examination of contemporary images from diverse aesthetic traditions and technologies.
Visit mocp.org for a list of upcoming exhibitions and events.
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Please join MoCP for a 30-minute exhibition tour followed by a guided meditation and sound bath.
Exhibition co-curator Joan Giroux will guide guests through works in the exhibition that situate the body politic in history and remind us that simple presence in space and time can be action. In works that explore how bodies confront societal malaise and oppression in the built environment, varied gestures—crawling, lying, climbing, pointing, running, walking backward—evoke memory, history, and rhetoric.
After the tour, Aneela Dean-Saineghi will guide participants in a meditation and sound bath, activating releases in your body for holistic healing and wellness.
Bring your own yoga mat and a light blanket. Tea will be served at the end of the program.
This program is presented as part of the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, opening September 19, 2025 and on view through February 28, 2026 at locations across Chicago, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change engages timely global issues through the lens of architecture and design. Learn more at chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org.
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