The Museum of Contemporary Art, London organises exhibitions in its Project Space in South London and elsewhere. Its director is Michael Petry

Michael Petry

Michael Petry is a multi-media artist, director of MOCA London, and co-founder of the Museum of Installation, London. He was born in El Paso, Texas, and has lived in London since 1981. He received a BA at Rice University , an MA at London Guildhall University, and a Dr in Arts at Middlesex...

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History

MOCA London was founded in 1994 as a project based museum. No formal built space was to be required to mount a series of international exhibitions that incorporated sculpture, video, painting, photography and installation. Projects were curated for virtual and specific sites.

In January 2004, MOCA opened a project space at 113 Bellenden Road in Peckham Rye

Peckham Rye

For the rail station of the same name see Peckham Rye Railway StationPeckham Rye is an open space and road in the London Borough of Southwark in London, England....

to initiate a series of exhibitions that were locally based but global in focus. The Project Space exists to offer established and upcoming artists the possibility of making non-commercial work, developing the projects over various periods of time to suit both the artist and MOCA. Projects emerge when they are ready. This co-operative style of working means that the Project Space has no formal exhibition structure, and works are in situ when they are ready. A new Platform Space for younger artists is in the final design stages.