“Initial Museum of Contemporary Art Myanmar (IMoCA)” is a Virtual Museum for the forerunner of a future physical model,. There is no modern or contemporary art museum in Myanmar/Burma, but there is a lot of interesting Myanmar artists. If there were to be an art museum, what would it be like? What types of art would it show to whom? Can those arts revive the rich heritage of Burmese art? What should be the sentiments and representations of Myanmar? Does Myanmar need a modern or contemporary art museum and how should be called it? This project addresses these questions.

IMoCA Myanmar is first endeavoring ideas for a virtual art museum and making a database archive of contemporary art practices in Myanmar while the country is under nationwide scattered situations and various challenging of social-upheavals. We wish to create a new platform and database for current local and diaspora artists of Myanmar, to re-introduce international art networks and to reunite for future collaborations. 

IMoCA Myanmar is a non-profit institution to promote and to host the online exhibitions and making documentation of selected artists and artworks, from the local or diaspora artists, who created multimedia and multi disciplinary works in their temporary spaces. We will create various programs, like open-calls for artists, curator and educational programs to reshape local young artists who are enthusiastic in contemporary art, and to develop art professions such as Curators, Researchers, Writers and organizers to engage art into community.

IMoCA Myanmar is operated by the artist network of “School of Contemporary Art project Myanmar (SOCA)”, collaborated by the AURA Contemporary Art Foundation https://auraart-project.com/, with supervision of Sumitomo Lab: https://www.sumitomo.geidai.ac.jp/, Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Geidai. IMoCA is also a collaborative project of the “Association for Myanmar Contemporary Art (AMCA) https://www.amca.art, and we hope to work with local and regional art partners, international scholars and organizations.

We welcome you, to energize and support with the generosity and any kind of advices, donations and collaborations. We will be in touch all the time with you in online presentations.

Have a great New Year 2025! With Love.

Founding Committee

4 Jan 2025

 OUR VISION

The main purpose of this project is to create a platform to meet art with the community and to build an effective database of the new chapter of Myanmar Contemporary Art in current and for future. As artists and art professionals we see the situations of the young generations artists facing challenges of lack of infrastructure and common ground for showing their creativity. For these challenges, we will try to fill the gaps with the facilitated to be an art network of Myanmar for local and diaspora artists.