Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

 

Oct 18, 2025 - Feb 22, 2026

Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

비틀즈 멤버 존 레논의 미망인으로 더 유명한 현대미술가 요코 오노(小野洋子, 92)의 회고전 '요코 오노: 마음의 음악(Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind)'가 10월 18일붜 내년 2월 22일까지 시카고 현대미술관(Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago)에서 열린다.

 

1960년대 아방가르드 예술가 집단 플럭서스 시절부터 현재까지 공연 영상, 음악 및 사운드 레코딩, 영화, 사진, 설치미술, 아카이브 자료 등 200여점이 선보인다. 오노 요코의 자르는 퍼포먼스 '조각 내기(Cut Piece, 1964)', 존 케이지, 오넷 콜만, 존 레논과 협업작품, '평화 상상하기(Imagine Peace, 2003)', '평화는 권력(Peace is Power, 2017)' 그리고 현재 진행중인 '소원 나무(Wish Tree, 1996- )' 등을 감상할 수 있다.

 

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

이 전시는 런던의 테이트 모던(Tate Modern, 2/15-9/1, 2024), 뒤셀도르프의 노르트라인-베스트팔렌 미술관(Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 9/28, 2024-3/16, 2025), 베를린 그로피우스 바우(Gropius Bau, 4/11-8/31, 2025)에 이은 미국 순회전이다. 

 

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind presents one of the most comprehensive exhibitions to date of Yoko Ono, the trailblazing artist, celebrated musician, and formidable campaigner for world peace. This remarkable retrospective—on view at the MCA as the only US venue*—celebrates key moments of Ono’s career, showcasing art driven by ideas and expressed in poetic, humorous, and profound ways.

 

Tracing Ono’s career since the 1950s, Music of the Mind presents over 200 works across a variety of media including performance footage, music and sound recordings, scores, film, photography, installation, and archival materials. Participatory artworks—a key aspect of Ono’s practice—also feature in the exhibition, and visitors are invited to partake in several interactive, instruction-based artworks throughout Music of the Mind.

 

 

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

After moving to New York in the 1950s, Yoko Ono quickly established herself as a key figure in the radical scene of the sixties, where she became a pioneer of conceptual art, and was associated with Fluxus, the international, avant-garde collective of artists and composers. The exhibition highlights key works from this period and onwards, such as Ono’s landmark performance Cut Piece (1964); her films including Fly (1970–71); the banned Film No.4 (Bottoms) (1966–67), which Ono created as a “petition for peace”; and her collaborations with notable musicians John Cage, Ornette Coleman, and her late husband John Lennon, among others. Recent works include Ono’s ongoing project Wish Tree (1996–present), as well as public artworks that epitomize Ono’s commitment to peace activism, including Imagine Peace (2003) and Peace is Power (2017).

 

 

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

Music of the Mind examines Ono’s major contributions to performance, conceptualism, film, and music, while also inviting audiences to take part in both simple acts of the imagination and active encounters with Ono’s creations, such as the installation My Mommy is Beautiful (2004), an invitation to the public to share thoughts about their relationships to their mothers and motherhood, and Wish Trees, which welcomes visitors to contribute their own personal wishes for peace. Featuring works made over seven decades and across three continents, Music of the Mind reveals a groundbreaking approach to language, art, and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.

 

 

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Museum of Contempoeray Art Chicago

 

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf. It was curated by Juliet Bingham, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern; Patrizia Dander, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Gropius Bau; and Andrew de Brún, Assistant Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presentation is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Korina Hernandez, Curatorial Assistant, in close collaboration with Yoko Ono’s Studio One.

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