Since opening in 2001, the MOCA-Taiwan's first museum working to promote modern art-has been frequently on the lips of the public. Even the museum building itself embodies the fundamental concepts of modern art, those of deconstruction and reconstruction.
不論是大衛・拉夏培爾顛覆傳統攝影的美學思維，或是張洹挑戰身體極限、自我辯證的藝術行動，都是當代藝術多元面向的一環。而自 2001 年開館起，這個台灣首座以推廣當代藝術為宗旨的美術館，本身即體現了種種當代藝術破格再造的新觀念，話題性十足。