Millennium Park Exhibitions
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Current Exhibitions
Franz West: Millennium Park
July 22, 2024—November 2025
Franz West: Millennium Park features three monumental installations by West: Stonehenge (2011), Kugeln (Balls) (2002), and Dorit (2002), set against the iconic backdrop of Millennium Park.
Exhibition support to the Millennium Park Foundation is made possible by the Boeing and Richard Driehaus Endowment and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Augmented Chicago: Inaugural Realities
Through November 2025
Augmented Chicago: Inaugural Realities showcases the innovative works of four internationally celebrated Chicago-based artists, Claire Ashley, Faheem Majeed, Yvette Mayorga and Carlos Rolón, pioneering the use of Augmented Reality (AR) for the first time in the vibrant setting of Millennium Park.
Past Exhibitions
“When we call the Earth by way of distinction a planet and the Moon a satellite, we should consider whether we do not, in a certain sense, mistake the matter. Perhaps - and not unlikely - the Moon is the planet and the Earth the satellite! Are we not a larger moon to the Moon, than she is to us?” by Christine Tarkowski
Through October 2023
Christine Tarkowski is a Chicago-based artist who works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, printed matter, photography and song. Her works range in scale from the ordinary to the monumental. Equally variable is her scope of production which incorporates the making of permanent architectural structures, cast models, textile yardage and temporary printed ephemera
Screenhouse by Edra Soto
Through October 2023
Constructed from approximately 400 charcoal-hued, 12-inch cast concrete blocks, the 10-foot high pavilion-like structure comes out of an ongoing series exploring symbolic transplants of iron grills and decorative concrete screen blocks found throughout the Caribbean and the American South. These decorative screens, known as rejas and quiebrasoles, are ubiquitous in Soto’s birthplace in Puerto Rico.
Requiem: A White Wanderer
Luftwerk in collaboration with Katherine Young
Requiem: A White Wanderer is an ongoing art and sound project by Chicago-based collaborative Luftwerk to inspire a robust public dialogue about climate change here in Chicago and beyond. Inspired by Larsen-C, a 120-mile long crack that ran along the Antarctic ice shelf and broke into a trillion-ton iceberg named A 68 in 2017, Requiem: A White Wanderer translates seismic data from this ailing iceberg into an emotional experience, connecting the public to the urgency of climate change.
Chakaia Booker Exhibition
April 30, 2016—April 15, 2018
Millennium Park will unveil six recent sculptures by American artist Chakaia Booker in a new exhibition in the Boeing Galleries—running April 30, 2016, through April 2018. A seventh, site-responsive sculpture (a new work) will be added in September 2016 in the South Boeing Gallery.
Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosks
October 3, 2015—Spring 2016
This exhibit features the winning entry of an international Lakefront Kiosk Competition plus work by architecture students at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jaume Plensa: 1004 Portraits
June 18, 2014—December 2015
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain, the artist presents four monumental sculptures installed in Millennium Park for this special exhibition, 1004 Portraits.
Jean-Luc Mylayne: The Millennium Park Chapel
May 22–December 31, 2015
French artist Jean-Luc Mylayne, acclaimed for his enigmatic color photographs of birds, has created a temporary Chapel building with a 30–foot photo mural on its ceiling.
Millennium Park: An Anatomy in Photographs
June 18, 2014—October 2015
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Millennium Park, this exhibition is curated by John Vinci of Vinci/Hamp Architects and features over 50 images.
ADA 25 Chicago: Greater > Together
June 8–Septemerb 30, 2015
This display celebrates 25 years and counting for The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and revealing how Millennium Park was created using principles of “universal design.”
Jun Kaneko
April 12–November 3, 2013
As a pioneer in the field of monumental ceramic sculpture, Jun Kaneko has played with scale and proportion and this installation is representative of his past and present artistic practices. Works presented in the South Boeing Galleries featured Kaneko’s signature Dangos (meaning “rounded form” or “dumpling” in Japanese).
Interconnected: The Sculptures of Yvonne Domenge
April 6, 2011—October 21, 2012
Magnificent large–scale sculptures by acclaimed Mexican artist, Yvonne Domenge, included three large steel spheres in the South Boeing Gallery and the brightly painted Tree of Life, cast in bronze, in the North Boeing Gallery.