MAK Center For Art and Architecture

Olga Vanegas

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles is a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture and is headquartered in three architectural landmarks by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. Founded in 1994, in Los Angeles, the MAK Center is a California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. The core of the programming includes the internationally recognized MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, an annual residency program for emerging international artists and architects.

Mak Center will receive funds to support How Many Billboards: Redux. This project revisits MAK’s seminal 2010 exhibition How Many Billboards?, a show where all of Los Angeles became a gallery. With the proliferation of digital billboards, the second act will refocus the discussion to more contemporary issues facing LA’s ever changing landscape, with newly commissioned works for digital and static billboards. Together, these sites of intervention will critically examine such issues as the increased commercial and surveillance use of public space, the commodification of the public realm, and the shifting power dynamics in how information is presented and consumed. December 15, 2025 – December 15, 2026