Founded in 2010 by Lauren Mackler, and featuring a rotating cast
of collaborators, Public Fiction is a project space and a journal based
in Los Angeles.
Its program presents a series of exhibitions on a theme, each theme
lasting three months and culminating into a journal. Related talks,
screenings, secret restaurants, and performances are held within the
installations and around the topic at hand. Public Fiction’s program
is intergenerational, interdisciplinary and treats the exhibition as
a medium in itself.
Public Fiction was a storefront in Highland Park from 2010-2015.
It is currently nomadic, hosted by larger institutions, and in this
mode has staged exhibitions and publications at The Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012 & 2016); The Church of
the Holy Shroud (via Artissima LIDO) in Turin, Italy (2012);
the Berkeley Museum of Art (2013); Frieze Projects New York (2014);
the Hammer Museum (2014); the MAK Center for Art and Architecture's
Schindler House (2018); and upcoming at the Museum of Contemporary
Art (MCA) Chicago (January 2019).
Selected Press:
Art Forum Print Edition Feb. 2016
