Philadelphia Contemporary

Philadelphia Contemporary
Established2016
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°58′05″N 75°08′30″W / 39.96814°N 75.14153°W / 39.96814; -75.14153
FounderHarry Philbrick
Websitephiladelphiacontemporary.org

Philadelphia Contemporary is an arts organization that commissions and presents contemporary visual art, performance art, and spoken word. It was founded in 2016 with the intention to build a new non-collecting museum in Philadelphia for contemporary art in all of its forms. Philadelphia Contemporary organizes exhibitions and events through partnerships and space-borrowing with institutions such as the Barnes Foundation, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation.

In 2018, Philadelphia Contemporary announced that the architecture firm Johnston Marklee would design their new building.