CLEVELAND, OH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland presents today Out There: Landscape in the New Millenium, on view through August 28, 2005. Landscape and our relationship to the natural world are explored in this exhibition by eight of the most acclaimed national and international artists working today. This outstanding selection of large scale photographic and video works presents inventive landscapes with recognizable imagery that is nonetheless suffused with the unexpected, the implausible, or even the impossible.

The exhibition features key works by Anna Gaskell (U.S.), Uta Barth (born in Germany, lives in the U.S.), Jennifer Steinkamp (U.S.), Ellen Kooi (Dutch), Tom Bamberger (U.S.), Ange Leccia (Corsican), Olafur Eliasson (Danish/Icelandic) and Rosemary Laing (Australian). Included in the exhibition are 26 works including two video installations and a 50-foot long photography installation.

Characterized by lush, saturated color a number of the large format photographs portray fabricated scenes that are at once fantastic and uncanny. Imbued with allegorical undertones or mythic nuances, many of these photographic works seem like dreamscapes. Others, such as the work of Kooi almost function as strange but beautiful fables.