Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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A Matter of Abstraction
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 28-March-2012 to 04-April-2016
The search for abstraction plainly influenced developments in contemporary artistic expression in Québec and Canada. With this new exhibition titled A Matter of Abstraction, which brings together a hundred or so works produced between 1939 and the present,1 the Musée continues its reassessment of the quest led, since the early 1940s, by the artists of [...]
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Zoo
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 24-May-2012 to 03-September-2012
Exhibition curated by Marie Fraser and François Letourneux.
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Wangechi Mutu
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 02-February-2012 to 22-April-2012
This monographic exhibition devoted to Wangechi Mutu will be an opportunity to showcase her installation Moth Girls, 2010, recently acquired by the Musée. Combining poetic symbolism and socio-political critique, this remarkable work embeds a memory of the land and its age-old traditions in current aesthetic and political concerns. The installation comprises a hundred or so ceramic [...]
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Valérie Blass
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 02-February-2012 to 22-April-2012
This show will present a dozen or so recent works by Valérie Blass, along with some earlier pieces, highlighting the main themes that have marked her artistic practice in the last several years. Born in Montréal in 1967, Valérie Blass holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du [...]
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Ghada Amer
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 02-February-2012 to 22-April-2012
This exhibition features largely recent works by Egyptian artist Ghada Amer. Born in Cairo in 1963, Amer spent a number of years in France and studied fine arts in Nice before moving to New York, where she now lives. Handling subjects as delicate and personal as pleasure and love, Ghada Amer shows [...]
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Althea Thauberger
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 04-January-2012 to 19-February-2012
As part of the Projections series, the Musée will present recent work by Canadian artist Althea Thauberger, whose projects take the form of site-specific, collaborative community performances that she then turns into photographs and films. Born in 1970 in Saskatchewan, Althea Thauberger lives and works in Vancouver. She studied photography at Concordia University before going on [...]
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 07-October-2011 to 06-November-2011
As part of The Québec Triennial 2011, the Musée, in collaboration with the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, is presenting Intersection articulée. Architecture relationnelle 18, a major work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer conceived especially for Place des Festivals.
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Van Den Bulcke and Soetens: “RealTime UnReal”
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 31-August-2011 to 02-October-2011
Within WU, Van Den Bulcke and Soetens work on creating hybrid spaces where the thin line between the reality of the physical environment and perceptual reality becomes blurred. “What we experience in virtual space changes our perception of our experience of reality.” The collective’s investigations examine media culture, traditional conceptions of space, [...]
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Déjà – The Collection on display
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 26-May-2011 to 04-September-2011
Taking up all of the museum’s galleries, the exhibition comprises more than a hundred major works that rank among the most important in the Permanent Collection. While seemingly modest in terms of numbers, relative to the total of over 7,600 pieces listed in the inventory of the Collection, in terms of [...]
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Projections Series: Workspace Unlimited
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal From 31-August-2011 to 02-October-2011
Within WU, Van Den Bulcke and Soetens work on creating hybrid spaces where the thin line between the reality of the physical environment and perceptual reality becomes blurred. “What we experience in virtual space changes our perception of our experience of reality”. The collective’s investigations examine media culture, traditional conceptions of space, [...]
