The economy is the institution studied in this second installment in the series of exhibitions The Radical Imaginary, organized by a collective of artists and scholars comprised of Erik Bordeleau, François Lemieux, Marilou Lemmens and Bernard Schütze.
This monographic exhibition presents a selection of recent video installations by Clemens von Wedemeyer pertaining to the representation of crowds and the tension between the individual and the masses.
This retrospective engages in a rereading of Sorel Cohen’s œuvre through emblematic photographic works as well as a previously unseen series of sculpture pieces.
This documentary exhibition is the seventh iteration of “Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”, VOX’s research project on the practice, history and future of exhibitions in Quebec and their documentation.
For its 17th edition, titled Sensing Nature, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image humbly invites us to consider environmental justice and its intersections with social justice as a matter of sensing and feeling as much as of analysis and grassroots activism.
VOX’s all-new children’s exhibition invites young visitors to cast a critical eye on our consumer society and its environmental impacts…
Exploring issues around Indigenous land, language, and mythologies, this program features five short experimental documentary films made by Sky Hopinka…
In September 1976 video artists Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele packed a Volkswagen station wagon full of equipment and clothes and left Toronto for Southern California…
This exhibition will examine a fundamental cultural phenomenon of the last century: the relationship between images and music. Contemporary artists and directors will be featured alongside artists and filmmakers of the avant-garde in a circuit including a silent film with added sound, experimental and animation films, music videos, as well as performances…
Museologists have traditionally defined the exhibition as a visibility apparatus enabling us to deduce knowledge about culture, nature, art, and so forth. In a new installation devised specifically for VOX, Mathieu Cardin imagines stagings that “exhibit” the visibility mechanisms we might normally find in a natural history museum…
Monique Moumblow occupies a singular place in the history of Canadian video and contemporary art owing to the way she considers notions of identity, the private, and the personal. Stemming from exchanges extending over many years between the artist and guest curator Nicole Gingras, this exhibition features a selection of recent works, produced since 2012.
Curated by María Wills Londoño in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson, MOMENTA 2019 proposes a piercing look at the life of things, bringing into dialogue their consumerist and symbolic dimensions. Presented simultaneously at two locations—VOX and the Galerie de l’UQAM—the thematic exhibition generates a conversation fueled by the works of twenty-two artists and meshes four components…
Curated by Marie J. Jean, this event presents experimentations by seven contemporary artists—Steve Bates, Thomas Bégin, Pierre Dorion, Frédérick Gravel, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Jocelyn Robert, and Claire Savoie—in the period interiors of the Château Dufresne, the Château Ramezay, Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal, the Sir George-Étienne Cartier residence, and the Guido Molinari Foundation. Concurrently, at VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Klaus Scherübel has produced an art intervention that employs the period room format to reconstitute two exhibitions organized in 1947 by the Automatist artists.
Jean-Paul Kelly’s work questions the limits of representation by examining complex associations in the production, reception, and circulation of documentary material, using found images and films often sourced from online archives. VOX is hosting his first solo exhibition in Montreal.
The “artistic reactivations” of the second Automatist exhibition (1947) and the Mousseau-Riopelle Exhibition at Muriel Guilbault’s (1947) by Klaus Scherübel are the last two iterations of VOX’s research project on the history of exhibitions in Québec, “Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”, begun in 2016.
Continuing its research into the practice, history and future of exhibitions and their documentation, VOX presents the fifth in its series of documentary exhibitions, dedicated this time to the event 03 23 03 – First International Encounter on Contemporary Art in Montreal, 1977. Organized by France Morin, Chantal Pontbriand and Normand Thériault and presented in a disused post office, this major event included an exhibition, a series of performances, and debates.
Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT is considered one of the most important figures in the fields of Conceptual Art, performance and film. Active since the 1960s, she continues to have an ongoing influence with her seminal feminist and media-critical works. This monographic exhibition is part of a research program initiated by VOX in 2005, revisiting major artistic practices, here with a significant body of work that has never been presented in Montreal.
The group exhibition The Radical Imaginary: The Social Contract is the first project in a series of exhibitions about the Institution and its history, seeking to understand how artists have either associated themselves with or been opposed to it, gradually inflecting its positions. The judicial system is the institution studied in this initial component.
Designed by Melvin Charney, Montréal, plus ou moins ? = Montreal, plus or minus? (MBAM, 1972) is an emblematic instance in the history of exhibitions in Quebec. Its documentary reactivation is designed and produced in conjunction with the seminar “Exposition, interprétation et diffusion,” given at UQAM…
In this age of Digital Everything, a new infrastructure is gradually framing our perception and reconfiguring our experience. With that in mind, the group exhibition Étant données – in collaboration with “Au-delà des images opératoires” research-program – brings together art experimentations that…
German artist and filmmaker Loretta Fahrenholz examines fictions and desires that take shape within small communities: a street dance troupe performing in a city in the midst of crisis, a blended family, young men in the age of cybercapitalism, a clan with telepathic abilities…
Erdem Taşdelen’s first solo exhibition in Montreal explores the sociopolitical implications of the story behind Genç Kızlar, a work of literature published in Turkey in 1950…
The collective known as Chto Delat? (What is to be done?) employ narrative strategies borrowed from the theatre of Bertolt Brecht and reclaim elements of the aesthetic vocabulary of the avant-garde to open up a critical space in Russian political discourse, both historical and contemporary…
As part of its far-reaching research project on the history and future of exhibitions in Quebec, VOX presents a third documentary exhibition, this one dedicated to Chambres avec vues (1999) by Pierre Dorion…
Jonathan Monk’s books, sculptures, paintings and photographs, often presented as installations, offer a desanctified vision of art, the artist and the creative process. You should not expect to see any of these works at VOX, however: for this retrospective exhibition, he has chosen to leave the gallery empty of material objects…
“My name is Iotetshèn:’en, and I live on Earth—usually. For now, we are travelling to the first meeting of the five nearest, friendliest planets in our galaxy. I have been invited on this historic voyage because I have a special power…”
Focusing on the theme What Does the Image Stand For? proposed by guest curator Ami Barak, the 2017 edition of MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image will be presented in collaboration with VOX and Galerie de l’UQAM…
As part of its far-reaching research project on the history and future of exhibitions in Quebec, VOX presents a second documentary exhibition, this one dedicated to Périphéries.
VOX is organizing a retrospective of Serge Tousignant’s work, including his sculptural, pictorial, photographic and installation pratices. In the aim of anchoring an indepth study of Tousignant’s output in the context of a historiography of exhibitions in Québec, this restrospective features works from landmark exhibtions since the 1960s to which the artist participated…
Ján Mančuška (Bratislava, 1972–Prague, 2011) appeared on the art scene in Czech Republic in the late 1990s. Curated by Vít Havránek, this first overview of the work of Mančuška in Canada places emphasis on…
This new exhibition of works by François Lemieux examines the multiple uses of the metaphor of transparency, and the changes it has undergone in Modernity…
This first-ever documentary exhibition dedicated to Aurora Borealis (1985) is the first step in a far-reaching research project by VOX on the history and the future of exhibitions in Quebec, which we plan to conduct until 2020.
Exhibition curated by Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer and Constanze Ruhm and presented at VOX in partnership with Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery and SBC galerie d’art contemporain.
German photographer Annette Kelm investigates the classical forms of photographic representation—portraits, architecture and design, landscapes, still lifes—through appropriation of an aesthetics…
In his practice as a historian, writer and visual artist, Naeem Mohaiemen explores failing utopias and the historical narratives of the international left…
For his first major show in Canada, David Maljković has developed a specific exhibition that unfolds as a complex array of forms and references…
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, VOX is revealing unpublished archives that contextualizes its activist origins and its transformation into a centre for the presentation of photography.
Lina Selander’s films oscillate between the wonder of image, of seeing, and the understanding that the image is never a given. It must be under constant questioning, and seeing is not an innocent act…
A lighthouse calling to mind a Tower of Babel, a one-eyed drill, and a clandestine grocery basket are some of the figures imagined by Clément de Gaulejac in his visual and sound installation created for young audiences aged 8 to 12…
Raymond Boisjoly is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Québécois descent. His work focuses on the representation of aboriginality, language as a cultural practice, and the ways in which these issues are…
Lucy Raven’s practice encompasses a wide variety of forms, including animated films, interventions into live television, installations, and performative lectures. They all bear witness to the artist’s exploration of…
A project initiated by Nicole Gingras, presented as part of the 33rd International Film Festival of Films on Art (Media Arts section / Experimental FIFA). A partnership between VOX, GIV, and FIFA.
James Benning is a major figure of avant-garde American cinema. His films rest on an experience of time and perception in their relationship to space. They also approach…
Working initially in sculpture, Delavalle produced a few experimental works between 1970 and 1975: a select corpus of conceptual pieces that were anything but eclectic, exemplifying a rigorous…
Between 1967 and 1980 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) created an unparalleled effort between government bureaucrats, documentary filmmakers, community activists and “common” citizens…
By raising timely questions regarding the limits of commodification, including the valuation of the Earth and of the life forms that inhabit it, The Golden USB considers the prospect of…
Shot in Super 16mm by a professional camera operator, Modest Livelihood collapses documentary and narrative genres, and acknowledges anthropological documentary films…
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni focus their research on the notion of the measurement and perception of the world. Their questioning of the evolution of techniques, time and relationships of scale leads…
In his both poetic and meticulously formal work the Belgian photographer Geert Goiris evokes an elusive space between himself and his surroundings…
Tris Vonna-Michell stages installations and performs narrative structures, using spoken word, sound compositions and photography…
War and Peace, Blum’s latest solo exhibition, comprises an installation and film that recount infamous French criminal Jacques Mesrine’s time on the run in Canada in the late 1960s…
Zachary Formwalt’s reflections on the history of photography are dealing with various forms of capital imagery. His materialist approach to the history of photography…
Jon Knowles’ processual work often sources its operations from the traditions of conceptual and appropriation art. Its premises, however, arise in the indirect instruction…
Drones extend the capabilities of the body in the act of looking. The eye has a fixed position on the human body, has limited vision over long distances…
Spectres is Sven Augustijnen’s most recent in a series of projects to picture the reverberations of colonialism in present-day Europe…
Lapincyclope is different. He has only one eye and would like to jump into his rabbit hole without chipping his teeth…
Babette Mangolte: An Exhibition and a Film Retrospective presents a series of works by the French-American artist and filmmaker…
Room 901 is a vast undertaking that led Irene F. Whittome to work in her studio for two consecutive years, creating a work and systematically…
This exhibition by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn is a time portal that transports us to St. Paul in 1967…
Active in the field of contemporary art since the early 1970s, Raymond Gervais has produced a singular corpus comprising photographic…
The exhibition of recent works by Trevor Gould brings together sculptures, watercolours and a video. As a group these works offer new insight into Gould’s recent practice…
London-based Canadian artist Melanie Gilligan’s newest multi-episode drama, Popular Unrest, presents surreal, satirical and disturbing narratives based on the current state…
Jan Švankmajer is an experimental animation filmmaker whose career was backdropped by a rigid socialist structure; his oeuvre deeply…
Of the countless artists who have engaged in institutional critiques, few have paid much heed to art history. And yet the history of art imposes, far less…
Mladen Stilinović invents nothing. He prefers performing idleness to the ambition of creation and artistic professionalism. Where in…
“All art comes from art,” John Baldessari has insisted1. Although the Los Angeles artist has often been viewed as one of the most important…
Chantal gives us the impression that she believes her rapport with her craft is improbable, constantly postponed. For her photographs leave…
I have never failed to be seduced by the images in Nelson Henrick’s videos. They are lush, often shot on film, and edited together in ways that are…
While nowadays, ‘documentation’ has widely been accepted and understood as one of the main paradigms of conceptual art, there has only been few attention for the ‘description’—especially considering how intrinsic this activity…
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal and VOX present an exhibition gathering the works of the artist Yael Bartana around the theme The Spaces of the Image…
Since the end of the 1990s, Isabelle Hayeur has been taking panoramic photographs which reveal her unusual critique of the North American…
The road and the automobile are subjects and objects of major literary, cinematic and artistic works that laid the foundations of a cross-disciplinary genre…
After the exhibition of Duchamp’s Green Box, VOX presents his second box project: The White Box. Another view of the artist’s creative process.
Angela Grauerholz’s 1980s work involved subtle shifts of a repertoire of common motifs in modern visual culture. The blurring of codes…
Kristan Horton is influenced by popular culture, mostly by cinema. In his recent project, he reproduce in a satyrical and humorous way more than…
An object of documentation, registration, mediation, reflection, promotion and valorization, the exhibition catalogue plays a crucial role…
To open the Green Box is to access ninety-three notes, sketches and documents—often no more than simple slips of paper—that helped…
Among the shelves stacked with CDs, books and bottles of scotch, a punch clock flashes up and rings with a hard clang in one-hour intervals…
With Walking into the Vanishing Point, the AGW continues its investigation into conceptual art and photography that began two years ago…
The hypermobility of individuals today, Montréal’s urban development as a sort of archipelago of specialization, mass tourism and the consequent…
Mahé’s response to the banality of the modernist project of turning one’s life into a work of art was radical and discreet. Radical, because…
By evoking the artificial–flesh-coloured nylons, a false outgrowth, a gelatinous skin-coloured mass–Jeanne Dunning maps out a reflection…
When I first read Not I, I burst into tears. The text had an extraordinary emotional impact on me. I immediately felt it should be read very quickly…
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal present an exhibition gathering the works of the artist Candice Breitz around the theme Replaying Narrative…
Bill Vazan’s practice is usually associated with Land Art and multipart photographs, yet as early as the end of the 1960s…
The city fascinates. It repels even as it seduces. Very early on, it became a favoured theme of many artists, and a preferential space…
In 2003, Omer Fast travelled to Krakow to research the aftermath of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, ten years after the film was released…
For some years now, the work of Claire Savoie has deployed a poetics of grazing and dizziness. Paradoxically, the artist has mapped out the…
From 1990-1997 you worked on The Hundred Videos, a lo-fi epic that calmed your superego interdiction to “complete one hundred videos…
Maria Eichhorn’s artistic practice defies facile categorization. With strong roots in the legacies of Fluxus and the Conceptual art tradition…
Founding figure of the Vancouver art scene, Iain Baxter& (prononced “Baxterand”) remains little-known in Europe but is a mainstay of…
While Declercq is busy putting the finishing touches on his film in a nearby studio, the Bordeaux apartment he’s sharing with a journalist…
Mathieu Beauséjour’s exhibition 1 1/2 Métro Côte-des-Neiges is a rereading, literal and figurative, of the FLQ manifesto proclamation…
The speed at which things move robs from our gaze any chance it has of scrutinizing motion in successive states, of observing the specific…
Reading Room for the Working Artist, the result of several years spent collecting, selecting and assembling visual and textual material related to modern art and culture, straddles the boundaries…
This exhibition offers a rereading of the practice of Iain Baxter&, from the production of his early Bagged Place in 1966 to his most recent works…
There are numerous artistic practices that appropriate or mimic pre-existing images, drawn from the vast bank of them that makes up…
The exhibition Migration Areas brings together two artists, Raymonde April and Michèle Waquant, whose artistic and personal…
Marie Fraser : People often see your works as sound experiments, even though images almost always play an important role in them…
In 1969, Jeff Wall published Landscape Manual, a book whose annotated text provided a commentary on the making of landscape photographs…
Contemporary art definitely has a great interest in the cinema. The so-called “visual” arts have undoubtedly always been interested in…
Already in 1985, when she made imposing prints of World War Two archival images and thereby initiated a reflection on the photographic…
Fabulation, a follow-up to the exhibition Awakening, proposes to address the contemporary image using an inverse process. Rather…
Today, can the image still awaken us to something that is not already in the world, something that is not already constituted in images?…
L’observation du lieu et des traces qu’y a laissé l’homme est au centre de nombreuses pratiques artistiques. Qu’il soit paysage naturel…
Michel François’ work’s, one might say, is indefinable, since it navigates from one world to another, one support to another, one space or…
Le Mois de la photo à Montréal present a exhibtion wich bring together works from four artists around the theme Now. Images of Present Time…
Each of us is limited by the space in which we live. Its shapes, brought into being by walls, houses, buildings, streets, cities, and suburbs…
Dirk Braeckman’s art associates the senses of sight and touch. In his art, sight finds no clear aim or definite object and undergoes a certain…
During a stay in Paris in the winter of 1997–98, Vera Greenwood undertook a strange activity: she began to tail the French artist Sophie…
In a society of excess, it is tempting to think of pictures as abundant and valueless; blank and immaterial. Pascal Grandmaison‘s work…
Roy Arden’s art work, in its subject matter and mise en scène, makes visible the “conflictual aspects” of urban and suburban life. The many…
Meticulously executed cityscapes and leisurescapes dominate Doug Hall’s exhibition. These lushly colored C-prints offer a bird’s-eye view…
Walking is a solitary act. The walker follows paths without a set itinerary, often giving himself over to reverie and finally arriving at…
The inaugural event Life in Real Time is intended to initiate a questioning of the social environment to which current artistic practices…
The subjection of human beings and their environment to ever-increasing speed is not a new phenomenon, but in recent decades it has…
Enrico Lunghi : (…) We tried to combine works and artists which would seize the viewer’s interest by the immediacy of an experience…
