Art this week

Biennale is on! Plus all the vernissages and ongoing, upcoming and closing shows at Montreal’s galleries and museums.

Biennale at MAC
Biennale at the MAC

The big news in the arts this week is the opening of La Biennale de Montréal, BNLMTL2014, with the theme L’Avenir (Looking Forward). Affiliated exhibits launch today at the MAC, the MMFA, Parisian Laundry and Arsenal, as well as installations in public spaces like Quartier des Spectacles, Place Ville Marie and Gare Central. Stay tuned for dedicated coverage of the BNLMTL2014 activities, coming soon right here at Cult MTL.

In the meantime, there’s no shortage of shows going on outside the realm of the Biennale that you should waste no time in checking out! Here are some highlights for the week.

Graeme Patterson - Secret Citadel
Graeme Patterson – Secret Citadel

Wednesday, If you’re not heading to the invite-only vernissage for La Biennale at the MAC, you’d do well to head to Galerie de l’UQAM (1400 Berri) for the opening of Secret Citadel by 2014 Sobey Art Award Finalist Graeme Patterson. This major work is composed of several large-scale installations of detailed miniature worlds, with a narrative involving a bison and a cougar whose friendship faces some growing pains, told through video and stop-motion animation. Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.

You could also head to Station 16 (3523 St-Laurent) for their vernissage for Gol, Carajo! featuring works by Spanish muralist Ricardo Cavolo. His art is characterized by a popping, vibrant, melange of flora, fauna and symbols, many-eyed figures and dense patterns using saturated colours. For this exhibit, he’s created a soccer-themed collection with an affiliated line of products like T-shirts and scarves, developed for Burgundy Lion, who’s hosting the afterparty. Vernissage Wednesday, 6–9 p.m. at Station 16, Afterparty 10 p.m. at Burgundy Lion (2496 Notre-Dame W.)

Thursday, go see the new exhibit at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (1400 de Maisonneuve W.), Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la mélancolie. This installation and performance piece involves a slate of performers engaged in the task of live-rewriting a highly-debated text, The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, a collection of personal papers and essays published posthumously. Thursday, 5 p.m.

Friday is a big day, with four different vernissages taking place. If you’re interested in the history of Québecois rock music, go check out the Musée du Rock’n’Roll (2222 Ontario E.), who’s been putting together an exhibit tracing the story of ’60s Quebec rock and psychedelia with Révolution Rock: The Emergence of Quebecois Rock’n’Roll 1964–1968. Friday, 1–9 p.m.

ROC - Marlène Renaud-B.
ROC – Marlène Renaud-B.

Another, more literal iteration of rock music takes place at Arprim (372 Ste-Catherine W. [Belgo Bldg #426]) with the exhibition ROC by Marlène Renaud-B. For this installation, the artist has created devices that cut grooves into stone discs, which can then be played like a record by visitors to the space. The installation is accompanied by prints created from by using the discs’ tracks as masters, giving the stones both a visual and aural output.

Saturday offers a couple of opportunities to visit exhibitions that have been ongoing for some time, but with either artists or guides present. If you haven’t been yet, go see Banlieue Narrative at Galerie Bernard (3926 St-Denis), where artist Steven Orner will be present from 2 – 5 p.m.

Saturday will also be your last chance to get a free guided tour of the Current exhibition of some street art heavyweights at Arsenal Montreal (2020 William), hosted by the friendly folks at Sugar for Brains. Meet in front of the doors at 1:15 p.m.

 

Vernissages:

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) – 185 Ste-Catherine W.

La Biennale de Montréal – BNLMTL2014: L’Avenir (Looking Forward)

To Jan. 4, 2015

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

BNLMTL2014: Illusions and Mirrors – Shirin Neshat

To Jan. 4, 2015

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22

Parisian Laundry – 3550 St-Antoine W.

BNLMTL2014: A Time to Break the Silence – Edgar Arceneaux

To Dec. 20

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22

 

Current at Arsenal
Current at Arsenal

Arsenal Montreal – 2020 William

BNLMTL2014: Basim Magdy + Lynne Marsh + Dave Dyment

To Dec. 20

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 6 – 9 p.m.

Station 16 – 3523 St-Laurent

Gol, Carajo! – Ricardo Cavolo

To Nov. 5

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 5:30 p.m.

Galerie de l’UQAM – 1400 Berri, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, Local J-R 120

Secret Citadel – Graeme Patterson

To Dec. 6

 

Thursday, Oct. 23, 5 p.m.

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery – 1400 de Maisonneuve W., Ground Floor

Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la mélancolie

To Nov. 1

 

Thursday, Oct. 23, 5 – 9 p.m.

Galerie Carte Blanche – 1853 Amherst

Audace et fantasie – Danielle Régnier + Michelle Tellier

To Oct. 28

 

Friday, Oct. 24, 7 – 10 p.m.

Hip Hop Café – 4801 Parc

Graffiti Art – Ensor

To Nov. 6

 

Friday, Oct. 24, 5:30 p.m.

Atelier Circulaire – 5445 de Gaspé, #105 & #517

La fabrication de l’espace – Andrée-Anne Dupuis Bourret

To Nov. 21

 

Friday, Oct. 24, 5:30 p.m.

Arprim – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #426)

ROC – Marlène Renaud-B.

To Nov. 22

 

Friday, Oct. 24

Musée du Rock’n’Roll – 2222 Ontario E.

Révolution Rock: The Emergence of Quebecois Rock’n’Roll 1964 – 1968

To Mar. 24, 2015

 

Saturday, Oct. 25, Artist present from 2 – 5 p.m.

Galerie Bernard – 3926 St-Denis

Banlieue Narrative – Steven Orner

To Nov. 8

 

Saturday, Oct. 25, 1:15 – 1:45 p.m.

Arsenal Montreal – 2020 William

Tour of Street Art Exhibit by Sugar For Brains

One day only

 

Last Call:

 

Galerie Carte Blanche – 1853 Amherst

Eaux vives – Anne Bruneau

Rêver en couleurs – Véronic Sévigny

To Oct. 21

 

VAV Gallery – 1395 René-Lévesque W.

Making A Mark – Group Show

To Oct. 24

 

Les Territoires – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #527)

Photoforum – Group Show

To Oct. 25

 

Z Art Space – 819 Atwater

Aberrations – Group Show

To Oct. 25

 

Art Mûr – 5826 St-Hubert

Veiled Hoods and Stains – Cal Lane

Confession / just that, even – Jinny Yu

Uncommon Ground – Trevor Kiernander

To Oct. 25

 

Artexte – 2 Ste-Catherine E.

Festschrift for an Archive and Two Essays on Banks – Jason Simon

To Oct. 25

 

L’Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir – 5333 Casgrain, #802

la vie EST une rêve – Nancy Lambert

To Oct. 25

 

Galerie Donald Browne – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #528)

Jim Holyoak + Matt Shane

To Oct. 25

 

The McClure Gallery (Visual Arts Centre) – 350 Victoria

Caméléon – Group Show

To Oct. 25

 

Galerie LUZ – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #418)

Gallery 1: Moïse Piuze + Diane Poirier + Claudine Sauvé + Pierre Tousignant

Gallery 2: Abstractions Souterraines – François Miville-Deschênes

Gallery 3: Through the Eyes of Horror – Jihane Mossalim

To Oct. 25

 

Galerie Michel-Ange – 430 Bonsecours

Pearl Levy

To Oct. 25

 

Visual Voice Art Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #421)

No One Was With Her When She Died – Dawn Roe

To Oct. 25

 

Centre for Sustainable Development – 50 Ste-Catherine W.

Keep Me in Mind

To Oct. 26

 

Espace Projet – 353 Villeray

Ordinare distinction – Marilyne Bissonnette

To Oct. 26

 

Galerie d’Este – 4396 St-Laurent

Courants – Julie Desmarais

To Oct. 26

 

POPUP Gallery – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #442)

Consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge – Brendie Flanahan + Manuel Mathieu + Mathieu Cardin + Nathaniel Hurtubise

To Oct. 26

 

Ongoing Shows:

 

Galerie D – 1200 Amherst, #102

Mile End et Mes Muses – Erik Slutsky

To Oct. 29

 

Club Sportif MAA – 2070 Peel

Steben Alexander Retrospective

To Oct. 30

 

Galerie LeRoyer – 60 St-Paul W.

Human Nature – Willy Verginer

To Oct. 30

 

Galerie Samuel Lallouz – 1455 Sherbrooke W.

Zarathoustra – Leiko Ikemura

To Oct. 30

 

Café L’Artère – 7000 Parc

I Can’t Take It Anymore – Starchild Stela

To Oct. 30

 

L’Espace Créatif – 2031 Parthenais

Duo – Group Show

To Oct. 30

 

Phi Centre – 407 St-Pierre

Poetic Food Centre

To Oct. 31

 

Usine 106U – 160 Roy E.

Grandguignol – Group Show

To Oct. 31

 

Citizen Vintage – 5330 St-Laurent

Enfants Sauvages – Cgo

To Oct. 31

 

Monastiraki – 5478 St-Laurent

Crustacés Tapes & Collecting Friends

To Oct. 31

 

Galerie ABYSS – 1520 Notre-Dame W.

Désincarnations – Sam Ectoplasm

To Oct. 31

 

Centre Culturel Henri-Lemieux – 7644 Édouard

Chairs Mémoires / Poésie Tactile – Richard Ferron

To Oct. 31

 

Galerie Lillian Rodriguez – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg  #405)

100 % dessin !!

To Nov. 1

 

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (PFOAC) – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #216)

Distance to the Sea – Chih-Chien Wang

To Nov. 1

 

Agora de la danse – 840 Cherrier

Emotional Terrain – Holly King

To Nov. 1

 

Galerie Division – 2020 William

Mario Doucette +Simon Hughes

To Nov. 1

 

VOX Centre de l’Image Contemporaine – 2 Ste-Catherine E., #401

Modest Livelihood – Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater

The Golden USB – Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle: Documents in Participatory Democracy

To Nov. 1

 

Espace 40 (Mile End) – 160 St-Viateur E., #108

Idiots – Linda Hackett

To Nov. 1

 

Galerie ROCCIA – 5692 St-Laurent

Rémi Bergeron

To Nov. 2

 

Centre de design de l’UQAM – 1440 Sanguinet

Packplay

To Nov. 2

 

Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay – 6052 Monk

Territoire magnétique – Group Show

To Nov. 2

 

BBAM! Gallery – 3255 St-Jacques

Filles aux Feuilles – Carylann Loeppky

To Nov. 3

 

Galerie Le Triad – 3475 St-Laurent

Yunus Chkirate

To Nov. 6

 

Vidéographe – 4550 Garnier

Through the Window – Soft Turns (Sarah Jane Gorlitz + Wojciech Olejnik)

Screenings 5 – 8 p.m. daily

To Nov. 6

 

Le repaire des 100 talents – 5867 St-Hubert

Sympathie pour le Diable (Sympathy for the Devil) – Group Show

To Nov. 7

 

Galerie Hugues Charbonneau – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #308)

Contrepoints – Jean-Benoit Pouliot

To Nov. 8

 

Centre des Arts actuels Skol – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg. #314)

Zone de Transit – Nadia Seboussi

To Nov. 8

 

Galerie Youn – 5226 St-Laurent

Oasis – Keita Morimoto

Volcanos of Montreal – Patrick DeCoste

To Nov. 9

 

Galerie d’Art Ambiance – 81 St-Paul E.

Works of Salvador Dali

To Nov. 9

 

Live Performances, Oct. 22 – 24, 5 p.m. Daily

Rack Galerie – 3714 Notre-Dame W.

Step Inside the Process – The Performance Art of Olicorno

To Nov. 14

 

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain Project Space (PFOAC221) – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #221)

The Pianola Project – Naomi Cook

To Nov. 15

 

Parisian Laundry – 3550 St-Antoine W.

Et Ensuite, On Recommence – Paul Hardy

To Nov. 15

 

Galerie Simon Blais – 5420 St-Laurent, #100

Sculpture – Graphic Work – David Nash

Effacement – Carol Bernier

To Nov. 15

 

Galerie B-312 – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #403)

Les Dehors – Charles Guilbert

Élémentaire – Matthieu Sabourin

To Nov. 15

 

Galerie Trois Points – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #520)

Exercice de délicatesse / Composition #3 – Elmyna Bouchard

Out of Focus – Fiene Scharp

To Nov. 15

 

Articule – 262 Fairmount W.

Mareikura – Lisa Reihana

To Nov. 16

 

atelier b. – 5758 St-Laurent

LePigeon + Gabriel Poirier-Galarneau

To Nov. 16

 

Centre CLARK – 5455 de Gaspé, #114

Un serpent dans la pelouse – Grier Edmundson

Jour blanc – Julie Chaffort

1207 000 000 000 – Catherine Béchard + Sabin Hudon

To Nov. 21

 

Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran – 1892 Payette

Hope Springs Eternal II – Jon Rafman

To Nov. 22

 

SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #507)

BNLMTL2014: M&A – Goldin + Senneby

To Nov. 22

 

Dazibao – 5455 de Gaspé, #109

Actors, Networks, Theories. Part II – Curated by Vincent Bonin

To Nov. 22

 

Monument National – 1182 St-Laurent

Lumière Infinie – Karim Ambwani

To Nov. 23

 

Maison de la culture Frontenac – 2550 Ontario E.

50e Parallèle Nord – Group Show

To Nov. 23

 

McCord Museum – 690 Sherbrooke W.

Bens, The Legendary Deli

To Nov. 23

 

Galerie Lounge TD – 307 Ste-Catherine W., Second Floor

BD en musique – Group Show

To Nov. 23

 

TOHU (Espace BOHU) – 2345 Jarry

Exil : Vérité trompeuse – Yanick Sasseville

To Nov. 29

 

CIRCA art actuel – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #444)

Benefit Exhibition

To Nov. 29

 

Fonderie Darling – 745 Ottawa

BNLMTL2014: L’Avenir (Looking Forward) – Li Ran + Lawrence Weiner

Razzle Dazzle Sisboom Bah – Karen Kraven

To Dec. 7

 

Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History – 350 Place Royale

Lives and Times of the Plateau

To Jan. 4, 2015

 

Fondation Guido Molinari – 3290 Ste-Catherine E.

Cozic/Moli: The Seventies – A Complicit Allusion

Marc Garneau 1982 – 1984: An Eyeful of Silence

To Jan. 25, 2015

 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

From Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900‐1914

To Jan. 25, 2015

 

DHC/ART – 451 & 465 St-Jean

The Enclave – Richard Mosse

Surface Tension – Valérie Belin

To Feb. 8, 2015

 

Canadian Centre for Architecture – 1920 Baile

Found in Translation: Palladio and Jefferson

To Feb. 15, 2015

 

Opening Soon:

 

Oct. 28, 6 – 9 p.m.

VAV Gallery – 1395 René-Lévesque W.

Beyond the Frame – Jonathan Théroux + Rihab Essayh + Milo Flores

To Nov. 7

 

Oct. 29, 7 – 10 p.m.

Eastern Bloc – 7240 Clark, 2nd Floor

Salon : Data 1 – Josée Brouillard + Mitchell Safiej & Robert Feulner

One day only

 

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5 – 8 p.m.

Galerie Carte Blanche – 1853 Amherst

Reflexions – Ronald Lacroix

To Nov. 3

 

Thursday, Oct. 30

Undisclosed Location

Out for Fame – Group Show

To Nov. 9

 

Thursday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m. (Artist’s Talk Saturday, Nov. 1, 2 p.m.)

The McClure Gallery (Visual Arts Centre) – 350 Victoria

Gods and Monsters – Renée Duval

To Nov. 22

 

Thursday, Oct. 30

Galerie d’Este – 4396 St-Laurent

Légende du Mar.eur – Jean-Pierre Ruel

To Nov. 23

 

Thursday, Oct. 30, 5 – 9 p.m.

Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art – 6355 St-Laurent

Égrégore – The Zenith of Pop Surrealism – 50+ international artists

To Dec. 20

 

Friday, Oct. 31

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse – 4296 St-Laurent

Prendre le pouls – Marlène Renaud-B.

To Nov. 15

 

Friday, Nov. 1, 5 – 8 p.m.

Galerie D – 1200 Amherst, #102

Je Zoo – André Vaudrin

To November 29

 

Saturday, Nov. 1, 3 p.m.

Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) – 3680 Jeanne-Mance, #103

The Collective Man – Tehnica Schweiz

To Dec. 6

 

Saturday, Nov. 1, 3 – 5 p.m.

Art Mûr – 5826 St-Hubert

Schémas: Assorted Templates – Nicolas Grenier

Canadians and Americans (best friends forever… it’s complicated) Diana Thorneycroft

Ce que l’on ne voit pas qui nous touche – Simon Bilodeau

To Dec. 20

 

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 6 – 10 p.m.

Canadian Centre for Architecture – 1920 Baile

Rooms You May Have Missed – Bijoy Jain + Umberto Riva

 

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 12:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Centre for Sustainable Development – 50 Ste-Catherine W.

Vétérans sans-abris – François Pesant

To Nov. 25

 

Nov. 5

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

Warhol Mania: A Brand-New Look at his Advertising Posters and Magazine Illustrations

To Mar. 15, 2015

 

Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m.

L’Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir – 5333 Casgrain, #802

While I Was Walking – Stephanie Russ

 

Nov. 6, 6 p.m.

Z Art Space – 819 Atwater

Watershed – Michel Beaucage

To Nov. 27

 

Nov. 6, 6 – 9 p.m.

Artexte – 2 Ste-Catherine E.

Jason Simon

To Jan. 24, 2015

 

Friday, Nov. 7, 7 – 11 p.m.

BBAM! Gallery – 3255 St-Jacques

Beauty and the Beasts

 

Nov. 7

Centre des Arts actuels Skol – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg. #314)

HTMlles 11: Zer0 Futur(e) – Feminist Festival of Media Arts + Digital Culture

To Nov. 15

 

Nov. 11, 6 – 9 p.m.

VAV Gallery – 1395 René-Lévesque W.

Ruins of the Future – Group Show

To Nov. 21

 

Nov. 11

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1380 Sherbrooke W.

The Patriotism of Death: Propaganda Posters From World War I

To Februray 8, 2015

 

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m.

Centre de design de l’UQAM – 1440 Sanguinet

L’objet japonais – A panorama of contemporary design in Japan

To Jan. 18, 2015

 

Nov. 19

Galerie Simon Blais – 5420 St-Laurent, #100

Harold Klunder

Denis Juneau

Françoise Sullivan

To Dec. 20

 

Nov. 20

Galerie Bernard – 3926 St-Denis

Une Forêt Dans La Tête – Lise Gagné

To Dec. 20

 

Nov. 25, 6 – 9 p.m.

VAV Gallery – 1395 René-Lévesque W.

Art and Other Organisms – Group Show

To Dec. 5

 

Nov. 25

SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art – 372 Ste-Catherine W. (Belgo Bldg #507)

I, Of Whom I Know Nothing – Pablo Sigg

To Nov. 29

 

Friday, Nov. 28, 6 – 9 p.m.

Atelier Circulaire – 5445 de Gaspé, #105 & #517

Prêt-à-Emporter – Fundraiser + Print Sale

To Dec. 13

 

Dec. 4

Dazibao – 5455 de Gaspé, #109

Light Adjustments – Scott Massey

Future Perfect (Screening Room) – Curated by Boshko Bosković

To Feb. 7, 2015

 

Dec. 12

Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History – 350 Place Royale

The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great

To Apr. 26, 2015

 

Feb. 19, 2015

Dazibao – 5455 de Gaspé, #109

Reynold Reynolds (Gallery Space)

Chantal du Pont (Screening Room)

To Apr. 18, 2015

 

Apr. 30, 2015

Dazibao – 5455 de Gaspé, #109

Nelson Henricks (Gallery Space)

VTAPE (Screening Room)

To Jun. 20, 2015