MOMENTA Creative
The MOMENTA Creative cultural mediation program offers different ways for you to explore the Biennale’s exhibitions. Enjoy, free of charge, our educational activities, guided tours, and creative and reflective workshops for the 19th edition, In Praise of the Missing Image. These activities, presented throughout the event, propose original and sensitive approaches to the ideas of silence, absence, and memory.
Activities designed for everyone
Our activities are designed to adapt to a wide range of audiences. We are particularly attentive to cultural, linguistic, and cognitive accessibility:
– Content modulated according to age, specific needs, and levels of familiarity with contemporary art ;
– Texts in plain language, visual supports, interactive and inclusive approaches ;
– Activities that can be accompanied by a Québec sign language (LSQ), or American sign language (ASL) interpreter upon request when you make your reservation.
Make the reservation for a sign language interpreter ideally 2 weeks in advance.
Find out about our program, and reserve your activity by filling out the associated form. For all questions about our activities, contact us at mediation@momentabiennale.com. We’ll contact you quickly to confirm your reservation according to availabilities.
Guided tours
Reservation
Immerse yourself in the world of the Biennale by taking the guided tours provided by the MOMENTA Creative cultural mediation team. Through our friendly interactive approach, you’ll explore the works and subjects in the exhibitions.
Reserve your tour at a time that’s convenient for you via our online form.
You can choose the language of your choice: French, English, Québec sign language (LSQ), or American sign language (ASL).
If you don’t have a reservation, you can find us at the MOMENTA Creative Rendez-vous (see below), on a first-come, first-served basis.
Reserve your tour at a time that’s convenient for you via our online form.
You can choose the language of your choice: French, English, Québec sign language (LSQ), or American sign language (ASL).
If you don’t have a reservation, you can find us at the MOMENTA Creative Rendez-vous (see below), on a first-come, first-served basis.
The MOMENTA Creative rendez-vous
Reservation
Each weekend, the MOMENTA Creative cultural mediation team invites you to visit the exhibitions and take part in on-site workshops, free of charge. Tours begin every hour. You must make a reservation for the workshops due to limited spaces.
Saturday, September 13:
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Tours ongoing from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop The Philharmonic Orchestra of Things at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Friday, September 19:
CUCCR
Workshop Making Paper for Planting offered by CUCCR from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Reservation
Saturday, September 20:
Fonderie Darling
Tours ongoing from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop Alchemy of the Unloved: Legacies and Powers with the artist Annie France Leclerc at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Friday, September 26:
OPTICA
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Ka'nikonhri:io: Good Mind, Good Body at noon
– Between City and Nature at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 27:
Galerie de l’UQAM
Tours ongoing from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Plural Bodies at noon
– Visit in Motion with the artist and mediator Jade Ravary at 2:00 p.m.
– Heroic Figures Reinvented at 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 28:
MAC
Workshop Fragments of a City in Motion with the artist Guillaume Saur at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Reservation
Friday, October 3:
CUCCR
Workshop Making Paper for Planting offered by CUCCR from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Reservation
Saturday, October 4:
Centre CLARK
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
VOX
Tours ongoing from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop Dream House at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 11:
Dazibao
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
daphne
Workshop Pinhole and Large-format Analog Photography with the artist Martin Akwiranoron Loft from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
(by reservation only)
Saturday, October 18:
Galerie de l’UQAM
Tours ongoing from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Plural Bodies at 2:00 p.m.
– Heroic Figures Reinvented at 4:00 p.m.
Friday, September 26:
OPTICA
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Between City and Nature at 1:00 p.m.
– Ka'nikonhri:io: Good Mind, Good Body at 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 19:
MAC
Workshop Fragments of a City in Motion with the artist Guillaume Saur at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Reservation
Saturday, October 25:
VOX
Tours ongoing from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop Dream House at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 26:
MAC
Workshop Fragments of a City in Motion with the artist Guillaume Saur at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m.
Reservation
Saturday, November 1:
Fonderie Darling
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop The Secret Stories of “Weeds” at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 13:
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Tours ongoing from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop The Philharmonic Orchestra of Things at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Friday, September 19:
CUCCR
Workshop Making Paper for Planting offered by CUCCR from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Reservation
Saturday, September 20:
Fonderie Darling
Tours ongoing from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop Alchemy of the Unloved: Legacies and Powers with the artist Annie France Leclerc at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Friday, September 26:
OPTICA
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Ka'nikonhri:io: Good Mind, Good Body at noon
– Between City and Nature at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 27:
Galerie de l’UQAM
Tours ongoing from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Plural Bodies at noon
– Visit in Motion with the artist and mediator Jade Ravary at 2:00 p.m.
– Heroic Figures Reinvented at 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 28:
MAC
Workshop Fragments of a City in Motion with the artist Guillaume Saur at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Reservation
Friday, October 3:
CUCCR
Workshop Making Paper for Planting offered by CUCCR from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Reservation
Saturday, October 4:
Centre CLARK
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
VOX
Tours ongoing from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop Dream House at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 11:
Dazibao
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
daphne
Workshop Pinhole and Large-format Analog Photography with the artist Martin Akwiranoron Loft from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
(by reservation only)
Saturday, October 18:
Galerie de l’UQAM
Tours ongoing from noon to 6:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Plural Bodies at 2:00 p.m.
– Heroic Figures Reinvented at 4:00 p.m.
Friday, September 26:
OPTICA
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshops:
– Between City and Nature at 1:00 p.m.
– Ka'nikonhri:io: Good Mind, Good Body at 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 19:
MAC
Workshop Fragments of a City in Motion with the artist Guillaume Saur at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Reservation
Saturday, October 25:
VOX
Tours ongoing from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop Dream House at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 26:
MAC
Workshop Fragments of a City in Motion with the artist Guillaume Saur at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m.
Reservation
Saturday, November 1:
Fonderie Darling
Tours ongoing from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Reservation
Workshop The Secret Stories of “Weeds” at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Activities on your own
Our Exhibitions – The Echoes
Has an exhibition you saw stayed with you? Extend the experience by discovering other works and spaces that resonate with your emotions and thoughts. We suggest other exhibitions for you to explore more deeply, enhancing your visit to the Biennale. Look at our recommendations or let yourself be surprised by new artistic connections! You can reserve your next visits here.
Images and Histories Revealed:
This itinerary brings together artists who use photography and images to unveil narratives that are often ignored or hidden. Their works bring to light forgotten memories, identities, and experiences by challenging official histories and giving a voice to marginalized individuals and communities.
– daphne: Martin Akwiranoron Loft
– Fonderie Darling: Mallory Lowe Mpoka
– MAC: Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop
– OPTICA: Paul Seesequasis
– OPTICA: Lou Sheppard
Reserve your next visits here.
Images in Motion:
This itinerary brings together artists who explore video and film as tools of inquiry, memory, and resistance. In personal, political, or poetic works, they question how stories are told, spread, or erased. Montage, voice, archives, and visual effects become ways to weave multiple, moving narratives.
– Centre CLARK: OK Pedersen
– Dazibao: Anouk Verviers
– Dazibao: Na Mira
– MAC: Iván Argote
– MAC: Joyce Jouma
– MAC: Sanaz Sohrabi
– PHI: Josèfa Ntjam
Reserve your next visits here.
Recomposed Images:
This itinerary brings together artists who work from existing images – from archives, the media, or visual narratives. Through collage, montage, or superimposition, they deconstruct dominant representations to open up new and multiple perspectives. Their works question the power and history of images and how they can be reinvented through fragmented, critical, or poetic forms.
– Galerie de l’UQAM: Raphaël Barontini
– MAC: Sanaz Sohrabi
– VOX: Frida Orupabo
Reserve your next visits here.
Voices, Gestures, and Resonances:
Voices, Gestures, and Resonances brings together artists who explore connections among memory, body, and transmission. Through sound, performance, image, or ritual, their works give a voice to those who are often marginalized, evoking gestures of resistance and reactivating forgotten narratives. The artists summon acoustic, political, or emotional resonances to challenge official history, uncover invisible presences, and affirm identities in motion.
– Centre CLARK: Myriam Omar Awadi
– Dazibao: Anouk Verviers
– Galerie de l’UQAM: Caroline Mauxion
– Galerie de l’UQAM: Gabrielle Goliath
– Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: Raven Chacon
– MMFA: Anique Jordan
– VOX: Frida Orupabo
Reserve your next visits here.
Perspectives on Contemporary Indigeneity:
Perspectives on Contemporary Indigeneity brings forth creators who explore the connections among their cultures, their histories, and their territories. In their works, they share stories of resistance, memory, and sovereignty and explore the impacts of colonization and current issues for Indigenous peoples.
– daphne: Martin Akwiranoron Loft
– Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: Raven Chacon
– MAC: Niap
– MAC: Maureen Gruben
– OPTICA: Paul Seesequasis
Reserve your next visits here.
Has an exhibition you saw stayed with you? Extend the experience by discovering other works and spaces that resonate with your emotions and thoughts. We suggest other exhibitions for you to explore more deeply, enhancing your visit to the Biennale. Look at our recommendations or let yourself be surprised by new artistic connections! You can reserve your next visits here.
Images and Histories Revealed:
This itinerary brings together artists who use photography and images to unveil narratives that are often ignored or hidden. Their works bring to light forgotten memories, identities, and experiences by challenging official histories and giving a voice to marginalized individuals and communities.
– daphne: Martin Akwiranoron Loft
– Fonderie Darling: Mallory Lowe Mpoka
– MAC: Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop
– OPTICA: Paul Seesequasis
– OPTICA: Lou Sheppard
Reserve your next visits here.
Images in Motion:
This itinerary brings together artists who explore video and film as tools of inquiry, memory, and resistance. In personal, political, or poetic works, they question how stories are told, spread, or erased. Montage, voice, archives, and visual effects become ways to weave multiple, moving narratives.
– Centre CLARK: OK Pedersen
– Dazibao: Anouk Verviers
– Dazibao: Na Mira
– MAC: Iván Argote
– MAC: Joyce Jouma
– MAC: Sanaz Sohrabi
– PHI: Josèfa Ntjam
Reserve your next visits here.
Recomposed Images:
This itinerary brings together artists who work from existing images – from archives, the media, or visual narratives. Through collage, montage, or superimposition, they deconstruct dominant representations to open up new and multiple perspectives. Their works question the power and history of images and how they can be reinvented through fragmented, critical, or poetic forms.
– Galerie de l’UQAM: Raphaël Barontini
– MAC: Sanaz Sohrabi
– VOX: Frida Orupabo
Reserve your next visits here.
Voices, Gestures, and Resonances:
Voices, Gestures, and Resonances brings together artists who explore connections among memory, body, and transmission. Through sound, performance, image, or ritual, their works give a voice to those who are often marginalized, evoking gestures of resistance and reactivating forgotten narratives. The artists summon acoustic, political, or emotional resonances to challenge official history, uncover invisible presences, and affirm identities in motion.
– Centre CLARK: Myriam Omar Awadi
– Dazibao: Anouk Verviers
– Galerie de l’UQAM: Caroline Mauxion
– Galerie de l’UQAM: Gabrielle Goliath
– Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: Raven Chacon
– MMFA: Anique Jordan
– VOX: Frida Orupabo
Reserve your next visits here.
Perspectives on Contemporary Indigeneity:
Perspectives on Contemporary Indigeneity brings forth creators who explore the connections among their cultures, their histories, and their territories. In their works, they share stories of resistance, memory, and sovereignty and explore the impacts of colonization and current issues for Indigenous peoples.
– daphne: Martin Akwiranoron Loft
– Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: Raven Chacon
– MAC: Niap
– MAC: Maureen Gruben
– OPTICA: Paul Seesequasis
Reserve your next visits here.
Our Exhibitions – The Philosophy
What if an artwork gives rise to an essential question? We invite you to explore the Biennale’s exhibitions through accessible philosophical questions, conceived to nurture reflection and dialogue. These questions, linked to the issues in the exhibitions, guide your visit and open paths to other ways of thinking. You can download them here or consult them below to guide your visit.
Centre CLARK: How do we give a voice to what is absent? Through memory, imagination, or art?
daphne: Does photography influence history or freeze it in place?
Dazibao: When an image seeks to say the unspeakable, what is it really telling us?
Fonderie Darling: How do we construct memories of something that was never said out loud?
Galerie de l’UQAM: How do we reinvent narratives about bodies and history?
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: How can we hear what history has silenced?
MAC: How do symbols of the past influence the way in which we see the world today?
MMFA: How do memories and emotions influence our perception of history?
OPTICA (Paul Seesequasis): How do visual archives shape history, and how do Indigenous communities use images to redefine resilience and cultural transmission?
OPTICA (Lou Sheppard): How can bodies and spaces be sites of resistance and transformation in the light of ecological and social crises?
PHI: How can art deconstruct foundational myths and imagine new ones?
VOX: How can reappropriation of the images of Black women redefine safety, identity, and representation in the privacy of the home?
What if an artwork gives rise to an essential question? We invite you to explore the Biennale’s exhibitions through accessible philosophical questions, conceived to nurture reflection and dialogue. These questions, linked to the issues in the exhibitions, guide your visit and open paths to other ways of thinking. You can download them here or consult them below to guide your visit.
Centre CLARK: How do we give a voice to what is absent? Through memory, imagination, or art?
daphne: Does photography influence history or freeze it in place?
Dazibao: When an image seeks to say the unspeakable, what is it really telling us?
Fonderie Darling: How do we construct memories of something that was never said out loud?
Galerie de l’UQAM: How do we reinvent narratives about bodies and history?
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery: How can we hear what history has silenced?
MAC: How do symbols of the past influence the way in which we see the world today?
MMFA: How do memories and emotions influence our perception of history?
OPTICA (Paul Seesequasis): How do visual archives shape history, and how do Indigenous communities use images to redefine resilience and cultural transmission?
OPTICA (Lou Sheppard): How can bodies and spaces be sites of resistance and transformation in the light of ecological and social crises?
PHI: How can art deconstruct foundational myths and imagine new ones?
VOX: How can reappropriation of the images of Black women redefine safety, identity, and representation in the privacy of the home?
INDEX
In collaboration with Myrabelle Charlebois
Presented in the form of a reading room, the INDEX project was designed and conceived to offer a varied selection of recent art books for the public to consult. Here, books-as-objects are deployed as shared spaces and as artworks in their own right that can be handled, compared, leafed through, read, and contemplated. They weave a constellation of practices proposing complementary points of view on the issues in the 2025 edition of the Biennale and opening a multitude of possible reflections related to the practices it includes. Beneath their apparent stillness, the chosen publications contain a cohabitation between the poetic and the political and reveal otherwise hidden links, narratives, and images.
This activity is made possible thanks to support of Idea Books, the UQAM design/visual and media arts library, and participating publishers.
In collaboration with Myrabelle Charlebois
Presented in the form of a reading room, the INDEX project was designed and conceived to offer a varied selection of recent art books for the public to consult. Here, books-as-objects are deployed as shared spaces and as artworks in their own right that can be handled, compared, leafed through, read, and contemplated. They weave a constellation of practices proposing complementary points of view on the issues in the 2025 edition of the Biennale and opening a multitude of possible reflections related to the practices it includes. Beneath their apparent stillness, the chosen publications contain a cohabitation between the poetic and the political and reveal otherwise hidden links, narratives, and images.
This activity is made possible thanks to support of Idea Books, the UQAM design/visual and media arts library, and participating publishers.
Creative and reflective workshops
Reservation required
The MOMENTA Creative team invites you to enjoy our participatory workshops inspired by the exhibitions in the 2025 Biennale. Each workshop features a guided tour that immerses you in the artworks’ essence and issues, followed by a group creativity.
Open to all, these workshops offer a wonderful opportunity to go in search of the missing image and stimulate your creativity.
To participate in a workshop, a reservation is required.
Open to all, these workshops offer a wonderful opportunity to go in search of the missing image and stimulate your creativity.
To participate in a workshop, a reservation is required.
Find out more about our workshops and how to register below.