Enjoy a vibrant evening of art, music, and hands-on creativity — completely free and entirely indoors!

Saturday, February 28, 2026, from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

As part of the 23rd edition of the Nuit blanche à Montréal, MOMENTA and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) invite you to a festive closing night of In Praise of the Missing Image at Place Ville Marie, presented in collaboration with Ausgang Plaza, and Place Ville Marie.

AT THE MAC — 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Visit of In Praise of the Missing Image

Through powerful works that bring censored images, erased stories, and marginalized figures to light, the exhibition’s seven artists give voice to historical silences and the hidden gaps in our collective memory, opening space for new perspectives. Art mediators will be present from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

AT THE MAC — 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Memories in Motion: a drop-in creative workshop

The MAC’s mediators invite you to experiment with a variety of artistic techniques, including drawing and watercolour, inspired by River Water, a mural by artist Niap. No previous experience required!

WITH AUSGANG PLAZA AT CATHCART — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Dance party hosted by Le Maquis and Forward Movements

DJs, VJs, and dancers from both collectives come together for a high-energy night on the dance floor.

WITH MOMENTA AT CATHCART — 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Sound performance Nepantlandia by Martin Rodríguez

In a liminal space (nepantla), between body and signal, the artist creates fragmented soundscapes linked to his Xicanx identity, using live radio transmissions, interference, and performative gestures.

ELSEWHERE AT PVM — 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Extended opening hours at neighbouring shops, food and drinks at Cathcart, luminous artworks, and skating on the Esplanade PVM!

Enjoy a vibrant evening of art, music, and hands-on creativity — completely free and entirely indoors!

Saturday, February 28, 2026, from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

As part of the 23rd edition of the Nuit blanche à Montréal, MOMENTA and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) invite you to a festive closing night of In Praise of the Missing Image at Place Ville Marie, presented in collaboration with Ausgang Plaza, and Place Ville Marie.

AT THE MAC — 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Visit of In Praise of the Missing Image

Through powerful works that bring censored images, erased stories, and marginalized figures to light, the exhibition’s seven artists give voice to historical silences and the hidden gaps in our collective memory, opening space for new perspectives. Art mediators will be present from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

AT THE MAC — 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Memories in Motion: a drop-in creative workshop

The MAC’s mediators invite you to experiment with a variety of artistic techniques, including drawing and watercolour, inspired by River Water, a mural by artist Niap. No previous experience required!

WITH AUSGANG PLAZA AT CATHCART — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Dance party hosted by Le Maquis and Forward Movements

DJs, VJs, and dancers from both collectives come together for a high-energy night on the dance floor.

WITH MOMENTA AT CATHCART — 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Sound performance Nepantlandia by Martin Rodríguez

In a liminal space (nepantla), between body and signal, the artist creates fragmented soundscapes linked to his Xicanx identity, using live radio transmissions, interference, and performative gestures.

ELSEWHERE AT PVM — 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Extended opening hours at neighbouring shops, food and drinks at Cathcart, luminous artworks, and skating on the Esplanade PVM!

MOMENTA invites you to the video projection IMAGE WAR ON REALITY at The Screening Room of Kingston on Monday, November 3, at 6 p.m. This event is open to all by reservation.

Program:
— John Smith, Associations, 1975 (7 min)
— Marcell Iványi, Wind (Szél), 1996 (7 min)
— ariella tai, Cavity, 2019 (6 min)
— Dana Dawud, Palcorecore, 2023 (6 min)
— Terence Dixon, Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, 1970 (28 min)

Explore misunderstood urban plants, often falsely called “weeds,” and discover their incredible resilience. During an exploratory walk, you’ll see these plants growing in cracks in the concrete, imagine their life, and invent evocative names for them. When you return to the workshop, you’ll make an illustrated herbarium, mixing drawing, collage, and writing, to describe the beauty and quiet strength of these survivors. It’s a playful, poetic, and sensitive workshop that invites you to cast a new eye on nature in the city and revive your capacity for being amazed at life.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, November 1, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)
– Saturday, November 1, at 3:30 p.m. (FULL)

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Monday to Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., between September 11 and November 1.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

Explore misunderstood urban plants, often falsely called “weeds,” and discover their incredible resilience. During an exploratory walk, you’ll see these plants growing in cracks in the concrete, imagine their life, and invent evocative names for them. When you return to the workshop, you’ll make an illustrated herbarium, mixing drawing, collage, and writing, to describe the beauty and quiet strength of these survivors. It’s a playful, poetic, and sensitive workshop that invites you to cast a new eye on nature in the city and revive your capacity for being amazed at life.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, November 1, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)
– Saturday, November 1, at 3:30 p.m. (FULL)

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Monday to Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., between September 11 and November 1.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

MOMENTA invites you to the video projection IMAGE WAR ON REALITY at Cinéma du Musée on Wednesday, October 29, at 6 p.m., followed by a question and answer session (Q&A) with the curator Yaniya Lee. This event is free and open to all by reservation.

Program:
— John Smith, Associations, 1975 (7 min)
— Marcell Iványi, Wind (Szél), 1996 (7 min)
— ariella tai, Cavity, 2019 (6 min)
— Dana Dawud, Palcorecore, 2023 (6 min)
— Terence Dixon, Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, 1970 (28 min)

In this creative workshop, participants design a dollhouse in order to explore relational dynamics within the domestic space. Each imagined room becomes the scene of affective ties, tensions, memories, or shared silences. Through a conversation and a drawing workshop, participants reflect on the roles, communication, and intimacy that shape life at home. The workshop becomes a space of symbolic expression in which we probe family relations, along with the norms and emotions that inhabit our abodes. Here is a sensitive, playful way to give shape to the invisible things that structure daily life.

From the exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence by artist Frida Orupabo

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, October 4, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 4, at 3:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 3:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this creative workshop, participants design a dollhouse in order to explore relational dynamics within the domestic space. Each imagined room becomes the scene of affective ties, tensions, memories, or shared silences. Through a conversation and a drawing workshop, participants reflect on the roles, communication, and intimacy that shape life at home. The workshop becomes a space of symbolic expression in which we probe family relations, along with the norms and emotions that inhabit our abodes. Here is a sensitive, playful way to give shape to the invisible things that structure daily life.

From the exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence by artist Frida Orupabo

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, October 4, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 4, at 3:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 3:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

MOMENTA invites you to an exhibition tour and discussion with artist Anouk Verviers at Dazibao on Saturday, October 18, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. This event is free and open to all* by reservation.

*with a special invitation to individuals who themselves, or whose close ones, are experiencing chronic pain and/or chronic reproductive system illnesses

Discussion in French and English

Explore liminal art during an experimental and performative workshop that invites you to question the connections among ecology, territory, and queer identity. Through photography, sound, drawing, and installation, reinvent urban and natural spaces that are often invisible or neglected. Discover these transitional areas, collect found objects, images, and sounds, and then use them to create a group artwork. Together, you’ll explore the rights of nature and create a poetic, engaged manifesto that gives shape to these changing territories.

From the exhibition Rights of Passage by artist Lou Sheppard

Participate in our workshop, in collaboration with Le Champ des Possibles: 
– Friday, September 26, at 3:00 p.m.
– Saturday, October 18, at 1:00 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Friday between noon and 5:00 p.m., between September 10 and October 18.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

What do you think about the standards associated with bodies? In this workshop, we will reflect on how we look at our own bodies and our perceptions of the norms related to physique. Through writing exercises and group discussions, participants will deconstruct representations of the body that have been fixed over time and persist today. This workshop is intended to be a space open to all shapes and types of bodies, and it aims to develop empathy for physical diversity.

From the exhibition Must Every Step Touch the Ground? by artist Caroline Mauxion

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, September 27, at noon
– Saturday, October 18, at 2:00 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Friday between noon and 6:00 p.m., between September 11 and October 25.

This workshop will be available in Québec Sign Language (LSQ) and led by Hodan Youssouf, artist and cultural mediator (with reservation).
– Thursday, October 9, at 1:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

Called “the Creator’s Game” in the Indigenous nations where it originated, lacrosse is an ancient sport that works both the mind and the body. It is also known as the “medicine game,” for when the players are in a good emotional state it acts as a transformative healing experience. Using lacrosse practices and personal experiences of winning and losing, participants will learn to recognize how emotions feel in their body and to develop their sporting spirit in a guided meditation based on the Haudenousaunee concept of Ka'nikonhri:io: good mind.

From the exhibition Indigenous Archival Photo Project: Framing the Creator’s Game by artist Paul Seesequasis

Participate in our workshop, in collaboration with Le Champ des Possibles:
– Friday, September 26, at noon
– Saturday, October 18, at 3:00 p.m. (FULL)

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Wednesday to Friday between noon and 5:00 p.m., between September 10 and October 18.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

What would the past look like if it were reinvented by those who have been forgotten? How do we define heroes and heroines? A discussion and reflection around heroic figures and power (historical and political figures, personal heroes and heroines such as artists or public personalities). As a group, you’ll reflect on a history of humanity in which these heroes and heroines play a decisive role and share your vision of the world with your peers.

From the exhibition Twòn Kreyol by artist Raphaël Barontini

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, September 27, at 4:00 p.m.
– Saturday, October 18, at 4:00 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Friday between noon and 6:00 p.m., between September 11 and October 25.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

MOMENTA invites you to a discussion with the artist OK Pedersen, along with Mathilde Fauteux, distribution manager at Vidéographe and Ben Stidworthy, composer and collaborator of the artist, at Centre CLARK on Thursday, October 16, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

Meet the artist and photographer Martin Akwiranoron Loft and benefit from his deep mastery of photography and sensitivity to images. In this workshop designed for beginners, participants will make their own cameras, develop their own negatives in a darkroom, and use their phone to transform their negative into a positive image. They will also have a chance to try large-format portrait photography.

Please note that this workshop will be given in English and is for participants aged 16 and older.

From the exhibition Ne Karahstánion (Pictures) by artist Martin Akwiranoron Loft

Participate in our workshop: 
– Saturday, October 11, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

MOMENTA invites you to join Caroline Mauxion for a friendly gathering at Galerie de l’UQAM on October 11, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The artist will speak at 2:15 p.m. and will be available to exchange with you. The event will take place in French and English and is free and open to all by reservation.

For the first time, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and MOMENTA are joining forces to create a joint program focusing on the artistic and cinematographic practices of Caroline Monnet and Valentin Noujaïm. MOMENTA invites you to discover the La Défense trilogy by Valentin Noujaïm at Cinémathèque québécoise on Friday, October 10. The event is divided in two parts: the book launch at 5 p.m., free and open to all; a screening at 7 p.m. followed by a discussion with the artist, moderated by Emilie Poirier at 8 p.m, tickets required.

MOMENTA is offering a workshop in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ).

It is led in LSQ by Hodan Youssouf (video).

It focuses on the diversity of bodies.

It is for D/deaf and hard of hearing people.

From the exhibition Must Every Step Touch the Ground? by artist Caroline Mauxion

Participate in our workshop in LSQ:
– Thursday, October 9, at 1:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

For the first time, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and MOMENTA are joining forces to create a joint program focusing on the artistic and cinematographic practices of Caroline Monnet and Valentin Noujaïm. MOMENTA invites you to the opening of installation Pidikwe by Caroline Monnet at the Cinémathèque on Thursday, October 9 at 5:00 p.m., followed by a discussion with the artist and Valentin Noujaïm, moderated by Emilie Poirier, at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

This two-and-a-half-hour workshop, hosted by the artists Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Nadia Bunyan—founder of the NPO Growing ARC—explores natural dyeing of recycled textiles. Together we will weave narratives of heritage and transmission, linking together native plants of Canada, the Caribbean, and Africa. Participants will learn dyeing techniques, inspired by Lowe Mpoka’s work for her exhibition The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads, with materials such as sumac, red clay, hibiscus, and rose madder. Along with the practical aspects, the workshop will address the curative and spiritual properties of different plants used for dyeing, offering a deeper connection to ancestral knowledge and traditional practices. We will also explore tannins and resist-dyeing techniques, combining artistic expression, culture, and botanical wisdom.

From the exhibition The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshop, in collaboration with the artists Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Nadia Bunyan, founder of the NPO Growing ARC: 
– Wednesday, October 8 from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

In this creative workshop, participants design a dollhouse in order to explore relational dynamics within the domestic space. Each imagined room becomes the scene of affective ties, tensions, memories, or shared silences. Through a conversation and a drawing workshop, participants reflect on the roles, communication, and intimacy that shape life at home. The workshop becomes a space of symbolic expression in which we probe family relations, along with the norms and emotions that inhabit our abodes. Here is a sensitive, playful way to give shape to the invisible things that structure daily life.

From the exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence by artist Frida Orupabo

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, October 4, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 4, at 3:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 3:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this creative workshop, participants design a dollhouse in order to explore relational dynamics within the domestic space. Each imagined room becomes the scene of affective ties, tensions, memories, or shared silences. Through a conversation and a drawing workshop, participants reflect on the roles, communication, and intimacy that shape life at home. The workshop becomes a space of symbolic expression in which we probe family relations, along with the norms and emotions that inhabit our abodes. Here is a sensitive, playful way to give shape to the invisible things that structure daily life.

From the exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence by artist Frida Orupabo

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, October 4, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 4, at 3:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, October 25, at 3:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this workshop, you’ll explore urban landscapes in transformation through a unique sensory path. Walking in public areas, you will be led to attend to details that generally pass unnoticed: textures, sounds, lights, odours, ambiences. Each participant will collect these elements in the form of traces (notes, sketches, recordings, rubbings, etc.) and use them to compose a sensitive and personal mapping of the territory explored. This immersive experience, at the intersection of art and observation, refreshes how we perceive and live in the city.

From the exhibition Nuna Aliannaittuq by artist Maureen Gruben

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Guillaume Saur: 
– Sunday, September 28, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 26, at 10: a.m. (FULL)
– Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)

For families
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this workshop, you’ll explore urban landscapes in transformation through a unique sensory path. Walking in public areas, you will be led to attend to details that generally pass unnoticed: textures, sounds, lights, odours, ambiences. Each participant will collect these elements in the form of traces (notes, sketches, recordings, rubbings, etc.) and use them to compose a sensitive and personal mapping of the territory explored. This immersive experience, at the intersection of art and observation, refreshes how we perceive and live in the city.

From the exhibition Nuna Aliannaittuq by artist Maureen Gruben

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Guillaume Saur: 
– Sunday, September 28, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 26, at 10: a.m. (FULL)
– Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)

For families
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this workshop, you’ll explore urban landscapes in transformation through a unique sensory path. Walking in public areas, you will be led to attend to details that generally pass unnoticed: textures, sounds, lights, odours, ambiences. Each participant will collect these elements in the form of traces (notes, sketches, recordings, rubbings, etc.) and use them to compose a sensitive and personal mapping of the territory explored. This immersive experience, at the intersection of art and observation, refreshes how we perceive and live in the city.

From the exhibition Nuna Aliannaittuq by artist Maureen Gruben

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Guillaume Saur: 
– Sunday, September 28, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 26, at 10: a.m. (FULL)
– Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)

For families
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this workshop, you’ll explore urban landscapes in transformation through a unique sensory path. Walking in public areas, you will be led to attend to details that generally pass unnoticed: textures, sounds, lights, odours, ambiences. Each participant will collect these elements in the form of traces (notes, sketches, recordings, rubbings, etc.) and use them to compose a sensitive and personal mapping of the territory explored. This immersive experience, at the intersection of art and observation, refreshes how we perceive and live in the city.

From the exhibition Nuna Aliannaittuq by artist Maureen Gruben

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Guillaume Saur: 
– Sunday, September 28, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 26, at 10: a.m. (FULL)
– Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)

For families
A reservation is required.
Register here.

This workshop is inspired by the works of Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Paula Valero Comín presented at Fonderie Darling. During an exploratory walk in the neighbourhood, the multidisciplinary artist Annie France Leclerc will introduce a few “weeds,” remarkable for their ability to grow in the most inhospitable places, to detoxify soil, and to provide care. In a writing workshop, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their relationship with plants in a process sensitive to extraction and waste. By working with materials found on site and with the parts of plants that speak to them, they will create a unique visual composition combining photography and writing.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Annie France Leclerc: 
– Saturday, September 20, at 10:00 a.m. (FULL)
– Saturday, September 20, at 2:00 p.m. (FULL)
– Tuesday, October 7, at 1:30 p.m. (groups only) (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

MOMENTA invites you to the Reflections on Artistic Research conference by Milieux institute at Concordia University, Room 11.455, EV Building, on Friday, October 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The conference gathers curators, artists, and scholars exploring the distinct nature of research in art, and invites you to ask: What makes artistic research unique, and how can curiosity, imagination, and embodied knowledge shape new ways of knowing? This event is open to all by reservation.

Make artisanal paper by recycling materials and incorporating wildflower seeds. Once this unique support for writing has been used, it may be planted to give birth to a flower garden. This creative, eco-responsible workshop raises awareness of recycling and biodiversity by transforming a simple piece of paper into a surprising resource.

Please note that this workshop will be given in English and is for participants aged 16 and older.

Participate in our workshops, offered by Concordia University’s Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR): 
– Friday, September 19, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. (FULL)
– Friday, October 3, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

1200 rue Guy, Montréal, H3G 1M8

MOMENTA invites you to the concert-performance Voiceless Mass by Raven Chacon at the Chapelle de la Cité-des-Hospitalières, as part of MOMENTA’s program of professional meetings, on Friday, October 3, at 7 p.m. This event is co-produced by MOMENTA, the Quatuor Bozzini and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery and is organized in partnership with Le Vivier and Québec musiques parallèles. Tickets required.

MOMENTA invites you to the Prix Polygone ceremony, co-presented by the magazine Vie des Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal at Fonderie Darling on Thursday, October 2, at 5:30 p.m. Organized as part of MOMENTA’s program of professional meetings, this event is free and open to all.

See “weeds” in a whole new light! Learn to recognize fifteen urban plants that can be used as medicine or food, and explore their role in the ecosystem. In this workshop, which takes place outdoors, you’ll observe, touch, smell, and taste local flora. Activity offered by the Écoquartier de Ville-Marie as part of its awareness-raising program.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops: 
– Tuesday, September 16 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (FULL)
– Wednesday, October 1, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this workshop, you’ll explore urban landscapes in transformation through a unique sensory path. Walking in public areas, you will be led to attend to details that generally pass unnoticed: textures, sounds, lights, odours, ambiences. Each participant will collect these elements in the form of traces (notes, sketches, recordings, rubbings, etc.) and use them to compose a sensitive and personal mapping of the territory explored. This immersive experience, at the intersection of art and observation, refreshes how we perceive and live in the city.

From the exhibition Nuna Aliannaittuq by artist Maureen Gruben

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Guillaume Saur: 
– Sunday, September 28, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 26, at 10: a.m. (FULL)
– Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)

For families
A reservation is required.
Register here.

In this workshop, you’ll explore urban landscapes in transformation through a unique sensory path. Walking in public areas, you will be led to attend to details that generally pass unnoticed: textures, sounds, lights, odours, ambiences. Each participant will collect these elements in the form of traces (notes, sketches, recordings, rubbings, etc.) and use them to compose a sensitive and personal mapping of the territory explored. This immersive experience, at the intersection of art and observation, refreshes how we perceive and live in the city.

From the exhibition Nuna Aliannaittuq by artist Maureen Gruben

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Guillaume Saur: 
– Sunday, September 28, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 10: a.m.
– Sunday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m.
– Sunday, October 26, at 10: a.m. (FULL)
– Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m. (FULL)

For families
A reservation is required.
Register here.

What do you think about the standards associated with bodies? In this workshop, we will reflect on how we look at our own bodies and our perceptions of the norms related to physique. Through writing exercises and group discussions, participants will deconstruct representations of the body that have been fixed over time and persist today. This workshop is intended to be a space open to all shapes and types of bodies, and it aims to develop empathy for physical diversity.

From the exhibition Must Every Step Touch the Ground? by artist Caroline Mauxion

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, September 27, at noon
– Saturday, October 18, at 2:00 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Friday between noon and 6:00 p.m., between September 11 and October 25.

This workshop will be available in Québec Sign Language (LSQ) and led by Hodan Youssouf, artist and cultural mediator (with reservation).
– Thursday, October 9, at 1:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

Connect with the artworks through motion. These guided visits place body language at the core of the experience. Through motion, you connect with yourself and others, with the works and the space. You don’t need to know how to dance, you just have to be ready to move. The artworks become a source of inspiration: a shape, a texture, a theme, or an emotion may trigger a gesture, a movement, a pose. Guided throughout the visit, participants are free to interpret the artworks according to how they feel, their abilities, or their imagination. These visits are based on feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-ableist approaches that intersect around the notion of “situated knowledge”: a way of exploring art starting from your own body, your experience, and your point of view.

From the exhibition Must Every Step Touch the Ground? by artist Caroline Mauxion

Participate in our workshop, in collaboration with the artist-mediator Jade Ravary: 
– Saturday, 27, at 2:00 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

What would the past look like if it were reinvented by those who have been forgotten? How do we define heroes and heroines? A discussion and reflection around heroic figures and power (historical and political figures, personal heroes and heroines such as artists or public personalities). As a group, you’ll reflect on a history of humanity in which these heroes and heroines play a decisive role and share your vision of the world with your peers.

From the exhibition Twòn Kreyol by artist Raphaël Barontini

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, September 27, at 4:00 p.m.
– Saturday, October 18, at 4:00 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Friday between noon and 6:00 p.m., between September 11 and October 25.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

Called “the Creator’s Game” in the Indigenous nations where it originated, lacrosse is an ancient sport that works both the mind and the body. It is also known as the “medicine game,” for when the players are in a good emotional state it acts as a transformative healing experience. Using lacrosse practices and personal experiences of winning and losing, participants will learn to recognize how emotions feel in their body and to develop their sporting spirit in a guided meditation based on the Haudenousaunee concept of Ka'nikonhri:io: good mind.

From the exhibition Indigenous Archival Photo Project: Framing the Creator’s Game by artist Paul Seesequasis

Participate in our workshop, in collaboration with Le Champ des Possibles:
– Friday, September 26, at noon
– Saturday, October 18, at 3:00 p.m. (FULL)

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Wednesday to Friday between noon and 5:00 p.m., between September 10 and October 18.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

Explore liminal art during an experimental and performative workshop that invites you to question the connections among ecology, territory, and queer identity. Through photography, sound, drawing, and installation, reinvent urban and natural spaces that are often invisible or neglected. Discover these transitional areas, collect found objects, images, and sounds, and then use them to create a group artwork. Together, you’ll explore the rights of nature and create a poetic, engaged manifesto that gives shape to these changing territories.

From the exhibition Rights of Passage by artist Lou Sheppard

Participate in our workshop, in collaboration with Le Champ des Possibles: 
– Friday, September 26, at 3:00 p.m.
– Saturday, October 18, at 1:00 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Friday between noon and 5:00 p.m., between September 10 and October 18.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

This workshop is inspired by the works of Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Paula Valero Comín presented at Fonderie Darling. During an exploratory walk in the neighbourhood, the multidisciplinary artist Annie France Leclerc will introduce a few “weeds,” remarkable for their ability to grow in the most inhospitable places, to detoxify soil, and to provide care. In a writing workshop, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their relationship with plants in a process sensitive to extraction and waste. By working with materials found on site and with the parts of plants that speak to them, they will create a unique visual composition combining photography and writing.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Annie France Leclerc: 
– Saturday, September 20, at 10:00 a.m. (FULL)
– Saturday, September 20, at 2:00 p.m. (FULL)
– Tuesday, October 7, at 1:30 p.m. (groups only) (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

This workshop is inspired by the works of Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Paula Valero Comín presented at Fonderie Darling. During an exploratory walk in the neighbourhood, the multidisciplinary artist Annie France Leclerc will introduce a few “weeds,” remarkable for their ability to grow in the most inhospitable places, to detoxify soil, and to provide care. In a writing workshop, participants will be encouraged to reflect on their relationship with plants in a process sensitive to extraction and waste. By working with materials found on site and with the parts of plants that speak to them, they will create a unique visual composition combining photography and writing.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops, in collaboration with the artist Annie France Leclerc: 
– Saturday, September 20, at 10:00 a.m. (FULL)
– Saturday, September 20, at 2:00 p.m. (FULL)
– Tuesday, October 7, at 1:30 p.m. (groups only) (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

Make artisanal paper by recycling materials and incorporating wildflower seeds. Once this unique support for writing has been used, it may be planted to give birth to a flower garden. This creative, eco-responsible workshop raises awareness of recycling and biodiversity by transforming a simple piece of paper into a surprising resource.

Please note that this workshop will be given in English and is for participants aged 16 and older.

Participate in our workshops, offered by Concordia University’s Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR): 
– Friday, September 19, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. (FULL)
– Friday, October 3, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

1200 rue Guy, Montréal, H3G 1M8

See “weeds” in a whole new light! Learn to recognize fifteen urban plants that can be used as medicine or food, and explore their role in the ecosystem. In this workshop, which takes place outdoors, you’ll observe, touch, smell, and taste local flora. Activity offered by the Écoquartier de Ville-Marie as part of its awareness-raising program.

From the exhibitions Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by artist Paula Valero Comín, and The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Participate in our workshops: 
– Tuesday, September 16 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (FULL)
– Wednesday, October 1, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

MOMENTA invites you to a discussion with the artist Anique Jordan, along with the guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, September 14, at 2 p.m. This event, during which Jordan will talk about her practice and be available to answer questions about her research, is free and open to all.

Link to the activity

Let’s explore the sounds around us! Enjoy becoming the composer of a unique sonar world! Without using a musical instrument, participants will experiment with creating sound using gestures, everyday objects, or voice, then imagine a way to represent it visually through an inventive and personal musical score. The workshop will conclude with a pooling of the scores and a group performance of a short musical piece. Through this accessible and playful creative moment, participants will listen differently, express themselves freely, and discover sound composition. No musical experience required!

From the exhibition Place Where the Waters Crossed by artist Raven Chacon

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, September 13, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, September 13, at 3:30 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Wednesday to Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., between September 10 and November 1.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

MOMENTA invites you to a discussion with the artists of the 19th edition of the Biennale with the guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi, at Gilles-Hocquart room of the Archives nationales in Montréal, 535 Viger Est avenue, on Saturday, September 13, at 1:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all by reservation. Limited number of seats available.

With the participation of:
– Anique Jordan
– Martin Akwiranoron Loft
– Mallory Lowe Mpoka
– Caroline Mauxion
– Josèfa Ntjam
– Myriam Omar Awadi
– OK Pedersen
– Lee Schulman + Omar Victor Diop –  The Anonymous Project
– Sanaz Sohrabi
– Paula Valero Comín
– Anouk Verviers

Archives nationales à Montréal is the venue where the activity takes place and not the organization that produces or co-produces the activity.

The accessible entrance for people with reduced mobility is located at 1020 Saint-Hubert Street.

Let’s explore the sounds around us! Enjoy becoming the composer of a unique sonar world! Without using a musical instrument, participants will experiment with creating sound using gestures, everyday objects, or voice, then imagine a way to represent it visually through an inventive and personal musical score. The workshop will conclude with a pooling of the scores and a group performance of a short musical piece. Through this accessible and playful creative moment, participants will listen differently, express themselves freely, and discover sound composition. No musical experience required!

From the exhibition Place Where the Waters Crossed by artist Raven Chacon

Participate in our workshops: 
– Saturday, September 13, at 1:30 p.m.
– Saturday, September 13, at 3:30 p.m.

For more flexibility, you may also reserve the date and time of your choice, from Wednesday to Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., between September 10 and November 1.

For all
A reservation is required.
Register here.

MOMENTA invites you to the opening of the exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence by Frida Orupabo, presented in collaboration with VOX, as well as youth exhibition Il était une fois Malaika by Moridja Kitenge Banza, presented by VOX. Both exhibitions will open at VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, on Thursday, September 11 at 5 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

MOMENTA invites you to the opening of the exhibitions The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads by Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium by Paula Valero Comín at the Fonderie Darling on Thursday, September 11 at 5:30 p.m. The artists will conduct a guided tour for the occasion. This event is free and open to all.

A sensory workshop for creative exploration with different bioplastics and natural pigments on transparent plastic surfaces. Each participant makes a trace, an image, or a message that will disappear: melt in heat, dissolve in water, or even be eaten. A poetic and playful reflection on image, material, and their ephemeral nature. Each creative gesture made in my mobile kitchen will be filmed live and projected on a canvas in the back, offering an immersive and living video memory. This workshop offers a poetic and critical reflection on the image, in a world saturated with matter and representations, by exploring the borders between body, screen, and disappearance.

From the exhibition swell of spæc(i)es by artist Josèfa Ntjam

Groups only
To reserve our workshop, in collaboration with the artist Miri Chek, visit the PHI website.

Participate in a workshop combining art and philosophy devoted to Black identity, to the gaze that falls upon Black women, and to the domestic space as a site of power, intimacy, and resistance. Through conversation and looking at artworks and inspiring texts, explore the media stereotyping, sexualization, and invisibilization of Black bodies. Then reappropriate these images in a creative way to celebrate strength, sisterhood, and empowerment. A space for creation, reflection, and self-representation.

From the exhibition On Lies, Secrets and Silence by artist Frida Orupabo

Groups only
A reservation is required.
Register to our workshop, in collaboration with Exeko, here.

Participate in a creative guided tour inspired by Josèfa Ntjam’s world: imagine myths, stories, and futures together.

From the exhibition swell of spæc(i)es by artist Josèfa Ntjam

Groups only
To reserve our workshop offered by PHI, visit the PHI website.

Engage in a collective exploration of the exhibitions presented at Dazibao (Na Mira and Anouk Verviers) through a philosophical dialogue workshop hosted by Brila. Here, the idea is not to find easy answers but to explore, question, and construct your thought in dialogue with the works, in a welcoming and playful ambience. Curiosity and listening are the only prerequisites!

From the exhibitions Dust by artist Na Mira, and A community of bodies hosting migrating cells by artist Anouk Verviers

Participate in our workshops: 
Choose the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Saturday, between noon and 5:00 p.m., between September 10 and October 25. (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

Engage in a collective exploration of the exhibitions presented at Centre CLARK (Myriam Omar Awadi and OK Pedersen) through a philosophical dialogue workshop hosted by Brila. Here, the idea is not to find easy answers but to explore, question, and construct your thought in dialogue with the works, in a welcoming and playful ambience. Curiosity and listening are the only prerequisites!

From the exhibitions The Fires Rekindled by Your Last Breaths (Movements I and III) by artist Myriam Omar Awadi, and Orchard Station Road by artist OK Pedersen

Participate in our workshops: 
Choose the date and time of your choice, from Tuesday to Saturday, between noon and 5:00 p.m., between September 10 and October 18. (FULL)

This workshop is fully booked. Thank you for your interest!

MOMENTA is pleased to invite you to its grand opening at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal on Wednesday, September 10 starting at 5:30 p.m. This festive occasion will be a lively evening bringing together artists, partners, and the public for cocktails at Le Cathcart to celebrate the launch of the 19th edition of the Biennale. This event is free and open to all.

MOMENTA invites you to a discussion with the artist Josèfa Ntjam and the guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi at PHI on Tuesday, September 9, at 5:30 p.m. This event, during which Ntjam will talk about her practice and be available to answer questions about her research, is free and open to all.

MOMENTA invites you to the opening of the exhibition swell of spæc(i)es by Josèfa Ntjam at PHI, 407 Saint-Pierre Street, on Tuesday, September 9, at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

MOMENTA invites you to the opening of the exhibitions Dust by Na Mira and A community of bodies hosting migrating cells by Anouk Verviers at Dazibao ; Indigenous Archival Photo Project: Framing the Creator’s Game by Paul Seesequasis and Rights of Passage by Lou Sheppard at OPTICA ; The Fires Rekindled by Your Last Breaths (Movements I and III) by Myriam Omar Awadi and Orchard Station Road by OK Pedersen at Centre CLARK, to kick-off the cultural season at Pôle de Gaspé on Friday, September 5, at 5 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

MOMENTA invites you to the performance Rights of Passage (St. Lawrence Watershed) by Lou Sheppard, to kick off the season for the Pôle de Gaspé cultural hub at Champ des Possibles on Friday, September 5, at 5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all. Join us at the corner of Avenue De Gaspé and Allée St-Viateur.

MOMENTA invites you to the opening of the exhibitions Twòn Kreyol by Raphaël Barontini, Elegy – for two ancestors by Gabrielle Goliath, and Must Every Step Touch the Ground? by Caroline Mauxion at the Galerie de l’UQAM on Thursday, September 4, at 5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

MOMENTA invites you to the opening of the exhibition Place Where the Waters Crossed by artist Raven Chacon at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery on Wednesday, September 3, at 5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

On value 

MOMENTA is launching a brand-new cycle of video screenings. The first session is presented in collaboration with Dazibao and curated by the artist and exhibition curator Ella den Elzen under the title On Value. This inaugural screening offers a reflection on the theme of capital and the malleability of value, through a selection of works by contemporary international video artists.

— Thursday, May 29, 2025
— Dazibao
— 7 PM 

Program:
— Moyra Davey, Hell Notes (26 min 16 s)
— Dora Budor & Noah Barker, Orange Film II (4 min 7 s)
— Dora Budor & Noah Barker, Chase Manhattan (10 min 32 s)
— Nandi Loaf, thê ABSOLUTE RECKONING: plot device – minimal derivative symbol impulse* (9 min 30 s)
— Vera Lutz, The Happiness Experiment (3 min 59 s)
— Hannah Black, Broken Windows (15 min 30 s)

Credit: Image still of Chase Manhattan by Dora Budor and Noah Barker

As part of our collaboration with the Forum Plural program as a cultural partner, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain invites you to an exceptional roundtable discussion

This panel, moderated by Dominique Sirois-Rouleau, Executive Director of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, brings together artist and independent curator Michaëlle Sergile, artist My-Van Dam, and Tamar Tembeck, Artistic Director of OBORO Artist Centre, for an in-depth reflection on the spaces between individual and collective memories.

Central to the 19th edition of MOMENTA, which will take place starting September 10, 2025,
these issues will drive the discussions between the panelists and the audience, while revealing themultiple facets of invisible narratives and the challenges involved in bringing them to light.