Calendar
Week of Sep 4–10, 2023
Week of Apr 7–13
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.
Week of Nov 20–26, 2023
Drawing on their research in the Museum’s archives, Séamus Gallagher will discuss the creative process behind their installation Mother Memory Cellophane. They will discuss how this latest creation fits into their larger body of work. The talk will be moderated by Morris Fox, whose artistic practice overlaps with Gallagher’s on several levels: queer aesthetics, identity, gender performativity and hauntology, to name but a few.
Activity in English. The discussion will be held on Zoom and livestreamed on the Museum’s Facebook page.
Zoom registration
Credit: Séamus Gallagher
Week of Oct 16–22, 2023
Guided tour hosted by Valérie Blass, artist participating in the biennial’s 18th edition.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: Maryse Larivière
Marathon for all.
To celebrate the end of its 2023 festivities, MOMENTA is pleased to invite you to a marathon of our exhibition spaces, in the company of curator Ji-Yoon Han.
Follow our Instagram stories to find out where we are, and you can join us along the way.
Join us at the following venues :
October 20, 2023
9:30 am: Galerie de l'UQAM
11:30 am: VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine | Artexte
1:00 pm: Galerie B-312
2:45 pm: McCord Stewart Museum ($)
3:30 pm: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ($)
4:30 pm: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
5:30 pm: FOFA Gallery
6:15 pm: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
October 21, 2023
12:30 pm: OPTICA
1:00 pm: Dazibao
1:30 pm: Occurrence
2:00 pm: Diagonale
2:30 pm: daphne
4:00 pm: Fonderie Darling
Guided tour led by Ji-Yoon Han with artist Valérie Blass.
Workshop for all.
October 17, 2023
In this listening workshop led by Rémi Belliveau, a trans non-binary Acadian artist, you will be invited to participate in a discussion nourished by music. Inspired by Belliveau’s work L'Empremier live at Beaubassin (1970), you will travel back in time as you listen to songs imbued with nostalgia.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Rémi Belliveau, L’Empremier jam, février 1969 [2022], radio Panasonic RF-7270, demo tape.
Week of Oct 9–15, 2023
Guided tour hosted by Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, artist and student, participating in the biennial’s 18th edition.
Tour open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: Richmond Lam
Through contemporary art, we can project any manner of future worlds, be they hopeful or frightening. In connection with the exhibition The Pop of Life! and the video work Logic Paralyzes the Heart by Lynn Hershman Leeson, presented in collaboration with the MMFA, we invite you to attend a discussion on a time to come. In it, we will look at how artists across the ages have helped us imagine the future.
Credit: Bridget Donahue
Workshop for all.
October 12, 2023
Immerse yourself in a reflection on the notion of the gaze, in dialogue with Chris Curreri's Self Portrait with Luis Jacob. During a session of speed drawing and crossed portraits, explore the limits and links between seeing and being seen, being and seeming.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Chris Curreri, Self Portrait with Luis Jacob, 2022 (detail).
Week of Oct 2–8, 2023
Workshop for all.
October 5, 2023
Join us for a discussion workshop around Michèle Pearson Clarke's artwork Quantum Choir. Participants will get the opportunity to reflect on the notion of vulnerability linked to the expression of their identity, and to transform this feeling into a space for encounter. You will then have a chance to explore the liberating, self-affirming potential of singing by taking part in a karaoke session.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Michèle Pearson Clarke, Quantum Choir, 2022
Week of Sep 25–Oct 1, 2023
Workshop for all.
September 30, 2023
Join us for a collage workshop, offered in collaboration with author and artist Sara Hébert. Come and create anti-advertising posters inspired by the surrealist, punk, and kitsch aesthetic of Naomi Rincón Gallardo's artwork.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: For bookings, contact us here.
Credit: Le pouvoir de l’imaginaire, creative and reflective workshop in collaboration with Never Was Average and Fonderie Darling during MOMENTA 2021. Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro.
Panel, hosted by Ji-Yoon Han, with Rémi Belliveau, Marion Lessard, and Dalie Giroux, as part of the Max and Iris Stern International Symposium, presented by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal.
FULLY BOOKED
Credit from left to right: Alana Riley ; Annie France Leclerc
Week of Sep 18–24, 2023
Workshop for all.
September 24, 2023
Give free rein to your creativity in this mask-making workshop. Bring out different facets of your personality and blur the boundaries of identity. Inspired by the work of Séamus Gallagher and led by artist and educator Maria Ezcurra, this workshop will give you the opportunity to express yourself freely by using a variety of materials to create an alter ego. You will also get the chance to embody your persona during a photographic session.
Workshop open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Community and school groups: FULLY BOOKED
Credit: Séamus Gallagher, Terrified, Oh What Horrors!, Picture Me Better, 2020
Workshop for all.
September 20, 2023
Produced by the daphne art centre
Created and facilitated by Jobena Petonoquot and Meky Ottawa
A medicine bag is a small pouch, often worn around the neck, that may contain objects or materials considered important or sacred to the wearer. The artists present will be instructing participants on how to create, care for, and wear the bags they will create using moose (mos) leather. Though some medicines will be provided, the bags are often personal items, and as such participants are encouraged to bring their own medicines or other items to include.
Limited number of participants: 8
Recommended donation of $10 per participant to cover the costs of the materials
Reservations: please email daphne.artcentre@gmail.com to make your donation via e-transfer and reserve your place.
Credits: Rassemblement d’images: Mos, 2022, digital illustration for the publication of the play Akuteu (Soleil Launière, Éditions du Remue-ménage, 2023) © Meky Ottawa
Workshop for community and school groups only.
Through the game of exquisite corpse, you will create a new narrative that draws on your family legends, making a story that is both distinct and collective. Inspired by the work of Tuan Andrew Nguyen, this exercise aims to demonstrate that each memory contains multiple layers and perspectives. Written by multiple hands, these composed memories will give rise to a story that is both shared and personal, blending imagination and reality.
Community and school groups: FULLY BOOKED.
Credit: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Specter of Ancestors Becoming, 2019
Talk between curator Ji-Yoon Han and Hito Steyerl, Berlin-based artist and theoretician, participating in the biennial’s 18th edition.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Watch this event live on YouTube!
Entrance is accessible via Berri Street, just north of De Maisonneuve E boulevard
This talk is presented by the MAC and MOMENTA with the support of the Goethe-Institut and Art Speaks.
Credit: Leon Kahane
Workshop for community and school groups only.
This creative workshop, designed for school groups, explores the relationship between humans and animals through the works presented at Diagonale and OPTICA. Participants will have the opportunity to create an invisible ink drawing, which will then be magically revealed.
Community and school groups: FULLY BOOKED.
Credit: Figures hybrides, creative and reflective workshop in collaboration with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine during MOMENTA 2021. Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro.
Week of Sep 11–17, 2023
Roundtable moderated by Hélène Brousseau accompanied by John Latour, author of the dictionary Who Was Who Was Whoin Contemporary Canadian Art, with the artists Rémi Belliveau, Marion Lessard, and Éric Simon.
The activity will be preceded by a screening of Rémi Belliveau’s video work at VOX, centre del’image contemporaine, at 1:00 pm
Roundtable open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Discussion between curator Ji-Yoon Han and artist Anette Rose about Enzyklopädie der Handhabungen: Braiding Gazes.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit from left to right: Birgit Kleber ; Anthony Burnham
MOMENTA is pleased to invite you to the opening of PRETTY TALK, an exhibition with Mara Eagle, artist of the 18th edition of the biennial.
Opening open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: courtesy of the artist
Galerie de l'UQAM invites the UQAM and artistic community to a festive happy hour
to mark the start of the fall season. In addition to celebrating the opening of the
MOMENTA exhibitions with the curator, this event will be an
opportunity for the Galerie to launch its program and brand-new series of
educational kits, L’art cultive.
Credit: Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Versos de Porquería, 2021, HD video, colour,
sound, 23 min 54 s
Week of Sep 4–10, 2023
As part of Rémi Belliveau’s exhibition Dans la peau de l'histoire. Becoming Joan Dularge VOX invites you to a projection of their film, L’Empremier. Live at Beaubassin (1970), 2023. Following the screening, join us for a festive happy hour in the presence of the artist.
Activity open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available.
Credit: Annie France Leclerc
Sturgeon Women Rising, draws upon the livelihood of the sturgeon, an ancient being that has maintained its survivance across many bodies of water for over 200 million years.
Location: Clock Tower Beach
1 Quai de l'Horloge Street, Montreal, QC H2Y 2E2
How to get there?
By public transport: get off at the Champ-de-Mars metro station, then walk 15 minutes towards the St. Lawrence river until you see the Clock Tower. The beach is at the base of this iconic Montreal landmark.
You can also get there by Bixi and use the station on Rue de la Commune, a 5-minute walk from the Quai de l'Horloge.
By car: parking is available near the Clock Tower, with fees of $18 for one hour and $25 for six hours or less.
Performance open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Please note that, in case of rain, the event will go ahead as planned.
Sturgeon Woman Rising by Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Sandy Cove Beach, Elliston, NL, as part of the 2023 Bonavista Biennale's Opening Weekend; photo(s) by Brian Ricks.
Presented in collaboration with the McCord Stewart Museum, we invite you to a talk animated by Ji-Yoon Han, curator of the 18th edition of the biennale, with the participation of artists Chris Curreri, Kristina Norman, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Bianca Baldi, Jeannette Ehlers, Émilie Pitoiset, Naomi Rincón Gallardo and Carey Young.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit from left to right: Carey Young ; Romain Boniface ; Émilie Pitoiset ; Kristy Boyce ; Kourosh Keshiri ; Roar Studio Milano ; Erik Norkroos ; Masha Godovannaya
Guided tour hosted by Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Kanien'kehà:ka artist, participating in the biennial’s 18th edition.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: Kl. Peruzzo
Guided tour hosted by Marianne Nicolson, artist, researcher and activist of the Musgamagw Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w nation, participating in the biennial’s 18th edition.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: Jaymyn LaVallee
MOMENTA is pleased to invite you to the opening celebration of the biennial’s 18th edition! Come celebrate with us on September 7 from 5 to 10 p.m. at Place du Sable-Gris in front of Fonderie Darling.
The program for the evening includes a performance by Jeannette Ehlers alongside Eve Tagny and Sophia Gaspard, music with DJs PØPTRT and PATRON, and exhibitions by Jeanette Ehlers and Valérie Blass open for visits.
Credit: Jeannette Ehlers, Moko Is Future, 2022, video, colour, sound. Photo: Christian Brems, Mads Hoppe
Discussion between curator Ji-Yoon Han and artist siren eun young jung about Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project.
Talk open to everyone: no reservation needed, limited spots available
Credit: Katja Illner