Expositions Archive

PHILIPPE KATERINE – MR. PINK TAKES FLIGHT – June 20 to October 6, 2024

11 September 2024

MAKE WAY FORPHILIPPE KATERINEFREEMR. PINK TAKES FLIGHTJune 20 to October 6, 2024From the fertile mind of Philippe Katerine comes Mignonisme, an artistic movement that brings to life a universe as unexpected and delicate as the artist behind it. With wide-ranging and highly poetic influences, the movement embraces and promotes an aesthetic of “cuteness” in our physical and psychological environments. Simply put, Mignonisme is a love letter to the beauty of simplicity. A series of inflatable...

PHILIPPE KATERINE – MIGNONISTE EXHIBITION – June 20 to October 6, 2024

11 September 2024

MAKE WAY FORPHILIPPE KATERINE FREE MIGNONISTE EXHIBITIONJune 20 to October 6, 2024 From the fertile mind of Philippe Katerine comes Mignonisme, an artistic movement that brings to life a universe as unexpected and delicate as the artist behind it. With wide-ranging and highly poetic influences, the movement embraces and promotes an aesthetic of “cuteness” in our physical and psychological environments. Exposition Mignoniste at EXMURO’s Aire Publique is the gallery show component of the...

MOBA – MUSEUM OF BAD ART – OCTOBER 18, 2024, TO MARCH 30, 2025

3 September 2024

MAKE WAY FORMOBA FREEMUSEUM OF BAD ART October 18, 2024, to March 30, 2025The Museum Of Bad Art brings together the best of art that is just “too bad to be ignored”. Painted by anonymous amateur artists, these works have been rescued from garbage bins and found in thrift stores. The museum’s curators offer comical interpretations of the paintings, derisively highlighting their endearing badness. Like no other in the world, the MOBA collection invites us to reconsider our assumptions about art...

Alissa Bilodeau – HEATH – OCTOBER 18, 2024, TO MARCH 30, 2025

19 August 2024

MAKE WAY FOR ALISSA BILODEAUFREEHEATH October 18, 2024, to March 30, 2025Inspired by the concept of ecological habitat, Alissa Bilodeau knits biological outgrowths that seem to proliferate like ground cover with features of carnivorous plants, anemones, and mushrooms. HEATH appears to sprout from a dreamlike garden and invade the exhibition space. The tree-like structure layered with animal, plant, and aquatic textures and shapes shimmers in gleefully artificial colours. With this singular...

HUMANORIUM – THE STRANGE FUNFAIR – September 28, 2024, to October 6, 2024

31 July 2024

MAKE WAY FOR HUMANORIUM PAIDTHE STRANGE FUNFAIRSeptember 28, 2024, to October 6, 2024Humanorium is a big outdoor collective event inspired by the funfairs of the 19th and 20th centuries. In a singular, accessible environment, Humanorium entertains and delights visitors by reinventing the sensational world of fairground arts with artists from Quebec, Canada and Europe. Their creations lay lovely traps for the unsuspecting public, taking on the seductive guise of bewitching rides, intriguing...

ALICIA MARTÍN – CUL-DE-SAC – 2024 – September 13, 2024, to October 27, 2024

16 July 2024

MAKE WAY FOR ALICIA MARTÍN FREE CUL-DE-SAC - 2024 September 13, 2024, to October 27, 2024 Alicia Martín is fascinated by the book, an everyday object that she loves for its formal qualities (colours, smells, textures) as well as its symbolic charge and many possible interpretations. The book is universal. It’s a vehicle for transmitting culture, memory and knowledge, as well as a means of expressing human creativity. Her piles of books in public spaces reflect the power of literature to push...

Philippe Ramette – Ode to travel – MAY 28 TO OCTOBER 27 2024

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR Philippe RAMETTE FREEODE TO TRAVEL MAY 28 TO OCTOBER 27 2024 Éloge du pas de côté, Philippe Ramette’s iconic statue created in 2018 for Nantes, features a man standing on his plinth with one foot in the air, paying homage to the city’s audacity. In his Ode to Travel, the artist reinvents his own artwork and frees the statue from its pedestal, sending the figure off in search of greener pastures. After touring the streets of Nantes in 2023, this “runaway sculpture” crosses the...

Jérôme Trudelle – Resurgence – JUNE 20, 2024, TO MARCH 30, 2025

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR Jérôme trudelleFREERESURGENCE June 2024 to March 30 2025Jérôme Trudelle’s suspended installation is made up of thousands of shards of archeological glass and antique windows, artefacts of unknown origin shorn from their original context. The work’s overall configuration evokes domestic architecture, creating a sort of mise en abîme of the Maison Hazeur in which the work is exhibited. The artist’s engravings on the glass surfaces are based on archives recounting the history of...

Jay Soule – Built on genocide – JUNE 20 2024 TO MARCH 30 2025

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR Jay Soule - ChippewarFREEBUILT ON GENOCIDE JUNE 20 2024 TO MARCH 30 2025A disturbing pile of fake bison skulls transforms the vaulted cellars of the Aire Publique into catacombs. Jay Soule’s hard-hitting installation, this dark crypt filled with anonymous bones evokes a sad correlation between the 19th century decimation of the Great Plains bison and the genocide of First Nations in Canada. A powerful artistic statement and decolonial rereading of history, the installation...