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LAB-545 – MINIGOLF BELLEVILLE PLAISIRS – FROM JUNE 21 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 2025

14 May 2025

MAKE WAY FORLAB-545MINIGOLF BELLEVILLE PLAISIRSFROM JUNE 21 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 2025QUEBEC PUBLIC ART COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONEXHIBITIONMINIGOLF BELLEVILLE PLAISIRS Ateliers Belleville (LAB-545) and EXMURO are pleased to present Minigolf Belleville Plaisirs. What happens when artists take over everyone’s favourite kitschy game of skill? To find out, more than 20 Quebec-based artists rose to the challenge of imagining a full 18-hole mini golf course fitted out with whimsical, improbable hazards. Their...

MARTIN BUREAU – FEINDRE L’ÉDEN, POUR UN TEMPS LE CHAOS – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO- JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR MARTIN BUREAU FEINDRE L'ÉDEN, POUR UN TEMPS LE CHAOS FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITION THE EXPOSITION FEINDRE L'ÉDEN, POUR UN TEMPS LE CHAOS A large circular table in the centre of a room recalls board meetings or diplomatic summits. But the charred chairs around it bear the scars of a disaster. A screen on the facing wall shows a sequence shot of the same table, with eight people defiantly staring each other down with pinched smiles and...

PIPILOTTI RIST – OPEN MY GLADE (FLATTEN) – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR PIPILOTTI RISTOPEN MY GLADE (FLATTEN)FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION OPEN MY GLADE (FLATTEN) Open My Glade is a series of one-minute films designed for large-scale projection on building facades and advertising screens. Playing off highly glamourized commercial images, Rist presses her face against the screen in a disturbing performance of beauty, contorting her features and smearing make-up across the surface as she...

PIPILOTTI RIST – EVER IS OVER ALL – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR PIPILOTTI RISTEVER IS OVER ALLFROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION EVER IS OVER ALL Ever Is Over All is a vibrant, pixelated video installation of fantastical rebellion. Two superimposed projections juxtapose close-ups of tropical flowers with a scene of a woman strolling carefree along an urban sidewalk, carrying one long stemmed bloom. She flippantly swings the flower, smashing the windows of parked cars as a smiling...

PIPILOTTI RIST – SIP MY OCEAN – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR PIPILOTTI RISTSIP MY OCEANFROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION SIP MY OCEAN Experience the hypnotic depths of Sip My Ocean. This immersive video installation by Pipilotti Rist transports audiences into a kaleidoscopic, aquatic paradise. The work unfolds saturated, dreamlike images of waves, coral, and household objects slowly sinking into the deep. A woman in a bikini floats and swims, sensually merging with the marine...

ISAAC CORDAL – FOLLOW THE LEADERS – MAY 16, 2025 – JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR ISAAC CORDALFOLLOW THE LEADERSFROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION FOLLOW THE LEADERS Follow the Leaders is a hard-hitting installation by Isaac Cordal that denounces the excesses of capitalism, political inaction and the environmental crisis. Through miniature sculptures of men in suits and ties, frozen in a ruined urban setting, the work illustrates the powerlessness of elites in the face of impending collapse. This striking...

ISAAC CORDAL – CEMENT ECLIPSES – AS OF MAY 16, 2025

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR ISAAC CORDALCEMENT ECLIPSESAS OF MAY 16, 2025QUEBEC PUBLIC ART OUTDOOR ARTWORKTHE EXPOSITION CEMENT ECLIPSES Isaac Cordal transforms urban space with Cement Eclipses, a series of miniature sculptures scattered around the city. These figurines of businessmen, perched on ledges or nestled in facades, embody a subtle, tragi-comic critique of our society. The work questions inequalities, climate change and the human condition, inviting us to become more aware. The unobtrusiveness of...

MOBA – MUSEUM OF BAD ART – Permanent exhibition

26 October 2024

MAKE WAY FORMOBA MUSEUM OF BAD ARTPERMANENT EXHIBITIONQUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITIONMUSEUM OF BAD ART The Museum Of Bad Art brings together the best of art that is just “too bad to be ignored”. The paintings in the MOBA collection, whether purchased in thrift stores or yard sales, rescued from the trash, or donated by their creators, represent sincere attempts to create meaningful art. However, somewhere along the way, something has gone terribly wrong in each of them....