THE HOLES

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On the Razor’s Edge evokes precarious balance and precision. Inspired by a golf green folded into a triangular prism, in this minimalist hole players can shoot only along the thin band of the edge. The artist has subtly opened the path: a groove guides the ball along this “tightrope,” transforming a critical situation into a controlled course. The carefully crafted layout makes the roll fluid, almost inevitable—a metaphor for carefully contained risk, where every well-paced shot leads straight to a birdie.

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Originally from Wendake, Ludovic Boney primarily works in public art, creating abstract sculptures with dynamic forms and vivid colors. He also produces playful interactive installations for galleries and artist-run centres.

A graduate of the Maison des métiers d’art de Québec in 2002, he co-founded the Bloc 5 art production studio alongside four other artists. He has completed over forty public artworks throughout Quebec, including commissions for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, HEC Montréal, the Musée de la civilisation, Québec City Hall, and the Cogeco Amphitheatre in Trois-Rivières.

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Potato Field obeys no rhyme or reason: its surreal surface is obstructed by dozens of flexible French fries standing upright like blades of grass. Players assemble their dream hot dog by aiming for the ingredients of their choice, one of the five holes in the colours of classic condiments: ketchup, mustard, relish, mayonnaise, and onions. Penelope and Chloë have created a hilarious hole that will leave golfers with a hankering for a frankfurter!

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Since 2014, Pénélope and Chloë—a Montréal-based artist duo—have been activating public space through playful games and textile installations. Their work explores the gentle naivety of forms and the child-adult figure to reveal meeting points and shared references, arranged into perfectly interlocking systems.

Both hold degrees in Visual Arts from UQAM. Their work has been exhibited in artist-run centres (Fonderie Darling, L’Écart, Axenéo7) and museums (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent). They have also designed theatre scenographies (Centaur, La Chapelle).

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Abysses plunges us into a universe at the crossroads of utopian architecture and minimalist sculpture. Inspired by the cubic architecture and modular structures of the 1970s, this hole invites contemplative spatial exploration. Sabrina Ratté shakes up the codes of minigolf by blurring the ball’s trajectory: at several points, it goes out of bounds, miraculously disappearing and reappearing through mysterious portals.

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Originally from Québec City and now based in Montréal, Sabrina Ratté creates technological ecosystems combining interactive installations, video, digital prints, and sculpture. Inspired by mythology and philosophy, her work explores the convergence of technology and biology, materiality and virtuality, through a speculative lens on the evolution of our environment.

Her work has been shown in major institutions worldwide (Brühl, Montréal, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo), with solo exhibitions at Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), Fotografiska (Shanghai), and Arsenal Contemporary Art (Montréal and New York).

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Playing Dream Feast we become giants towering over an eerie miniature world. A dark house engulfed in flames reveals a clownish figure fast asleep inside. His snores mingle with the rustle of the fire as the dwelling is encircled by a colony of fire ants. In this dreamlike installation, a comment on the scarcity and unaffordability of housing, players must shoot straight at the heart of the crisis to pass through the burning house.

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Originally from Boston and based in Montréal, Mara Eagle intuitively draws on pop culture, the internet, and technology to examine the philosophical and scientific foundations of Western society.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University and was awarded the Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. She was also a finalist for the Pierre-Ayot Prize. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Phi Foundation, and in artist-run centres across Canada. She is represented by Galerie Pangée.

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Crossings dramatizes migratory journeys strewn with challenges, hopes and, at times, disappointment. Players navigate a series of metaphorical obstacles that inspire feelings of doubt and uncertainty, while awakening a form of resilience. This hole’s many features reflect the multiplicity of possible crossings, each replete with dreams and perils. It takes us on a journey towards the apparent promise of a better life, a quest never without its share of hardships.

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Based in Montréal, the artist duo Niti Marcelle Mueth and Wolfe Girardin Jodoin explores the dynamics of memory, identity, and resilience. Their work examines interpersonal, sociopolitical, ecological, and technological (dis)connections, using a visual language that blends digital iconography, tactile materials, and narratives often rooted in often marginalized perspectives.

Wolfe Girardin Jodoin holds a degree in Fine Arts, while Niti Marcelle Mueth studied graphic design and art therapy. Their work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Montréal (Festival Chromatic, Bradley Ertaskiran, Livart, Place des Arts), as well as in accessible cultural mediation and arts education initiatives.

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ASA + GABRIEL is a Montreal-based artist team that formed after a low-speed, high-impact collision in the parking garage beneath Concordia University. Since then, they’ve worked like a two-man pit crew—sharing tools, swapping roles, and always choosing motion over certainty.

Asa Perlman, originally from Toronto, is an artist and designer with a background in performance and nearly a decade in the trades. Grounded in physical making, his work reveals the friction and potential of materials through systems that are quietly precise and deceptively simple. He’s the one who keeps the machine running—even when the wheels come off.

Gabriel Scott-Séguin was born and remains tangled up in Montreal. He works with saturated colour and playful devices to drag digital absurdity into the physical world. Influenced by flora, the built environment, and familial craft, his approach is instinctive, obsessive, and intricate—he’s the one painting racing stripes on the fire extinguisher.

Operating out of a too-small garage, they test the limits of speed, balance, and collaboration under pressure. Their work includes kinetic installations, bizarre spaces, and finely tuned failures—each one a joyful race against reason.

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Dans la Ville vivante In The Living City, the soft ground shifts unpredictably beneath our feet, creating a perilous playing surface. The installation presents the city as an organic entity in perpetual motion. In the urban environment, as in this mini golf course, all stability is ephemeral, requiring constant adaptation to its changing nature.

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Ahreum Lee is a media artist and interdisciplinary musician originally from Seoul, South Korea, now based in Montréal. Her work critically examines the sociopolitical dimensions embedded in everyday technologies—such as Google Maps, predictive text, and voice-activated AI assistants—highlighting their systemic biases and social implications.

A finalist for the Emerging Digital Artist Award, she has exhibited and performed in Montréal (Fonderie Darling, Ada X, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Arsenal Contemporary Art), as well as in Saint John (Third Shift Festival) and Chicago (Axis Lab). She has completed residencies at the Banff Centre, Eastern Bloc, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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In a world torn asunder by the Apocalypse and submerged in the nightmarish dystopia of the Anthropocene, nature struggles to reclaim its rightful place among garbage and detritus.

In the distance, we hear the ominous murmur of the approaching End Times: Judgment Day and irrevocable destruction. Empires have crumbled to dust, the remains of their former grandeur reduced to silent, decaying ruins.

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Jacinthe Loranger and Marie-Claude Lepiez, two flamboyant artists from Montréal, join forces for the first time. Merging their creative worlds, they craft “Islands of decadence”—a joyful theatre of illusions where time bends, and balls are struck in playful attempts to unravel the mysteries of tomorrow.

Both hold Master’s degrees in Visual Arts from Concordia University. Their work has been presented throughout Québec’s network of artist-run centres, including L’Œil de Poisson, Caravansérail, L’Écart, Galerie B-312, Arprim, Engramme, and centre Bang.

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With a nod to scrap yards and abandoned shops, this temporary car shelter at the intersection of kitsch and decay has much to say about the rise and fall of consumerism. Flags and flashy objects straddle the line between classy and trashy. The installation glorifies the outrageous and the obsolete, inviting players to reflect on the paradoxes of cultural value, social norms, and the economic failures of neoliberalism.

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Jean Couteau is a Montréal-based collective embodied by a fictional persona whose name playfully combines Jean Coutu, Jean Cocteau, and Jacques Cousteau. Their work blends performance, music, installation, and social practice, using discomfort and dread as creative entry points.

Founded by artists Philippe Battikha and Matthew Gagnon Blair, the collective has presented work at the Antoine-Sirois Gallery (Sherbrooke), the Little Gallery of San Bernardino (California), Fonderie Darling (Montréal), and the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, along with stealthy interventions in public space.

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Territories are fragmented and islands of decay and decadence emerge from the ruins of a once flourishing civilization. The inexorable slide towards the abyss is marked by invasive plants choking off the last remaining vestiges of biodiversity. Once-domesticated feral animals prowl the ravaged landscapes, their nocturnal howls a reminder of the destruction that transformed all we built into a wild, denatured world.

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Jacinthe Loranger and Marie-Claude Lepiez, two flamboyant artists from Montréal, join forces for the first time. Merging their creative worlds, they craft “Islands of decadence”—a joyful theatre of illusions where time bends, and balls are struck in playful attempts to unravel the mysteries of tomorrow.

Both hold Master’s degrees in Visual Arts from Concordia University. Their work has been presented throughout Québec’s network of artist-run centres, including L’Œil de Poisson, Caravansérail, L’Écart, Galerie B-312, Arprim, Engramme, and centre Bang.

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“Borders are hemorrhoids around outbreaks of nationalism.” – This hole is inspired by this memorable lyric from Péloquin/Sauvageau’s 1972 experimental rock album Émiliano. For exiles, each border to be crossed puts their lives at risk; every step carries the hope of a better life. Will they be welcomed or rebuffed? This hole’s playful labyrinthine route recalls these trials and tribulations. The final stages may seem clear—but expect one last twist at the end of the road.

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Jean-Pierre Gauthier creates hybrid works that blend visual art, sound, and kinetic elements. His installations, composed of electronic mechanisms, question our relationship with machines by subverting the expected predictability of the systems he builds—embracing chance and mishaps. Freed from any utilitarian purpose, his automatons humorously evoke both animal and anthropomorphic organisms.

Winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award, he has also received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award and the Louis-Comtois Prize. His work has been exhibited in museums across Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

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Tubularpropulsion is a playful allegory of the recklessness of our age and the growing pressure of individual choice. This installation transposes the pinball machine concept into a contemporary context: a mound, a landfill site, a tipping point. Once set in motion, the ball descends between obstacles and sedimentary layers. The player must rise to the occasion to prevent the fall, and consider their relationship with the environment, identity, and the perpetual cycle of life.

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Born in Haiti and raised in Drummondville, Montréal-based artist Mathieu Lacroix places cardboard boxes at the heart of his practice, set against a backdrop of consumer society critique. His ephemeral interventions challenge the complex and often twisted connections between the individual, their environment, and identity.

He has taken part in major events including Af-flux: Transnational Black Biennale (Montréal), the Off Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar (Senegal), and 7a*11d – International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto). His work has been shown in Montréal (Centre Clark, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, CIRCA, Dazibao) as well as at the Musée des beaux-arts du Mont-Saint-Hilaire.

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Night and Wood… is a sonic journey through a dark forest populated by mysterious beasts. Inspired by fairy tales and a retro video game aesthetic, it blends naivety, mystery, and a gloomy dreaminess. As the ball travels along its course, it triggers strange sounds and lights. An animal presence keeps watch. But from the depths beneath the trees, a whispered warning tells us that even the most magical stories come with no guarantee of happy endings.

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Based in the Eastern Townships (Estrie), Ariane Plante is an artist and curator in visual and media arts with a background in anthropology. Her work includes sound herbariums—sensitive archives of natural ecosystems affected by human activity—transformed into digital, visual, and sonic installations. Her work has been presented in Québec, across Canada, in France, on digital platforms, and in online publications. She has exhibited with artist-run centres (CLARK, L’Œil de Poisson, VU, Avatar) and taken part in collective events such as FIMAV, Triennale Banlieue!, and MANIF D’ART.

Based in Montréal, Alexandre Burton is a digital arts process architect and creator of performative and installative machines. His work includes electromagnetic, generative, choreographic, immersive, and site-specific installations that integrate light, sound, space, and technology. His creations have gained international recognition across North and South America, Europe, and Asia, with presentations at events such as Elektronika (Brazil), New Theatre Festival (USA), Lille3000 (France), Mutek (Mexico), Transmediale (Germany), and the Bienal de Video y Artes Electrónicas (Chile).

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At Hole 14, your ball becomes an atom launched into a fanciful particle accelerator—a spiritual journey. Propelled and absorbed by a gravitational well, it passes through a long, dark tube where a mysterious transfiguration takes place. The ball then reappears in an altered state. Texture, mass, and colour are not what they once were. Take it in hand, contemplate the metamorphosis… then continue along your journey, guided by this ball that has become something new.

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Born in Prince Edward Island and Marseille respectively, Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux are a Montréal-based duo whose work brings together dance and visual art. Their practice explores the energetic exchanges between body, space, and matter, giving rise to unique forms of temporality, embodiment, and sensory perception.

Their work has been exhibited in artist-run centres (Axenéo7, L’Écart), museums (Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides), and festivals (OFFTA, FURIES, Take Me Somewhere) in Canada, Europe, and the UK. The Musée d’art de Joliette recently presented their first solo institutional exhibition.

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As they flee conflict and catastrophes, many people must cross borders defined by violence with no clear sense of what awaits on the other side. Here, below an enigmatic cloud, players face indecision before the many possible passages. Some are blocked by obstacles and prolonged by detours; others lead to promised lands.

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Based in Montréal, Ingrid Bachmann creates kinetic installations that blend traditional techniques with new media. She uses off-screen technology to bridge the physical and digital worlds, emphasizing sensory, tactile, and sonic dimensions. Her approach reveals a tender—sometimes even pathetic—side of technology, detached from its utilitarian functions. Her multidisciplinary work has been exhibited in Canada, Cuba, Peru, Brazil, Belgium, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Bachmann is a founding member of the Hexagram Institute for Research-Creation in Media Arts and a professor at Concordia University.

Now based in Montréal, Shelley Ouellet spent many years working in Calgary. Her work examines how landscape imagery has been strategically used in constructing a contemporary, industrialized Canadian identity. Her textile-based practice—blending traditional techniques with digital approaches—takes shape in sculptural installations. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University and has been active in the visual arts for over 30 years. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and in the UK. She recently took part in the group exhibition Contemporary Weaving presented by the Alberta Craft Council.

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Pavitra Wickramasinghe’s abstract sculptural forms evoke the joy and serenity of kite-flying. The artist’s reference to this traditional Sri Lankan pastime invites golfers to take a contemplative break that conjures up the joys of the outdoors, movement, and play. In a world that prioritizes productivity over well-being, rest remains a necessary act of resistance and self-care.

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Originally from Sri Lanka and now based in Montréal, Pavitra Wickramasinghe explores conventions of perception and new ways of imagining the moving image. Her work evokes notions of travel, fluidity of place, and memory. She uses light and shadow as extensions of projected images to create immersive and poetic installations.

Her work has been exhibited in Québec, France, Germany, Finland, and beyond. She has participated in artist residencies in the United States, Spain, and South Korea. One of her pieces is currently part of a permanent exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Born of a collaboration between Ateliers Belleville and students from the Saint-Simon-Apôtre school in their Montreal neighbourhood, this project grew out of two workshops. First, forty students explored the possibilities of mini golf and created over 70 course designs. Nina Bouchard and Nick Everett selected elements from these drawings to design the hole. The resulting project is a tangible representation of the creativity of child artists, fashioned from design elements directly inspired by their creations.

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Based in Montréal, Nina Bouchard places water at the heart of her artistic practice. She creates abstract and hypnotic visual compositions using video and photographic imagery. Her time spent sailing tall ships in Eastern Canada has shaped a deep sensitivity to the connection between body, mind, and marine environments. She holds degrees in Computation Arts from Concordia University and in Event Design from UQAM. Her background includes experience in film (production, editing, directing, photography) and installation art. Her work has been featured at festivals such as Luminothérapie and Émergence in Montréal.

Nick Everett is an artist, composer, and builder based in Montréal. He works with salvaged materials, machines, and simple forms. His practice encompasses sculpture, sound, digital fabrication, and the creation of collective infrastructures. He now focuses on designing tools, systems, and environments that support artistic production. Trained in Intermedia at Concordia University, he currently works as a professional artist assistant and technical manager at Ateliers Belleville. Prior to that, he spent a decade touring as a musician. His work was recently exhibited at the FOFA Gallery.

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This hole reflects the often-absurd humour of the mischievous artistic duo Cooke-Sasseville. A run of shaggy artificial turf is full of corpse-like feet protruding from the ground and blocking players’ progress. Compounding the macabre atmosphere are the collection of funerary motifs lining the edges. No doubt about it: this is the end of the line.

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Jean-François Cooke and Pierre Sasseville live and work in Québec City. Their deliberately paradoxical artworks place viewers in ambivalent situations—where comfort meets unease, where social critique takes the form of entertainment, and where apparent lightness conceals a disarming clarity.

The duo has presented over twenty solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Canada and abroad. They are also renowned for their monumental public artworks, now numbering over forty across the country.