Hôtel Château Laurier © Michelle Drapeau Jack Bishop: A Traditional Stoppping Place Jack Bishop’s paintings combine sets of views from his experience of the road. They depict highways interspersed with billboards, gas stations, fast foods and strip malls. In a schematic and colourful rendering, the artist reproduces the recognizable logos major chains omnipresent […]
Program
Amélie Laurence Fortin
Méduse rooftop Perched on a rooftop, the Planète 9 flag waves against the urban landscape and bears the emblematic colours of the hypothetical ninth planet of our solar system (as imagined by Amélie Laurence Fortin). Amélie Laurence Fortin, Planète 9, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Amélie Laurence Fortin (Quebec City, Quebec) Amélie Laurence Fortin […]
Manasie Akpaliapik
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Carved out of whale bone, the works of Manasie Akpaliapik use the organic forms of the material to reveal complex representations of the interrelations of the living. Manasie Akpaliapik, L’Homme et le hibou, vers 2000 Manasie Akpaliapik (Arctic Bay, Nunavut) Born in 1955 […]
Shuvinai Ashoona
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Dense, meticulous, and radiantly chromatic, Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawing compositions create a singular iconographic universe combining everyday life with myth. Shuvinai Ashoona, Imaginary Creatures, 2016 Shuvinai Ashoona (Kinngait, Nunavut) Shuvinai Ashoona was born in 1961. She began to draw in 1993 and joined Kinngait’s […]
Christiane Baumgartner
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Resulting from a long process of wood engraving, Christriane Baumgartner’s monumental prints The Wave and Phoenix confront the elemental forces of nature. Christiane Baumgartner, The Wave, 2017 © Idra Labrie Christiane Baumgartner (Germany) Christiane Baumgartner, a native of Leipzig, Germany, was born in 1967. […]
Patrick Bernatchez
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Aphélie 1 by Patrick Bernatchez is a post-experimental installation. It refers to the daily recordings of a natural phenomenon: the luminous variations of the Sun. Patrick Bernatchez, Aphélie 1, 2016 © Idra Labrie Patrick Bernatchez (Montreal, Québec) Self-taught artist Patrick Bernatchez was born in […]
Vija Celmins
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Whether they depict starry skies or spider webs, Vija Celmins’s hyperrealist drawings are attempts to grasp the universe’s immensity, one detail at a time. Vija Celmins, Untitled (Large Night Sky), 2016 Vija Celmins (Riga, Latvia) Born in 1938 in Riga, Lithuania, Vija Celmins completed […]
Daniel Corbeil
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Inspired by environmental sciences and utopian architecture, Daniel Corbeil’s Cité laboratoire is an inventive model of urban solutions in preparation for impending climate change. Daniel Corbeil, La Cité laboratoire, 2012-2018 © Idra Labrie Daniel Corbeil (Val-d’Or, Quebec) Daniel Corbeil, born in Val-d’Or in 1960, holds […]
Michael Flomen
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Michael Flomen lets the creative forces of nature act on photosensitive paper during night performances under the moonlight. Michael Flomen, Double Trouble, 2001, printed 2014 © Idra Labrie Michael Flomen (Montreal, Quebec) Born in 1952, Michael Flomen, a self-taught Montreal artist, has been practicing […]
Caroline Gagné
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Visual, sonic, and tactile, Caroline Gagné’s installation The sound of icebergs translates and shares the sublime experience of approaching a drifting iceberg. Caroline Gagné, The sound of icebergs, 2016 © Idra Labrie Caroline Gagné (Quebec City, Quebec) Caroline Gagné is an artist from Quebec […]
Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde The gloomy worlds of this artistic duo create phantasmagorical ecosystems on the verge of reality. The Who’s Haunts immerses the viewer in a house engulfed by the entropic forces of nature. Jim Shane Holyoak et Matt Shane, The Who’s Haunts, 2018 © Idra Labrie Jim Holyoak and […]
Krištof Kintera
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Krištof Kintera’s sculptural accumulations come across as absurd and disturbing testimonies of excess in the era of hyperconsumption and planned obsolescence. Krištof Kintera, Systemus Postnaturalis, 2016-2017 © Idra Labrie Krištof Kintera (Prague, Czech Republic) Krištof Kintera, born in 1973, completed his studies at the […]
Dinh Q. Lê
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde The Colony is a video installation transporting the viewer to the Chincha Islands on the Peruvian coast, an emblematic place of international geopolitical tensions generated by the exploitation of rare natural resources. Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony © Idra Labrie Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam, […]
Britta Marakatt-Labba
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Dense, meticulous, and radiantly chromatic, Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawing compositions create a singular iconographic universe combining everyday life with myth. © Idra Labrie Britta Marakatt-Labba (Sami, Sweden) Britta Marakatt-Labba was born in 1951 in Idivuoma in northern Sweden to a family of reindeer herders. […]
Meryl McMaster
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Meryl McMaster performs in front of the camera to celebrate the land and its historical anchor points by portraying allegorical characters freely inspired by the Indigenous imagination. Oeuvres de Meryl McMaster © Idra Labrie Meryl McMaster (Siksika, Ontario) Meryl McMaster, born in 1988, has a […]
Fanny Mesnard
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Fanny Mesnard’s visual universe is peopled with hybrid characters evoking the animistic beliefs and fabrications that inhabit and condition human relationships with nature. Oeuvres de Fanny Mesnard © Idra Labrie Fanny Mesnard (Quebec City, Quebec) Fanny Mesnard graduated from Université Paris VIII in 2002, Aix-Marseille University […]
Haroon Mirza
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Haroon Mirza’s technological installations utilize natural energy sources such as electricity and light to reflect on the complexities of today’s world through multisensorial symphonies. Haroon Mirza, Solar Symphony 10 (Transverse Waves for Wayne), 2016 © Idra Labrie Haroon Mirza (London, England) Born in 1977, Haroon […]
Cornelia Parker
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Cornelia Parker explores the poetic resonances of matter disintegration. Composed of scrapwood, the sculptural installation No Man’s Land is dynamized by its suspension in space. Cornelia Parker, No Man’s Land, 2018 © Idra Labrie Cornelia Parker (Cheshire, England) Born in 1956 in Cheshire, England, […]
Reno Salvail
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Fascinated by cartography and astronomy, Reno Salvail fashions his relationship to the visible world by amalgamating the natural landscape with his inner worlds, whether psychic or corporal. Dive into the depths of the starry sky reflected on a river in Le souffle de Pégase. […]
Tomás Saraceno
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Tomás Saraceno’s sculptural installations put viewers into perspective, plunging them into a vertiginous vision of the cosmic universe. © Idra Labrie Tomás Saraceno (Tucumán, Argentina) Born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973, Tomás Saraceno lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the University […]
Polly Apfelbaum
Materia Inspired by the colourful patterns of 17th century Dutch whalers’ hats, Polly Apfelbaum made custom wool hats for each artist of the Biennial in her Mutts and Mugs: Chicken Little was Right! The Sky Is Falling installation. Polly Apfelbaum, Mugs and Mutts: Chicken Little Was Right!, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Polly Apfelbaum […]
Oliver Beer
Galerie des arts visuels Reanimation (Baloo Stripped Bare), a video produced in collaboration with 2500 children, is presented as a cacophonous installation at the Galerie des arts visuels. Oliver Beer, Reanimation (Baloo Stripped Bare), 2017-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Oliver Beer (London, England) Oliver Beer, born in 1985, lives and works in London and […]
Amélie Laurence Fortin
LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE La Chambre Blanche presents Amélie Laurence Fortin in an open residence as she develops her 10x series from recordings of acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena in the Arctic. Amélie Laurence Fortin, 10x, 2017-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Amélie Laurence Fortin (Quebec City, Quebec) Amélie Laurence Fortin completed a bachelor’s degree in […]
Christiane Baumgartner
Engramme Developed in various artistic mediums, Christiane Baumgartner’s series draw from her explorations of the local water sources and treatment systems done over a Manif d’art residency in collaboration with Engramme. Christiane Baumgartner, Stairway to Heaven, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Christiane Baumgartner (Leipzig, Germany) Christiane Baumgartner, a native of Leipzig, Germany, was born […]
Felipe Castelblanco
La Bande Vidéo During a Manif d’art residency in collaboration with La Bande Vidéo, Felipe Castelblanco added Quebec City to the transnational destinations of his Driftless journey aboard a precarious raft. Felipe Castelblanco, Driftless, 2012-2018 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Felipe Castelblanco (Bogotá, Colombia) Felipe Castelblanco, an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia in […]
Hannah Claus
Musée huron-wendat Hannah Claus invests the Yadia’wish (Turtle) gallery with three video works highlighting the interconnections between the Earth and its plants; water and its reflections; the Sky and its stars. Oeuvres d’Hannah Claus © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Hannah Claus (Montréal, Québec) Hannah Claus is a visual artist of English / Irish and Kanien’kehá:ka […]
Lutz & Guggisberg
L’Œil de Poisson The Lutz & Guggisberg duo is taking over L’Œil de Poisson’s gallery with thousands of clay figurines accumulated into a chaotic and disproportionate microcosm. Lutz & Guggisberg, Animals and Furniture, 2017-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Lutz & Guggisberg (Switzerland) Switzerland’s Andres Lutz, a cabaret artist born in 1968 in Wettingen, and […]
Nadia Myre
Le Lieu Nadia Myre juxtaposes her personal experience with that of others to inspire introspection, revisit colonial history, and foster intercultural dialogue. Nadia Myre, Living with Contradiction, 2016 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Nadia Myre (Montreal, Quebec) Born in 1974, Montreal artist Nadia Myre received a bachelor’s degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art […]
Rika Noguchi
VU (American space) During a Manif d’art residency in collaboration with VU, Rika Noguchi turned her unusual photographic vision on arborists at work, those agile climbers caring for trees way up high. Rika Noguchi, Men and Trees, 2018-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Rika Noguchi (Japan) Rika Noguchi was born in Saitama, Japan, in 1971. […]
Anne-Marie Proulx
Maison de la littérature Anne-Marie Proulx draws on the knowledge and symbolic heritage of the Innu communities to restore human relationships with the land through intercultural dialogue. Anne-Marie Proulx, Terres éloquentes, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Anne-Marie Proulx (Quebec City, Quebec) Anne-Marie Proulx has a bachelor’s in visual arts and a master’s in art history, […]
George Shaw and Thomas Bewick
Villa Bagatelle George Shaw’s paintings depict suburban woodlands—secret havens from his youth—to address the ever-present themes of death and eroticism. George Shaw, Plein Air, 2018 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet George Shaw (England) Born in 1966 in Coventry, England, George Shaw obtained a master’s in painting in 1998 from the Royal College of Art in […]
Shimabuku
Regart Shimabuku’s video Swan goes to the sea recounts the whimsical journey of swan pedal boats returning to the sea, accompanied by a moving original soundtrack. Shimabuku, Swan goes to the Sea, 2012-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shimabuku (Japan) Shimabuku, born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan, holds a degree from the Osaka College […]
Shayne Dark
Parc de l’Esplanade composante lieu historique national des Fortifications-de-Québec Shayne Dark’s Free Form in Blue is made from driftwood found in nature and assembled into a dynamic sculptural composition. Shayne Dark, Free Form in Blue, 2012, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shayne Dark (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) Born in 1952 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, […]
A K Dolven
Édifice Marie-Guyart The interactive sound installation her voice 1599-1672 gives back its voice to a religious artefact, a bronze bell that will resonate in the streets of Quebec. A K Dolven, her voice 1599-1672, 2018 © Renaud Philippe A K Dolven (Norway) Born in 1953 and a native of Oslo, A K Dolven studied […]
Kelly Mark
Manif d’art Window / Gallery In her Hello & Goodbye video, Kelly Mark adresses the symbolic universality of body language and expression which unites humanity beyond cultural and geographical backgrounds. Kelly Mark, Hello & Goodbye, 2018 © Renaud Philippe Kelly Mark (Welland, Ontario) Born in Welland, Nova Scotia, in 1967, Kelly Mark, holds […]
Meryl McMaster
Place D’Youville Printed on outdoor structures, Meryl McMaster’s photographic universes merge her personal mythologies and indigenous heritage. Oeuvres de Meryl McMaster © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Meryl McMaster (Siksika, Ontario) Meryl McMaster, born in 1988, has a bachelor’s degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design (2010). Her work has been exhibited at the Musée […]
Marianne Nicolson
Monastère des Augustines Marianne Nicolson takes over a building’s glass facade by designing sinuous and dynamic compositions. Drawn from the ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw culture and pictograms, they evoke Indigenous cosmogony. © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Marianne Nicolson (Dzawada̱’enux̱w, British Columbia) Of Scottish and Dzawada’enuxw descent (British Columbia’s Kwakwaka’wakw community), Marianne Nicolson was born in 1969. […]
Susan Philipsz
Parc de l’Artillerie composante du lieu historique national des Fortifications-de-Québec Show in partnership with Avatar Lowlands is a sound work that resonates inits outdoor location. The artist interprets a Scottish sea shanty that recounts the tragic farewells caused by a drowning or departure. Susan Philipsz, Lowlands (oeuvre sonore), 2010 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Susan Philipsz […]
Anne-Marie Proulx
Maison de la littérature Printed in large format on a light box, Anne-Marie Proulx’s poetic photograph taken on the Nitanissan on the Lower North Shore bears witness to a deep and sensitive attachment to the land. Anne-Marie Proulx, Terres éloquentes, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Anne-Marie Proulx (Quebec City, Quebec) Anne-Marie Proulx has a bachelor’s in visual […]
Shimabuku
Terminus de la traverse (Lévis) Emblematic of Shimabuku’s playful interventions, a curious flock of swan-like pedal boats comes out of Regart in the hopes of continuing its journey to the river. Shimabuku, Swan goes to the sea, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shimabuku (Japan) Shimabuku, born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan, holds a degree […]
Beat Streuli
Édifice Marie-Guyart Beat Streuli acts as a chameleon by photographing anonymous pedestrians, unbeknownst to them, in their daily comings and goings amongst the perpetual buzzing of the urban jungle. Beat Streuli, Stories of the Street (Taipei Novembre 2018), 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Beat Streuli (Switzerland, Belgium) Born in 1957 in Altdorf, Switzerland, Beat […]
Audrey Careau
Galerie 3 © Audrey Careau Thierry Arcand-Bossé Thierry Arcand-Bossé approaches nature through new technologies. Inspired by webcam views collected around the world, the artist’s paintings challenge our experience of the natural world in the age of the internet and reveal the technical and technological paradoxes of a pictorial tradition rooted in the 21st […]
Catherine Blanchet
Simons store – Vieux-Québec Simons store – Place Ste-Foy © Catherine Blanchet At first glance The works presented at the Simons store in Old Quebec and Sainte-Foy fit with the Manif d’art 9 theme through the idea of the phenomenon. Translating the sensitive qualities of both the distant and everyday elements that make […]
Isabel Trépanier
Espace ) ( Parenthèses © Jean-Christophe Blanchet Human Territory The human phenomenon and all that surrounds it is inherently natural. Reflecting on our role within the natural order of things, this exhibition questions the power of the land versus the power of humanity. How does the human presence affect the land and, conversely, […]
Sophie Jacques
Galerie Michel Guimont © Sophie Jacques L’esprit des lieux There is more to the concept of land than its actual physical presence. It is a symbolic place for humans, a place of rooting; it is the very way we construct our identity. The exhibition presents a diversity of works that reflect on the […]
Jason Béliveau
MNBAQ’s Salle Multi © Jason Béliveau Certain Women American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt considers physical space as a decisive factor in the psychology of the characters she films. Before the projection of Certain Women, the curator will present Reichardt’s work in comparison to that of photographers and visual artists such as Stephen Shore and […]
Anne-Sophie Blanchet
Maison Tessier-dit-Laplante © Anne-Sophie Blanchet Fragmented Landscapes The landscape represents fragmented, interpreted, sublimated nature… It exists only in the eye of the beholder. Through the eyes of five artists from Quebec City and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, we are invited to apprehend the environment—and the society in which we live—in a new light Marie-Fauve Bélanger […]
Frédérique Renaud
Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul © Frédérique Renaud Under the Magnifying Glass Inspired by the landscape tradition of Charlevoix, this exhibition offers a contemplative look at nature from a reversed perspective: from the infinitely large to the infinitely small. The chosen artists approach the landscape in its minute detail rather than in its […]
Jeanne Couture
Ni Vu Ni Cornu © Jeanne Couture At dawn This exhibition of women artists is an invitation to a contemplative and dreamlike stroll. Crafts and the visual arts converge in these works of a delicate, poetic, and reenchanted nature. Both lyrical and romantic in nature, the curatorial proposition longs for the longing for […]
Anne D’Amours McDonald and Julien St-Georges Tremblay
Quebec City libraries Anne D’Amours McDonald © Ariane Plante et Julien St-Georges Tremblay Witnesses Through artificial intermediaries, untouched nature is often idealized. The artists presented explore beyond interfaces to try and grasp this notion both intangible and familiar. Reformulated by individual experience, the model environment becomes a personal aesthetic. In this exhibition, perspectives converge […]
Sèvia Pellissier and Florence Gariépy
Les Ateliers du Réacteur Sèvia Pellissier et Florence Gariépy [EXO]MARS – Mars de la Maîtrise closing exhibition [EXO]MARS offers a foray into the creative world of students in the Visual Arts Master’s program. Presented outside of their workshops, the project allows one to explore their practices in their relationship with the group environment, […]
La P’tite Manif
As part of its cultural program, Manif d’art 9 — The Quebec City Biennial has designed special events for children. La P’tite Manif offers children and their families a range of activities in various parts of the city. Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy 350 Saint-Joseph Est st. Quebec City bibliothequedequebec.qc.ca Children’s Exhibition From February 15 to March 25, Manif […]