Cultural summer | A summer within museum walls

Museums, art centers and public places offer a fine program of exhibitions this summer in Quebec. Here is a selection that is aimed as much at contemporary art enthusiasts as at parents wishing to awaken their offspring to the educational values ​​of art…

Indigenous Splendors at the MMFA

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts offers, until 1^er october, The universe in the palm of your hands: thoughts and splendours of indigenous Colombia. Some 400 works dating from 1500 BC to the present day that explore our relationship to the universe. In parallel, The Wolf Clan: The Art of Dempsey Bobthe first retrospective of the work of the sculptor from the Canadian northwest coast, with some sixty masks, sculptures and textile works that bear witness to his Tahltan and Tlingit heritage.

Alexander McQueen in Quebec

The great summer project of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, in Quebec City, is Alexander McQueen: art meets fashion, starting June 15. First Canadian exhibition devoted to the British designer who died in 2010. A meeting between art and fashion, with 195 objects from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Clothes, headdresses, shoes and works of art.

Inspirational women in Joliette

Big program at the Musée d’art de Joliette from June 11th. Remove your earplugs offers the work of 22 artists on the work of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016), crossed by a singular conception of listening called “deep listening”. The MAJ also celebrates Anne-Marie Ouellette on the feeling of belonging that we can feel towards groups. Finally, Become with usby Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier, evokes women of diverse origins who approach the plurality of our home.

Lili Reynaud-Dewar at the MAC

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is giving us a beautiful summer gift with visual artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar. The French artist, honored with the 2021 Marcel Duchamp Prize, is exhibiting her aluminum sculptures until September 17. And broadcasts his film around Pier Paolo Pasolini presented at the Center Pompidou, as well as dance videos shot in complete privacy in artistic places. A beautiful poem from a committed artist.

James Duncan and Montreal featured at the McCord Stewart

Two new exhibitions at the McCord Stewart Museum this summer. From June 2, Montreal in the making – Duncan, painter of the 19^e century, a trip down memory lane through the watercolors of James Duncan. With the digital work of the Iregular studio which offers a rereading of Duncan’s works, in the form of computer-generated images resulting from artificial intelligence. And from June 16, the outdoor exhibition Building Montreal on McGill College Avenue. A look at the transformation of the urban landscape of the metropolis, from 1850 to the 1980s.

Riopelle, McEwen and Sullivan in Baie-Saint-Paul

In addition to organizing its 41^e An international symposium, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Riopelle, Jean McEwen and Françoise Sullivan this summer. The film by Jean-Luc Dupuis The Snow Geese by Jean Paul Riopelle will also be screened at Domaine Forget in Charlevoix on June 18.

Collages in Sherbrooke

The Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts presents What would we be?, by Sherbrooke collagist artist Adèle Blais, who highlights women from here and elsewhere. As well as Vibrations on fiber 23a retrospective of Paulette-Marie Sauvé and her contemporary tapestries.

Trois-Rivières, destination for families

The POP museum in Trois-Rivières is presenting three “family” exhibitions this summer. Soul Skinsby François Bertrand, with works created from recycled materials; It’s Babine’s fault!, stained glass windows by glassmaker François Fréchette inspired by the world of Fred Pellerin; And The DNA of superheroesa youth exhibition that stimulates children’s self-esteem.