Cultural return | Inclusion on the bill of museums

Even if the year 2023 will be marked by the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Jean Paul Riopelle, the museums of Quebec and Ottawa will also present exhibitions for which a more inclusive look, towards women and social diversity, will be put. forward.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)

The MMFA begins the new year on February 18, with Parall(elles) – another design story, an exhibition on the contribution of women in the field of design, with 250 artefacts from 1850 to the present day. Creators who have been, most of the time, in the shadow of male artists. Then, from March 23, it will celebrate Indian artist Nalini Malani, a feminist painter and videographer, with her installation Can You Hear Me? [M’entends-tu ?]a work featuring 88 graphic animations, and its performative series City of Desires. A video by Nalini Malani will also be projected on the facade of the Michal and Renata Hornstein pavilion, from dusk to 11 p.m., starting February 25.

Joliette Art Museum (MAJ)

The MAJ will start the year with Contexts of existence, designed by Italian curator Irene Campolmi, on view from February 11 to May 14, before being displayed at the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, from June 24 to November 5. An exhibition with important works by Riopelle and other contemporary artists (including the Lebanese Dala Nasser and the Dane of South Korean origin Jane Jin Kaisen) around the theme of mobility in the work of artists. At the same time, the museum will also offer the exhibition The workshop as creation. Stories of artists’ studios in Quebec. And two solos, one by Rawdon researcher-bricoleur Moe Piuze, from February 11 to April 30, and the other by Canadian abstract painter David Sorensen, from January 15 to April 2.

National Gallery of Canada (NGC)

The NGC will begin its new season on February 10 with Love and Morsa look at the approach of Paul P., a 45-year-old Toronto artist who creates paintings, sculptures, engravings and drawings, drawing inspiration in particular from 18th-century neoclassicism^e century. The exhibition will include portraits of young men using the codes of erotic photography prior to the AIDS years. Will follow, on March 3, Uninvited: Canadian Artists of Modernity, a tribute to a generation of women painters, photographers and even sculptors of the past century, who opened up new horizons for women artists in the country. With 200 works of art, notably from native and non-native artists.

McCord Stewart Museum (MMCS)

The MMCS will start the year with the fruits of the artistic residency of Karen Tam, swallow the mountains, presented from February 17 to August 13. The artist continues, from the museum’s collections, his reflection on the stories constructed in Quebec around the Chinese diaspora. Then, from March 31 to September 10, the museum will offer Hochelaga – Changing Montreala photographic and poetic portrait of Joannie Lafrenière, a long-time resident of Hochelaga.

Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts (MBAS)

There are two new exhibitions on the program, from February 2 to April 23, at the MBAS. First, Riopelle year obliges, Jean Paul Riopelle/Bonnie Baxter. Tame the Beasta deployment on the collaboration of the master with Bonnie Baxter, his regular engraver from 1985 to 1994. In parallel, In the studio of Frederick Simpson Coburn will explore the periods of the career of the painter from the Eastern Townships who died in 1960.

National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (MNBAQ)

The MNBAQ continues, until April 23, with Intimate theaters his overview of Montreal artist Evergon. Its 2023 lineup will actually begin on April 20 with We, “a reflection on oneself, on the other, on us”. A mirror reflecting our society. With Marie-Claude Pratte, John Heward, Raphaëlle de Groot, Françoise Sullivan, Manuel Mathieu, Manasee Maniapik, Regilee Piungituq, Eddy Firmin, Alfred Pellan and Théophile Hamel. Note that in June, the museum will present the first exhibition in Canada devoted to British designer Alexander McQueen, an initiative of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC)

No new MAC exhibition in its temporary premises at Place Ville Marie. The two new works by Nelson Henricks and the Screen Tests by Andy Warhol occupy the premises until April 10. A visit with the artist and curator Mark Lanctôt will take place on January 18, at 5:30 p.m.