Museums and Galleries | It’s time to see exhibitions!

If the American museum world is hit hard by the pandemic – many museums have had to close because of employees infected with COVID-19 – this is not the case in Quebec, where museums and galleries have reopened at the start. year, with entry conditions appropriate to the health situation. Overview.

Eric Clement
Press

At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, you can see until February 13 How long does it take for one voice to reach the other?, a selection of works from the museum related to the pandemic situation. Until January 30, a hundred photographs of famous personalities taken by the Canadian of Armenian origin Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002). And until April 3, the exhibition Ecologies – Ode to our planet.

“We reduced the number of visitors to 1000 per day,” said Patricia Lachance, media relations officer at the MMFA, who took government directives into account. “You have to book your ticket online, and opening hours are reduced. We are open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ”

The teams of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal (MACM) were not spared by the pandemic, indicates Anne Dongois, spokesperson for the museum. “But we were able to keep our hours of operation,” she says. The museum presents in its temporary spaces of Place Ville Marie Contagion of terror, an exhibition by the British group Forensic Architecture on the current ravages of Israeli software Pegasus.

The McCord Museum has reopened its rooms. The exhibition Chapleau-profession: cartoonist ends Sunday. “We have no staffing issues due to COVID,” says Suzanne Sauvage, museum president and CEO. We pay close attention to health measures for both our employees and our visitors. ”

The Pointe-à-Callière Museum welcomes visitors from Tuesday to Sunday, according to the normal schedule. Online ticket purchase is required. The vaccination passport is also required for those over 13 years old. The exhibition Italian-style Montreal ends January 16. And Make way for the circus! runs until March 6.

The Daphne Indigenous Art Center is presenting its fourth exhibition starting Saturday, featuring Michelle Sound’s work titled okāwīsimāk nawac kwayask itōtamwak/aunts are the best/aunties do it better. Regarding Phi, no schedule change. Exhibitions at the Phi Foundation end on January 9 and at the Phi Center on January 16. Finally, the Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal presents, until January 30, the exhibition Suspension, by Jennifer Alleyn.

In Laval, the Alfred-Pellan hall has resumed its activities with the two solos by Adam Basanta and Mathieu Lévesque. The room is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. . .

In Joliette, the Art Museum kept the same opening hours. “We have an online ticket office and a maximum capacity in the rooms,” says Camille Blachot, communications coordinator. We are offering a new hanging, from January 8 to 16, with the collection of D^r Jacques Toupin, one of our generous donors. »Works by Rita Letendre, Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Charles Daudelin, Claude Tousignant and Jean Paul Riopelle.

In Quebec, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec continues its activities with its exhibitions on Serge Lemoyne (until Sunday) and Stanley February (until October). “All cultural and educational activities, such as guided tours and workshops, were however canceled,” says Linda Tremblay, press relations manager.

The Musée de la civilization in Quebec City is open Tuesday through Sunday. To visit the exhibition in Pompeii in particular, you must book your ticket at the store. mcq. org. For the moment, the museum does not have a staffing problem. “There were a few isolated cases but without impact on the functioning; we are always on the lookout, ”says Agnès Dufour, MCQ press relations manager.

Also in Quebec, the expo Zoom Photo Festival remains presented in Espace 400^e at the same time and under the same sanitary conditions. In Victoriaville, the Jacques-et-Michel-Auger Art Center is open, with the exhibition The Bestiary available until Saturday. With works in particular by Eruoma Awashish, Jordi Bonet, En Masse, Mathieu Gotti and Caroline Létourneau. Finally, in Ottawa, following the recent announcement by the Ontario government, the National Gallery of Canada closed on Wednesday. It will reopen on January 26.

The galleries

Not all of the galleries have reopened, but there is enough for an invigorating journey. The Pierre-François Ouellette Contemporary Art gallery has resumed its schedule, from Wednesday to Saturday. “We are obliged to limit the number of visitors to five, according to the health measures in force,” says the gallery owner. Until January 29, we present Baroque, by Jackson Slattery, and starting on Friday, Yours to Discover, a solo exhibition by Zinnia Naqvi. ”

The Nicolas Robert gallery maintains the same opening hours, from Wednesday to Saturday, or by appointment. “We follow the rules established by Public Health regarding the number of visitors, the mask, etc., says Nicolas Robert. We currently have two exhibitions, Sweet Spot, by David Elliott, and Itch for Solitude, by Dominic Musa. ”

Blouin Division is also open, from Tuesday to Saturday, with three exhibitions until January 22: Don’t Hate the NPC, Hate the Game, by Hannah Epstein, ataason | they store | they store it, by Nico Williams, and Woodland, by Sarah Anne Johnson.

The CO A gallery reopened on Tuesday, with control of the number of visitors and wearing of the mask. “The cultural sphere being less and less accessible physically, it seems to us more than necessary to participate in the collective effort in order to make the work of our artists shine as much as possible”, says gallery owner Jean-Pascal Fournier. CO A presents works by Alexandra Levasseur until January 15.

The Robertson Arès Gallery now opens Tuesday through Saturday, with no more than three visitors at a time. She presents the collective exhibition Just semantics, artists Rita Assouline, Allan Bailey, Sydney Blum, Joseph Coniff, Ryan Crotty, Troy Emery, Andrée-Anne Mercier, Douglas Scholes and Derrick Velasquez.

Finally, the Robert Poulin gallery will reopen on January 11, from Tuesday to Saturday, with the exhibition Total Erban II, unpublished works by Daniel Erban.