ON-SITE
Place Where the Waters Crossed
September 3 to November 1, 2025
Raven Chacon
Curator: Marie-Ann Yemsi
Exhibition presented by MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain and produced in collaboration with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Event
PRETENSES: CONVERSATION WITH ALEXANDRE BOUFFARD, DAVID THEODORE AND THOMAS BALABAN
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 2:00 PM — 3:30 PM
In English
Free, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920 Baile Street, Montréal, QC H3H 1R4
SIGHTINGS 44
June 16 to September 21, 2025
A project by Alexandre Bouffard
IDLE considers, on one hand, the architecture and volume of the cube in relation to the Hall Building’s vicinity; on the other, its role as an object of representation—a medium for display in public space. Its glass facades act as an interface between these two dimensions, rendering the cube both self-contained and open to the outside world, particularly through the ephemeral and ambivalent relationship it seeks to establish with passersby. The installation sets in motion a dynamic of reciprocal gazes—between what looks and what is seen, what captures and what is captured.
TERMS
Dive into the second segment of the TERMS program, exploring the concept of “depression,” this time through the prism of the economic crisis of the 1930s. Read Andrée Lévesque’s essay, a professor in the Department of History at McGill University, shedding light on the repercussions of the Great Depression in Montreal. Explore a series of photographs taken by Canadian artist Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) during a stay in London amidst the Crisis years, along with the meticulous interpretation by Debra Antoncic, art historian, curator, and Director of the Riverbrink Art Museum.
NEW DIRECTOR
Nicole Burisch is joining the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery today as its new director. Burisch, an accomplished curator and Concordia alumna, brings over 20 years of experience in arts leadership, programming and advocacy to this role.
“I am deeply honoured to take on this role at the Ellen Art Gallery,” Burisch says. “University art galleries have a unique position in the contemporary art landscape, they have the capacity to support in-depth artistic and curatorial research while also being important spaces for experimentation and risk-taking.
The Gallery team warmly welcomes her.
UNICEF
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