IGNITION 20

As of May 1, 2025

Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Anne Dahl, Ioana Dragomir, Mathieu Gagnon, Charlotte Ghomeshi, M Gnanasihamany, Malik Mckoy, Antoine Racine, Saba Sharifi, Tyra Maria Trono and Anne-Sophie Vallée

Projects selected by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, Curator of Quebec and Canadian contemporary art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Nicole Burisch, Director of the LBEAG

Meet with the artists followed by the opening

Thursday, May 8, 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
At the Gallery
Free

You are invited to join us at the Gallery to celebrate the opening of the exhibition in company of the artists.

Never Was a Man

From February 24 to May 18, 2025

A project by Swapnaa Tamhane

Never Was a Man draws on two sentences from the suicide letter of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit scholar and PhD student of sociology at Hyderabad Central University, transforming them into a wood block print. Vemula’s last words became a symbol of Dalit resistance, shedding light on caste-based discrimination in universities and leading to mass student protests across India.

The Gallery is currently seeking bilingual students (English/French) for the position of Gallery Attendants for the summer term. Students must be eligible to Work—study program (project category Q and C) and be registered full-time. Preference will be given to students enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University.

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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.

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DEPRESSION, PART 2. ECONOMY

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.

Explore online now.