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XENOLALIA - not actually on this date and time, you need to make your own res

DateTuesday, March 17, 2026
Time2 pm – 10 pm
WhereTEZ, Italie / Amsterdam
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Art
not actually on this date and time, you need to make your own res

Installation art-science créée par Sofian Audry qui explore la sentience informatique et biologique à travers une boucle de rétroaction reliant un réseau neuronal artificiel à une colonie de micro-algues, générant un alphabet vivant spéculatif. L'alphabet émerge via un processus morphogénétique itératif : le réseau neuronal projette un glyphe sur une boîte de pétri, les micro-organismes attirés par la lumière se rapprochent de la forme agissant comme substrat photographique vivant, l'image capturée est renvoyée au réseau qui génère un nouveau glyphe. Présentée aux échelles micro, méso et macro, l'installation stimule curiosité et imagination. Les visiteurs observent une forme singulière de communication entre agences biologiques et computationnelles. L'œuvre invite le public à repenser le langage, la perception, la signification et la sentience sous un angle non anthropocentrique. Collaborateurs : Biologiste Nishad Jayasundara, Assistants Etienne Montenegro (code, électronique, fabrication), Guillaume Cramoisan (fabrication), Matthew Loewen (code), Ian Donnelly (biologie), Brynn Yarbrough (biologie).

Vernissage: Patience by Tony Romano

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 9 pm
WhereCarrefour
Tags
Art
Patience is a solo presentation by Ontario-based artist Tony Romano. Carrefour is pleased to host Romano's work in Montreal, revisiting a selection of video and sculptural works produced between 2022 and 2024. This exhibition is made possible thanks to Franz Kaka.

Vernissage: A GOOD SLEEPER by Jérôme Nadeau

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 8 pm
WhereGalerie Nicolas Robert
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Art
Jérôme Nadeau will present his solo show A GOOD SLEEPER. The paintings in the exhibition were developed through multiple phases. Images shift and transform from one state to another: drawings and photographs are digitized, compressed, translated into sound, then reconverted, printed, altered, scanned, and digitally reconfigured before being screen-printed at the limits of legibility. The works do not seek to illustrate or stabilize, but to probe what wavers: blurred thresholds of perception, zones of noise, surfaces shaped by error and uncertainty.

Vernissage: Histamine by Shahan Assadourian

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 9 pm
WhereCarrefour
Tags
Art
Carrefour is opening on Wednesday, April 8th with histamine, Shahan Assadourian's first solo exhibition. Located in Family's former gallery space on Laurier West, Carrefour is the brainchild of Sophie présente and Family. The show brings together an entirely new body of work that investigates Shahan's previous exploration of infection, emotional freedom, and cuteness overload.

Vernissage: Dreamed Her Badly by Arta Ajeti

DateWednesday, April 8, 2026
Time6 pm – 8 pm
WhereGalerie Nicolas Robert
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Art
In her first solo exhibition, Arta Ajeti presents a new body of intimate graphite drawings based on a personal archive of photographic references. Feminine figures appear in shadowy, dreamlike scenes populated by wrecked cars, theatrical curtains, static-filled screens, stairwells, storm clouds, and ornamental surfaces, where glamour and decay sit in uneasy proximity. Using graphite, Ajeti pushes the image toward both clarity and breakdown, creating works suspended between memory, fantasy, and desire.

Finissage: Idyll and Labour

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
WhereVAV Gallery
Tags
Art
As Concordia rounds out the academic year the VAV gallery is hosting a finissage for Idyll and Labour, a group show featuring works by Renée Rothe, Kelly Halseth, Gemma Else and Laure-Charlotte Côté.

Vernissage: Le Jeu by Antoine Lussier

DateThursday, April 9, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereMes Pants de Queer
Tags
Art
Le Jeu is a photographic exhibition that explores the perceptions of day, the temporality of night. The intimacy of the body. The gazes cast upon the other that teach us about ourselves. How we look, what we feel. Lussier's work often employs experimentation, fragmentation and distortion to highlight feelings and spaces of intimacy surrounding the body. The opening reception is BYOB.

DOUBLE VERNISSAGE : Common Absurd + LUCABOT

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time5 pm – 8:30 pm
Where4001 Rue Berri, Local 301, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2L 4H2
Tags
Art
Event by OBORO

OBORO vous invite au vernissage de sa programmation du printemps 2026, présentant les expositions "Common Absurd" d'Adam Basanta et "LUCABOT" de Julie Tremble.
Joignez-vous à nous pour découvrir des oeuvres qui interrogent notre relation au monde, du microscopique au numérique, à travers la vidéo, la sculpture et l’installation.
L’équipe d’OBORO et les artistes seront sur place pour accueillir le public dans une atmosphère chaleureuse. Une belle occasion de célébrer le début de la belle saison, d’échanger et de rencontrer les artistes.
Entrée libre, bienvenue à toustes.
Plus d'informations sur les expositions ici :
oboro.net/exhibition/common-absurd
oboro.net/exhibition/lucabot
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OBORO invites you to the opening of its Spring 2026 Programming, featuring the exhibitions "Common Absurd" by Adam Basanta and "LUCABOT" by Julie Tremble.
Join us to discover new works that question our relationship to the world, from the microscopic to the digital, through video, sculpture, and installation.
The OBORO team and the artists will be on hand to welcome the public in a warm atmosphere. A great opportunity to celebrate the start of spring, exchange ideas, and meet the artists.
Free admission, everyone is welcome.
More information about the exhibitions here:
oboro.net/en/exhibition/common-…

Vernissage: Open House: Anne-Renée Hotte and Martin Schop

DateFriday, April 10, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereCollection Collection
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Art
The Open House series, presented by Collection Collection, invites viewers to see the private collection as a space for exchange and reflection. The works chosen from within the collection reflect the collectors' singular perspective and shape an exhibition in their own image. This curatorial gesture explores collecting as a living practice, made up of correspondences, affinities, and shared narratives. This edition features works from the private collection of artist Anne-Renée Hotte and Martin Schop of Schop Framing.