Montreal Cultural Calendar

Experience an immersive exhibition by Jakob Kudsk Steensen that explores contemporary ecological realities through virtual reality, sound, and video installations. Drawing from global fieldwork, the artist creates speculative digital worlds that blend scientific observation with imagination to examine the impacts of climate change. Featuring interconnected works, including the North American premiere of Psychosphere (2025), the exhibition unfolds as a layered, dreamlike narrative.

Discover Paola Pivi's first major exhibition in Québec, a traveling show featuring sculptural installations that explore themes of freedom, truth, and misinformation. Through immersive and imaginative works, the artist reinterprets familiar symbols to challenge our perception of contemporary reality. At the heart of the exhibition, Lies (2018) invites visitors to reflect on the blurred line between truth and falsehood.

By adopting strategies akin to visual ethnography, the trio, composed of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, multiplies perspectives on the modernization of Iran, its rural regions, and the families witnessing their industrialization. Archives and image-making apparatuses become playgrounds and sites of subversion as much as catalysts for encounters, from which the artists conduct an autopsy of a territory.

Dissecting and reassembling the elements of photonovels, Gaudreau draws forth details that disrupt its usual narrative continuity. This pop literary genre is thus reconfigured into a choreographic space in which texts and images tumble out of sync.

Presented each spring at Galerie de l'UQAM, Passage à découvert showcases the work of UQAM's graduating students in the Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts program, highlighting their creative vitality, freedom, and curiosity. Thanks to the multidisciplinary approach favoured by UQAM's School of Visual and Media Arts, the student works on display address a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and techniques in dialogue with the contemporary world. This year, several projects reimagine the concept of materiality by examining its transformations and modes of perception. Others explore the relationship to the body, identities, and performativity, deploying playful displays that convey a sensitive relationship to reality.

Aire de jeu is the collective exhibition of Samuel Alie, Zélie Delespierre and Gilliane April, graduate students in visual and media arts at UQAM. This exhibition is carried out as part of the Atelier II course facilitated by Professor Claire Savoie, at the CDEx Dissemination and Experimentation Centre.

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Racines créatives is a group exhibition bringing together seven artists and designers from the Afro-descendant community, spanning from Montreal to Martinique. The exhibition creates a dialogue between their creative expressions, offering a rich and multifaceted cultural portrait. Through a variety of mediums and themes, each participant contributes a unique vision, fostering a collective reflection on cultural identities and urban interactions.