Kazimir Malevich (Belgrade). Credit Michel Brunelle.
EXHIBITION - FROM MARCH 16 TO MAY 19, 2012
Art Histories
Curator: Marie-Josée Jean
Join the artists and curator for a guided tour of the exhibition on Saturday March 17 at 2 p.m.
While the universal history of art has been revealed to be a fiction that multiple art historians and theoreticians have sought to deconstruct and reconstruct, many artists, for their part, have made efforts to expose its successive determinisms and imagine alternative histories. This attitude, described as meta-narrative, retro-avant-garde or simply critiquing, aims to restore notions of fiction and politics to the ideal museum that is art history. To find out more »
NEWS UPDATE - APRIL 6, 2012
Lecture at VOX - Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 7 pm
VOX is delighted to welcome Nicolai Punin in Montreal. In the context of our inaugural exhibition “Art Histories”, he has kindly accepted our invitation to give a conference on Kazimir Malevich. Mr. Punin, who lives and works in St. Petersburg, was a friend and contemporary of Malevich. This slide-lecture aims to follow important historical moments of the reception of his work in Western Europe and the USA, from its earliest encounters with Futurism until the present-day appreciations of Suprematism. To find out more »
NEWS UPDATE - MARCH 28, 2012
New App: Art actuel centre-ville
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Courtesy Aedifica.
NEWS UPDATE - MARCH 16, 2012
Inauguration celebration and vernissage of the exhibition “Art Histories”
Now occupying the entire fourth floor of the 2-22, with 800 m2 of floor space—more than half of which will be dedicated to exhibitions—VOX will offer programming resolutely oriented toward research and experimentation by artists and curators alike, and the long-term dissemination of their work both nationally and internationally.
March 16 will also see the opening of the RCAAQ’s Formats bookstore and the Artexte reading room, as well as the vernissages for the exhibitions “Art Histories” and Constellation & Correspondences: Networking Between Artists 1970–1980, presented at VOX and Artexte respectively.
Listen! and You Will See, 2004, installation, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montreal, 2004
BOOK LAUNCH - NOVEMBER, 2011
Raymond Gervais 3 X 1
VOX is proud to announce the launching of the first major publication devoted to the conceptual work of Raymond Gervais. An erudite author, Gervais joins forces with curator Nicole Gingras interested in what connects sound, image and words. To find out more »
Week of October 10th.
NEWS UPDATE- NOVEMBER 1, 2011
VOX Will Reopen in the Winter of 2012
Upcoming Exhibitions »
In November, 2011, VOX will move to the 2-22 building in downtown Montreal – a building dedicated to culture at the entrance of the Quartier des spectacles – with its IMAGO partners Artexte and the RCAAQ (Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec), as well as CIBL and the Vitrine Culturelle. To find out more »
CALL FOR MEMBERS 2010 - 2011
VOX is at a crucial turning point. In September, 2011, the centre and its partners, Artexte and RCAAQ, will be moving to the 2-22 building on Sainte-Catherine Street, corner of Saint-Laurent Boulevard. The presence of the three organizations in the Quartier des spectacles is of great importance because they will offer a free annual programme of contemporary art (exhibitions, film screenings, research, conferences, bookstore, educational activities, etc.) which will be complementary to the activities and shows already available. To find out more
NEWS UPDATE- NOVEMBER 3, 2010
Bill Vazan Winner of the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas 2010
VOX is proud to have supported the nomination of artist Bill Vazan, winner of the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas, the highest distinction in visual arts, design, architecture and applied arts awarded by the Gouvernement du Québec. To find out more »
NEWS UPDATE - JUNE 16, 2010
VOX IS MOVING
As of June 16, 2010, VOX will cease its exhibition activities at 1211 Saint-Laurent Boulevard. We will occupy a temporary office space downtown until we move into our new gallery in the 2-22 building in May of 2011.
Please note that our postal address and telephone number remain the same. We invite you to contact us if you wish to make an appointment or visit our offices.
Contact information for 2010-2011
Postal address: 1211 Saint-Laurent Boulevard Montreal, QC H2X 2S6
To make an appointment: Call us at 514.390.0382 or send us a message at vox@voxphoto.com
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Call for Submissions
Please note that because we are moving we are not accepting project proposals. We ask that you wait for the next call for submissions before sending us your proposals by mail. The information will be posted on our website. Thank you.
NEWS UPDATE - MAY 18, 2010
IMAGO: an ambitious visual arts project becomes a reality
Montreal, May 18, 2010 – It’s now official: during a radio broadcast organized by CIBL and the Société de développement Angus (SDA), Ms. Christine St-Pierre, Minister of Culture, Communications et Condition féminine, and Mr. Raymond Bachand, Finance Minister and Minister responsible for the region of Montreal, announced, in the presence of Mr. Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montreal, an investment of $4.1 million enabling Artexte, the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ) and VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, to carry out the IMAGO project in the building 2-22 Sainte-Catherine Street East, on the corner of Saint-Laurent Boulevard. This investment completes already existing funding of $1.6 million which the three organizations have received from the Federal Government’s Infrastructure Stimulus Fund.
To find out more »
EXHIBITION - FROM MAY 8 TO JUNE 12, 2010
IDLER // MLADEN STILINOVIĆ //
AN ARTIST WHO INVENTS NOTHING
A proposal by Ariane Daoust
EXHIBITION - FROM APRIL 1 TO MAY 1, 2010
JOHN BALDESSARI
Curator: Marie-Josée Jean
| EVENT - FEBRUARY 27, 2010 Nuit blanche à Montréal 2010 During the Nuit blanche à Montréal, VOX will be presenting in its front window Take a Look from the Inside, a video by Chantal Maes. As Maes stutters through a reading of Christian Dotremont's text, the artist sensitizes us to the shifts between individual or inward focuses and their public expression. |
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Free - 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.
NEWS UPDATE - FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Grafika 2010 Award Winner:
Bill Vazan: Walking into the Vanishing Point
Design: Uniform
VOX is proud to announce that the publication on the conceptual work of Bill Vazan, launched in March of 2009, was awarded a prize in the Printed Media / Book Category.
The 2010 Graphika Awards ceremony took place on February 4 at the Montreal Metropolis, where over 800 industry professionals gathered for the event.
For more information on the Grafika contest visit www.resultats.infopresse.com
We would like to thank Patrick Pellerin and Charley Massiera from Uniform for their wonderful work!
EXHIBITION - FROM JANUARY 16 TO MARCH 6, 2010
CHANTAL MAES
