Sven Augustijnen, photo taken by Fairuz during the shooting of Spectres, detail, 2011. Courtesy of Jan Mot, Brussels.

EVENT - JUNE 28, 2013
Discussion-meeting during the exhibition Spectres by Sven Augustijnen

Friday June 28, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

VOX is pleased to invite you to talk with Érika Nimis, Historian of photography and visual media in Africa (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Jean-Marie Mousenga, President of the Communauté congolaise de Montréal-Métropolitain (COCOM) about our current exhibition and the documentary film Spectres by Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen on Friday, June 28 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. To find out more about the exhibition and see the film schedule »





Sven Augustijnen, Spectres (still), 2011, HD video, 103 min 8 sec. Courtesy of the artist.

EXHIBITION - FROM MAY 11 TO JULY 13, 2013
Sven Augustijnen. Spectres

The exhibition will open with a discussion with Patrick Beauduin, executive director of radio at Radio-Canada, on the issues surrounding Sven Augustijnen's pratice and the history of Congo’s decolonization. Friday May 10 at 5:30 PM.

VOX is pleased to present the North American premiere of the exhibition Spectres, by Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen. Spectres comprises a feature-length documentary film as well as hundreds of photographs and archival material on Belgium’s colonial past and, more specifically, on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister. To find out more »






EXHIBITION - FROM MARCH 23 TO MAY 4, 2013
Jonathan Plante. Lapincyclope (One-Eyed-Rabbit)

VOX's first exhibition and book for children.
Opening and book launch on March 23 at 2 PM.

Lapincyclope is different. He has only one eye and would like to jump into his rabbit hole without chipping his teeth… He meets a worm that has no eyes but can navigate through holes in the ground! Together they will discover the power of imagination and the inner workings of sight: a little with the eyes, a lot with the brain, always with the heart. To find out more »





Babette Mangolte, Looking and Touching, 2007, installation view at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (United-Kingdom). Photo: Steve Shrimpton. © 2007 John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

EXHIBITION - FROM JANUARY 25 TO APRIL 20, 2013
Babette Mangolte

Opening January 24 at 5 PM.

The exhibition presents a series of works by the French-American artist and filmmaker that span her early pioneering documentary interest in dance, performance art and theatre in New York City during the 1970s as well as her films and more recent site-specific installations. To find out more »

From April 4 to 14, 2013, the Cinémathèque québécoise presents Babette Mangolte : la Femme à la caméra, a retrospective of Mangolte's films. To find out more »




EVENT - MARCH 2, 2013 FROM 6 PM TO MIDNIGHT
Nuit Blanche at VOX

VOX will add to the frenzy that will take over the Quartier des spectacles for the 10th edition of Nuit Blanche! Night owls are invited to discover until midnight works by Babette Mangolte and Irene F. Whittome, two remarkable artists whom each question in their own way art, performance and documentation. Two mediators will be on hand to welcome, assist and answer your questions. Join us on March 2, 2013, on the 4th floor of 2 Ste-Catherine Street East from 6 PM to midnight!






EVENT - MARCH 6, 2013
Discussion with Irene F. Whittome

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 from 5 PM to 7 PM

You are invited to a discussion-meeting with Irene F. Whittome, Vincent Bonin and Marie J. Jean. Together, they will discuss the issues surrounding the repeated re-exhibitions and remediations of Room 901 since its conception in 1980.





Irene F. Whittome, Room 901, 1982, black and white photograph.

EXHIBITION - FROM JANUARY 25 TO MARCH 9, 2013
Irene F. Whittome. Room 901

Opening January 24 at 5 PM.

In the summer of 1980, Irene F. Whittome was finalizing a major cycle of works. In her emptied studio, she began undertaking what would become Room 901. All the materials in the studio were stacked in a corner; the brick walls and columns were repainted white: the space was prepared the same way a painter readies a canvas to take pigment. The studio, on Rue Saint-Alexandre, became the medium for a site-specific intervention that would entail transformations over almost two years, from October 1980 to July 1982. To find out more »




NEWS UPDATE - JANUARY 8, 2013
Art actuel 2-22, finalist for the 28th Grand prix des Arts de Montréal

A jury of peers carefully reviewed the artistic activities and events that took place during 2012, as well as the achievements of artistic organizations that had an undeniable impact on the growth of their discipline: circus arts, digital arts, visual arts, film and video, dance, literature, music, new artistic practices, and theatre. Following their recommendations, the Conseil selected nine finalists that include Art actuel 2-22 (Artexte, Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec, VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine), for having given Montreal a new, unifying space in the contemporary arts sector. To find out more »



FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN
Artexte and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, join forces in the 2-22 building

We are thrilled with our new facilities in the new 2-22 building in Montreal, which will enable us to meet new challenges in the support of research, professional reference services renewed by a digital platform, and a public programmin
But as you can imagine, we need your support to continue our work and carry out our promising program.

We are inviting you to make a donation to our Joint 2012 g inspired by the richness of our unique holdings.
Campaign by clicking on the following link, which contains information on how to proceed: I would like to make a donation.





Andrea Geyer, research diagram (Heroine), 2012.

EVENT - FROM DECEMBER 12 TO 15, 2012
Discussions, performances, films

SOMETHING TO SAY – SOMETHING TO DO is a cycle of events—lectures, performances, screenings and conversations—investigating the status of artistic authorship and knowledge production in relation to the institutional politics of art and the historiography of exhibitions. To find out more »






Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, 1967: A People of Place (video still), 2012, SD video, 19 min.

EXHIBITION - FROM NOVEMBER 2 TO DECEMBER 15, 2012
Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen. Space Fiction & the Archives

Opening November 1 at 5 PM.

This exhibition by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is a time portal that transports us to the small town of St. Paul, Alberta, in 1967 via two main elements: a “space fiction” in the form of a video entitled 1967: A People Kind of Place, and an archive of reproduced materials ranging from postcards to newspaper articles to maps. St. Paul was proclaimed “Centennial Star of Canada,” and its shining achievement was the construction of the world’s first “UFO Landing Pad” in time for Canada’s 100th birthday. To find out more »







Raymond Gervais, Poème phonographique (after Nocturnal by Edgar Varèse), 2000, text and CD case.

EXHIBITION - FROM SEPTEMBER 7 TO DECEMBER 1, 2012
Raymond Gervais 3 X 1

Opening September 6 at 5 PM.

Active in the field of contemporary art since the early 1970s, Raymond Gervais has produced a singular corpus comprising photographic, text-based and sculptural work along with installations and performances, all of which investigate a problem that he has made his own : that of the aural imagination. A unique way of thinking about and conceptualizing sound, the act of listening—even sound as image. He is a pioneer in this area, and the influence of his work on younger artists’ practice is undeniable, albeit far too rarely discussed. To find out more »






Melanie Gilligan, Self Capital (still), 2009, video, 27 min.

EVENT - FROM OCTOBER 16 TO OCTOBER 20, 2012
Discussions, performances, films

VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, in collaboration with the Festival du nouveau cinema, is presenting Colonization of thought: Art, economy and politics: a programme of conferences, discussions and film projections designed by Vincent Bonin, Marie J. Jean and the Épopée team. To find out more »






Trevor Gould, Darwin’s Nose (video still), 2011, HD video, 22 min 47 sec.

EXHIBITION - FROM SEPTEMBER 7 TO OCTOBER 13, 2012
Trevor Gould. Philosophy's Self Image

Opening September 6 at 5 PM.

The exhibition of recent works by Trevor Gould brings together sculptures, watercolours and a video. As a group these works offer new insight into Gould’s recent practice and, particularly, the expanded choice and themes and methodologies he uses to further underline our sense of humanness in relationship with nature. To find out more »






Melanie Gilligan, Popular Unrest (video still), 2010, Multi-episode video drama, HD Video.

EXHIBITION - FROM JUNE 8 TO AUGUST 11, 2012
Melanie Gilligan

Opening June 7 at 5 PM.

The video work of Canadian artist Melanie Gilligan, based in London and New York, presents surreal, satirical and disturbing narratives based on the current state of politics, the public realm, and the recent global economic crisis. Both her videos and her texts focus on “representing systemic economic shifts while contrasting them with their affective impact on people.” To find out more »






Jan Švankmajer, Down to the Cellar (image fixe), 1983, film couleur, 15 min. Avec l'aimable permission de la Slovak Film Institute, Slovaquie

EXHIBITION - FROM JUNE 8 TO AUGUST 11, 2012
Jan Švankmajer

Opening June 7 at 5 PM.

In a time of social and political upheaval in which the young generation is challenging power structures and pushing for new social ideals, Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer’s political allegories prove to be extremely relevant even today. To find out more »






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

The essential tool for locating downtown Montreal’s contemporary art presentation, research and production venues. Find out what’s on and when. Map out your own itinerary based on your interests and the time you have available. As a bonus, explore the augmented reality module and access a wealth of historical information about the city’s cultural sites and monuments. Download the free App »





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.

Free - 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.