http://ellengallery.concordia.ca
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is a university art gallery recognized across Canada for the rigorous nature of its programming. It examines current artistic and curatorial practices as well as the context in which they evolve. Its exhibitions, projections, performances, lectures and publications are devised as a form of inquiry in order to foster critical thinking. Its programming also has a historical reach that attempts to frame the present in relation to the recent past of contemporary art.
Is art an object or a process? Is it "material" or "trace"? Shifts in art practice over the past 50 years, particularly in art world centers in Europe and the US, and more recently in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, [...]
February 19, 2013
Curated by Michèle Thériault. This exhibition revisits a set of projects realized over the past twelve years by Martin Beck, whose interests lie at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and historical inquiry.[...]
November 28, 2012
Bertille Bak, Olivia Boudreau, Louis-Philippe Côté, Rachel Echenberg, Erin Gee, Nelson Henricks, John Massey, Thérèse Mastroiacovo, Alana Riley, Jana Sterbak, Sharif Waked, Hong-Kai Wang Curator: Mélanie Rainvi[...]
September 14, 2012
This exhibition presented in two parts, examines a significant body of work produced over a 35-year period by this Québécois conceptual artist whose practice resonates deeply with contemporary art and attitudes. Pre[...]
October 25, 2011
Kent Monkman and Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, the artist's alter ego transform the Ellen Art Gallery into a camp of military tents in which the new "Canada" that emerges in the decisive battle of the Plains of Abraham bet[...]
March 3, 2011
From afar, the shifting phenomenon of magnetic north provides guidance not unlike Polaris, but as one draws close to the shadowy realm of the Arctic, navigation and communication begin to go awry, forcing the nomad to ex[...]
March 3, 2010
Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) is the third part of an ambitious project that took place over a three-year period, and that also included two exhibitions (Documentary Protocols I and Documentary Protocols II) curated [...]
February 12, 2010
