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Exhibitions

Putting Rehearsals to the Test


Date & time
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 –
Saturday, October 29, 2016
5:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-165

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Putting Rehearsals to the Test
It’s about modeling, not about models

Opening:
Tuesday, August 30, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Curators’ tour: 5:00 p.m.

A three-part exhibition, in partnership with SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine

Curators: Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer, Constanze Ruhm

Martin Beck, Rainer Bellenbaum, Merlin Carpenter, Harun Farocki, Marie Claire Forte and Alanna Kraaijeveld in dialogue with Sophie Bélair Clément, Hanako Geierhos, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, On Kawara, Krüger & Pardeller, Achim Lengerer, minimal club, Regina (Maria) Möller, Yoko Ono, Falke Pisano, Constanze Ruhm, Klaus Scherübel, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, and Katarina Zdjelar.

This fall, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine present a major event entitled Putting Rehearsals to the Test, accompanied by a film program at the Cinémathèque québécoise and at VOX. The curators of the exhibition bring together over fifty international artists who address a set of positions and strategies in contemporary art that consider rehearsal as both subject and practice.

Other venues presenting the exhibition:

August 31 - December 10, 2016:
SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art
To be continued: Unfinished Repetitions

September 1 - November 26, 2016:
VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine
In-the-Making: The Post-Dramatic Image

This event is made possible through the invaluable support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, the BKA – The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institute Montreal, IFA – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (Germany), and the Mondriaan Fund (Netherlands).

More information on the exhibition and its related events on the Ellen Gallery website.


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