Cultural action includes activities designed to create an environment conducive to contemplation and encounters between programming and citizens. The aim of cultural action is to broaden the Foundation’s contribution to the cultural life of its community and environment. Cultural activities include artist encounters, roundtable discussions, concerts and screenings.
2025
Festival de la poésie de Montréal: Retrouver l’écho des paroles perdues – May 25th, 2025
While censorship is gaining ground, there will always be poets to challenge it. The evening, orchestrated by Mireille Cliche, features Denise Desautels, Louise Dupré, Pauline Michel and France Mongeau as they read texts from around the world about freedom and the right to speak. Retrouver l’écho des paroles perdues, presented by the Women’s Committee of the Quebec Centre of International PEN.
Molinari Quartet: Music to See – April 27th, 2025
The Guido Molinari Foundation welcomes the musicians of the Molinari Quartet for its concert series Music to See. Using the exhibition Chromatopia by Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière as a backdrop, the Quartet will perform works by Dimitri Shostakovich and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh.
Seeing differently: Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière in conversation with Luca Spano – April 3rd, 2025
For this public discussion in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture in Montreal, our artists in residency welcome artist Luca Spano a fascinating discussion at the intersection of art and science. At the heart of this dialogue lies an essential question: what is an image? What has colour to do with it? Without denying Western oculocentrism, the artists will explore anthropological and ethnographic perspectives on vision. They will question the notion of colour and its multiple meanings – cultural, emotional and symbolic. The multidisciplinary approach of the Dufresne-Laganière duo, like that of Spano, will enable us to rethink our relationship with images and the way they influence our understanding of the world.
Sonic Quantifier vol. 3 – March 1st, 2025
As part of Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Guido Molinari Foundation invites you to an evening of electroacoustic music performances in the exhibition hall. Our evening invites you to celebrate Montreal culture by bringing together the visual arts and electroacoustic music in a special exhibition of Molinari’s works, selected especially for the occasion.
L’impossibilité d’écrire – February 15th, 2025
L’impossibilité d’écrire is a literary performance in seven acts that explores the writer’s posture through a dialogue between Sarah-Louise Pelletier-Morin (Montreal) and Ann Gaspe (Berlin). While the former addresses contemporary themes such as money, sports and love through aphorisms, the latter constructs a subjective glossary in German, mixing memory and childhood. These crossed perspectives highlight the challenges of literary creation in everyday life. This literary performance is under the artistic direction of Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand (Quebec) and Delphine de Stoutz (Berlin).
2024
Circuits d’ateliers: Nico Williams – December 14th, 2024
The Guido Molinari Foundation, acting as a link between creation and art, invites you to take an exclusive look at the studio of the winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award 2024: Nico Williams! You’ll have the opportunity to learn more about his current projects, techniques and creative process during a tour of his studio.
Poetry workshop + reading: Hochelaga by heart – December 7th, 2024
In collaboration with the Festival de poésie de Montréal, join us for an afternoon of poetry celebrating Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: its residents, its housing cooperatives and its poets!
Collective poetry dinner. Nadia Myre & guests – December 5th, 2024
The Guido Molinari Foundation, in collaboration with the Festival de la poésie de Montréal, holds an immersive and engaging experience in the form of a collective dinner as a space for dialogue, sharing and creation. Nadia Myre is accompanied by the poets Nicholas Dawson, Flavia Garcia and Lorrie Jean-Louis, invited by Catherine Cormier-Larose, Director of the Festival de la poésie de Montréal. They gather around the family table that sits at the heart of the exhibition Tout geste est/et politique. Nadia Myre, Robert Myre & Molinari to exchange about belonging, identity and family rituals, while sharing their poetry over a very special meal.
Double launch of publications by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens + Presentation of artists in residency Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière – November 25th, 2024
Join us for the double launch of two publication by Marilou Lemmens and Richard Ibghy, The Prophets and The Power Given to Abstractions That Make Us Stupid. Marie-Eve Beaupré, Director of the Foundation, will discuss the duo’s work, focusing on the central element of both publications: abstraction. we will take the opportunity to introduce the artists who will be in residence at the Foundation in winter 2025: Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière. They will be revealing the subject of their research-creation residency in an exclusive discussion with Camille Bédard, Associate Curator of the Foundation.
Molinari Quartet: Music to See – November 3rd, 2024
The Guido Molinari Foundation welcomes the musicians of the Molinari Quartet for its concert series Music to See. Directly in the main exhibition space of the Foundation, the Molinari Quartet will perform the complete string quartets by Luciano Berio.
Molinari: From Painting to Music at the Bourgie Hall – October 22nd, 2024
The Molinari Quartet marks the 20th anniversary of Guido Molinari’s death, performing works inspired by his paintings. Also featured is the final quartet of Anton Webern, Molinari’s favourite composer. Screenings of the great Quebec painter’s works will accompany the concert. A discussion with the Director of the Foundation, Marie-Eve Beaupré, preceded the concert.
Round-table discussion Grantham Foundation x Guido Molinari Foundation: Cohabiter avec l’obscurité – September 26th, 2024
We’re delighted to welcome the Grantham Foundation, as an extension of their exhibition A Deeper Night, for a round-table discussion entitled Cohabiting in the darkness. Moderated by Josianne Poirier (curator), it will bring together Fiona Annis (artist), Rémi Boucher (scientific coordinator and spokesperson for the Mont-Mégantic International Dark Sky Reserve) and Olivia Boudreau (artist).
Sonic Quantifier vol. 2: Electroacoustic music performances – August 31st, 2024
The Guido Molinari Foundation, in collaboration with Productions Rhizome, invites you to an evening of electroacoustic music performances in the heart of our exhibition space. A special exhibition of the renowned Quantifiers by Molinari, a music lover in his own lifetime, will be created for the occasion.
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Public discussion: Monic Robillard invites Catherine Mavrikakis – July 25th, 2024
Sophie Lanctôt, Mallarmé, Molinari: CROSSWORDS curator Monic Robillard extended the invitation to author Catherine Mavrikakis, who, like herself, is no stranger to Mallarmé’s poetry. Together, they propose an exchange around the Mallarméan legacy, which remains very much alive in today’s literary and artistic issues.
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Circuits d’ateliers: Louis Bouvier, Caroline Boileau & Stéphane Gilot – July 13, 2024
Circuits d’ateliers offers original tours of artists’ studios in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood. A unique opportunity to discover what goes on behind the scenes and immerse yourself in the production environment of our community’s artists!
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Revue Tristesse x Fondation Guido Molinari – July 5th, 2024
The Guido Molinari Foundation is delighted to welcome the artists of Tristesse magazine for an evening of literary and musical performances at Square Dézéry! As part of the summer program organized by the Integrated Urban Revitalization Committee of the Table de Quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, the contributors to Tristesse magazine will read their texts and offer a musical performance.
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Circuits d’ateliers: Francis Montillaud – May 4th, 2024
Circuits d’ateliers offers original tours of artists’ studios in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood. A unique opportunity to discover what goes on behind the scenes and immerse yourself in the production environment of our community’s artists!
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Public discussion: Fiona Annis invites eunice bélidor – May 16th, 2024
Epistolary: the curatorial and artistic standpoint
Our artist-in-residence Fiona Annis, who is presenting her exhibition Correspondences until May 19, welcomes for a public discussion eunice bélidor, whose curatorial, writing and research practice currently focuses on epistolary writing as a vehicle for curatorial affective archives.
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Music to see: Molinari Quartet Concert – April 28th, 2024
The Molinari Quartet is delighted to present its second concert of the season in the “Music to see” series, hosted at the Guido Molinari Foundation on Sunday April 28, 2024 at 3 pm.
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Nuit blanche à Montréal: Sonic Quantifier – March 2nd, 2024
As part of Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Guido Molinari Foundation invites you to an evening of electroacoustic musical performances in the exhibition room! A special exhibition of the renowned Quantifiers by Molinari, a music lover in his own lifetime, will be created for the occasion.
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Fernande Saint-Martin poetry reading by Nicole Brossard – February 17th, 2024
On this special occasion, we are delighted to welcome poet Nicole Brossard, who will read a selection of poems by Fernande Saint-Martin (1927-2019). The texts will be taken from the publications La fiction du réel. Poèmes 1953-1975 and Marouflée la langue, previously unpublished works that will be presented for a rare public presentation.
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Public discussion: Fiona Annis invites Jonathan Villeneuve – February 8th, 2024
What creative spaces for artists?
As part of her residency at the Guido Molinari Foundation, Fiona Annis is reflecting on the significance of working, in 2024, in the studio bequeathed by Molinari, which he acquired in the 1980s – and in a completely different real estate context.
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Residency launch: Meet Fiona Annis – January 25th, 2024
Join us for the official launch of the Guido Molinari Foundation’s 2024 residency!
Meet artist Fiona Annis in her studio set up in the Foundation’s exhibition space during an ”open house” evening. We’ll be presenting her artistic practice, as well as her past and future projects. All are welcome to ask questions.
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2023
Music to see: L’oreille attentive, Molinari Quartet Concert – December 16th, 2023
The first concert of the 2023-24 Music to See series by the Molinari Quartet taking place at the Guido Molinari Foundation on Saturday December 16, 2023 at 3 pm coincides with the last weekend of the beautiful exhibition L’oeil attentif.
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