Choosing the Musée d’art de Joliette’s (MAJ) collection for a summer thematic exhibition is like reaching into a gift bag. It means discovering its strengths and weaknesses. It also means noting that these collected works, even the most recent ones, stem from the issues of the day and the influence of individuals who gravitated and … Continued
Salvific proposes to break away from the clutches of our screens and tech gear in order to reconnect with the experience of the art object and the ampleness of its physical qualities, subtle in some cases and emphatically assured in others.
Standardizing: The Portraits presents twelve paintings in the process of acquisition.
Dark Matter highlights several issues relevant to museum practices. That is why the MAJ has invited the artist to pursue his reflection with a creative residency in the Museum’s spaces.
On the MAJ’s invitation, Chloé Desjardins is making the curiosity expressed by others the point of departure for her own reflection a first in her art practice.
An interest in language and philosophy permeates Carl Trahan’s art practice, which deals, by turns, on shifts of meaning in translation, on the weight of words, on the power of their articulation, and on the meandering passage between thought and experience and its expression and transmission.
The text “In Dialogue” is an overview of the programming season at the Musée d’art de Joliette.
This exhibition brings to light a collection of bronzes that were generously offered to the Musée d’art de Joliette by Mr. A.K. Prakash, and presented in the midst of an extensive installation by artist Nicolas Fleming. From October 3 2020 to May 23, 2021
This exhibition features Joseph Tisiga’s most recent efforts to push the cultural boundaries of what it means to be a person of First Nations decent in the twenty-first century. From October 3, 2020 to May 23, 2021
The MAJ invited Philippe Allard to invest all spaces at the museum, with a new body of work to be developed from residual plastic materials. Outdoor intervention: August 15 to April 18, 2021. / Indoor Intervention: October 3, 2020, to April 18, 2021
In the exhibition In the name of matter. The imaginary museum of Louise Warren, the walls of the museum are blank pages onto which artworks are arranged like a poem. From August 15, 2020 to January 10, 2021.
This season our curatorial team is proposing a selection of three pieces inspired by the work of Philippe Allard.
The MAJ presents an exhibition by Guy Montpetit from March 14 to May 23, 2021.
The text “In Dialogue” is an overview of the programming season at the Musée d’art de Joliette.
The three artists invite us to question the assumptions that underlie our cultural and ideological references to the female body. From February 1 to September 6, 2020
In the winter of 2020, the MAJ will present the artist’s first retrospective, comprising works from the 1980s along with previously unseen pieces. From February 1 to September 6, 2020
This new photo and video project translates in textual, gestural, and audible form bodily states that are associated with the experience of confinement. From February 1 to August 2, 2020.
This season, the curatorial team offers to look at three nudes from the MAJ collection. From February 1 to August 30, 2020.
The text “In Dialogue” is an overview of the programming season at the Musée d’art de Joliette.
This exhibition presents a selection of recent and previously unseen works by multidisciplinary artist Patrick Coutu. The artist is inspired by natural phenomena and their mathematical representations.
October 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Gadonneix explores the notion of the elusive in relation to the intrinsic human need to measure and control what surrounds us.
September 28, 2019 – January 5, 2020
This exhibition focuses on a fascinating gestural detour in the artist’s career, a series of exceptional ink-on-paper works from 1969-70.
October 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020
