Activities

 

Past activites

May 2025 — Publication of 2024 Activities Report (in French only)

 
 

March 20 to April 3, 2025 — Foundation Benefit Auction as part of the 2025-2027 fundraising campaign (in French only)

 

March 2025 — 43rd International Festival of Films on Art

Co-presentation of 3 films as part of the FIFA (in French only).

 

Photo credit: Bruno Sinder

March 13, 2024 — Conference Shadow Collection: Chemical Intimacies in the Museum and Archive

By Kirsty Robertson at Concordia University.

 

Photo credit: darin gregson

February 2025 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of cardinal dodginghorse, 2025 winner

 

Photo credit: Laure Bourgault

January and March 2025 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Laure Bourgault, 2025 winner

 

Graphic design: : Audrey Plante, Camille Tanguay and Louise Paradis

Octobre 29, 2024 — Launch of Cahier 09 : Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy

Launch of Cahier 09 at École de design de l’UQAM (in French only).

 

Septembre 28, 2024 — FIFA près de chez vous

For a second year, the Grantham Foundation has partnered with the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) and co-presented 4 short films as part of FIFA près de chez vous (in French only).

 

Photo credit: Olivia Boudreau, L’obscurité (2018)

Septembre 26, 2024 — Table ronde, Cohabiter dans l’obscurité

At the Guido Molinari Foundation, interdisciplinary round table, moderated by Josianne Poirier (in French only).

 

Photo credit: Paul Chambers

Septembre 21, 2024 — Phosphos, Paul Chambers

An evening of performances at the Grantham Foundation (in French only).

 

July 2024 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Kirsty Robertson, 2024 winner

 

June 2024 — Creation and Research Residency in Architecture of Camille Lefebvre, 2024 winner

 

May 2024 — Publication of 2023 Activities Report (in French only)

 

March 2024 — 42nd International Festival of Films on Art

Co-presentation of 2 films as part of the FIFA at the Grantham Foundation (in French only).

 

December 6, 2023 — Conference at the MBAM: Ce qui mérite d’être vu/What Is Worth Seeing (in French only)

 

Photo credit: Manu Groussard 

October 26, 2023 — Conference Philippe Madec

Conference by French architect and urban planner Philippe Madec at Canadian Centre for Architecture (In French only).

 

Photo credit: Pierre Letarte

Octobre 7, 2023 Conference Retour à Walden, sur les pas de Henry David Thoreau with Richard Séguin

 

Throughout each weekend of September 2023 — Fête des arts in the Islands of Drummondville’s Woodyatt Park

 

August 2023 — Creation and Research Residency in Architecture of Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy, 2023 winners

 

August 23, 2023 — L’été en musique

As part of L’été en musique, the Grantham Foundation welcomed the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra to the Foundation's gardens (in French only).

 

July 2023 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Karine Bonneval, 2023 winner

 

June 2023 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Josiane Poirier, 2023 winner

 

May - June 2023 — First edition of Gardens Without Walls

Online platform dedicated to presenting of 5 performative artists under curatorship of Ji-Yoon Han and Didier Morelli.

 

April 26, 2023 — Jardins sans mur at 11e Manif d’art | La biennale de Québec

As part of the 11e Manif d’art | La biennale de Québec, the Grantham Foundation presented the filmed performances of Jardins sans murs at Beaumont Theater.

 

March and April 2023 — 41st International Festival of Films on Art

Co-presentation of 2 films as part of the FIFA at Canadian Centre for Architecture (in French only).

 

January - February 2023 — Micro-residencies

In turn, five performance artists took over the premises of the Foundation for a micro-residency: arcadi lavoie lachapelle, Rachel Echenberg, Cynthia Girard-Renard, Ève Tagny, Pascale Théoret-Groulx.

 

Illustration: Clément de Gaulejac

January 25, 2023 — Table ronde à UQAM : Ligne claire et contours flous

Following the publication of Cahier 04, the Grantham Foundation organized a round table, in collaboration with the UQAM, Faculté des arts (in French only).

 

Photo credit: Benjamin Cayzac

December 2022 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Estelle Zhong Mengual, 2022 winner

 

9 novembre 2022 — Table ronde at ÉTS

The Foundation collaborated in the organization of a round table entitled Écologie et technologie: les approches créatives at École de technologie supérieure (in French only).

 

Octobre 1, 2022 — Launch of Cahier 04

Launch Cahier 04 at the table of the Collectif des éditeurs en art contemporain CÉAC, during the 5th edition of the Volume MTL fair at Society for Arts and Technology.

 

Septembre 18, 2022 — Un dimanche à la campagne 2.0

Launch of the 2nd three-year fundraising campaign 2022-2024 and preview of the group exhibition Exercises in Reciprocity.

 

Summer 2022 — Micro-residencies

Curator Ji-Yoon Han has invited seven artists to invest the Foundation's premises for a micro-residency.

 

May 11, 2022 — Conference at the MBAM: Temporalité des changements climatiques (in French only)

 

March 19, 20, 26 and 27, 2022 — 40th International Festival of Films on Art

Co-presentation of 3 films as part of the FIFA at Canadian Centre for Architecture (in French only).

 

Mach 2022 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude (Ælab), 2022 winner

 

January 2022 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Heather Davis, 2022 winner

 

August 2021 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Anahita Norouzi, 2021 winner

 

Summer 2021 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Clément de Gaulejac, 2021 winner

 

April 2021 — Publication of the virtual document La cueillette / The Foray

 

March 2021 — 39th International Festival of Films on Art

First participation of the Grantham Foundation at the FIFA (in French only).

 

December 2020 — Creation Residency in Visual Arts of Andreas Rutkauskas, 2020 winner

 

Winter 2020 Léna Mill-Reuillard produce a video capsule during her stay at the Foundation

 

July 1st to July 31, 2020 — Research Residency in Visual Arts of Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, 2020 winners

 

Septembre 22, 2019 Official opening of the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment

 

June 16, 2019 Education

The Foundation welcomes the participants of SéminArts, an educational program of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal offered in collaboration with the Foundation of the Family Claudine and Stephen Bronfman.

 

May 15, 2019 Research

Conference by art historian Bénédicte Ramade Jardiner à l’heure de l’Anthropocène (in French only).

 

May 15, 2019 Research

The Foundation welcomes the Spring Doctoral School of the Réseau international de formation en histoire de l’art in collaboration with the Department of Art History and Cinématographic Studies of the Université de Montréal (in French only).

 

April 25, 2019 Partnership

First grant – the Caisses Desjardins of the Drummond region, first leading corporate partner of the Foundation.

 

March 2019 Creation

Léna Reuillard-Mill, first invited artist. Léna Mill-Reuillard was awarded the « Prix du CALQ - Œuvre de la relève à Montréal, » in  2016 for her  video installation video Machinari . In 2018, she was finalist for the « Prix Pierre-Ayot » of the City of Montreal.