This Week at Agnes

Agnes is shortlisted for seven GOG Awards!

Each year Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries (GOG) awards highlight excellence in exhibitions, art writing, art publications, design (and more!) across Ontario. Agnes is PUMPED to be shortlisted for seven awards! Check out the list below.

Agnes staff will be out in full force at the awards gala on 3 December at the Harbourfront Centre to (hopefully) accept some awards and cheer on our colleagues. Wish us luck!

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys Opens!

This month, Agnes unveils Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys, an innovative and landmark exhibition featuring works from the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of Art at Agnes in chorus with five contemporary artists, Winsom Winsom, Camille Turner, Jessica Karuhanga, Anthony Gebrehiwot and Jill Glatt.

A year in the making, this exhibition, curated by Agnes’s Associate Curator, Arts of Africa, Qanita Lilla, opens at Museum London on Thursday 21 November at 7 pm with a special reception, which will include an in-person tour from  Dr Lilla that will provide additional context for the exhibition and details on her curatorial process. Learn more about the launch event by visiting Museum London’s website.

Celebrating the late Dr Alfred R Bader: A 100th Birthday Symposium

Bader Curator of European Art Suzanne van de Meerendonk will join Tanya Paul, Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), and prizewinning violinist Katya Poplyansky for the “Exhibition & Performance” session of this day long symposium to celebrate the late Dr Alfred Bader.

Van de Meerendonk and Paul will provide highlights of their recent collaborative exhibition at MAM: Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader. Themes from this exhibition, which focused on Alfred Bader’s biography and the values his life story instilled, in turn inspire the performance by Poplyansky of works by composers Heinrich Biber (1644-1704), Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt Gramatte (1899-1974), and Ana Sokolovic (1968-).

Registration for this free symposium can be found here.  The Exhibition & Performance session takes place at 5:15pm.

The Dreams of Sentences

Join us for an immersive evening with writer and artist, Renee Gladman whose work inhabits the spaces between crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture. Gladman guides us through a spectrum of thought, where sentences become drawings, drawn lines orchestrate sound and music articulates the unknown.

Gladman is the author of numerous books, including novels, artist’s monographs and exhibition catalogues. She has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021.

A conversation follows the artist’s talk, moderated by independent curator and scholar, Safia Siad.

Curated by Nasrin Himada, Associate Curator of Academic Outreach and Community Engagement.

Get your tickets here: The Dreams of Sentences.