MNBAQ

Official Groundbreaking of the Espace Riopelle Pavilion*

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Sunday, May 5, 2024
Education, City, Nature, Espace, Partnership, Collection, Research, Outaouais, History, Attention, Light, Work, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Face, MNBAQ, Communication, Creativity, Memory, Student, Government, Furniture

The Espace Riopelle* groundbreaking took place just prior to the annual fundraising gala, the Bal National OUTREMER, organized by the MNBAQ Foundation.

Key Points: 
  • The Espace Riopelle* groundbreaking took place just prior to the annual fundraising gala, the Bal National OUTREMER, organized by the MNBAQ Foundation.
  • Construction of the bright and elegant Espace Riopelle pavilion* is scheduled to be complete in 2026.
  • When it opens in 2026, Espace Riopelle* promises to be a dynamic audience experience, allowing visitors to rediscover one of Quebec and Canada's most acclaimed artists.
  • "The official launching today of the Espace Riopelle construction site affords us an opportunity to express our delight with this unifying, innovative project.

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec annonces the launching of the Riopelle Space

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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Bal, Crusader states, MNBAQ, Communication, Furniture

QUEBEC, April 25, 2024 /CNW/ - The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec invite you to attend the official launching of the Riopelle Space construction site and participate in the blue carpet of the Bal national Outremer, the philanthropic event of the Fondation du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec presented by Québecor under the honorary presidency of the company's President and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau.

Key Points: 
  • QUEBEC, April 25, 2024 /CNW/ - The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec invite you to attend the official launching of the Riopelle Space construction site and participate in the blue carpet of the Bal national Outremer, the philanthropic event of the Fondation du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec presented by Québecor under the honorary presidency of the company's President and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau.
  • Jean-Luc Murray, Director General of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), and Julie-Anne Vien, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Fondation du MNBAQ, invite you to the official launching of construction work on the future Riopelle Space, the largest construction site in the cultural sector in Québec, and the arrival of the dignitaries at the Bal national Outremer.
  • Mathieu Lacombe, Minister of Culture and Communications, Bruno Marchand, Mayor of Québec City, Michael Audain, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation, representatives of the architectural firm fabg and CONCREA as well as several other key figures will be present.
  • 5:30 p.m. – Blue carpet of the Bal national Outremer of the Fondation du MNBAQ, arrival of the dignitaries
    Interviews concerning the Riopelle Space are possible on site with:
    Julie-Anne Vien, Chair of the Board of Directors, Fondation du MNBAQ
    Michael Audain, Chair of the Board of Directors, Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation

REMBRANDT - Etchings from the Boijmans Van Beuningen - A great master of the Dutch Golden Age is honoured in Québec City

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Protestantism, Humanism, Stroke, Pablo Picasso, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Artist, Child, Old, Golden Age, Francisco Goya, Charles Mesure, Surrealism, Hendrickje Stoffels, Portrait, Exhibition, Emotion, The Three Crosses, MNBAQ, Anatomy, Drawing, Baroque, Latin School, Gesture, Agreement, Hundred Guilder Print, The Night Watch, Heart, Collection, Light, Judgement, House of Medici, Student, Swanenburg, Tuberculosis, Old Testament, Leiden University, Three Crosses, Garden, Night Watch, History, Friends, Plague, Bible, Painting, Engraving

For Rembrandt, etching was a full-fledged art form equal to painting that he researched passionately throughout his career.

Key Points: 
  • For Rembrandt, etching was a full-fledged art form equal to painting that he researched passionately throughout his career.
  • The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in a nutshell
    The works in this exhibition are drawn from the celebrated print collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, founded in 1849.
  • The exhibition has been made possible by an exceptional loan of artworks from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • It has received financial support from the Québec government and Québec City under the Agreement on Cultural Development.

Construction to begin of the Riopelle Space - The construction firm has been selected, the budget adjusted, and a new series of images produced

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Environment, Education, Capitale-Nationale, Research, History, Communication, Transport, Visual Arts (company), Student, Architecture, Heart, Flux, MNBAQ, Québécois people, Tourism

The budget earmarked for the construction of the Riopelle Space stands at $84 million.

Key Points: 
  • The budget earmarked for the construction of the Riopelle Space stands at $84 million.
  • Since January 2023, the MNBAQ has witnessed a major ballet of artworks in anticipation of the construction of the Riopelle Space.
  • The Riopelle Space will become a meeting point that fosters dialogue between contemporary or emerging artists and Riopelle's work.
  • The inauguration of the Riopelle Space, slated for 2026, will mark the culmination of the celebrations surrounding the centenary of Jean Paul Riopelle's birth.

Generations. The Sobey Family and Canadian Art

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Thursday, February 15, 2024
Borduas, Collection, Beaver Hall Group, G7, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Wonder, Woman, Sobey Art Award, Entrepreneurship, Road work, Exhibition, Krieghoff, Parent, MNBAQ, Kent House, System, Deportation, History, Tree, Memory, Storyteller, Creativity, Painting, Variation, Maurice Cullen, Inuit, Troubled Waters, Heart, Movement, Figure, Sobeys, Worldwide Angel, Beauty, Film industry

The Sobey Family and Canadian Art exhibition affords a unique perspective of Canadian creativity past and present.

Key Points: 
  • The Sobey Family and Canadian Art exhibition affords a unique perspective of Canadian creativity past and present.
  • He maintained the tradition and established the Sobey Art Award, which for over 20 years has highlighted emerging Canadian artists.
  • The Sobey Family and Canadian Art, which admirably rounds out a visit to this remarkable exhibition.
  • The Sobey Family and Canadian was organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinburg, Ontario).

Wonder is front and centre in the MNBAQ's 2024 programming

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Woman, Research, Life, History, Love, Art, G7, Light, Francisco Goya, Collection, Anishinaabe, Heart, Early Days, Painting, Travel, The Three Crosses, First Nations, Golden Age, Environment, Scarlet fever, Royal, Tourism, Pleasure, Student, Aborigine, Entente, Female, Cree, Baroque, Plains Cree, Climate change, Water, Sobey Art Award, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Parent, Festival International, Charles Mesure, Beauty, Partnership, Attention, Humanism, Freedom, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Molinari, Anecdote, Risk, Exhibition, Algonquin, Creativity, Three Crosses, Maurice Cullen, MNBAQ

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is proud to announce that wonder will be front and centre in all the adventures that it is proposing in 2024.

Key Points: 
  • The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is proud to announce that wonder will be front and centre in all the adventures that it is proposing in 2024.
  • Born in Toronto in the late 19th century, Helen McNicoll grew up in Montréal in a well-to-do environment conducive to artistic practice.
  • The breadth of the exhibitions proposed to our visitors will certainly make 2024 a better, indeed, an outstanding year.
  • In the spring of 2024, a colourful new edition of the Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA) will return from March 16 to 24, 2024.

Anahita Norouzi receives the 2023 MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Melbourne International Biennial 1999, Royal Ontario Museum, MFA, Perception, Woman, Red Sun, Politics, The arts, Sobey Art Award, Acquisition, Plant, Royal college, Royal College of Art, Imagination, Award, History, Exequiel Ezcurra, Colonialism, MNBAQ, Culture, Nature, New Gallery, Region, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, Persepolis, Movement, Garden, Photography, Concordia University, Exhibition, Quebec Central Railway, Monograph, Memory, Materiality, Sculpture, Environment, Oboro, Art, Royal Bank of Canada, Film industry, Industrial design, Interior design, Jewellery, Research

Visitors have until January 7, 2024, to visit or revisit the 2023 MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award exhibition, which features Half of the Red Sun, a remarkable installation by Anahita Norouzi, but also striking works by Maria Ezcurra, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Eve Tagny, and Sara A.Tremblay.

Key Points: 
  • Visitors have until January 7, 2024, to visit or revisit the 2023 MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award exhibition, which features Half of the Red Sun, a remarkable installation by Anahita Norouzi, but also striking works by Maria Ezcurra, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Eve Tagny, and Sara A.Tremblay.
  • The MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award, at a glance
    Every two years since 2015, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, in collaboration with the RBC Royal Bank, has presented the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award, a major event on the current art scene.
  • The MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award, which is the only contemporary art prize in Canada that combines exhibition, acquisition and publication, confirms the museum's commitment to playing a leadership role in the realm of Québec art by encouraging promising artists and helping to further their career.
  • The MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award is produced with financial support from the RBC Royal Bank.

View the Night - When Art Becomes a Sensorial, Poetic Experience

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Cosmos, Trident, Painting, Gesture, Paper, Exhibition, Pearson, Heart, Cosmo Campoli, 4 Intimate Nights with Beyoncé, MNBAQ, Life, La Belle, LE, Master of ceremonies, Symphonia (plant), Anthropology, Television, Light, Creativity, Foot, City, Villa Le Trident, Dream, Magic, Indigenous, Sleep, Poetry, Art, Noise, Language, FSC, Indigenous peoples, Collection, Music school, Carrefour, MCQ, Nightclub, Tourism, Entertainment, Pension fund

I love to explore the city on foot at night to enjoy a unique experience," notes Philippe*.

Key Points: 
  • I love to explore the city on foot at night to enjoy a unique experience," notes Philippe*.
  • View the Night is also an encounter with nocturnal light, whether it is natural, like moonlight and starlight, or artificial, like candles and electric lights.
  • Led by Maude Lévesque, exhibition curator, the MNBAQ's teams sought to offer a museum experience that allows art to express itself, unaccompanied by texts.
  • View the Night comprises more than 60 works from the MNBAQ's collections, from ancient art to present-day art, and 15 objects from the collection of the Musée de la civilisation (MCQ).

Jean Paul Riopelle's Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg to shine at the G20 Summit in India

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Friday, September 8, 2023
MNBAQ, Painting, Exhibition, Triptych, Cyberattack during the Paris G20 Summit, History, G20, Government, Mona Lisa, Department of Culture and the Arts, City, Animal, Architecture, Artifact, News, Nightclub, Riopelle

QUÉBEC, Sept. 8, 2023 /CNW/ - Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg (L'Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg), an iconic work by artist Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) showcased at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), will represent Canada in an exhibition taking place alongside the G20 Summit, which starts today in India.

Key Points: 
  • QUÉBEC, Sept. 8, 2023 /CNW/ - Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg (L'Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg), an iconic work by artist Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) showcased at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), will represent Canada in an exhibition taking place alongside the G20 Summit, which starts today in India.
  • Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg was chosen to feature in the G20 Digital Museum exhibition, organized by the Indian government's Department of Culture, which asked all G20 member countries—as well as the nine guest countries—to select a significant work of art.
  • Created in 1992 and acquired by the MNBAQ in 1996, Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg is the largest work ever created by Jean Paul Riopelle.
  • The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is a state corporation funded by the Gouvernement du Québec.

New exhibition From April 25, to September 2, 2024 - Rembrandt. The Art of Etching at the MNBAQ in 2024

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Francisco Goya, MNBAQ, Surrealism, The Three Crosses, Painting, Dutch Republic, Bible, Exhibition, Charles Mesure, Communication, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Baroque, History, Government, Rembrandt, Clermont, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Republic, Student, Collection, Hundred Guilder Print, Three Crosses, Humanism, Golden Age, System, Culture, Dutch Golden Age painting, Environment, Entente, Engraving, Furniture, Impressionism

Rembrandt's art is celebrated for its vivid imagination and emotional richness and has been universally admired since the 17th century.

Key Points: 
  • Rembrandt's art is celebrated for its vivid imagination and emotional richness and has been universally admired since the 17th century.
  • The exhibition, produced through a generous loan from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, will put the spotlight on the MNBAQ in the summer of 2024.
  • The $500 000 contribution comes from the Mesure d'aide financière à l'intention des musées d'État pour des expositions internationales majeures.
  • The Art of Etching exhibition and, above all, to celebrate in Québec City the work of an innovative artist who transcends generations.