Location: Art Talks Area, Luxembourg Art Week
Language: French
Guest speakers:
Abdelilah Chiguer, general director, Chiguer art contemporain
Louise Déry, Director of the Galerie de l’UQAM
Milly A. Dery, general and artistic director, Fonderie Darling
Anie Deslauriers, general director, the Contemporary Art Galleries Association – AGAC
Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, curator of contemporary Quebec and Canadian Contemporary Art at the MMFA
As part of the Focus Montréal, this roundtable aims to deepen the understanding of the Montreal art scene through the perspectives of its key players, who contribute to its dynamism. The panel will bring together Montreal-based personalities (institutional representatives, gallerists, etc.) to provide a panorama as comprehensive as possible.
Biography
Anie Deslauriers was appointed as General Director of the Contemporary Art Galleries Association in February 2024. After 15 years as Assistant Director at Blouin Division Gallery, where she developed new markets, organized numerous exhibitions and participated in Canadian and international fairs, she joined the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Foundation as Philanthropic Development Officer. Over the course of her career, Ms. Deslauriers has forged close ties with several key players and partners from various fields, while proudly defending the interests inherent to the Canadian artistic ecosystem.
Louise Déry (PhD in art history) is the director of Galerie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Previously, she was a curator at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and was the director of the Musée de Rimouski. She has curated about a hundred exhibitions and edited just as many publications in Canada and abroad, dedicated to Nancy Spero, Dominique Blain, Sarkis, Michael Snow, Jean-Luc Nancy, Enrique Ramírez, and Emmanuelle Léonard, and especially David Altmejd, for whom she curated the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007). She is currently dedicating an exhibition to Altmejd at the Galerie de l’UQAM under the title Agora. She has received several distinctions, including the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts Prix (2015), the Ordre des arts et des Lettres de France (2017), the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (2021), and the Ordre national du Québec (2023).
Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre is Curator of Contemporary Quebec and Canadian Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where she holds the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair. Her research and curatorial interests focus particularly on questions of identity and cultural issues as explored through contemporary artistic practices.
