MOMENTA Biennale presents 19th edition In Praise of the Missing Image
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, September 4, 2025


MOMENTA Biennale presents 19th edition In Praise of the Missing Image
Courtesy of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain.



MONTRÉAL.- MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain presents its 19th edition, starting September 10, 2025. Curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, the Biennale has partnered with Montreal museums, galleries, and artist-run centres to offer the public a series of exhibitions that explore In Praise of the Missing Image.

Presented in 11 exhibition spaces across the city, the Biennale’s programming will form a dialogue among the work of 23 Canadian and international artists, representing 14 countries, 4 provinces, and 5 Indigenous communities. From one exhibition to the next, artists will explore hybridization, fluidity, and fugitivity to create emancipatory images that reveal marginalized or erased narratives.

In Praise of the Missing Image, developed by guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi, explores contemporary issues around images and the consequences of the complex dynamics that shape their narratives. Her observation is unequivocal: “In a world saturated with images, some, strangely, are lacking.” This edition of MOMENTA presents these absences in a historical perspective by examining their current significance and scope. The Biennale’s exhibitions, publication, and public programs will all be centred around this theme. Conceived as a gathering that will draw its strength from the active co-presence of many, the 2025 edition will open spaces for dialogue, hospitality, and the expression of struggles and solidarities wherein decolonial and feminist pedagogies and ancestral knowledge intersect. The narratives and gestures employed by these artists will evoke the vital necessity of bringing together diverse voices and stories, and will underline the transformative and healing experience of choosing consonant words and forms to speak of oneself.

This year MOMENTA celebrates its 19th edition, and also its first as a contemporary art biennale. Within this unusual blending of old and new is the most accurate expression of what truly sets biennales apart in the field of art. Biennales embrace the future while being firmly rooted in the present.

Exhibition program

Levitate
At Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Iván Argote
September 11, 2025–March 8, 2026

Twòn Kreyol
At Galerie de l’UQAM
Raphaël Barontini
September 4–October 25

Place Where the Waters Crossed
At Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Raven Chacon
September 3–November 1

Elegy – for two ancestors
At Galerie de l’UQAM
Gabrielle Goliath
September 4–October 25

Nuna Aliannaittuq
At Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Maureen Gruben
September 11, 2025–March 8, 2026

Underbelly
At Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Anique Jordan
Jul 29, 2025–Feb 1, 2026

Bêtise humaine
At Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Joyce Joumaa
September 11, 2025–March 8, 2026

Ne Karahstánion (Pictures)
At daphne
Martin Akwiranoron Loft
September 5–October 25

The Matriarch: Unravelled Threads
At Fonderie Darling
Mallory Lowe Mpoka
September 11–November 23

Must Every Step Touch the Ground?
At Galerie de l’UQAM
Caroline Mauxion
September 4–October 25

Dust
At Dazibao
Na Mira
September 5–October 25

River Water
At Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Niap
September 11, 2025–March 8, 2026

swell of spæc(i)es
At PHI
Josèfa Ntjam
September 10, 2025–January 11, 2026

The Fires Rekindled by Your Last Breaths (Movements I and III)
At Centre CLARK
Myriam Omar Awadi
September 5–October 18

On Lies, Secrets and Silence
At VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine
Frida Orupabo
September 10–November 29

Orchard Station Road
At Centre CLARK
OK Pedersen
September 5–October 18

Indigenous Archival Photo Project: Framing the Creator’s Game
At OPTICA
Paul Seesequasis
September 5–October 18

Rights of Passage
At OPTICA
Lou Sheppard
September 5–October 18

Being There
At Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop – The Anonymous Project
September 11, 2025–March 8, 2026

An Incomplete Calendar
At Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Sanaz Sohrabi
September 11, 2025–March 8, 2026

Rosa Luxemburg Resistant Herbarium
At Fonderie Darling
Paula Valero Comín
September 11–November 23

A community of bodies hosting migrating cells
At Dazibao
Anouk Verviers
September 5–October 25










Today's News

September 4, 2025

L'Space Gallery opens exhibition featuring contemporary fiber art

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and Institute for Latino Studies will host Brenda Cárdenas, Wisconsin Poet Laureate

Judd Foundation to open Donald Judd's restored Architecture Office

Sarasota Art Museum traces four decades of Janet Echelman's path-breaking career

Museum of Fine Arts Houston announces recent acquisitions

The McMullen Museum of Art presents three exclusive exhibitions this fall

Milwaukee Art Museum names Kim Sajet as new Director

Now open: Rodrigo Hernández at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Zentrum Paul Klee to host Gego's first solo exhibition in Switzerland

100+ works from a landmark private collection on view at the Tang during its 25th anniversary

Norton to host blockbuster "Life and Art in Rembrandt's Time"

Jean Degottex's groundbreaking abstraction comes to New York for the first time

Americas Society presents an exhibition on the diverse cultural production of the Amazon

Christie's Paris opens 'Dinh Van, 60 Years of Freedom and Creation'

Milton Avery's 'In the Studio' makes its auction debut at Swann Sept 18

1880 Coiled Hair Stella, 1879 Liberty Head Quintuple Stella and 1874 Bickford Ten each exceed $2 million

DelArt awarded major grants to advance groundbreaking Pre-Raphaelite scholarship

MOMENTA Biennale presents 19th edition In Praise of the Missing Image

Artists announced for 2026 Adelaide Biennial

Exhibition explores the state of suspension that follows exile

Jeu de Paume to open new exhibition Luc Delahaye: The Echo of the World

Design Museum plans overhaul of permanent gallery for 40th anniversary

Hartwig Art Foundation presents premiere of Minor Music at the End of the World by Saidiya Hartman

Alison Bradley Projects opens a three-person exhibition




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 




Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)


Editor: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful