Major exhibitions

At the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, see Painting Nature with a Mirror, a portrait of 1980s painting in Canada, Points of Light, 40 years of moving image art, and Arthur Jafa's cinematic montage Love is the Message, the Message is Death. The Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain features music-oriented installations and video by British artist Phil Collins, and Eva & Franco Mattes’s Internet-focused video and sculptural works – on February 29, take part in public performance event “Oversharers Anonymous" and go dancing at the Bring Down The Walls Club Night with Brooklyn's Soul Summit. Arsenal Contemporary Art hosts Imagine Van Gogh, an immersive experience of the artist's paintings.

Must-see gallery shows

Galerie de l’UQAM presents climate-change focused These Rooms of Earth and Stones by Michel Boulanger and Katja Davar and Heidi Barkun's in vitro fertilization exhibition Let's Get You Pregnant! The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents multi-artist exhibition In the No Longer Not Yet, operating on the premise that the apocalypse is not to come but ongoing. See film art exhibition Quand nous sommes / When we are, inspired by the third cinema of Patricio Guzman, at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. Galerie D’Este presents reflective duo exhibition Pause Papier : Les mondes de Karine Demers et Megan Herwig.

At La Guilde see Nunavut artist Jessie Oonark's Artworks - Still Very Much Alive and Love-Struck Souls by jeweller Aurelie Guillaume. The Museum of Jewish Montreal presents large-scale photography exhibition Snapshots from the Garden of Eden by Canadian contemporary artist Dina Goldstein – and check out live music, burlesque and a biergarten on Nuit blanche! Stop by Mile-Ex cultural space Never Apart to see their winter exhibitions – Never Apart co-hosts a Nuit blanche à Montréal event at Eastern Bloc too! And there's more art to discover while gallery hopping and antiquing in the city.