Past Events

 

Two conversations on the intersections of love and politics in contemporary art practices

Organized by Christine Shaw and Adrian Blackwell

March 18 and March 25, 2010 @ 7:00 pm
The conversations will take place in Model for a Public Space [knot]

Reading Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle

 

Mammalian Diving Reflex: You Can Have It All

2-part performance by Mammalian Diving Reflex with the Council of Expertly Aging Experts on Aging
Friday February 12, 7-9:30 pm
Saturday February 13, 7-9 pm

 

 

Talk & Tour of Will Kwan’s Exhibition: Multi-lateral

JMB Gallery, Hart House, with artist Annie Onyi Cheung and writer Minna Lee
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Location: JMB Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto

 

 

Cultural Activism Today: The Art of Over-Identification

Talk by BAVO
Monday, November 23, 2009, 7pm
Location: JMB Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto

 

 

Mark Lewis: In a City

Hart House Debates Room
Lecture by Mark Lewis
6 - 7 pm

Mark Lewis will speak about his work at a special public lecture in conjunction with the opening of his exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery on September 8 at 6 pm.

 

Venice Send Off Party: Thursday April 30, 2009 (8:30 - 12:00 am)

On the occasion of the 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia please join us for a party to celebrate Canada's officical presentaion of Mark Lewis: Cold Morning. Commissioned for the Canada Pavilion by Barbara Fischer.

 

Venice Apprentice: April 3 - June 8, 2009

Apprenticeship Opportunity of a Lifetime with the Canadian Pavillion at the 2009 Venice Biennale !

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, in partnership with Hart House and Aeroplan, is accepting applications for The Venice Apprentice: U of T at la Biennale di Venezia 2009.

In response to this rare and extraordinary opportunity, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, with Hart House and Aeroplan, is launching a competition for a Venice Apprentice. Four University of Toronto students will be selected through an online application process to compete for the one Venice Apprentice position.

 

International Curatorial Residency with Anselm Franke (Director of Extra City, Antwerp)
February 16 - March 6, 2009

Public Lecture
Tuesday March 3, 2009
7:00 to 8:00 pm
University College, Room 140. Univeristy of Toronto.

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and Partners in Art announce the launch of an International Curator in Residence program at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto. The first curator invited in the international series is Extra City Director Anselm Franke who will be in Toronto from February 16 to March 6, 2009 to conduct research for his upcoming projects and collaborations with Toronto-based art institutions.

 

 

Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche 2008: Sweet Dreams
Saturday October 4th, 2008
7:00 pm to sunrise

Installations and video projections by Dean Baldwin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Luis Jacob and Noam Gonick, Morris/Trasov Archive, Pipilotti Rist, Kevin Schmidt, and Roman Signer explore the capacity of the imagination in the interstices of dreaming and waking, and its possibilities to conjure imaginary futures, ideals and fantasies to transform the everyday.

 

 

Paul Butler's Collage Party at the JMB Gallery
Sunday March 9th to Wednesday March 12, 2008. Reception: Sunday March 9th, 1 to 4 pm

Collage Party , Paul Butler's nomadic world-wide studio experience lands at the JMB Gallery! On Sunday, March 9 join in this free-form art jam-session: make collages with local artists and take advantage of an exploratory, informal space organized around play, interaction and experimentation.

 

 

Boris Groys: "Religion as Medium"
Thursday, January 24th at 4 pm

Please join us for a lecture on New Media and Religion by Boris Groys. Followed by a reception.

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery’s first “Theorist-in-Residence” lecture is organized jointly with the Blackwood Gallery (UTM), the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (U of T), Goethe-Institut, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and Hart House.

 

 

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
February 4th - March 2nd, 2008

Film & Video Programme, Symposium & Workshop

Films and videos by international artists and directors play for the duration of the exhibition. Programming ranges from documentaries on art and culture under the siege of war to reflections on war and violence by artists. Films and videos play in three locations: the Blackwood Gallery’s Video Wall (BGVW), the Blackwood Gallery (BG), and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (JMBG).

 

 

Ben Tong: bin·oc·u·lar
December 4th, 2007 – January 31st, 2008

A series of stereoscopic interventions throughout Hart House.

Curated by the Hart House Art Committee and organized by Aileen Burns.

 

 

Rightfully Yours,
November 16 - December 30, 2007

Rightfully Yours, considers performative insertions into daily activities implicated in the politics and ethics of institutions, professions, sexuality, and nationalism.

Wendy Coburn, Steven Cohen, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alicia Framis, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Mingering Mike, Mattias Olofsson, The Yes Men, Camille Turner, Sislej Xhafa, Your personal viewing of Borat, Ali G, and Bruno.

Curated by Tejpal Singh Ajji, Curator-in-Residence

 

 

Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche: "Night School"
Saturday September 29, 2007 (7:03 pm to sunrise)

Hart House is a one-night ‘school of the night’. Performance, installations and instructional tapes explore subtexts of education, including vernacular knowledge and slidings between the disciplines.

Produced by the curatorial team of Barbara Fischer, Ann MacDonald, Tejpal Ajji, Maiko Tanaka, Aileen Burns and Day Milman.

 

 

Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven
September 13 - October 28, 2007

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), in collaboration with the Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto at Mississauga), presents the first major survey of works by Kelly Mark in Toronto. Bringing together key works from the last ten years, the exhibition includes drawing, sculpture, video, performance, audio work, as well as multiples and recent, television-based projects.

Curated by: Barbara Fischer

 

 

Nuit Blanche: Dark Hart
(a collaborative project by FASTWÜRMS and Instant Coffee)
September 30, 2006 (7:03 pm to sunrise)

Two of Toronto’s best-known artists’ teams join up for a 12-hour atmospheric performance in the belly of the University of Toronto’s historic Hart House. FASTWÜRMS (the duo of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse) and Instant Coffee (a service oriented collective of many members) collaborate on DARK HART, a music/video/soft architecture/performance/sound event in the swimming pool and the main floor Reading Room.