Remai Modern

galaMODERN, Saskatchewan’s premiere art event, returns on November 1 at Remai Modern. Be prepared to be inspired and delighted by an amazing experience that explores every unique element of Remai Modern and celebrates the extraordinary Saskatchewan artists we champion. Each year, this unforgettable evening of exceptional cuisine, luxurious spirits, and delectable indulgences will make a huge impact by raising funds for Remai Modern’s essential art education initiatives. Help us support another year of innovative and impactful art programs by attending galaMODERN! Purchase your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gz2AsfPy galaMODERN is presented by Wyant Group. Thanks also to our returning sponsors RBC and Discover Saskatoon.

🖼️🌾 We are excited to report the success of this year’s Virtual Art Saskatchewan program, supported by SaskTel. This joint program between the Mackenzie Art Gallery and Remai Modern provided 1,358 students across the province with 54 transformative learning opportunities. These online art programs inspire creativity, challenge outdated conventions, and foster understanding.    Virtual Art Saskatchewan breaks down barriers by highlighting Indigenous artists from both museums’ public collections. With SaskTel’s support, the MacKenzie and Remai Modern can build meaningful relationships with students across the province through education and open dialogue.   Thank you SaskTel for sponsoring Virtual Art Saskatchewan!   Image credit: David Garneau, Ways of Knowing; Ways of Being, 2003, oil on canvas. The Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Gift of the artist, 2010. 

📣 We are excited to announce the three Saskatoon artists selected to take part in the RBC Sustained Artist Mentorship Program for 2024-25: Gabby DaSilva, Xiao Han and Luke Maddaford! Over a one-year period, the museum will work in collaboration with each artist to develop a program that includes research, public engagement such as artist talks or workshops, and the development and presentation of new work or work in progress. Visit our website to learn more and hear about opportunities to engage with the RBC Sustained Artist Mentorship Program artists. Remai Modern acknowledges the support of @RBC and the RBC Emerging Artists program for their support of this program.

“As curators, we’re not here to tell anybody ‘This is what you have to think; this is how you have to engage,’ or that the museum is supposed to be a quiet place where you passively receive knowledge. It’s about creating space for the viewer to figure out how they want to connect to the work.” Michelle Jacques in The StarPhoenix Thank you to Julia Peterson for speaking with Remai Modern’s Chief Curator & Head of Exhibitions/Collections (and to photographer Michelle Berg for the great pics). We are so grateful for the work she is doing at the museum! Photo by Michelle Berg https://lnkd.in/gJaKVHD9

Join our team! Remai Modern is hiring a Development Associate. This position is responsible for obtaining philanthropic support from donors and prospects through donations, grants and sponsorships, annual giving and planned giving. Make an impact and join a dynamic organization committed to providing art programs for all!

Since opening in October 2017, Remai Modern has contributed more than $100M to the local economy, according to a recent study by the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA). The museum has also had a significant positive impact on labour income, job creation, tourism and the local GDP. “At Remai Modern we are fortunate to see the impact the museum makes through the visitors who connect to our exhibitions, the children who discover their creativity through our programs, and the local organizations we partner with to create a greater sense of community. Thanks to this SREDA report, we are grateful to also have quantitative data that supports Remai Modern’s impact on the local economy,” said Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, Co-Executive Director & CEOs. “We feel privileged to help enhance the quality of life in Saskatoon, to drive tourism and to work near and with local businesses to create a more vibrant city.” Remai Modern also released its 2023 annual report this week, highlighting a year that included doubling the number of visitors over 2022. Read more about both reports on https://lnkd.in/gnnfNfQj Images: 1. Installation view, Bloodline, Meryl McMaster 2. derdie, Installation view, LUGO All Together Now 3. Installation view, All Aboard: Everyone an Artist, Remai Modern 4. Installation View, just beyond, Denyse Thomasos 4. Opening Reception, Oma-je, Laure Prouvost 5. Installation View, just beyond, Denyse Thomasos 6. Installation view, Journal of the Plague Years, Dawna Rose and Betsy Rosenwald Photos: Carey Shaw

Apply by May 29 to the RBC Sustained Artist Mentorship Program! 🚨 Remai Modern is seeking new applicants for a program that supports local artists working in the realm of performance and public practice. The program will engage up to three artists for a one-year period. Successful applicants will receive financial supports, access to museum resources and professional development opportunities. In addition to artist fees, participants will receive a Remai Modern membership, access to staff insight and expertise and mentorship opportunities with visiting artists, cultural workers and other community leaders. 👉 See full details and instructions on applying here: https://lnkd.in/eeMkKEWP Remai Modern acknowledges the support of RBC and the RBC Emerging Artists program.

Join our team! Remai Modern is hiring an Executive Assistant. This role provides a professional level of confidential administrative and executive secretarial support to the Office of CEO, and Senior Leadership team as required. Applications will be accepted until May 10. https://lnkd.in/gmrhW7RV

Announcing a new exhibition opening on May 10! 🎭 How Not to Be Seen features works by a roster of artists from Canada and abroad, including Brook Andrew, Zach Blas, Sandra Brewster, Charles Campbell, Nick Cave, David Garneau, Sondra Perry, Amalia Pica, Hito Steyerl, and Haegue Yang. Visibility in the digital age has become a focal point of investigation. So has its opposite: invisibility. Artists from systematically minoritized and marginalized groups have been at the forefront of modes of thinking and artmaking that explore the latter. The artists in How Not to Be Seen employ strategies either to abstract the self or to use opacity and withdrawal as forms of resistance to these networks of exploitation. From various perspectives and with a range of approaches, these artists all interrupt the expectation that art makes things visible for everyone to see, creating instead new spaces of shelter, protection, and community. Images: 1. Sandra Brewster, Blur Grid, 2016-19, photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, 165.1 299.7 cm. Photo: OPTICA Gallery 2. David Garneau, The Museum and its Discontents (after Holbein and Luna), 2024, acrylic on canvas, 76.5 x 198.5 cm. Photo: David Garneau 3. Haegue Yang, Sol LeWitt Upside Down – Cube Structure Based on Five Modules, Expanded 186 Times #95-D, 2016, aluminum venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, steel wire rope, LED tubes, cable, 435 × 498 × 498 cm. Installation view at Hamburger Kunsthalle. Collection of Remai Modern. Purchased with the support of the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation 2018. Photo: Kay Riechers

Congratulations to Michelle Jacques, Remai Modern’s Director of Exhibitions and Collections/Chief Curator, who was announced as one of this year’s eight winners of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. These awards are the most prestigious distinctions for artistic merit and outstanding contribution to the visual and media arts in Canada. Nominators Sally Frater, Denise Ryner, and Georgiana Uhlyarik had this to say about her work: “Jacques’s contributions to the field are formative and utterly unique. With unwavering commitment, intelligence, vision, wisdom, and above all poise and generosity of spirit, she is an inspiring role model, mentor, and creative thinker of the highest order. She thinks globally, contextually, and multi-disciplinarily, always embedded in the local and the current with the long view of entangled histories.” Photo: Carey Shaw