Top 3 Montreal Vernissages This Week – November 13 to 15

As Montreal settles into November’s rhythm, its galleries are brimming with exhibitions that reimagine how we experience art itself. This week’s selection highlights three openings that challenge perception, blur disciplines, and remind us that visual art remains one of the most dynamic conversations happening in the city.

Each vernissage from a dual sensory experiment at Pangée to introspective clay forms at Wishbone and a visionary ecological narrative in Villeray invites the viewer not only to look, but to question how art mediates the boundaries between body, space, and thought.

1. Gather + Dreamachine

📍 Galerie Pangée, 1305 Avenue des Pins Ouest, Montréal
🕔 Thursday, November 13, 2025 — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Few spaces in Montreal balance intimacy and innovation as deftly as Galerie Pangée, perched above Avenue des Pins. The gallery’s latest double exhibition invites visitors into a multi-sensory encounter with form, light, and rhythm.

Gather intertwines the delicate graphic worlds of Russel Banx and Catherine Desroches with the sculptural gestures of Jennifer Rose Sciarrino. Their works collectively explore the porous boundary between human and non-human, presence and perception. Banx and Desroches trace emotional topographies in graphite and ink, while Sciarrino anchors their fragility in material weight, glass, resin, and organic matter that appear to breathe.

In parallel, Dreamachine introduces a more experimental proposition: a constellation of self-oscillating light structures generating their own frequencies. Visitors are encouraged not just to view, but to tune in to experience the pulse of visual rhythm as a form of consciousness. The result is immersive, meditative, and strangely communal; art here becomes both phenomenon and participant.

2. L’Autre Rive & Mythologies Silencieuses

📍 Galerie Wishbone, Belgo Building, 372 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, Suite 406, Montréal
🕔 Thursday, November 13, 2025 — 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Now nestled in its new Belgo space, Galerie Wishbone inaugurates the venue with two debut solo exhibitions that reflect on memory and material intuition.

In Mythologies Silencieuses, Barbara Ottevaere gives form to the invisible through clay, a medium that carries both fragility and permanence. Her sculptures emerge from an instinctive process that favors listening over control; surfaces bear the trace of gesture, pause, and repetition. Each piece feels like a fossilized moment of thought, bridging introspection and physicality.

Facing her in dialogue, André Clouâtre presents L’Autre Rive, curated by Gabrielle Poliquin. His paintings evoke the raw poetics of art brut, translating rural memory and dream logic into symbolic scenes. Texture plays a crucial role here: Clouâtre’s brushwork reveals labor, both agricultural and artistic as a shared act of endurance.

Together, the two exhibitions turn the gallery into a space of resonance. Clay, canvas, and recollection converse quietly, suggesting that creation itself is a form of listening.

3. Daniel Corbeil – The End of Icebergs / New Drawings

📍 Hangar 7826, 7826 Rue Foucher (in the alley), Villeray, Montréal
🕓 Saturday, November 15, 2025 — 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

At Hangar 7826, artist Daniel Corbeil continues his exploration of the uneasy dialogue between technology and ecology. Known for blending speculative design and environmental critique, Corbeil approaches visual art as both inquiry and proposition.

The End of Icebergs expands upon his long-term project of the same name, a critical reflection on humanity’s attempt to engineer climate stability. The exhibition presents new drawings that function as fragments of a larger visual narrative, a post-industrial mythology where organic and synthetic systems intertwine.

Curated by Marie Perrault, this series occupies a conceptual space between documentation and fiction. The works oscillate between the precision of technical schematics and the lyricism of natural forms, producing a tension that mirrors our collective uncertainty about the future.

Hangar 7826, modest in scale yet ambitious in vision, continues to prove that some of Montreal’s most forward-thinking exhibitions happen off the traditional gallery circuit.

Closing Notes

This week’s vernissages illustrate the diversity and intellectual rigor defining Montreal’s visual arts landscape. From the sensory awareness of Dreamachine to the tactile introspection of Mythologies Silencieuses and the speculative ecology of The End of Icebergs, each show redefines what it means to encounter art, not as decoration or statement, but as experience.

Learn More

For more exhibitions, radio features, and visual art events happening across Montreal, visit:
🎧 In Situ Radio Magazine
📻 Radio Centre-Ville 102.3 FM
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