Talk with Artist Caroline Monnet & Curator Mona Filip
Join us for a talk by Artist Caroline Monnet and Curator Mona Filip
while touring Monnet’s exhibition, Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute.
Join us for the launch of our Spring/Summer Exhibitions on Friday 23 May, 6-9pm.
The Calgary Marathon is happening on this day. Please plan your route in advance.
West and North routes into Inglewood may be closed, but Esker Foundation should still be accessible from the east via 9 Avenue SE and the south via 12 Street SE.
Please see the map linked here for the best way to get to Esker Foundation.
Our free underground parkade and surface parking will remain available.
Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Québec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada before pursuing a career in visual arts and film. Her work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial, New York City; Toronto Biennal of Art; KØS Museum, Copenhagen; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Solo exhibitions include Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Arsenal Contemporary, New York City; and Centre d’art international de Vassivière, France. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America as well as the permanent UNESCO collection in Paris. Her films have been extensively programmed at international film festivals including TIFF and Sundance. In 2016, she was selected for the Cannes Festival Cinéfondation residency in Paris. Monnet is recipient of the 2020 Pierre-Ayot award and the Merata Mita Fellowship of the Sundance Institute, and she was recently named Compagne des arts et des lettres du Québec. She is based in Montréal and is represented by Blouin-Division Gallery.
Mona Filip is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Calgary. Originally from Bucharest, where she began her artistic education, Filip received her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Recently appointed, Chief Curator at Contemporary Calgary, Filip’s curatorial practice spans almost two decades and over forty exhibitions and sitespecific projects. With an idea-driven and dialogue-focused approach, she collaborates with artists to produce experiential and immersive installations that transform the familiar gallery space, meaningfully respond to unconventional sites, and engage the public on sensorial, emotional, and intellectual levels. She developed first public gallery shows in Toronto of prominent Canadian artists such as Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Sameer Farooq, Karen Tam, and José Luis Torres, and first Canadian exhibitions of acclaimed international artists Raphaël Zarka (France) and Christian Hidaka (UK), Sigalit Landau (Israel), Esther Shalev-Gerz (France), Isabel Rocamora (UK/ Spain), Iara Freiberg (Brazil/ Argentina), and Joshua Neustein (USA).