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Gallery 1
Milutin Gubash
from January 17th 2025 to March 29th 2025
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The artist Milutin Gubash and his practice have always been shaped by a family history marked by uprooting: in the early 1970s, the Gubash family fled the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for Canada. While Milutin Gubash still seeks to create a link with his homeland, his work also reflects on perceptions of cultural, political and social identity. His multifaceted practice offers a critique of political and economic systems that generate injustice and humiliation, within a comprehensive logic of the ancient and modern world.
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Gallery 2
Thomas Kneubühler
from January 17th 2025 to March 29th 2025
The Dividing Line

“If we make mistakes with our border controls, it will hurt Bulgaria” reads the sign next to a painted border guard, armed with an AK 47 and a dog, looking off into the distance as the white plaster crumbles around him, revealing a ruddy brick wall beneath. In Thomas Kneubühler’s new exhibition The Dividing Line, this messiness of the Bulgarian borderscape comes into sharp relief. The past and present comingle. Walking through the gallery space, cut apart by a 30 foot long cold steel fence, we see crumbling Soviet walls juxtaposed with modern surveillance technologies. These contradictions between history and memory, innovation and contestation are common across the world’s borders, ever more so as border control is increasingly mechanized and automated.
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Milutin Gubash, Thomas Kneubühler
from February 8th 2025 to February 8th 2025
Guided tours of the current exhibitions with Milutin Gubash and Thomas Kneubühler Saturday February 8, 3 - 5 pm


OPTICA organizes guided tours of the current exhibitions with the artists in order to explore aspects of the programming in greater depth. This convivial context encourages exchange and discussion with the artists.
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Alvaro Marinho
from January 15th 2025 to November 1st 2025
Alvaro Marinho, Recipient of the Intersections Residency at OPTICA

The Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), Contemporary art centre OPTICA, and UQAM’s École des arts visuels et médiatiques (ÉAVM) are very pleased to announce that Alvaro Marinho is the recipient of the Research, Creation, and Production Intersections Residency 2025.
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Programme éducatif public| Public Education Program OPTICA 2024-2025
from October 20th 2024 to June 14th 2025
Public Education Program | Fall - Spring 2024-2025

OPTICA’s public education program proposes various creative workshops and interactive tours for audiences of all ages, from 4 and up. Daycare centres, public and private, elementary schools, high schools, colleges, universities, retirement homes and community organizations can all participate in our activities. These ones place in an atmosphere conducive to discussion and reflection, in order to learn more about current creative production.
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Clara Gutsche
from November 27th 2024 to November 27th 2024
NEW PUBLICATION

Launch of the monograph
Clara Gutsche. Portraits d’enfants. Children
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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Clara Gutsche Portraits d'enfants. Children
Optica, Montreal, 2024.
180 p., 26.6 x 20.6 cm / color and B&W ill.
Softcover printed book
Texts in French and English
ISBN 978-2-922085-16-7
$50 or 67,25$ [Shipping included in the price]

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