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Looking for fun FREE things to do in the city this summer? The Power Plant is a place to be!⚡️ Don’t miss the thought-provoking art of our time by Canadian artists June Clark and Terence Gower - there’s less than a month left before shows close on August 11, 2024!

Get ready for a night like no other at the Trip The Breaker Dance Party! 🔥🪩⚡️ On Thursday, April 4, from 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM, experience the takeover of The Power Plant’s gallery space with energy, music, and dance, brought by Sole Power! Tickets are selling out fast – get yours today! https://lnkd.in/dJA384aW

Jen Aitken's first major institutional solo show, The Same Thing Looks Different, will be on view at The Power Plant starting June 23! @aitkenjen is a Toronto-based artist working primarily with sculpture. Aitken's practice considers how we relate to space, form, and material as we move through our urban environment. Common building materials—concrete, wood, and fibreglass—are formed into unexpected and ambiguous configurations that engage with the viewer's body and interact with the gallery's architecture. The upcoming exhibition will feature both new commissions and a selection of existing concrete sculptures. Aitken will also debut her first video installation, animating the geometric lexicon of her sculptures into an immersive prelude to the exhibit. ⚡ Meet Jen Aitken and the other exhibiting artists of our Summer 2023 exhibition season at the opening party on Thursday, June 22! https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/exhibitions/the-same-thing-looks-different Images: Jen Aitken, Altered Cylinder A (Reaching), 2023. Epoxy resin and fibreglass cloth. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid #JenAitken #ThePowerPlantTO #Summer2023

Congratulations to our talented RBC Emerging Artist Network participant Hajar Moradi, whose animated film The Shadow of My Life has been nominated for Best Animated Short at the Canadian Screen Awards! Written and directed by Moradi, The Shadow of My Life is about an artist who, after migrating to Canada, finds herself struggling with depression and finding her place as an artist in her new context. The film tells a story about how art comes to save an artist. Hajar Moradi is an Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Toronto. She is interested in mobilizing art to start conversations about questions of identity, resilience, and politics in practices of being and belonging. Her painting, installation, and video works deal with subjects such as memory, displacement, inclusivity, and female identity in contemporary society. Watch the Awards on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 8 PM on CBC and CBC Gem! #CanadianScreenAwards #CanadianScreenAwards2023 #TheShadowOfMyLife #HajarMoradi

For the month of January, we are offering a 10% discount on select artist editions at The Power Plant's online shop! 🖼️ Grow your art collection with original artworks by renowned artists, including Alicia Henry, Shelagh Keeley, Derek Sullivan, Dawit L. Petros, and many more! ⚡Check out the SALE section in our shop: https://shop.thepowerplant.org/SALE-c142741006 Artworks: 1. Vivian Suter: La Canícula (set of four prints), 2018 2. Alicia Henry: Untitled (original drawings), 1996-2006 3. Candice Breitz: Factum Jacob (colour photograph), 2009 4. Nadia Belerique, Lili Huston-Herterich and Laurie Kang, The Mouth Holds The Tongue (archival inkjet print), 2015 5. Pae White: Future Fabric, 2010 6. Lawrence Weiner: Apropos to Cul-de-sac (print), 2009 #ArtSale #ArtistEditions #OriginalArtwork #ArtShop #GalleryShop #MuseumShop

From our team @ThePowerPlantTO, we wish you a heartfelt Happy New Year! As we look back at 2022, we're grateful for being together in-person again, connecting with thought-provoking artists and art from Canada and the world. We thank all of the artists, thought-leaders, donors and supporters, our visitors, and dedicated staff and volunteers for their contribution to #ThePowerPlantTO. There are so many exciting exhibitions to come in 2023! We look forward to seeing you again on February 2 for the public opening of our Winter 2023 season that will feature a solo exhibition by Indigenous Edmonton-based artist Brenda Draney, British artist Amartey Golding's first solo show in Canada, and a two-part group exhibition that focuses on diverse Ontario-based contemporary artists. Later in the year, as part of our Summer and Fall 2023, we will feature new works by artists Abdelkader Benchamma, Jen Aitken, and Ron Terada that examine the most critical issues of our times. We can't wait to welcome you again to The Power Plant! Images: 1. Abdelkader Benchamma, L'horizon des événements, 2018. Ink on paper, 250 x 150 cm each. Photo: Bertrand Huet/Tutti. 2. Jen Aitken, Balopine, 2015, concrete and foam, 36 x 15 x 28 in. 3. Ron Terada, TL;DR 1, 2017-18. Acrylic on canvas, 26 paintings, 305 x 975 cm. Photo: SITE Photography. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. 4. Amartey Golding, still from Chainmail 3, 2018. Courtesy the artist.

Correio da Manhã Canadá visited us recently to interview our Associate Curator, Noor Alé, about the current exhibition #ArcticAmazon and the issues it raises. The interview was included in their Portuguese-language segment on CMCTV and City TV and in their newspaper! We are excited to reach more Portuguese-speaking audiences here in Toronto! #ThePowerPlantTO #BrazilInToronto #PortugueseToronto #CMCTV #CorreioDaManhaCanada #ThePowerPlantPress

Missed out on these captivating exhibitions at #ThePowerPlantTO? Our Touring Exhibitions program connects contemporary artists of our times to audiences around the globe - don't miss these shows near you! ⚡️ Alicia Henry: Witnessing Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada: Until December 31, 2022 ⚡️ Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air Les Abattoirs, France: Until November 20, 2022 Bahrain National Museum: Until January 5, 2023 ⚡️ Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT Autograph, London, England: November 10, 2022–March 25, 2023 Turku Museum, Finland: June–September 2023 ⚡️ Manuel Mathieu: WORLD DISCOVERED UNDER OTHER SKIES Art Windsor Essex, Canada: October 7, 2022–February 19, 2023 Owens Art Gallery, Canada: September 29–December 8, 2023 Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, United States: April–September 2024 ⚡️ Nathan E. Carson: CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH Art Gallery of Woodstock, Canada: February 18–June 24, 2023 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canada: July–September 2023 Learn more about our Touring Exhibitions: https://thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/Touring-Exhibitions.aspx Images: 1/5. Installation view of Alicia Henry, Witnessing, 2019, The Power Plant 2/5. Installation view of Shona Illingworth, Topologies of Air, 2022, The Power Plant 3/5. Installation view of Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT, 2022, The Power Plant 4/5. Installation view of Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies, 2020, The Power Plant 5/5. Installation view of Nathan Eugene Carson: Cut from the same cloth, 2020, The Power Plant. Photos by Henry Chan #TouringExhibition #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist #ArtExhibition

'What the Barbarians did not do, did the Barberini' (2012) by Hiwa K is a large-scale sand sculpture and video installation that links monuments and sites as distant as Rome’s Pantheon and northern Iraq’s wasteland—filled with metal debris from the war. Created during the artist’s residency at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, this work’s title is borrowed from a Roman expression that refers to Pope Urban VIII’s pillage of bronze from the Pantheon’s portico to create the bronze canopy in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. In history, Pope Urban VIII is recognized for his role as a prominent arts patron, but also for his expansion of papal territory through military force. In this work, Hiwa K builds transcultural and transnational connections to bronze as a metal used both in art and war, gesturing toward the shared relationships between the fields of visual culture, military power, and geopolitics. Influenced by the Pantheon’s coffered concrete ceiling, Hiwa K cast his sand sculpture using moulding techniques that mirror the forms of the building’s dome. ⚡️Come by #ThePowerPlantTO today and tomorrow to take the last look at this impressive installation before we close this season's shows! We're open all weekend long from 10 AM till 6 PM! #HiwaK #DoYouRememberWhatYouAreBurning #ThePowerPlantTO #SummerExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Refugees #Iraq #Kurdistan #KurdishArtist

Only 2 days left until BREATHLESS performance with Angela Schubot! This video is the artwork ‘Fire with Fire’ (2020) by German artist Julius von Bismarck. Stemming from artist’s continuous quest to explore the aesthetics of nature’s calamitous force, this projection depicts unseen images of fire, which von Bismarck captured during various expeditions to forest fire sites in Germany, the Arctic Circle in Sweden, and across California. Presented as part of the BREATHLESS group exhibition, guest-curated by Ala Roushan, the video is projected onto the pavilion every evening. 🔥🌫️⁠ Join us this Wednesday, 10 August, to see this projection come to life together with Angela Schubot’s immersive performance as she explores new dimensions of breath. ⁠ Angela Schubot: A BREATHLESS Performance⁠ 🗓 Wednesday, August 10, 8 PM⁠ - 10 PM 📍 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery⁠ 🎟 Admission is free, sign up below: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/angela-schubot-a-breathless-performance-tickets-388723792327 #Breathless #ContemporaryArt #ThePowerPlantTO #Performance #ArtPerformance

In honour of Emancipation Day in Canada on August 1, we invite you all to contemplate Paulo Nazareth’s DRY CUT public sculptures on display along Toronto’s waterfront. As a part of the exhibition Paulo Nazareth: STROKE—the Brazilian artist’s first solo show in Canada—DRY CUT is a series of sculptures created from a single sheet of unfinished aluminum. Situated along Toronto's waterfront at Canada Square, HTO Park, and Sugar Beach, the four figures depict Civil Rights leaders Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Tommie Smith. Paulo Nazareth speaks in more detail about DRY CUTs and his choice to work with aluminum in an informative pamphlet—read it at the link below: https://thepowerplant.org/thepowerplant/medialibrary/Programs/TPP-Paulo-Nazareth-DRY-CUT-Pamflet_1.pdf Please join us for our upcoming guided Outdoor Sculptures Walking Tour happening on Thursday, August 11, from 5:30 PM - 7 PM! Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/367830740647 #PauloNazareth #Stroke #DryCut #BrazilianArtist #BLM #publicart #publicsculpture #EmancipationDay2022 #OutdoorSculpture #TorontoWaterfront #RubyBridges #MartinLutherKingJr #RosaParks #TommieSmith #ThePowerPlantTO #ThePowerPlant #ContemporaryArt #TorontoArtGallery

“Piercing the threshold separating inside and outside, the breath ignites the force that moves us, thinks us, dreams us, creates us, dances us, BREATHES us… until it does not” The sound you hear in this video is the artwork by interdisciplinary artist Donna Kukama, presented as a part of BREATHLESS exhibition, guest-curated by Ala Roushan. In this sound installation named “Chapter O: …” (2021), Donna’s voice interrupts the circadian rhythm of the pavilion with the asynchronous cadence of her breath, sharing personal narratives as we breathe together. Next Wednesday, August 3 at 8 PM, join us for an immersive dance performance by Angela Schubot at the BREATHLESS pavilion, where together we’ll explore new dimensions of breath. Angela Schubot: A BREATHLESS Performance 🗓 Wednesday, August 3, 8 PM 📍 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 🎟 Admission is free, sign up at the link in bio! #Breathless #ContemporaryArt #ThePowerPlantTO #Performance #ArtPerformance

The name of Hiwa K’s exhibition 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨?, currently presented at The Power Plant, comes from one of his video works with the same title. The video piece depicts a silent protest initiated by Hiwa and done with local activists on the Freedom Square in Saray Azadi, Sulaymaniyah, after two months of civil unrest. To boycott government censorship and military force, the artist invites activists to quietly read a book with a magnifying glass, which harnessed the sun’s rays and erased the book’s contents, letter by letter. This subtle act of collective resistance brings to light human injustices carried out by the regime while alluding to the ongoing longing and struggle for freedom. In our latest interview with the artist, Hiwa goes into more detail about his solo show and highlights the context of his central artworks. Watch the full video on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ItMQQKUn_U&ab_channel=ThePowerPlant #HiwaK #DoYouRememberWhatYouAreBurning #ContemporaryArt #SocialActivism #KurdishArt #ConceptualArt #TorontoArt #VideoPerformance #ArtPerformance #VideoInstallation #TorontoGallery

“When one goes from Mexico to the United States, or from Cuba to Haiti, or the Bahamas to the United States, one is also making a movement of return, searching for freedom; this freedom sometimes never comes.” In his recent interview at #ThePowerPlantTO, Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth talks about his solo show STROKE highlighting the major themes in his work, from the long-lasting effects of colonialism to the continued exploitation of racialized peoples and the appropriation of their lands. Watch the full interview on The Power Plant Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v18bgxMyEzs&ab_channel=ThePowerPlant 📹 Video by Brian Medina #PauloNazareth #Stroke #ThePowerPlantTo #ThePowerPlant #ContemporaryArt #BLM #CivilRights #TheMonsonMotel #SaintAugustine #TorontoArtGallery #ContemporaryArtGallery #TorontoEvents #DestinationToronto

Throwback to 2006 when The Power Plant presented a solo exhibition by renowned artist On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the hills. On Kawara was a Japanese conceptual artist who worked in New York for most of his life. The centrepiece of the exhibition was more than forty paintings from the Today Series, an ongoing project Kawara began on January 4, 1966, intended to culminate at the end of the artist’s life. Kawara builds a layered, monochromatic surface onto which he carefully hand-letters the date in white sans serif script for each painting in the Today Series. At the time of his death in 2014, the Today Series had accumulated almost 3,000 paintings. #Throwback #TodaySeries #OnKawara #ThePowerPlantTO #35YearsofTPP #Toronto #ContemporaryArt #ThePowerPlantArchives Image courtesy David Zwirner

Bring your pups on an outdoor art walk along the waterfront this weekend! 🐾 Come down to the waterfront to see the series of larger-than-life Dry Cut sculptures by Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth. Depicting Civil Rights leaders Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Tommie Smith, find them at Canada Square, HTO Park and Sugar Beach using our #ThePowerPlantTO Outdoor Sculptures Walking Map via the link in our bio. (📸 thanks to @acetherescuehound @acewithsign for sharing his art walk experience!) #PauloNazareth #Stroke #ThePowerPlantTO #SummerArt #PublicArt #ArtWalk @waterfrontbia @torontodogmoms @torontodoglovers #DogLovers #freetorontoevents #dogmoms #dogdads #dogwalking #TorontoDogs

Carolin Köchling, Nuyten Dimes Curator-at-Large @ThePowerPlantTO, shares more about the installation entitled ‘Public Pool’ (2022) and photographs ‘Acid—white only’ (2022), both part of the current Paulo Nazareth: STROKE exhibition now on view through August 28. The works capture The Monson Motor Lodge racist attack on June 18 1964, whereby a Florida motel owner poured muriatic acid onto a group of protesters demonstrating the arrest of #MartinLutherKingJr by jumping into the motel swimming pool. Visit The Power Plant to learn more about this thought-provoking artwork ⚪️ #PauloNazareth #Stroke #ThePowerPlantTo #ThePowerPlant #ContemporaryArt #BLM #CivilRights #TheMonsonMotel #SaintAugustine #TorontoArtGallery #ContemporaryArtGallery #TorontoEvents #DestinationToronto #BlogTo @pivoartepesquisa #BrazilianArtist @carolinkoechling

Have you seen our large-scale DRY CUT sculptures surrounding Canada Square? If not, the four larger-than-life sculptures are coming to a location near you along the waterfront as the four sculptures will be moved to their new homes next week! Here, Nancy McCain & Bill Morneau Curatorial Fellow and Assistant Curator of Paulo Nazareth: STROKE, Jacqueline Kok, explains the series of sculptures that depict key figures in the Civil Rights Movement including Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Tommie Smith, and Martin Luther King Jr. Join us for a special walking tour led by Afro-Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth, Head of Exhibitions & Publications Adelina Vlas, and Interim Head of Public Programs & Outreach Joséphine Denis. Spaces are limited and reservation is essential. 🗓 Thursday, 23 June at 5 PM - 7 PM 📍 Meeting Point at The Power Plant 🎟 Free with registration. This will be the beginning of special public program walking tour series that will take place on select Thursdays at 5PM. We thank Waterfront BIA for their support in bringing these works to more people along with the waterfront community! Click on the link below to reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/367790038907