Buhler Gallery

Opening reception: 6-9pm, 11 September 2024

“The pluck of water” is a phrase the Irish poet Seamus Heaney used in his poem ‘The Diviner’ to describe the sensation experienced by a man using a fork of hazel wood to detect water hidden underground. Heaney’s words also aptly describe the pull of the artworks in this exhibition, which act like divining rods bringing us to rills of meaning and connections, beauty and questions.

This is a group exhibition featuring work by KC Adams, Alexis Auréoline, Jaime Black, Sarah Crawley, Chantal Dupas, Laila Fazal, Noëlla Gauthier, Ariel Gordon, Ted Howarth, Jennine Krauchi, Mathew Lacosse, Erika MacPherson, Tracy Peters, Chuckwudubem Ukaigwe, Katherena Vermette, and Diane Whitehouse.

Curated by hannah_g

St. Boniface Hospital's COVID-19 Time Capsule, a combination of letters, postcards, photos, and memorabilia provided by staff and patients of the hospital, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be sealed, only to be opened in 2050. The time capsule commemorates the massive effort of SBH staff and physicians to provide care during the health scare of the century, and also contains a letter and instructions for the future hospital administration of the day. Our hope is to honour our people by reminding future generations of the dedication, resilience and perseverance that was demonstrated at SBH throughout the pandemic.
The pandemic-era artifacts were suggested and contributed by SBH staff and physicians over the past several months. They will be sealed in the time capsule along with postcards written last summer during SBH's Post-Pandemic Postcards project, which was funded by St. Boniface Hospital Foundation and saw specially designed postcards made available to those who wanted to express a message or memory. The initiative was designed to assist people with moving on from the pandemic.
Other items to be stored in the time capsule include photos, thank you cards, and COVID-19 test kits.
The Galerie Buhler Gallery, which partnered with the hospital and the Foundation on the project, has agreed to store the time capsule until it is opened on March 12, 2050 - the 30th anniversary of the first appearance of a COVID-19 case at St Boniface Hospital.

Watch this space …

Last nights talk by and about their film Don’t let the sun catch you crying and their exhibition Draw we are together was a moving, funny, and inspiring event ❤️ the video of it by will up on GBG website in a few weeks.

Please join us for an artist talk by and at GBG on Thursday June 27th at 7pm.
As part of their exhibition, the talk will explore the process of making our short film Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying.
Sam and Gil made beautiful music for the film and will be doing a live performance.

Opening reception: 6 - 8 pm, Wednesday 8 May 2024
Artist Talk: 27 June.

Draw we are together is an exhibition based on the short film “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying,” created by Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. In this hand-drawn animated documentary, mother, elder, and narrator Edith Almadi navigates the grief of losing her son by following his request to “draw we are together.” The exhibition transforms animation ephemera into new artworks that connect themes of grief, memory, and imagination within the same cosmos, and shares the magic of frame-by-frame animation as well as the labour it requires. The film and exhibition are the result of ten years of creative collaboration with each other and in their community, following ideas and processes that grow from enjoying time making art together each week.

With the generous support of the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council.

Such a great talk by at GBG about his practice and his expo Needful Stones. Catch the video of it on GBG’s website in a few weeks😊

Operatic Recital Class from Desaultes Faculty of Music give their end of year recital at GBG 💚

Join us on Thursday 8th February, 6 to 8 pm for the opening reception of exhibition Needful Stones. This exhibition of a series of lithographic prints and intaglio prints and drawings explores the relationship between humans and stone.

Jonathan Green’s powerful prints and sculptures treat stones as beings capable of influencing us. This opens up the possibilities rock holds, including that they might want to work with an artist to make a drawing. This contemplative exhibition invites us to see what happens when we pay attention and allow our intuition to guide us.

Green has long thought of lithography as a collaboration between stone and human. To print from the stone is to learn it’s quirks, it’s subtle responses or come across ‘ghosts’ of its history. The variegated texture of Manitoban Tyndall stone, believed to be created by creatures burrowing through the mineral, promises even more interaction – an inhuman agency. It demonstrates participation in what Jeffery Jerome Cohen has termed “an ecology of human-lithic enmeshment” (Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman, 2015). Meaning, a relationship in which rock and human a/effect each other. This implies a boundary between animate life and inanimate life that is more permeable than we currently imagine.

The stones in these artworks are propped up, or, “shored up” as if the artist is trying to align or assist them through crude means. By working with stone, and of stone, Green is collaborating with a cold but (perhaps) sympathetic companion. One that has seen catastrophe before. More than simply inert resources to extract, copper and stone may help guide us through changing notions of time and place. Helping us conceive of blueprints beyond our limited frames of reference in the face of calamity.

A very glum tunnel has been cheered up by the brilliant artist duo Natalie Baird & Toby Gillies with their painting team. Outside Light is a 300 foot mural in the McEwan tunnel at St. Boniface Hospital. Generously supported by The Winnipeg Foundation, the Jewish Foundation, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation.

Building a Future Beyond Fossil Fuels: Organizing for a just transition in Manitoba

Free workshop with Laura Cameron | Nov 8 | 1 hour | 6.30pm email [email protected]

Coming soon …
Opening reception 7-9pm Thursday 7 Sept

Manitoba Rural & Northern
Juried Art Show is up at GBG until 27 August- come check it out! Reception on Sunday 13th, 1-4pm. Images feature details from: Waiting for the right moment by Lena Williams; Final Destination (La Grande Hermine) by Robert Greenlay; Our Lady of Sunflower Sorrows by Teresa Burrows; Lily - Takeoff by Rita Shields.

St. B is marking the end of the Covid 19 pandemic by asking staff and visitors to note down some of their thoughts & experiences during the pandemic. After we have displayed them they’ll be going in a time capsule … Lovely design by !

Monster painting workshop with Ten Yetman! Part 1!

Had a lovely visit from the artists group 😊

Tomorrow’s workshop by Ten Yetman is fully booked! Thank you for all your enquires! The exhibition is not fully booked so make sure you check out this gorgeous exhibition by and !

Up next! VIVID ENCOUNTERS- Ten Yetman and Bîstyek. We are VERY excited for this exhibition 🤩Opening reception 27 April, 6-8pm.

Another visit from the lovely and also .wasney.jewellery.art —what a treat! Remember, Home from Home closes Friday! Recption 6-8pm! 🍷🥤or make an appointment to see the show before! [email protected]

Tayler Buss getting interviewed on !

Home from Home. Open by appointment. Closing reception Friday 14 April, 6-8pm. Photographs by Larry Glawson and Tayler Buss. Email [email protected]

Lovely to have a visit from Doug Melnyk and his sister Eileen to see his partner, Larry Glawson’s exhibition, Home from Home, at GBG! ❤️. Make yr appointment to see the show! And join us for the closing reception on Friday 14 April, 6-8pm !😍🍾

Make an appointment to this lovely exhibition, Home from Home with work by Larry Glawson and Tayler Buss 🙂 email [email protected]

Or wait until the public reception on Friday, the 14th of April at 6 pm. 🍾

Hanging the next exhibition! Make an appointment to see Larry Glawson and Tayler Buss’ work in Home from Home at GBG. Fully open to the public from 1 April, so join us for a reception on Thursday 6 April, 6-8pm 🥂

coming up at GBG! Larry Tayler and Tayler Buss in the photography exhibition Home from Home.

Unseen St. B. Is coming down, but the next show will be a real beauty …!

We launched the catalogue for Unseen St. B exhibition today! Such wonderful photos by the folks at the hospital. Make an appointment to see the 15th anniversary expo, it’s a really special one 🙂 email [email protected]

As trained ambassadors of the gallery, volunteers warmly welcome visitors, provide information about the exhibitions, participate in special orientation sessions where they can frequently meet the artists, and undertake a variety of other tasks to ensure GBG’s smooth operation. Their contribution is invaluable.

GBG is open every day and shifts last either 2 or 4 hours. In return for volunteering 4 consecutive hours you receive a meal coupon and a parking coupon. If you volunteer for 25+ hours, we can act as a reference.

This is an ideal opportunity for students, who can study between gallery visitors and those seeking a quiet role in a meaningful environment. Volunteers are required to wear a mask during their shift.

Interested? Contact St. B.’s Volunteer Services team: 204 237 2442 | [email protected]

“Unseen St. B.” is up until 5 Jan so make an appointment to see this very special 15th anniversary exhibition 😍 install shots by . Email tgadd .mb.ca