Free of charge
About the MMFA’s Digital Canvas
Every night until April 5, 2026, the facade of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will be illuminated with the projection of EVER MORE, a new video creation by immersive art pioneer Kurt Hentschläger. This captivating work–the fifth commission for the MMFA’s Digital Canvas–explores how our relationship with nature is gradually being replaced by technologically mediated experiences.
About the panelists
Kurt Hentschläger
New York–based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger (born in 1960) studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2013 to 2018. A founding member of the media art duo GRANULAR≈SYNTHESIS (1992-2003), Hentschläger is considered a trailblazer in immersive art. His works—in particular, ZEE, FEED, SOL, SUB, and EKO—combine visual, digital, sound, and scenic art, and are created for physical and virtual venues alike.
Hentschläger’s work has been presented at numerous venues and events throughout the world, including the Venice Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), MoMA PS1 (New York), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), the NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany), the Power Station of Art (Shanghai), and the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City). It has also been shown in Montreal at the Musée d’art contemporain (1999), the Société des arts technologiques (2012), and at several editions of the Elektra festival.
Kelly Jazvac makes art out of plastic waste generated by the advertising industry, as well as other sustainable and repurposed materials. She is co-founder of The Synthetic Collective, a plastic pollution research team that includes scientists, artists and humanists, and whose work plays an influential role in her artistic practice. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (East Lansing), Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw), and FIERMAN Gallery (New York). She has been written about in publications such as National Geographic, e-flux Journal, Hyperallergic, Artforum, The New Yorker, Canadian Art Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her works are held in collections at Museum London, the Musée d’art contemporain, the Yale Peabody Museum, the Royal BC Museum, CDPQ, and in various private collections. Jazvac is based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, where she is a Full Professor in Studio Arts at Concordia University, with a focus on sculpture.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West
Reservation terms: Please note that seat reservations are held until the beginning of the event. Once the activity has started, any unoccupied seats will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Major Patrons
Fondation de la Chenelière and Fondation Ariane Riou et Réal Plourde
Patron
The Molson Foundation
Public Partners
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, and Gouvernement du Québec
The MMFA’s Digital Canvas was made possible thanks to funding from Tourisme Montréal’s Fonds de maintien des actifs stratégiques en tourisme (FMAST) program and the Gouvernement du Québec.
