Exhibitions 2009

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Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999 – Now
January 24 – March 15, 2009
Exhibition

Combining classical cinematic devices with a distinctively jarring, low-tech sensibility, New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova creates dark, narrative video work. This exhibition presents a comprehensive survey of Ruilova’s single-channel videos since 1999. Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999 – Now was co-organized by the Aspen Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art St. Louis.

Where Separate Parts Join
February 20 – June 21, 2009
Collection

This exhibition of photographs from The Banff Centre permanent collection explores the boundaries that separate one thing from another. Taken during the late 1970s, they signify the emerging importance of photography in contemporary art, and include works by Jessica Bradley, Charles Gagnon, Tom Gibson, Jayce Salloum, and Andrew Sylvester.

Steve McQueen: Once Upon a Time
April 25 – July 5, 2009
Exhibition

This spectacular installation by the Turner Prize-winning artist and Britain’s representative at the 2009 Venice Biennale is inspired by the Golden Record, a time capsule NASA sent into space on the 1977 Voyager Mission communicating a story of life on Earth to extraterrestrials.

Post-mortem
July 9 – September 20, 2009
Collection

Post-mortem draws from The Banff Centre permanent collection to reflect on how photography has the peculiar power to create commanding and performative representations of our consciousness, to unveil the spectacle of time and to summon the dead to return. This exhibition includes works by Allyson Clay, Gabor Szilasi, Robert Frank, and Barbara Spohr.

Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position
Silke Otto-Knapp
July 25 – September 27
Exhibition

With this exhibition of recent works, a number of which were created at The Banff Centre, the London-based artist continues to explore her interest in choreographed movement and the construction of pictorial space. With her distinctive technique of luminescent watercolour glazing on canvas, Otto-Knapp works with references ranging from Bronislava Nijinska, George Balanchine, and Yvonne Rainer, to The Banff Centre’s own archive.

Laid Over to Cover
Photography and Weaving in the Salishan Landscape
October 17 – December 13, 2009
Exhibition

Historical and contemporary Coast Salish and Interior Salish weaving, complemented by the contemporary work of Keith Nahanee (Squamish Nation/Coast Salish) and Melvin Williams (Lil’wat Nation/Interior Salish), is juxtaposed with nineteenth century photographic documentation taken in aboriginal territories.