CURRENT EXHIBITION
SPACE: Erdem Taşdelen | Vicissitudes: Act Two
7 December 2019 - 22 February 2020
Opening Reception 6 December 2019 7pm
Two Women I know it’s late afternoon when—as if realizing within a dream that I’ve been dreaming—I notice the moody murmurs of a saxophone at my window. The player is known to appear now and then in front of the Italian restaurant just down and across the street, well-loved for its homemade burrata, richly […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Laure Prouvost & Jonas Staal: Obscure Union
7 December 2019 - 22 February 2020
Opening Reception 6 December 2019 7pm
Be Realistic, Demand the Obscure! We invite you to attend the inauguration of the Obscure Union by the Aube’s cure Parle Ment: a gathering of octopus, plants, signs and breasts as well as support structures of different materiality. Once founded by artists in 1979, Mercer Union will now welcome a gathering of other-than-human comme comrades on a ride that seek new modes at odd of unionization against radical call precarity In no rarity, neoliberal libre of extractivism […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Native Art Department International: Bureau of Aesthetics at KADIST San Francisco
12 October 2019 - 25 January 2020
Opening Reception 12 October 2019 4pm
Mercer Union is the inaugural guest of the Art-Space Residency and Exhibition at KADIST San Francisco. Mercer Union has conceived the residency as an incubator to consider the approach to institutions working small-scale. Together, both organizations take up a series of questions around collaboration with Native Art Department International (NADI), a collaborative project by Toronto-based artists […]
CURRENT EVENT
Mercer Edition 2016: Abbas Akhavan
16 October 2016 6pm - 31 December 2019 8pmMercer Editions is an initiative of Mercer Union to commission work from Canadian and international artists to benefit its activities as an artist-run centre. Projects under this banner may take different forms that reflect the diversity of artistic practice presented in its galleries and programs. For its inaugural edition, Mercer Union collaborated with Abbas Akhavan […]