As part of the 23rd edition of the Nuit blanche à Montréal, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) invites you to a festive closing night for its latest exhibition at Place Ville Marie, presented in collaboration with MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, Ausgang Plaza, and Place Ville Marie.
Nuit blanche 2026
Enjoy a vibrant evening of art, music, and hands-on creativity — completely free and entirely indoors!
AT THE MAC — 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Visit of In Praise of the Missing Image
Through powerful works that bring censored images, erased stories, and marginalized figures to light, the exhibition’s seven artists give voice to historical silences and the hidden gaps in our collective memory, opening space for new perspectives. Art mediators will be present from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
AT THE MAC — 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Memories in Motion: a drop-in creative workshop
The MAC’s mediators invite you to experiment with a variety of artistic techniques, including drawing and watercolour, inspired by River Water, a mural by artist Niap. No previous experience required!
WITH AUSGANG PLAZA AT CATHCART — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Dance party hosted by Le Maquis and Forward Movements
DJs, VJs, and dancers from both collectives come together for a high-energy night on the dance floor.
WITH MOMENTA AT CATHCART — 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sound performance Nepantlandia by Martin Rodríguez
In a liminal space (nepantla), between body and signal, the artist creates fragmented soundscapes linked to his Xicanx identity, using live radio transmissions, interference, and performative gestures.
ELSEWHERE AT PVM — 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Extended opening hours at neighbouring shops, food and drinks at Cathcart, luminous artworks, and skating on the Esplanade PVM!
Memories in Motion
The MAC’s mediators team invites you to create in response to the mural Eau de rivière, by Niap, exploring a variety of artistic techniques, including drawing and watercolour. The workshop also invites participants to reflect on their relationship to water and its political dimension. No previous experience required!
Nepantlandia
Martín Rodríguez presents a sound performance situated in a liminal space (nepantla): between body and signal. Drawing on live-captured radio transmissions, interference, and performative gestures, Rodríguez brings forth fragmented soundscapes tied to his Xicanx identity. To be Xicanx, to be Mestizx, is to exist on the margins—to belong neither here nor there, to inhabit a non-place. A definition that finds its full meaning in the in-between: a space shaped by friction, a monstrous result born of interdependence. One can only reclaim a place through process. Sound acts as a medium of transformation: a site where inaudible signals and intertwined histories meet and are returned.
