As part of the exhibition Skyscrapers by the Roots – Reflections on Late Modernism, the MAC invites you to a walkthrough with artists Shannon Bool and Jonathan Schouela, who will offer their insights on the exhibition.
MAC at Place Ville Marie
Exhibition walkthrough with Shannon Bool and Jonathan Schouela
Shannon Bool
(b. 1972, Canada)
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Shannon Bool was born in Comox, Canada and lives and works in Berlin. Bool attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver; Cooper Union, New York; and graduated from Staedelschule, Frankfurt in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2022); Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld (2022); Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown (2022); Gut Kerkow, Angermünde (2021); Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON (2020); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019); The Canadian Cultural Center, Paris (2019); and Musée d’art de Joliette (2018). Bool’s work has been included in exhibitions at institutions such as: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Kunstsammlung Chemnitz; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; National Museum of Germany, Bonn; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; White Cube Gallery, London; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2013 Bool was artist in residence at the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy. Her work can be found in numerous collections, including: the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Lenbachhaus, Munich; The Pérez Art Museum, Miami; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal.
Jonathan Schouela
Jonathan Schouela is an artist and curator based in Montréal. Schouela works mainly in textile, producing modular sculptures that allow for constant variability and change. For his solo exhibition En Chantier, in 2022, an upholstered foam sculpture was rearranged throughout the exhibition and eventually repurposed as a listening pod for Sonic Fields of Reflexion at Artexte later that year. He earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2016. In 2018, he co-founded Family, an alternative exhibition space making use of temporarily unoccupied apartments or offices, featuring artists of diverse levels of experience including non-artists.
