Agnes Reimagined has broken ground. Now we’re breaking the internet!

As the transformation journey continues with AGNES Reimagined, AGNES innovates with new digital interventions transcending traditional collection areas while revisiting and revitalizing lost works.

AGNES Online Exhibition: Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys, Online Exhibition accompanies the AGNES-produced exhibition of the same name at Museum London, on until May 11, 2025. Associate Curator, Arts of Africa, Qanita Lilla’s curatorial essay acts as a guide, detailing the historical and cultural significance of the many elements that make up this multi-faceted exhibition. Beautifully supplemented by a video tour of the exhibition and individual artists’ pages featuring Anthony Gebrehiwot, Jill Glatt, Jessica Karuhanga, Camille Turner and Winsom Winsom, this digital publication is almost as good as seeing this gorgeous exhibition IRL.

AGNES Collection Highlights: Queering the Collection

The Queering the Collection highlight series provides a platform to publish interpretations of works in AGNES’s collection that disrupt the traditional production of art canons. Through thoughtful submissions and commissions, contributing artists and curators present essays and video explorations that subvert longstanding lineages of artworks through a Queer lens.

Read The Unnamed Genderfluid Figure: Transgender and Intersex Interpretations of Medieval Christian Art, by Sebastian De Line, Associate Curator, Care and Relations, A Way of Seeing Through Edge Play: Queering Isaac and the Biblical Nude Body by Marcus Young, Cultural Studies PhD Student, Radical Education in Practice: Reflections on the Anarchist Free School by Nasrin Himada, Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement and Margaret, Jessie and I: Queer Aesthetics of Desire in Re-presenting the Female Nude by Akosua Dufie Adasi, Art History PhD Student, all available on our collections database.

If you are interested in participating, reach out to us by connecting with Danuta Sierhuis, Digital Development Coordinator.

With Opened Mouths: AGNES Podcast

With Opened Mouths gives space to artists, poets, performers, activists and curators to speak for themselves. The podcast was conceived by Associate Curator, Arts of Africa, Qanita Lilla as a response to the reemergence of the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art. This vibrant collection of sculptures, masks, crests and more breaks out, free to communicate with opened mouths. In conversations with a cast of incredible creators, Lilla draws out details from guests, giving life to their artistic practice and stories.

Now in its third season, With Opened Mouths features guests Camille Turner, Anthony Gebrehiwot, Jessica Karuhanga, Jill Glatt, Garth Erasmus, Jega Delisca, Faten Mitwasi, Emebet Belete, Sadiqa de Meijer and ElizaBeth Hill. Listen on Digital Agnes or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Digital art might seem pervasive, but with technologies becoming obsolete at near lightning speed, digital artworks can be as ephemeral as the most fragile work on paper. That’s why AGNES and the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen’s University have teamed up to develop the Emulator Library for Media Art (ELMA), a project designed to address the growing challenge of preserving computer-based art. Funded by the Canada Council of the Arts Cultivate stream, this library allows artworks created with now-obsolete technologies to run on modern systems, eliminating the need for costly software updates.

For more information read the full story on Agnes’s website.

AGNES Signature Lecture Series now available for streaming:

Frances K. Smith Lecture in Canadian Art with Bruce Kuwabara

How can architecture be a catalyst for reimagining the world? In his lecture, Catalyzing Change, renowned architect Bruce Kuwabara, presents several recent projects that explore the themes of art and community and insights he gained working on Agnes’s new home, Agnes Reimagined. Kuwabara’s cumulative knowledge of architecture as a profession and practice has evolved responding to the climate crisis, and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, acknowledging architecture’s ability to effect social change.

Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture in European Art with Dr Stephanie Porras

Watch Dr Stephanie Porras’s The Dutch in the Americas talk about the understudied presence of Dutch colonialists in what we now call North and South America. Outlining how the Dutch colonial project in the Americas both diverged and overlapped with their competitors, this talk considers the central role these ‘Dutch’ artists, artworks and material goods played, presenting an alternate view of the colonial Americas.

Both lectures are presented with full captioning and downloadable transcripts. Stream now on Digital AGNES

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Situated within territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat, AGNES is a curatorially-driven and research-intensive professional art centre proudly serving a dual mandate as an internationally recognized public art gallery and pedagogical resource at Queen’s. By commissioning, researching, collecting and stewarding works of art, and by exhibiting and interpreting visual culture through an intersectional lens, AGNES creates opportunities for participation and exchange across communities, cultures, histories and geographies.

AGNES is committed to anti-racism. We work to eradicate institutional biases and develop accountable programs that centre artistic expressions and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. AGNES promotes 2SLGBTQIAP+ positive spaces.

Image credits:
1. Installation view, Camille Turner, Nave, 2022, 2-channel video installation, 12:32 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Central Art Garage. Filmed by Esery Mondésir and Cody Westman, edited by Chris Wiseman, composed by Ravi Naimpally, performed by Camille Turner and Emilie Jabouin (Zila). Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view in Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys, Museum London, November 21, 2024 – May 11, 2025. Photographer: Angela Antonopoulos
2. Word mark for Queering the Collection. Designed by Everlovin’ Press, 2024.
3. With Opened Mouths cover image. Designed by Everlovin’ Press, 2023.
4. Agnes wordmark with heart.