On the ’Brink Installation Art Festival 2025

Photo: Josh Bellingham

On the ’Brink Installation Art Festival

August 30 & 31, 2025 | 11am – 4pm
Opening remarks and tour begins at 2pm, Saturday, August 30
RiverBrink Art Museum, Queenston, ON

On the ’Brink celebrates the creativity and innovation of artists working in or about Niagara. The festival provides an opportunity for members of the community to experience and learn about installation art, meet local artists and enjoy the stunning natural landscape at RiverBrink.

For the festival this year, we engage with the idea of art-making as a mode of memory preservation, that reflect on the role of monuments in public space, that address the question of who gets heeded/represented by monuments, and/or that explore how site, materials, and form encode memory.

Photo: Josh Bellingham

Theme – ‘Monument/Memory’
The commemoration of particular events and individuals in public monuments has a long history. Plaques, statues, obelisks and other markers have been erected for different reasons, function in different ways, and manifest different power dynamics.

But can we say that memory is inherent in the materiality of the monument? And does this change with time?

Photo: Lou Losier

About RiverBrink
RiverBrink Art Museum is a public art museum in Queenston, NOTL. In operation since 1983, the art museum is housed in the former home of art collector and lawyer Samuel E. Weir. Open year round, RiverBrink features exhibitions organized from the Weir collection of historical art along with exhibitions of contemporary Canadian art. The site features a boutique, extensive grounds, and a views of the Niagara River.

For more information about RiverBrink Art Museum contact: manager@riverbrink.org

RiverBrink Art Museum
116 Queenston Street
Queenston, ON L0S 1L0
www.riverbrink.org
905.262.4510

Art Museum Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 10am – 5pm

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