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General
Idea

 

In the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced, the NGC brings together more than 200 works exploring General Idea’s career.

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Spotlight

Magi© Bullet and Magi© Carpet.


General Idea is known for prompting public interaction with their artworks. Among the extraordinary installations in this exhibition, visitors won’t want to miss Magi© Bullet and Magi© Carpet.

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GI TV

General Idea Television


This webpage offers a selection of General Idea’s video works available to stream for free during the course of the exhibition.

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AUDIO tour

General Idea, Looking Ahead

In this entertaining audio tour, artists and experts from across the country and across generations share their thoughts on General Idea.

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On View

Women in red top, standing looking in distance.

Geneviève Cadieux, Barcelone (detail), 2003–21. inkjet prints on vinyl. © Geneviève Cadieux Photo: Courtesy the artist

Geneviève Cadieux: Barcelone

Exterior along South façade
Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson: Capsule

Until January 5, 2023
Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Lesbian National Park and Services: A Force of Nature.

Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Lesbian National Park and Services: A Force of Nature. First performed: July 1997, Banff National Park, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta. © Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan. Photo : Don Lee, The Banff Centre for the Arts, 1997

Over the rainbow: Works by LGBTQ2S+ Artists

Until September 2022
Exhibitions and GalleriesExpositions et salles

National Collection

Canadian and Indigenous Art.

Indigenous and Canadian Art

In these Galleries the parallel and, at times, interrelated stories of Indigenous and Canadian art in Canada are brought together in one unforgettable display.
Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet.

Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet

This brilliant sound sculpture by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff is a reworking of Spem in Alium, a piece by 16th-century English composer Thomas Tallis.
Edward Burne-Jones wood engraved illustration, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press (detail), 1896

Beautiful and Useful: The Douglas Schoenherr Donation of Books Published by Kelmscott Press

The newest NGC Library and Archives exhibition features books and related ephemera published by Kelmscott Press, established in Hammersmith, London, in 1891 by William Morris.
Until June 18, 2023

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Unknown (late 19th century), Family outside their House, c. 1860‑1900. Ferrotype.
Photo Blog

Focus on the collection: Tintypes

The tintype process was first introduced in 1853 by Adolphe Alexandre Martin and was patented in 1856. Because they involved inexpensive materials and were quick to produce, they were accessible to a wide range of people and...
July 25, 2022
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848
Around the World

Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848

Recognized as one of Canada’s most acclaimed contemporary artists whose multidisciplinary practice includes films, photographs and—more recently—theatre productions, Stan Douglas has continually...
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