Manif d’art - The Quebec City Biennial
- Dates: February 28 to April 19, 2026
- Curator: Didier Morelli
- Artistic Director: Claude Bélanger
- Admission is free for CIMAM Members with a preview on February 26, 2026
Manif d’art 12 – The Québec City Biennial explores Splitting Ice / Briser la glace through a poetic and political reflection on winter. This edition investigates our relationship to northern landscapes in a time of climate disruption—where snow, ice, thaw and blizzardbecome materials to create with, perform, question or reimagine. Water, in its many states, becomes a symbol offragility, resistance, memory and transformation.
The Biennial also draws inspiration from historic gestures—such as Françoise Sullivan’s iconic Danse dans la neige (1948)—highlighting an intergenerational lineage of embodied practices. Through exhibitions, performances, installations, storytelling and public art, Manif d’art 12 offers a sensory and reflective experience connecting contemporary art, Québec territory and global ecological urgencies. An invitation to slow down, to feel, and to imagine new ways of inhabiting a warming world.