Upcoming Events
Capture Festival X Griffin Art Projects: Featured Tour
Join us for a special tour of Embodied Conversations with photographer and film/video artist Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez.
Embodied Conversations Listening Sessions
Join us for sensational listening sessions responding to our current exhibition Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection.
Conversations on Collecting: Embodied Conversations Exhibition Tour
Join us for a Collector Tour of Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection.
Opening Reception | Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection
Join us for the opening of Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection. Curated by Lesley Johnstone.
Conversations on Collecting International: Candice Hopkins, Forge Project
Join us for an engaging online discussion between renowned curator Candice Hopkins, Executive Director, Forge Project, Griffin Director Lisa Baldissera and Adjunct Curator Emily Butler.
(Online via Zoom)
Artist in Residence Talk with GRIFFIN X ECU Fellowship Studio Award Winner Claudia Goulet-Blais.
Join us on Sunday, November 30 for an Artist in Residence talk with the GRIFFIN X ECU Fellowship Studio Award Winner Claudia Goulet-Blais. Goulet-Blais research focuses on maternal relationships, exploring the complexities of care and the shifting roles within family dynamics.
Conversations on Collecting - Indigenous Approaches to Collecting
This panel discusses the history of collecting in British Columbia and the central role that collecting Indigenous belongings and artwork has played, considering its complexities and its futures.
Curator in Residence Talk with Sylvie Fortin
Join Sylvie Fortin for a Curator-in-Residence talk in person at Griffin Art Projects. Sylvie Fortin is an interdependent curator, researcher, writer, and editor based in Montréal and Buenos Aires. In 2017, Fortin began a long-term, interdisciplinary, itinerant curatorial inquiry into the currencies of hospitality. She now realizes it will be a lifelong project.
The Collectors Film Series: Film screening | The Melt Goes On Forever | The Art and Times of David Hammons
A chronicle of the elusive Black American art star David Hammons whose category-defying career radically seeks to fuse the dominant culture and his own into a new one for the 21st century.
Evening includes a post-screening in-person Q&A with co-Director Harold Crooks!
Conversations on Collecting International: Maria Sukkar, ISelf Collection
Join us for an engaging online discussion between renowned UK-based Lebanese collector Maria Sukkar, founder of the ISelf Collection, and Adjunct Curator Emily Butler.
The Collectors Film Series: Film screening | The Proposal
American conceptual artist and writer Jill Magid, whose work featured in Griffin’s TENXTEN exhibition, resumes her ongoing interrogation of power structures in her debut film, described by the artist as “part thriller, part romance.”
Evening includes a post-screening online Q&A with Director Jill Magid!
Artist Exhibition Tour: Christos Dikeakos
Join us for a tour of The Collectors exhibition with the artist Christos Dikeakos, facilitated by curator Lisa Baldissera.
15th Annual North Shore Art Crawl
The Griffin Art Projects is excited to share that we will be participating in the 15th annual North Shore Art Crawl October 4-5, from 11-5pm* hosted by North Van Arts. Come check out our latest exhibition, Christos Dikeakos The Collectors and browse our selection of publications.
Conversations on Collecting: Transformational Legacies
As part of our 10th Anniversary celebrations, a special Conversations on Collecting series will feature collectors in conversation on the key topics of arts philanthropy: Nurturing the Artistic Talent of Tomorrow, Collecting to Build Community, Transformational Legacies.
The Collectors Film Series: Film screening | Russian Ark
Courtesy of The Cinematheque
Russian Ark | Русский ковчег | Russia/Germany | 2002 | Alexander Sokurov | 99 min. DCP | In Russian with English subtitles
A manifest miracle of the cinema, Russian master Alexander Sokurov’s astonishing film offers dreamy passage on the ark of Russian history, in the form of a single, spellbinding, time- travelling tracking shot—the longest uninterrupted Steadicam shots in cinema history—through St. Petersburg’s famed Hermitage museum. The fantastic voyage begins with the film’s unseen narrator/filmmaker (Sokurov) finding himself inexplicably transported to the museum, where he meets another mystified arrival, the 19th-century French diplomat Marquis de Custine (Sergey Dreiden). Together, the two new companions set out to wander through dozens of grand rooms, miles of corridors, and hundreds of years of history, encountering a parade of historical personages—including still-current Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky— along the way. Over twenty-years later, the technical virtuosity of Sokurov’s magnum opus remains breathtaking, as does its feast-for-the-senses tour of one of the world’s preeminent art collections.
Introduced by artist Christos Dikeakos, whose Griffin Art Projects exhibition The Collectors coincides with this film series.
“One of the most staggering technical achievements in the history of cinema … Part pageant and museum tour, part theme-park ride and historical meditation.” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
“One of the most astonishing films ever made … If cinema is sometimes dreamlike, then every edit is an awakening. _Russian Ark_ spins a daydream made of centuries.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“The sense of exuberance, of human harmony, of cultural achievement, is electrifying.” Julian Graffy, Sight and Sound
Presented in collaboration with The Cinematheque.
Related Exhibition
Christos Dikeakos The Collectors
From September 20 - December 14, 2025
Upcoming
Conversations on Collecting International with Adjunct Curator, Emily Butler
Conversations on Collecting is an ongoing series of public programs surrounding our mandate to make privately held art collections accessible to the public. Join us for engaging conversations that bring together art enthusiasts, collectors, and experts in an exploration of contemporary art and collecting practices.
Photo: Courtesy of Emily Butler
Emily Butler is Griffin Art Projects Adjunct Curator and contributes regularly to Griffin’s program, including the Conversations on Collecting International Series as well as curating our next exhibition for Winter 2027, Louise Lawler and Amber Frid-Jimenez: Other Arrangements. Emily’s previous roles have included Head of Programmes at the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver, Platform Talks Curator at Art Toronto (2024), and Conversations Curator at Art Basel (2021–2023). From 2010 to 2022, she was a curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London, among numerous other roles, which inform her work and practice as a curator, writer and editor.
Check back for more information to come!