A World in Common

Explore how we share the world with other species and inhabit it in our own unique ways. This two-part group exhibition, curated by the Biosphère and the Grantham Foundation, features a variety of works that explore the visible and invisible connections that bind us together. 

A World in Common exhibition

• May 2 to July 26, 2026
  At the Grantham Foundation (Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham)
• September 5, 2026 to May 2, 2027
  At the Biosphère (Montréal)

A World in Common invites us to rethink the way we inhabit the Earth. The exhibition brings together artists who explore life in all its diversity (plants, birds, fish, and humans). Through their works, the artists remind us that the world we inhabit is woven from a fabric of interactions, interdependencies, and fragile coexistences. 

In response to the ecological crisis, these artists offer us narratives of care, listening, and attentiveness, highlighting the concept of hospitality as a fundamental act: welcoming the other—whether human or non-human—acknowledging their presence and otherness, and making room for them. Hospitality thus becomes both an ethic and aesthetic concept, a way of opening up spaces for sharing and coexistence. 

A World in Common Video

Featured artists

At the Grantham Foundation through July 26, 2026, you can see works by: Maude Arès | Hannah Claus | Frédéric Lavoie | Angela Marsh | Kimberly Orjuela 

Starting September 5, 2026, at the Biosphère, you can see works by: 

Geneviève Chevalier | Jim Holyoak | Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens | Taqralik Partridge and Tiffany Shaw | Miranda Smitheram  

The works on display weave dialogues between species, territories, and timeframes. They examine our ways of life, our boundaries and our responsibilities, and envision fairer and more sensitive forms of coexistence. Some works are rooted in the careful observation of living things, while others stem from acts of healing, transmission, or celebration. 

Curators of this group exhibition: Julie Bélisle (Biosphère) and Josianne Poirier (Grantham Foundation). 

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