“It’s the river. It’s the river. It’s the river. It’s the river.” — Bruce Kuwabara on elements inspiring Remai Modern’s design.
Last month’s sold-out Mendel International Lecture brought renowned architects Bruce Kuwabara and Alfred Waugh to our theatre for a wide-ranging conversation on architecture, identity, Indigenous design, and the buildings shaping Saskatoon’s future. A summary and full two-hour recording are now live on Currents, link in bio!
Thank you to @colliers.saskatchewan and Tom and Keitha McClocklin for their generous support of the Mendel International Lecture.
Blending traditional beadwork techniques with modern accessories and statement pieces, Helen Oro from Pelican Lake First Nation is one of many makers in Remai Modern’s Art & Design Store who creates with intention and love. Now based in Saskatoon, Helen’s work can be found all the way from the red carpet at the Juno Awards to small but meaningful connections between family members.
This spring, Members’ Shopping Days celebrates the family, chosen or otherwise, we give for. Featured products carry the maker’s story, and shopping connects directly to our spring appeal cause, Youth Art Night, which grows creativity and community with local youth.
From May 6 to 10 Remai Modern members get 20% off all Art & Design Store purchases, online and in-store!
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language opens this week!
Join us in celebrating this acclaimed exhibition at our opening events:
April 24 at 6 PM for a first look at the exhibition with remarks by the artist
April 25 at 2 PM for a guided tour with the artist and exhibition co-curators, followed by a community gathering in the Galleria
The events are free to attend and all are welcome!
Curated by Tarah Hogue (Métis), Adjunct Curator of Indigenous Art, Remai Modern, and Siri Engberg, Senior Curator and Director of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language is co-organized by Remai Modern, Saskatoon and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Lead support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Something new is coming to Saskatoon. 🥂
Introducing Still Life, an all-new collab from Remai Modern x Hearth, featuring 20+ of Saskatchewan’s best local food and beverage vendors.
Grab your people and get ready for drinks, food, and art under one roof. May 16, 2026.
VIP tickets from $100. GA from $20. On sale now — link in bio. ✨
Join us on April 17 at 7 PM for the Saskatchewan premiere of Amalie Atkins’ feature length debut, Agatha’s Almanac, winner of Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs 2025.
This premiere is free and open to the public. The screening will be followed by a Q & A hosted by Aileen Burns, Co-Executive Director & CEO at Remai Modern. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. We expect a large crowd for this screening so please arrive early to reserve your seat.
Agatha’s Almanac follows fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock as she lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field entirely by hand.
Agatha’s Almanac serves as a powerful conduit for often-overlooked stories, amplifying voices and rural perspectives. Agatha’s life offers a window into the experiences of a nearly lost generation, whose values and ways of living are at risk of fading as the world rapidly changes.
We’re excited to host two of Canada’s top architects, Bruce Kuwabara and Alfred V. Waugh, as the speakers for this year’s sold-out Mendel International Lecture on April 16!
Kuwabara’s portfolio includes award-winning projects such as Canada’s National Ballet School, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and our very own Remai Modern. Alfred Waugh has been instrumental in many innovative projects including First Peoples House on the University of Victoria campus, Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, and recently as designer of Saskatoon’s New Central Library. Kuwabara and Waugh will reflect on their work, including their upcoming collaboration on the new Vancouver Art Gallery, and themes including sustainable building, interdisciplinary design, and culturally sensitive architecture.
Tickets to the event are sold out, but tap the link in our bio to join the waitlist and we’ll notify you if space becomes available. Become a Remai Modern member to be among the first to hear about more exciting events like this!
Thank you to @colliers.saskatchewan and Tom and Keitha McClocklin for supporting the Mendel International Lecture.
This Place Remembers is a powerful public intervention created by artist Linda Duvall. The project aims to acknowledge the untold histories of trauma and violence that have left an indelible mark on our city. After inviting members of the public to recommend sites that held personal meaning, she worked with members of STR8 UP and other collaborators to mark each location by planting crocuses which will blossom this spring.
Duvall, members of STR8 UP and other project participants will join us at Remai Modern on April 18 at 1 PM for an afternoon of conversation and reflection about the project. Coffee and tea will be provided!
White Liar and the Known Shore: Frobisher and the Queen is a (size of the photo) collaborative photograph by Laakkuluk Williamson and Jamie Griffiths that confronts colonial histories of discovery, naming, and possession. It placing viewers at the shoreline as a site where land is rendered “known” and power is asserted—asking how these histories persist and how viewers are implicated within them.
You can view this work as part of Williamson and Griffiths’ exhibition Sikuvoq, sikuerpoq / When the ice holds, when it breaks in the Connect Gallery on Level 1.
There’s something new on Level 3!
The monumental sculpture Infinite We by Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a sneak peek of her upcoming exhibition, Love Language, which opens in the Marquee Gallery on April 25.
Infinite We is a three-dimensional representation of the kapémni symbol, embodying the Lakota worldview of balance and relatedness. Grounded to the floor, the work swirls upward and expands again, reminding us of connections between the realms of the earth, the spiritual, and the cosmos. Moving around this mosaic sculpture activates a visual rhythm of shapes shifting and multiplying across the surface.
Join us for a first look at Love Language on April 24 at 6 PM, followed by an exhibition tour and community gathering with White Hawk on April 25 at 2 PM. Visitors will encounter Lakota forms and teachings that inform White Hawk’s practice, alongside works addressing urgent issues of settler colonialism and oppression. In the meantime, come see Infinite We on view on Level 3!
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language is co-organized by Remai Modern, Saskatoon and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. The exhibition is curated by Tarah Hogue (Métis), Adjunct Curator of Indigenous Art, Remai Modern, and Siri Engberg, Senior Curator and Director of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center.
Lead support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
