Summer 2025 ARTbus
May 31 2025

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Program Description

Pick-up and drop-off at Mercer Union in Toronto. $20 registration fee includes transportation to all galleries and afternoon refreshments.

In partnership with Mercer Union, Oakville Galleries invites you to the Summer 2025 ARTbus tour, exploring three compelling exhibitions. The journey begins at Mercer Union, where participants will tour An Impossible Address by Suneil Sanzgiri. Next, at Oakville Galleries attendees will tour both Between Heaven and Earth and The Ship of Tolerance, both by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and produced in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada. Firstly, at the Centennial Square location, visitors will experience their first glimpse into Between Heaven and Earth. Lastly, the tour will then conclude at the Gairloch Gardens location with the opening reception of The Ship of Tolerance as well as the rest of Between Heaven and Earth. The reception will then be followed by a number of performances by local children at which guests can enjoy refreshments and small bites.

Program Details and Schedules

1:15 PM – Attendees meet at Mercer Union

Exhibition: Suneil Sanzgiri: An Impossible Address

Exhibition: Ella Gonzales: Sleeve: A YEAR IN REVIEW

2:15 PM – bus departs Mercer Union for Oakville Galleries.

3:30 PM – arrival at Centennial Square in Oakville.

Exhibition: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Between Heaven and Earth

4:15 PM – bus departs Centennial Gallery for Gairloch Gardens in Oakville.

4:30 PM – arrival at Gairloch Gardens in Oakville.

Exhibition: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: The Ship of Tolerance

Refreshments and small bites will be provided.

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM – Ship of Tolerance Concert (the gallery will remain open)

7:00 PM – bus departs for Toronto

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Between Heaven and Earth and The Ship of Tolerance

Oakville Galleries presents the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth at both our Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square locations. This exhibition highlights a number of the artists’works, including paintings, prints and installations, and spills out into the gardens with several larger artworks. The largest installation is The Ship of Tolerance, a 60-foot long, hand-crafted wooden ship with sails made from children’s paintings, presented lakeside in Gairloch Gardens for one year. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, its first appearance in Canada takes place at a critical time where a crossroads towards a new global order is visible.

Suneil Sanzgiri: An Impossible Address

Brooklyn-based artist Suneil Sanzgiri's research-driven practice considers questions of inheritance and diaspora in relation to histories of structural violence. Haunted by questions of disappearance, loss, and revolutionary struggle, An Impossible Address continues Sanzgiri's examination of the life of Sita Valles and the bonds of solidarity that developed between India and Africa against the Portuguese empire. At Mercer Union, the artist combines 16 mm film with digital animation, hand processing, and 3D scanning, to make a kaleidoscopic and sonically vibrant experimental personal essay shot across Angola, Goa, and Portugal.