An inuit art cooperative in Canadian Great North Kinngait, Nuvavut
The Claude Baud and Michel Jacot collection

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the territory of Nunavut, in Canada, and the 60th anniversary of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in Kinngait (Cape Dorset, Baffin Island), the Canadian Cultural Centre is redeploying its historic exhibition, Fantastique Kenojuak Ashevak (created in 2013), by adding a new group of prints and sculptures from the Claude Baud and Michel Jacot collection. The exhibition illustrates both the wealth of a cooperative that is unique in the world and the vision of a Franco-Swiss collector duo who have been helping to raise the profile of Canadian Inuit art in France for decades.     

This exceptional ensemble is complemented here by a body of new works by the now-famous Shuvinai Ashoona, granddaughter of Pitseolak Ashoona, a major figure in the first generation of artists from the Kinngait cooperative, who is also part of the Baud-Jacot collection.

In partnership with the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Kinngait, Nunavut 

Curator: Catherine Bédard
Guided tours by the curator, book your tour here
Opening on November, Saturday 9th from 2 pm to 8 pm