In 2024 Monica Reyes Gallery opened her Gift Shop inside the Museum of Vancouver with the intention of celebrating the artists and artisans that live within our community while creating another source of economics to support their practices and help spread their work to our visitors from all over the world. We take pride in working with makers of all ages and backgrounds, a true reflection of our local social fabric.
Events
MAY 15 - JUNE 18, 2025
Anuar Heberlein
Past / Present / Future
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15 5PM- 7PM
Register HERE
Anuar Heberlein
Past / Present / Future
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15 5PM- 7PM
Register HERE
VANCOUVER, BC -- MRG Gift Shop at the Museum of Vancouver, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico, is thrilled to present Past / Present / Future, a solo exhibition by Vancouver-based, Mexican artist Anuar Heberlein. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, May 15, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the MRG Gift Shop at the Museum of Vancouver, remarks at 5.30 by the Acting Consul General of Mexico, Luis Hernández. Light refreshments will be served.
In Past / Present / Future, Heberlein explores the fluid dialogue between time, memory, and cultural identity. A Mexican-born artist now based in Canada, Heberlein draws on the layered narratives of early Western Canadian settlers, incorporating 200-year-old letters, antique receipts, and found documents collected in flea markets into striking mixed media works.
These historically rich elements—once destined for oblivion—are reimagined in vivid contrast with bold contemporary abstraction, echoing the influence of iconic figures like Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, and Robert Ryman. The result is a powerful meditation on cultural syncretism, historical continuity, and the collapsing boundaries between past, present, and future.
“I invite viewers to consider how personal and collective histories shape our current realities,” says Heberlein, “while offering a space to imagine a future in which artificial divisions—between time periods, geographies, and cultural identities—begin to dissolve.”
This exhibition marks a significant collaboration between cultural institutions and celebrates the richness of artistic dialogue across borders and generations.
Event Details:
What: Past / Present / Future – Art Opening by Anuar Heberlein
When: Thursday, May 15th, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: Museum of Vancouver, Monica Reyes Gallery, paid parking available at the Museum, meter street parking and some 2hr FREE in the surrounding streets.
Hosted by: Monica Reyes Gallery, Consulate General of Mexico, and the Museum of Vancouver
Admission: Free | Light refreshments provided
In Past / Present / Future, Heberlein explores the fluid dialogue between time, memory, and cultural identity. A Mexican-born artist now based in Canada, Heberlein draws on the layered narratives of early Western Canadian settlers, incorporating 200-year-old letters, antique receipts, and found documents collected in flea markets into striking mixed media works.
These historically rich elements—once destined for oblivion—are reimagined in vivid contrast with bold contemporary abstraction, echoing the influence of iconic figures like Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, and Robert Ryman. The result is a powerful meditation on cultural syncretism, historical continuity, and the collapsing boundaries between past, present, and future.
“I invite viewers to consider how personal and collective histories shape our current realities,” says Heberlein, “while offering a space to imagine a future in which artificial divisions—between time periods, geographies, and cultural identities—begin to dissolve.”
This exhibition marks a significant collaboration between cultural institutions and celebrates the richness of artistic dialogue across borders and generations.
Event Details:
What: Past / Present / Future – Art Opening by Anuar Heberlein
When: Thursday, May 15th, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: Museum of Vancouver, Monica Reyes Gallery, paid parking available at the Museum, meter street parking and some 2hr FREE in the surrounding streets.
Hosted by: Monica Reyes Gallery, Consulate General of Mexico, and the Museum of Vancouver
Admission: Free | Light refreshments provided
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Opening & Auction: Preserving Textime Art with Colectiva NUDO 6/6
Textile traditions in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
Opening & Auction: Preserving Textime Art with Colectiva NUDO 6/6
Textile traditions in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
April 11, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monica Reyes Gallery Gift Shop
Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada
We invite you to be part of a unique event that celebrates the textile art of the original peoples of Chiapas and Yucatán that are part of Colectiva NUDO 6/6, highlighting its impact on the identity and future of their communities.
This April 11, the Museum of Vancouver & the Mónica Reyes Gallery will host the official opening of the exhibition "Textile, as a portrait of a territory", an exhibition that brings together a diversity of traditional clothing and textile techniques, reflecting the cultural richness of the master artisans who, through the loom and embroidery, preserve their ancestral knowledge.
In addition, the evening will include a charity auction in favor of Colectiva NUDO 6/6, an opportunity to contribute to the strengthening of the creative and economic autonomy of more than 750 women from original peoples of Chiapas and Yucatan who are part of the Colectiva NUDO 6/6, who through the Collective work in the preservation and evolution of their textile practices.The exhibition "Textile, as a portrait of a territory" offers an in-depth look at the richness of the textile traditions of the Highlands of Chiapas . Through a careful selection of clothing, embroidery and loom weavings, it shows how these cultural expressions have been preserved and evolved by generations of Tsotsil and Tseltal artisans. Each piece is a testimony of identity, memory and resistance, reflecting the cosmovision and the link of these communities with their environment and history.
The exhibition will be presented by two outstanding artisans from the Highlands of Chiapas, whose trajectories reflect the cultural richness and mastery of textile techniques of their communities.
Presented by the NGO Impacto (Mexico) Kellogg's Foundation and the Consulate General of Mexico in Vancouver
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monica Reyes Gallery Gift Shop
Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada
We invite you to be part of a unique event that celebrates the textile art of the original peoples of Chiapas and Yucatán that are part of Colectiva NUDO 6/6, highlighting its impact on the identity and future of their communities.
This April 11, the Museum of Vancouver & the Mónica Reyes Gallery will host the official opening of the exhibition "Textile, as a portrait of a territory", an exhibition that brings together a diversity of traditional clothing and textile techniques, reflecting the cultural richness of the master artisans who, through the loom and embroidery, preserve their ancestral knowledge.
In addition, the evening will include a charity auction in favor of Colectiva NUDO 6/6, an opportunity to contribute to the strengthening of the creative and economic autonomy of more than 750 women from original peoples of Chiapas and Yucatan who are part of the Colectiva NUDO 6/6, who through the Collective work in the preservation and evolution of their textile practices.The exhibition "Textile, as a portrait of a territory" offers an in-depth look at the richness of the textile traditions of the Highlands of Chiapas . Through a careful selection of clothing, embroidery and loom weavings, it shows how these cultural expressions have been preserved and evolved by generations of Tsotsil and Tseltal artisans. Each piece is a testimony of identity, memory and resistance, reflecting the cosmovision and the link of these communities with their environment and history.
The exhibition will be presented by two outstanding artisans from the Highlands of Chiapas, whose trajectories reflect the cultural richness and mastery of textile techniques of their communities.
Presented by the NGO Impacto (Mexico) Kellogg's Foundation and the Consulate General of Mexico in Vancouver
