Artexte’s permanent collection is alive! It is activated through public events in support of new research, writing, as well as creating new artworks and publications around visual and print culture. Artexte aims to be inclusive of all visual cultures existing across contemporary art communities. Our on-site and virtual offerings include conferences, workshops, artist talks, performances, film screenings, as well as many interinstitutional collaborations and off-site activities.

Photographie couleur format portrait d'un « selfie » d'une personne aux cheveux bourgogne portant un chapeau noir avec des plumes noires, un collier avec une fleur en diamant et une camisole noire. Un rideau en velour turquoise est derrière la personne.
Fall 2024
“Lesbian and queer women artists often remain invisible within Canadian art history. Even when their artworks are included, their sexuality is often effaced, and no survey book has ever been written about Canadian lesboqueer artists. For my research residency at…
October 26, 2024 – 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

As part of their research residency (fall/winter 2023)

After completing their research and writing residency with an unpublished essay, script, and costume illustrations, writer and artist Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush makes a long-awaited return to the recording booth with cherished colleagues and collaborators to present the second installation in their…
Landscape black and white photo taken from a black metal shelf in the Artexte collection. The right and left sections of the photo are occupied by the open shelves of the documentary collection and the document storage boxes, in shades of grey and beige, which occupy all the available shelves. The black-painted floor reflects the neon lights that illuminate the row of shelves. At the end of the row is a partial view of the Artexte reading room. Wooden tables with documents on them suggest research in progress.
October 15 – November 29, 2024

Artexte's annual fundraising campaign – 2024 edition

Campaign’s goal: $6 000   Over the past 40 years, Artexte documentation centre has amassed a collection of over 36,000 printed documents. Artexte plays a unique role within the visual arts ecosystem by preserving a collective memory. We are eager…
Mor November 16, 2024 – 2 PM to 4 PM @ Artexte's reading room

Theme: Arab Futurism and Care Practices in the Arab World

Artexte invite you to a brand-new series of educational activities bringing together contemporary visual arts and literature. Artexte’s Book Club offers three seasonal activities, during which independent Montreal bookstores are invited to choose a theme that will be embodied and…
Photographie couleur format carré d'une oeuvre installée sur un mur blanc. On peut y lire « ennui brûlant » en typographie gothique autour d'une photographie du pare-choc d'une auto ayant l'air brûlé.
Fall 2024
“Despite a distance that often leads us to differentiate, or at least compare, ourselves, a certain proximity exists between the millennial experience and the revolutionary youth of the 1970s. Since 2016, my research has looked at the resurgence of countercultural…
Photo of the chapbook by Yaniya Lee. The minimalist blue cover is marked by the title of the book in white. Written in capital letters, the title reads "A Black art history project by Yaniya Lee" at the top of the cover. In the centre, it says "Buseje Bailey" in larger font. Finally, at the bottom of the cover, it written in medium font "reasons why we have to disappear every once in a while". The blue cover contrasts with the clarity of the uniform white background.
May 2, 2024 — 5:00 PM @ Artexte

As part of Yaniya Lee’s research residency

As part of her research residency Wayside Archive at Artexte (summer 2021), writer and critic Yaniya Lee was interested by the artefacts and narratives of Black queer women, which rarely surface in archives and historical canons. The researcher was hoping…
Winter 2024
“South Asian people form the largest visible minority group in Canada—however, given that only 6% of this population reside in Québec, and as a response to its ongoing invisibilization, many have come to describe this community as “invisible” [1]. As…
Collection of books from Hanss Lujan Torres' research on the development of queerness in contemporary art.
Fall 2023
During his residency, researcher and curator Hanss Lujan Torres will delve into Artexte’s collection to explore exhibitions, events, and art practices addressing gender and sexuality in the 1990s and early 2000s. Inspired by cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of…
Launch WWWWW
September 16, 2023 — 1:30 PM @ VOX / 3 PM @ Artexte

Presented as part of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image and in collaboration with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine

On the occasion of the 18th edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, and in collaboration with VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Artexte is pleased to invite you to the launch of Who Was Who Was Who in Contemporary Canadian Art…
November - December, 2022

Artexte's new podcast series curated by Mojeanne Behzadi

As part of the Sonic Fields of Reflection exhibition, curator Mojeanne Behzadi invites you to our exhibition space – now transformed into an experimental research room specifically imagined to meditate on sound – to attend recordings of Sonic Lab; Artexte’s…
Fall 2022

Language Classroom: Synthesis

The starting point of “Language Classroom: Synthesis” is based on Rad Hourani’s own experience, who, as a dyslexic, ADD and dysphonic person, has felt socially excluded from a young age because of his difficulties in reading and writing. Starting from…