Our permanent collection is alive! It is activated through public events supporting writing, new artworks and publications around visual and print culture. We aim to be inclusive of all cultures existing across Canada in contemporary art. Our offers include conferences, workshops, readings, artist talks, performances, film screenings and many off site activities such as Papier art fair and the International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul.
Cite on Site - A research residency presented in partnership with KAPSULA
What if the bibliography was formatted as a network? How might we order a bibliography rhizomatically? Citing, Siting & Sighting Solidarity explores the use of this rhizomatic digital bibliographic form to map ‘solidarity’ in Canadian art history. Expanding on current…A zine workshop with Eloisa Aquino and Jenny Lin (B&D Press)
Lists are strangely seductive and addictive, for many reasons: They are predictable: the numbered or ordered information allows us to develop “schemata” —mental maps drawn from experience. They make things look easy and finite, so they help you to focus.…Collage workshop in the collection
For the 2018 edition of Nuit blanche à Montréal, presented in collaboration with the Casino de Montréal, join us for a collage workshop in our reading room, open to all ages. Through the use of different materials (magazines, papers, documents,…Musical performance by Devin Brahja Waldman
Dear DB, I have been thinking about what you said on the phone last week, which I wrote down at the time. It’s really stayed with me. “When I look for something that’s lost, first I look in all the…The title is a quote from Joseph Beuys. [1]
Opening: Wednesday February 14, 6 pm to 8 pm Artist talk and deposit of documents at 6:30 pm Curator: Maude Johnson Objects aren’t very important any more is an exhibition that retrospectively assesses Thierry Marceau’s performative project entitled 1/100…Call for submissions!
KAPSULA and Artexte have partnered to offer a research residency to a selected applicant in May 2018. The residency provides an opportunity for an emerging scholar, artist or writer working within Canada to conduct a personal research project at Artexte.…an installation by Stanley Février
EXHIBITION: I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison, Invisible man, 1952 The invisibility at issue here stems from a critical assessment of museum institutions and reflects on the system of recognition within the Quebecer…
