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.
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2019 is already drawing to a close, but our programming still has more to offer. We’ve yet to host our most exciting event of the year: our famous annual Duplicate Book Sale! As you know, Artexte receives numerous donations from…
The artists discuss their selection of documents
In this series of video clips, several artists discuss their selection of documents for the Symposium Discourse in Motion, which is the final event of An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time and the beginning of a series of public projects…Conference of Caroline Blais
Following her research residency at Artexte, Caroline Blais will share her reflections on the archiving of artistic practices, her book favorites of the collection and will discuss the people she met in this place, whether in person or through their…Jenny Lin @ Artexte
Based on a set of spontaneously generated word prompts offered by Eloisa Aquino, I added a word to each prompt, then parsed the general sentiment of the list into general themes that interest me. A somewhat “random” entry point that…Launch organized by TRUCK Contemporary Art and Artexte
Please join us and TRUCK Contemporary Art on the evening of November 28, 2019 for the Montreal launch for Rita McKeough: Works, a monograph publication on Rita McKeough’s contributions to the Canadian art milieu, produced in partnership with EMMEDIA Gallery…
Fall 2019
We are proud to welcome Camille Larivée as the first Wikipedian in residence at Artexte for the month of October. She will also participate in the roundtable discussion that will take place on November 9, 2019, during the third edition…Artist performance followed by a conversation with Jessica Hébert
For the second edition of VOLUME, Art and the Book, Artexte has invited artist Pascaline Knight for a micro-residency in the collection, which centers around three clickable keywords chosen by the artist : Map, Feminine, Bird. The results of her…A research residency for the 2019 edition of VIVA! Art Action
For the seventh edition of VIVA! Art Action, Simon Brown will part-take in a playful, multilingual writing residency at Artexte. On-site use of various collaborative and experimental approaches, in dialogue with the performances. Publication of produced texts in real time…An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada IV
Place Publique | Fonderie Darling, Montréal With Sophie Castonguay, Faire corps avec Foucault anonymat (2019) & Francys Chenier, Comme aphorismes, ouvertures et semences de discours (2019) Curated by Jade Boivin & Camille Richard Considering the meeting between performance and writing…
