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.
Highlighting Open Access material from e-artexte
Organizations make their publications accessible online using the e-artexte digital repository, which currently holds more than 350 public digital documents. To celebrate Open Access Week, Artexte is highlighting Open Access material from e-artexte. The Centre des arts actuels Skol …Bookbinding workshop
Recto-Verso-Quattro-Octo is a workshop that combines graphic design layout processes with hand binding techniques to show how a single sheet of paper can become a multipage publication. Participants will use tools from content layout to production – a process that…As part of this fall's research residency program, Artexte welcomes two inspiring researchers
Louis Rastelli (Montréal) Writer, editor, DJ, musician and important figure of the local artistic community, Louis Rastelli participated in the making of multiple independent publications and co-founded Expozine in 2009. He is also co-founder of Archive Montréal, a non-profit organization…Rethinking the new Biennial of Montreal
Artexte and the UQAM Department of Art History invite you to a roundtable organized by the students in the course Analyse des œuvres d’art sur le site : la biennale comme format d’exposition à New York, Montréal et Québec. This…Bruno Schulz’s fantastical autobiography, Sklepy cynamonowe (1934)
For the second edition of One hour, one book, and on this day marking the anniversary of his father, René Canty de Lachine (1928-2013), Daniel Canty has chosen to read from Bruno Schulz’s (1892-1942) fantastical autobiography,Sklepy cynamonowe (1934), translated as…Thinking Through “Enquête sur les modes d’existence” by Bruno Latour
Art historian, Christine Ross, in collaboration with Artexte, will hold a seminar gathering a dozen contemporary art historians affiliated with Montreal’s four universities. This seminar aims to give an account of current research practices in contemporary art. As an orientation…Le schizo et les langues, by Louis Wolfson
This spring Artexte launches a new series entitled One Hour, One Book. Artists and researchers from many disciplines are invited to present a book of their choice. These presentations may take the form of readings, talks, screenings or performances and…Journal launch
Inflexions is an online multi-media journal with Open Humanities Press and is sponsored by The SenseLab. The journal foregrounds research-creation projects that aim to promote experimental practices in such a way as to foster symbiotic links between philosophical inquiry, technological…Book launch and performative talk with Geneviève Cadieux and Massimo Guerrera
Links between art, contemporaneity, and the common lie at the heart of Chantal Pontbriand’s writings as a critic, editor, and curator. This collection of essays written in the first decade of the twenty-first century looks at the different issues that…
The Miriam Roland Lecture featuring Sarah Thornton
A series organized by Concordia University MFA Studio Art in collaboration with DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Artexte and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents the Miriam Roland Lecture featuring Sarah Thornton, author of Seven Days in the Art…A day of craft research and discussion with Nicole Burisch and Anthea Black
Tour of the Artexte collection and presentation by Nicole Burisch of selected documents at 2:30 PM As a 2012-2013 researcher in residence, Nicole Burisch has investigated the presence and position of craft within Artexte’s collection. Using a broad view on…Robert C. Scull – Art at Auction
Join us on the final day of Consigned for Auction, Part 1, for a rare screening of America’s Pop Collector: Robert C. Scull – Art at Auction, directed by John Schott and E. J. Vaughn. This 1974 documentary chronicles the…Journées de la culture 2013 with Meredith Carruthers and Emmelyne Pornillos
As part of this year’s Journées de la culture, Artexte will be offering an artist’s book workshop inspired by the Bookmobile collection. Participants will learn a variety of bookbinding techniques with simple materials to create their own artist book. All…Conference by Bartolomé Ferrando and tour of Artexte collection
During his presentation, renowned Spanish artist Bartolomé Ferrando will discuss the theories outlined in his most recent publication Arte y cotidianeidad. Hacia la transformación de la vida en arte (Art and Everyday life. Towards the transformation of life into art).…Screening event
In September 2008, as economic markets collapsed throughout Europe and the United States, sales for contemporary art hit unprecedented heights, with works by Damien Hirst selling at auction for more than £111 million in two days at Sotheby’s. The market…
Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada: A Literature Review
France Trépanier’s research residency at Artexte plays an essential part in a larger project, undertaken in collaboration with Chris Creighton-Kelly, which consists of conducting research with the aim of publishing an analysis on documentation and writing published on Aboriginal arts…Looking for Craft in All the Wrong Places
Burisch’s research at Artexte examines the intersections of craft and performance art. Through an investigation of Artexte’s documents, sources, and materials related to these two disparate fields, and through considering them together, her research will aim to draw or reveal…
