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.
Artexte welcomes Mount Analogue and invited guest Marc Matter, who will present Henri Chopin’s editorial experiment Revue OU / Cinquième Saison. This periodical was, in Chopin’s word, inclassable (non-classifiable) and disbanded the conventional two-dimensionality of a magazine format. Loose sheets…
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…
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…
At the corner of Sainte-Catherine West and rue Clark.
Artexte is pleased to be a collaborating partner of Papier 14, the contemporary art fair of works on paper. On view and available for purchase will be our three most recent…
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…
Artexte congratulates Angela Grauerholz on being awarded the 2014 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. This annual prize from the Canada Council for the Arts recognizes Canadian artists who have significantly contributed to the visual and media arts…
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…
The 2-22 has many Nuit Blanche activities in store for you. Phase 2 of Thierry Marceau’s project, J’aime Montréal et Montréal m’aime (La lumière), a large-scale performative work created specifically for the 2-22, will occupy the enormous exterior glass-walled walkways…
As part of their residency at Artexte, Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley (working together since 2004 under the name Leisure) will investigate the staging and re-staging of the dance Dualité, first performed by Jeanne Renaud and Françoise Sullivan in 1948.…
Daniel Canty‘s residency project revolves around his literary trilogy titled Bucky Ball, a novel that connects the real and imaginary worlds of science-fiction, the author’s childhood in Montreal in the 1960s, and the architecture of Expo ’67. Canty’s residency will…
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…
Corina MacDonald, Project Manager for e-artexte, and Tomasz Neugebauer, Researcher in Residence, e-artexte and Digital Projects & Systems Development Librarian, Concordia University Libraries, are participating in the 41st annual Museum Computer Network Conference. They will present their paper titled “Depositing…
This week, Artexte welcomes Winnipeg curator Kegan McFadden, who is researching independent zines and magazines produced by Canadian artists, collectives, and artist-run centres during the 1990s. Kegan’s project is supported by the Manitoba Arts Council’s Manitoba-New Brunswick-Quebec creative residency program,…
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…
Come to Artexte’s duplicate book sale to discover some of the wonderful art catalogues, small publications and magazines that we have received (as doubles) in the past two years. Aside from free items, prices vary from 50 cents to a…
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).…
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…
Artexte welcomes Tomasz Neugebauer, e-Artexte Researcher in Residence. Tomasz Neugebauer’s research interests are focused on the design and development of information sources in digital formats. His professional experience includes digital media publishing and software development. Neugebauer is interested in the…
Artexte honours Christine Ross, first recipient of the Artexte Prize for Research in Contemporary Art.
Christine Ross is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in…
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…
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…
Artists publications from 1965 to 1975 in the collection of Artexte
This past summer, Artexte invited Vincent Bonin and Jon Knowles to engage with its collection, in particular, the artists’ publications from the late 1960s and early 1970s. During their ongoing discussions around the material on hand, Bonin and Knowles commented…
Emily Falvey is currently working on the manuscript for her first book of art criticism, titled Torn Halves: Paradox in Canadian Art. This work consists of an anthology of essays exploring a range of paradoxical themes, including the relationship between…
During the months of September and October 2009, Artexte is hosting the research residency of Finnish curator Silja Lehtonen. The first in a series of cultural exchanges between Finland and Quebec, this collaboration provides an opportunity for innovative research as…
Artexte welcomes New York-based artist Alex Kwartler to a research residency that focuses on the career of a Canadian artist of the same name whose practice has become inadvertently entwined with that of his own.
Despite the obvious differences between…
It’s not easy being GREEN A Performative Presentation of Research Findings
Newfoundland-based artist Michelle Bush will undertake a performative research residency at Artexte this spring (23 March to 3 April). This residency will be part of the fourth-year installment of her 7 Years of Living Art, a continuation of the homologus…
The research residency programme at Artexte is hosting Anne Bérubé, Victoria Stanton and Sylvie Tourangeau. The three artists-researchers from Montreal will start their stay during the fall of 2008. Their goal is to re-examine the discourses around performance art, to…
During the month of September 2008, Jen Allen participates in Artexte’s Residency Programme.
In 1988, shortly after the death of art historian, critic and curator René Payant, Artexte received an important donation of local, national and international publications on art…
Timothy Dallett’s project is conceived as an interactive study of the reception of electronic art practices in the Canadian artistic milieu during the period 1965-1995. The focus of the research is the theory and history of dynamic technological systems equivalent…
Artexte plays a unique role within the Québec and Canadian visual arts ecosystem by preserving a collective memory. Support us in continuing its mission, which contributes to the promotion, research, and experimentation in contemporary visual arts.
