May 25, 2019 - 12 PM to 5 PM

An Art and Design Workshop on Typography with Ken Lum

A-B-Z introduces LUM, an art and design workshop with artist Ken Lum. Through an open call for participation, A-B-Z welcomes international applicants from visual art, graphic design and literature across media, and invites curious students and professionals of all ages,…
Winter 2018 - 2019

Research residency with Nuria Carton de Grammont, My-Van Dam, Stanley Février and Michaëlle Sergile

The collective research project, Politiques + (in)visibles is an in-depth investigation into the notion of “diversity” and the different groups and movements created by “racialized” people from the 1960s until today in contemporary Canadian and Quebecois art. Our questions revolve…
March 30, 2019 - 12 PM to 5 PM

Artexte and the MAC team up for a contributive day on Wikipedia

WHERE 2, Saint-Catherine Street East, Room 301   SCHEDULE 12:00 pm: Word of welcome 12:15 pm – 4:00 pm: Edit-a-thon with ongoing support and training offered by Artexte staff. 4:00 – 5:00 pm: Round table discussion with Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, Dominique…
March 2, 2019 - 7 PM to 12 AM
This year, as part of the theme “The Future” of the Nuit Blanche à Montreal, Artexte presents a selection of science fiction shorts. Exploring various themes including intergalactic discovery, futuristic feminism and the return to ancestral knowledge in the near…
March 7, 2019 - 5 PM

Artist talk with kimura byol-nathalie lemoine (나타리 르무완 * ナタリー.ルモワーヌ) and Kim Waldron

Knowing that most interracial and international adoptions send children of color into Western Caucasian families, the artist and activist kimura byol-nathalie lemoine wanted to present another vision of what interracial adoption could be. To realize this, the artist Kim Waldron…
February 6 - April 13, 2019

Winter garden

Greenhouses represent the dream of an open roof, a space where the longing for a never-ending summertime and the reconciliation with nature converge.   Artexte’s little Sunroom evokes this imaginary paradise that synthesizes humans and nature, while relating to Victorian…
November 9 - 10, 2018

Dr. Philip S. S. Howard and Camille Turner : Installation, Performance, Conversation

To celebrate the first anniversary of the traveling project Arts Against Postracialism, we welcome Dr. Philip Howard, professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and Camille Turner, multidisciplinary artist, to review the project, the exhibition…
13 October, 2018 - 2 PM to 5 PM

A conversation with Anthea Black, Kama LaMackerel (Our Bodies, Our Stories), and Jenny Lin (B&D Press)

Please join Queer Publishing Project at Artexte to celebrate the launch of HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education edited by Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala. The launch will begin with a brief conversation between artists…
Fall 2018
Join us this Fall in our pop up reading nook! During the coming weeks, we will dedicate space for our visitors to enjoy some highlights from the collection. The area will feature a rotating selection of publications from the collection…
Summer 2018

a particular case. «J’en ai fait un cas particulier et non un cas d’espèce» Marguerite Duras, La vie matérielle

During her residency, Céline Huyghebaert will act as a researcher and occupy the Artexte documentation center to extract discourses about contemporary artists. Expanding on a residency at La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City in 2016, she will compile documents, collect…
Spring - Summer 2018
Michèle Champagne’s residency follows the contours of happiness, its industry, vocabulary and legibility. Happiness. An emotion? A feeling? Or an object of measure? Facial recognition. Criticize? Smile! “Let us not be afraid of words”. Psychologists, office managers, and data scientists…
Spring - Summer 2018

Who Was Who Was Who in Contemporary Canadian Art

Eric Metcalfe and Kate Craig / Dr. Brute and Lady Brute; Vincent Trasov / Mr. Peanut; Camille Turner / Miss Canadiana; Kent Monkman / Miss Chief Eagle Testickle; etc. Since the 1960s, numerous Canadian artists have created artist personas or…
June 2018
There were times when I thought of myself as a Canadian artist and that I might move to Canada. In some ways this trip is about re-visiting that hidden Canadian artist and re-engaging with the Canada’s unique artist-run network. When…
May 2018

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…
April 14, 2018 - 12 PM to 4 PM

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.…