The Harvest
Artexte on Tap is an ongoing series at which takes place every two months, providing an occasion to engage in dialogue and share a drink in the library. Guided by specific themes and introduced by Artexte’s librarians and invited guests,…The 7th Sense + More Caught in the Act
Join us to celebrate a double-launch of More Caught in the Act and The 7th Sense: two new and indispensable books about performance art by women in Canada and Quebec. Editors, authors and artists of both books will host an…Creative workshop in the library
We thrilled to welcome multidisciplinary artist Yen-Chao Lin for this year’s edition of Les journées de la culture! Join us for a bookmaking workshop in the library. This activity is an opportunity to reinterpret our collection and explore simple folding…10 Years of Underground Queer Visual Culture in Montreal
Guided tour on August 16 from 6 to 8 PM. Poster exhibition from August 16 to August 30, Wednesday to Friday from noon to 5 PM Join Montreal artist Jamie Ross for a guided tour of a selection of radical…The Future is Created in the Past: Special exhibition
The Future is Created in the Past: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art from 1967 to Now. For the 35th edition of the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, under the theme Pasts in the Present, we have prepared an exhibition…A panel discussion on the EAHR @ Artexte research residency
Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR) is a student-driven research community based within the Art History Department of Concordia University (Montreal, QC). Since summer 2011, EAHR has been facilitating opportunities for exchange and creation in the examination of and engagement with…A live streamed conversation
From 1PM to 2PM (EST) We are thrilled to present the first of what will hopefully become a series of digital hangouts to foster an ongoing dialogue between arts organizations and the general public in Canada and internationally! Join us…Additional content in conjunction with Anne Ramsden's project
The following video interviews featuring Anne Ramsden with artists and curators speaking about their experience working on retrospective or survey exhibitions provide a glimpse of how modern art institutions have formalized the contemplation of past artistic achievements through the form…A talk by Luc Courchesne
A new inhabitable space has opened. It is virtual, infinitely expandable and malleable, accessible from everywhere at all times. Artists, whatever their creative medium, leave traces, artefacts and eventually artworks which are representative of the processes they are engaged in.…Screening Playtime, a film by Jacques Tati
This year, the Artexte team offers you free screenings of Playtime (1967), a beautifully choreographed comedy by Jacques Tati about the rise of high technology and the confusion it engendered. For one night the reading room will be transformed into…A conversation with Nicole Jolicoeur and Denis Lessard
In connection to Anne Ramsden’s current exhibition Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, we are pleased to present a conversation between artists Nicole Jolicoeur, Denis Lessard and Anne Ramsden. Jolicoeur and Lessard will each give a presentation about…A research residence on themes of exteriority and exile
This winter, we are pleased to welcome Montreal-based artist, Adam Kinner, for a research residency. Kinner is looking at works and artistic practices, which engage with themes of exteriority, exile, borders and the figure of the alien. He is interested…An event co-presented with the Art Libraries Society of North America – Montréal, Ottawa, Québec (ARLIS/NA MOQ)
In English and in French Join us for a round table discussion on copyright and the visual arts, addressing questions related to digital collections in libraries, archives and museums. By bringing together artists, cultural workers, librarians, and copyright experts to…
Six Formats: Lecture-performance
We are pleased to welcome Six Formats research group at Artexte. In early 2017 a group of artists, curators, and art-based researchers will gather for a week to think about and experiment with Lecture-performance as a format of communication of…Your friendly neighborhood annual fundraiser
For sale: rare books, artists’ publications, art magazines, beautiful catalogues, and some “vintage” publications from the Artexte vault! A selection of publications by Artexte Editions will also be on sale at a 20% discount. What is a Duplicate Book Sale? …Continuous broadcast of a sound art work
Let yourself be bewitched by the minimalist charm of the 1976 opera Einstein on the Beach, composed by Philip Glass and directed by Robert Wilson. On this Journée de la Culture 2016, this sound work will be broadcasted in Artexte’s…Roundtable
We are pleased to present a round table related to the current exhibition, Canadian Photography Magazines, 1970-1990, organized in collaboration with Serge Allaire, historian of Quebec art and photography and research resident at Artexte. This round table discussion will bring…Special exhibition
We have prepared an exhibition of documents on mail art exploring the idea of mobility, the theme of the 34th edition of the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul. The exhibition will be on view at the Symposium from July…An artist’s talk presented in collaboration with the Queer Between the Covers Bookfair and Qouleur
(in English with bilingual a question period) The Artexte team is pleased to host an artist’s talk by Vancouver-based artist Ho Tam, who will give a talk on his serial artist’s publication projects. This artist’s talk is presented in…A research residency on the photobook
We are pleased to welcome historian of Quebec art and photography Serge Allaire as a research resident at Artexte. The primary goal of this research residency is to locate and identify photobooks in Artexte’s holdings and to propose a rigorous…A round table on Art, Agency and Homelands
We are pleased to present a round table moderated by Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim, the recipient of the 2015 Artexte prize. This round table discussion will bring together curator Srimoyee Mitra and artists Patrick Beaulieu and Leila Sujir, who…
