February 9, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

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…
Winter 2017

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…
February 16, 2017 - 6 PM to 8 PM

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…
September 22, 2016 - 6 PM to 8 PM

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…
August 12, 2016 - 5:30 PM to 7 PM

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…
Summer 2016

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…
Summer 2016
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Artists, curators and writers all at some point reflect back on the body of work they have realized over an extended period of time. Modern art institutions formalized the contemplation of past…
March 9, 2016 - 6 PM to 7:30 PM

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…
February 27, 2016 - 8 PM, 10 PM and 00 AM

Screenings of the classic film Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut

This year for Montreal’s Nuit blanche, the Artexte team offers free screenings of François Truffaut’s classic science-fiction film Fahrenheit 451, based on Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, which imagines a world where all books are destroyed. For one night the reading…
March 3, 2016 - 6 PM

Publication launch and performance by Francys Chenier with Sylvie Cotton

During the winter of 2015, artist Francys Chenier carried out a research residency at Artexte. Following the joint reading by Chenier and interdisciplinary artist Sylvie Cotton of Michel Foucault’s Le Corps utopique, the two came together in March 2015 for…
January 21, 2015 - 6 PM to 8 PM

Public conference presented in collaboration with the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery

The result of a close collaboration between Artexte and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, this public seminar aims to deepen reflections on the epistemological, cultural, social, political and ethical issues pertaining to reading as methodology. Presented at Artexte…

Videos of exhibition-related talks

Talks within the frame of the exhibition: Sylvie Lacerte: Poésie et storytelling: un itinéraire de la performance chez Vera Frenkel, de la graphie aux nouveaux médias (in French)   Jacob Wren: An apology that I have not properly documented my…

The artists discuss their selection of documents

In this series of videoclips, several artists discuss their selection of documents for the exhibition An Annotated Bibliography: Performance Art in Quebec and Canada.   Johanna Householder Johanna Householder has been making performances, videos and other artworks since the late…
October 19-25, 2015

Discover recent additions to our e-artexte database, freely accessible online!

We are proud to collaborate with many contemporary art galleries, artist-run centres, authors and editors to promote research and provide access to information on contemporary art. Our digital repository, e-artexte, now contains over 530 publications, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, artist’s books…
September 3, 2015
Come see us on for a culturally-packed evening! Take this opportunity to see the new signage that brings together and makes more visible the cultural organizations of the 2-22. Artexte : Reopening of the exhibition An Annotated Bibliography in Real…
Fall 2015

Montreal artist and writer Nelson Henricks has been invited to investigate Artexte’s audio-visual holdings.

Though widely known as a resource centre for print documentation, Artexte also possesses a significant collection of audio-visual materials: films, videotapes, and DVDs; vinyl records, audiocassettes and CDs. The status of these objects varies: some are actual artworks and others…
June 5-7, 2015

An off-site exhibition curated by Collectif Blanc

Opening – June 5, from 5 PM to 10 PM   Artexte is proud to participate in an off-site exhibition lead by Collectif Blanc.   NEWSPAPER EDITION is an exhibition organized by Collectif Blanc around the newspaper as new platform…
March 27, 2015 - 12 PM to 9 PM

A marathon reading of Edward Said’s texts regarding politics of representation

If you would like to read at the marathon reading, please sign up to this calendar Through a shared interest to confront questions around the politics of representation, in images as well as words, and in response to discussions with…