Collection reopening
After a few weeks of closure for collection conservation purposes, our reading room is reopening its doors on July 16, 2025. The Artexte collection will be open to the public according to the following summer schedule: from Wednesday to Friday,…An exhibition curated by Kristen Hutchinson
Opening: Thursday, April 17, 2025, as of 6 PM @ Artexte’s exhibition space. We’re Here. We’re Lesboqueer. We’re Still Fabulous is comprised of documents by and about Canadian lesboqueer artists from 1988 to 2002 from the Artexte collection, as…An exhibition by Guillaume Brisson-Darveau
Opening: Thursday, Jannuary 16, 2025 as of 5:30PM @ Artexte’s exhibition space. As part of his research project in Artexte’s collection, Guillaume Brisson-Darveau focused on art projects and any other documents that reflect experiences associated with HIV/AIDS. This research…An exhibition by Céline Huyghebaert
“The Omissions are those missing pieces subtracted from history, the voluntary or involuntary gaps, the voids, the holes in official stories. But they are also the suppressions we impose upon ourselves: everything we keep quiet about, everything we prevent from…An exhibition curated by Manon Tourigny
Opening — April 18, 2024 — 6pm @ Artexte In this spirit of transferring knowledge, that Manon Tourigny decided to examine the idea of food, while acknowledging that it’s a common art historical subject. Although its treatment differs from…An exhibition curated by Didier Morelli
Opening – January 18, 2024 – 6 PM @ Artexte Artletics comes from artist and curator Didier Morelli’s fascination with sports, with the myth and desire surrounding the figure of the athlete that he has constructed over the years.…An exhibition by Rad Hourani
Opening — Thursday, October 5, 2023 – 5:30 PM @ Artexte “Nativist though they may seem, the writing systems we use to communicate are learned and acquired practices. Through syntax and lexicon, society continues to defer to authority by…An exhibition of MOMENTA Biennale de l'image curated by Ji-Yoon Han
As part of the 18th edition of MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, the VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, and Artexte teams are pleased to collaborate and to present the exhibition Dans la peau de l’histoire. Becoming Joan Dularge by artist Rémi…An exhibition by Sophie Jodoin
Opening — Thursday, April 13, 2023 – 6 p.m. @ Artexte The exhibition in a single breath is a continuation of my work in which text, images, and selected fragments document the traces of a life. By considering archives…A library exhibition by Klara du Plessis and Kadie Salmon
Opening — Thursday, April 13, 2023 – 6 p.m. @ Artexte Incipit. Scree. Explicit. is a sculptural artist’s book that employs poetry and photography as medium. Literally meaning “(here) begins” and “(here) ends” in Latin, Incipit and Explicit bracket…An exhibition curated by Felicity Tayler
Opening — Thursday, January 19, 2023 – 6 p.m. @ Artexte Desire lines are paths that are created as people move through open urban areas. Well-worn tracks in the dirt show us an everyday that is determined by overlapping…An exhibition curated by Mojeanne Behzadi
Opening — Thursday, October 20, 2022 – 5:30 p.m. @ Artexte Sonic Fields of Reflection focuses on the legacies and potentialities of sound as a carrier of information, histories, and experiences in the field of contemporary art. The exhibition…A library exhibition curated by Anabelle Chassé and Jessica Hébert in collaboration with Volume 5 MTL
Since the 1960s and the emergence of movements such as Fluxus and Conceptual Art, the artists’ book has gradually established itself as an artistic medium in the visual arts. Rather than maintaining its status as a container to showcase art,…An exhibition curated by Joana Joachim
Blackity delineates the trajectory of contemporary Black Canadian art as witnessed by Artexte’s collection between the 1970s and the 2010s. The exhibition gathers some key moments and people to consider the thematic, aesthetic or conceptual threads linking them. By placing…An exhibition curated by Hélène Brousseau and Jessica Hébert, with assistance from Alessandra Iavarone
Off-site exhibition In Webster Library’s vitrines @ Concordia University Sir George Williams Campus – J.W. McConnell Building, LB-2 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC We invite you to discover a new exhibition of documents from the Projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE…An exhibition curated by Joana Joachim
The cyclical dis-remembering of Black Canadian artistic practices has long been characteristic of art institutions on Turtle Island. Yet, as curator and researcher Andrea Fatona notes in an interview with artist and curator Liz Ikiriko [1], there are clear periods…An exhibition organized in collaboration with Videographe
Opening reception : Wednesday, February 5, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Magnetic Sequences is an exhibition exploring the self-organization of video communities, particularly artist-run centres, in Canada during the 1970s. This second collaboration between Artexte and Vidéographe combs…An exhibition by Angela Grauerholz
Opening reception: Friday, November 1st from 6 pm to 8 pm The Empty S(h)elf is an exhibition by artist Angela Grauerholz that explores the book’s space through texts, typographies and pictures. It is a research-exploration on the object of…* An incomplete exhibition of performance posters
In[dispensable]* is an exhibition that presents collective musings by Artexte’s team in efforts to question dominant discourses in art history. Through performance ephemera, we examine the notion of “indispensability” in art history. How do these absences inform the collection and…An exhibition curated by Joana Joachim
Opening reception: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 from 6 PM to 8 PM What if colonization and trans-Atlantic slavery had never occurred? What if victims of horrific violence came back to haunt us? What if humans make it another 3000…An exhibition curated by Karla McManus
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 6 from 6 PM to 8 PM Following her research residency at Artexte in 2017, during which she studied the ways in which photographers in Canada have responded to the growing awareness of environmental crisis,…An exhibition by Michael Blum
Opening reception: Wednesday, March 21 from 6 PM to 8 PM Join us for the opening reception of L’underground à la loupe, the conclusion of Michael Blum’s research residency at Artexte. Working with periodicals from the 1960s to the…An exhibition curated by Adam Kinner
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 17 from 6 to 8 PM The upcoming exhibition at Artexte experiments with the paradoxical notion of the outside. At once an escape and an inevitable recuperation, at once an impossible imaginary and the only…A research exhibition and a series of discussions and screenings at Artexte
Reading Performance is the third edition of the two-fold exhibition project An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time first presented at Artexte in 2015. Echoing the lively research context at Artexte, this project, taking form as an exhibition, as well as…Reading practices of MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image 2017
Opening reception: 6 September at 6:30 PM A library within a library, Artexte’s exhibition space is transformed into a reading room. Book, lamp, chair: An exhibited library presents publications that document the practices of artists participating in MOMENTA | Biennale…An exhibition curated by Nelson Henricks
Opening reception: Thursday, April 13 from 6 PM to 8 PM Montreal artist and writer Nelson Henricks has curated the exhibition DOCUMENT XXL from Artexte’s time-based holdings. Though widely known as a resource centre for print documentation focussing on…An exhibition curated by Anne Ramsden
Opening reception: Thursday, January 26, 2017, from 6 PM to 8 PM (preceded by a guided visit with the artist at 5:30 PM) The Artexte team is pleased to present an exhibition by Anne Ramsden, based on a research…An exhibition by Artexte and Vidéographe
Opening reception: Wednesday, November 16, from 5:30 PM Match Cuts 1975 is a call-and-response conversation between two collections. This first collaborative and experimental assemblage of video and print documents takes 1975 as a juncture around which the role and…An exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant
Opening reception: Thursday, September 8, 2016, at 5:30 PM Over the past ten years, the photobook has increasingly been recognized as an expressive form that is essential to a full appreciation of photography and its history. Its ability to…An exhibition curated by Kegan McFadden
An exhibition of magazines by artists in Canada during the 1990s
