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C’est avec plaisir que le conseil d’administration annonce la nomination de Maude Hénaire à titre de directrice de la Galerie B-312. Diplômée en histoire de l’art et actuellement candidate à la maîtrise en management des entreprises culturelles au HEC, Maude évolue depuis une quinzaine d’années dans le milieu culturel, combinant des expériences en développement organisationnel et en programmation artistique.

Mimetic and metamorphosis are at the heart of Michèle Pearson Clarke's preoccupations, particularly in her most recent project, Quantum Choir. This four-channel video installation presented on screens is rooted in singing, a common activity in all cultures, both ordinary and extraordinary. More specifically, it focuses on the idea of a poor  voice performer learning to sing, bathed in insecurity, doubt and shame.

A meeting with participants in the Deux par Deux | Exposition Buissonnière project in collaboration with the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

Join us for this video-discussion on this innovative curatorial project involving the Arprim, B-312, Circa and Skol centers and Drummondville's Galerie d'art Desjardins. With the participation of guests Marthe Carrier, Stéphanie Chabot, Emmanuelle Choquette and Émilie Granjon, and hosts Maude Hénaire and Marie-Pierre Simoneau.

Scrutinizing issues raised by different geopolitical, social or economic situations on the world stage, Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández propose visual interventions where the plastic and aesthetic treatment of the materials reveals troubling facts.

The collective HeHe, composed of Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen, designes surprising hybrid machines that are at times oversized.Their projects are often the result of highly sophisticated processes that involve scientists and specialists. 

Academics, artists and members of Hexagram | CIAM participating in this two-part international seminar will question the forces of transformation occurring at the limits of matter, be they physical, residual, biological or electronic. 

Hanna Hur's artistic practice encompasses a variety of media, including drawing, painting and sculpture. Her artistic approach to perception and empirical reality is informed by a phenomenological approach. Hur addresses the inevitable refractions of this reality through a personal perspective...

Isabelle Hayeur is concerned about the environment, the urban development and the social conditions. Through photography and video, she questions the ambivalence of our relationship to the changing world.

Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon’s works diverge familiar shapes by the incorporation of mechanical movements or the production of unexpected sounds. The objects used in the installation, refer to experiences or cultural knowledge, evoking specific images.

Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.

Brian MacDonald asked three artists to create an artwork knowing that they would be part of an installation with a troubling dilemma: the works of art would only be an instant of respite in the face of the nuisances of the everyday life ?

Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.

Galerie B-312 is pleased to invite you to participate in our pet friendly piñata gallery: a huge piñata filled with a hundred visual, sound and literary works.

For the last Jeudi tout ouïe of the season, Galerie B-312 invites you to an evening of improvised music. During this extraordinary evening, Catherine Jauniaux, the "human sampler", will make her vocal machine work while Joane Hétu will play her vocal cords or her alto sax.

Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.

Inspired by the world of the RISK board game, Éric Ladouceur, curator, conceived this exhibition project and invited the artists to participate in the utopian establishment of a new world order by using the Dymaxion world map.

As part of the Beyrouth-Montréal, Vue Double exchange project, Espace SD in Beirut presents an evening of videotapes by Quebec artists which explore and testify the richness of practices and issues related to video in Quebec.

A presentation of l’Espace Vidéographe. A video programming composed of Finnish works from the artist-run centre AV-ARKKI. In presence of the curator Stéphanie Morissette.

Adad Hannah's projections are accompanied by fragments of photographic impressions from a unique matrix, an anonymous photogram found by the artist in Havana's Chinatown.

Joane Hétu and Jean Derome are the members of the duo Nous perçons les oreilles. Both musicians play alto saxo, and both sing. Then begins the improvisation, one taking over from the other, on voice, on sax, on sax, on voice.

D’une manière ou d’une autre, an encounter with Elisabeth Hautmann, Bettina Hoffmann, Andrea Rostásy and Marcus Weber, four Berlin artists whose work are presented at Galerie B-312 as part of the exhibition Sans souci.

The exhibition makes us aware of the "way" with which art opens onto a world of fiction that can surprise us so much because it does not present the context of the physical, historical, social and cultural space-time in which we are immersed.

Hiatus is organized as a laboratory for creation and experimentation. Their encounters have generated music in a variety of forms, ranging from classical ensemble music to improvisation.

Gallery B-312 hosts Happy Hour, an installation by Alberta-born Montreal artist Nelson Henricks, in his small room. In Silent Film, a film that Nelson Henricks directed in 1994, a voice-over says, "You asked me why this film is silent? 

Rachel Echenberg, invited Sylvie Cotton, Adad Hannah, Flutura and Besnik Haxhillari, Alana Riley and Victoria Stanton to intervene in Alphonse-Télesphore-Lépine Park located at the corner of Fairmount and de Gaspé Streets.

Caritas is Latin for "high price", "expensive (of a thing)". But Caritas also means "high esteem", "love", "tenderness", "affection". This year again, almost 50 artists agreed to participate in the Caritas sales exhibition organized for the benefit of Gallery B-312.

Lisa Hecht evokes in a series of large-format photographs (90 x 60 cm) a whole work of reflection resulting from a very simple gesture, that of obstructing all the windows of her studio with sentences written in negative from her workbook.

The group's repertoire includes pieces by John Cage, Francis Marcoux, Éric Satie, Andrew Senior and Claude Vivier, among others.