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While photography is the essence of Alexis Gros-Louis' practice, he combines photographic techniques with a variety of media. These combinations, considered paratextual, aim to examine the substance of images as well as the histories and exchanges between objects, space and viewer. Alexis Gros-Louis highlights the complex relationships between the photographed objects, the space in which they are situated, and the viewer who interacts with the work. The artist is interested in notions of identity and belonging, and the normative systems of dominant cultures.

Victor Arroyo works at the intersections of cinema and contemporary art. His films are inspired by various modes of listening and seeing, the result of long periods of observation, documentation and archiving. The Disappearance in Three Acts project is a video trilogy that examines the political and social complexities of contemporary Mexico. Each act of the trilogy is an exploration of trauma and marginalized histories. At Galerie B-312, he presents Act 1, Act of Mourning.

La maison de la culture Lachine is pleased to present Provoke | Fluid States in collaboration with the Conseil des arts de Montréal and Galerie B-312, which, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, has invited Maude Arès, a 30-year-old artist, and Massimo Guerrera, an artist with a 30-year career, to explore time as a matter of practice.

Since August 2020, Sara A.Tremblay has been sharing videos and photographs on Instagram as part of a project named Tout t’empêche. Still in progress, it was born from a reflection on the pressure to create and on the fact that her refuge, the countryside, has now become her main residence.

The Stewart Hall Art Gallery is pleased to present Provoke | Fluid States in collaboration with le Conseil des arts de Montréal and Galerie B-312, which, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, has invited Maude Arès, a 30-year-old artist, and Massimo Guerrera, an artist with a 30-year career, to explore time as a matter of practice.

Approaching time as a matter of practice, Maude Arès, who is 30 years old, and Massimo Guerrera, who has a 30-year career, have been paired in the first exhibition of the special 30th anniversary program of Galerie B-312. Starting your career today, is it different from 30 years ago?

It is with great pride that we unveil the Winter-Spring program of 2022: three special exhibitions, presented in quick succession, to highlight the 30th anniversary of our center. With unique creations conceived by artists invited to commit themselves to the questions related to space and time.

Learn more about the artists from Montreal and Baltimore from La Track | The Track exhibition presented at Galerie B-312 until March 28, 2020. 

Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron is the curator of La Track | The Track a project with exhibitions, residences and conferences in which artists from Montreal and Baltimore reflect on uprooting, disorientation and encounter concepts.

At the Factatory, in the wastelands adjoining the railways and near the temporary units offered in the residency, Philippe Allard proposes Migration sédentaire, a work that challenges our relationship to movement, borders and travel.

Created by Jean-Pierre Aubé, 31 soleils (Dawn chorus) is an installation composed of a video and a sound piece. Entirely immersive, it is the result of the observation of the sunrise coupled with the low frequencies emitted by radio waves at this precise moment of the day.

Conversations Montréal | Lyon was initiated by curators Marthe Carrier and Chloé Grondeau and spearheaded by Galerie B-312 in Montreal. It has since become an avenue of exchange between Lyon and Montreal, with a particular emphasis on showcasing the local art scene in each city.

Res Ipsa Loquitur exhibition allows to see the collection of silkscreens of Corridart. Pour la liberté d’expression (1982) created by Graff to finance the appeal filed following the defeat of the lawsuit initiated by Corridart artists against the City of Montréal.

The work created by Pierre Ayot and Denis Forcier for Corridar will be reassembled. It's a legendary work, unfortunately dismanted too quickly in July 1976. We wiil recreate a replica of this work at the foot of Mount Royal. 

The event Pierre Ayot is a retrospective offering different perspectives on the practice of Pierre Ayot. This fall, take the opportunity to see several works, some never shown before, of this significant artist in the art history of Quebec.

With 1+1=1, Mother Tongue, Ataman and Sedira deal with the unpredictable impacts of acts as decisive as the borders erection and the desire to abolish them. This exhibition reveals the limits of constraining the photographic conception to a theory of the index sign. 

Tres Tiempos consists of three photographic sequences and a video showing in three stages a brutal collision between a motorist and a pedestrian.

Travaux récents by Randall Anderson speaks of art history, studio work, transmission of information and data processing.The artist develops different strategies to represent either the shaping of a shape.

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.

Through this exhibition's program, curators Ricardo Mbarak and Wadih Safieddine have focused on works that address the question of identity. The selection shows several positions of artists who privilege in their works criteria related to their environment.

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.

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.

This year again, almost 50 artists agreed to participate in the Caritas sales exhibition organized for the benefit of Gallery B-312.—60% of the proceeds from the sale are donated to the gallery, the difference being kept by the artist.

Among the ambiguities that David Altmejd retains to populate his lower gardens, the serious cohabits with the playful, the precious neighbour with the bauble, humour spawns with the incongruous and DIY sometimes takes on a serious air. 

The exchange project between artist-run centres outside of Quebec and the Galerie B-312  is in its final stage with the presentation of the EyeLevel Gallery centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

An installation consisting of paintings of objects faithfully rendered from photographs. Presented as three distinct modules, each module deals in its own way with questions of identity and the formation of meaning.