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As directors of artist-run centers from Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda and guest curators at the Galerie d'art Desjardins in Drummondville, Marthe Carrier and Matthieu Dumont have chosen to explore this triangulation: how live and discover the contemporary art in our regions?

As directors of artist-run centers in Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda, and guest curators at Galerie d'art Desjardins in Drummondville, Marthe Carrier and Matthieu Dumont have chosen to explore this triangulation: how is contemporary art lived and deployed in our regions? 

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

When the strange knock on the well-known door, it created perceptual and psychological discomfort. Involving itself cunningly, not to say sneaky, it causes awkwardness or fear. The artists reclaim a collective and symbolic basin to better invest it with a personal aesthetic.

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.

eXcentrer's curators Marthe Carrier, Stéphanie Chabot, Emmanuelle Choquette and Émilie Granjon, directors of Galerie B-312, Skol, Arprim and Circa invite you to this singular event which takes place from September 2019 to May 2020 at the Galerie d'art Desjardins de Drummondville.

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.

Julie Favreau presents From Her Character an in situ proposal that continues the research initiated with She Century, a body of variable works that revisits the history and archetypes of women from the position of the artist and their apprehension of the gesture. 

They are six. All in their twenties and thirties. They studied arts at Concordia University and UQAM. They chose painting. The exhibition Six peintres, deux écoles, trois lieux, une rencontre, presented in 2014 at Galerie B-312 and in two other Montréal art centres.

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.

To begin the 2014 season, Galerie B-312 invites you to an exhibition bringing together six graduates of Concordia University and UQAM from the Master’s of Visual Arts program. All have chosen painting.

Karine Fréchette's paintings incorporate various stratagems to blur the legibility of the works. This exhibition brings together works that are part of the tradition of formal abstraction and borrow from different streams of painting.

Consisting of 27 works, this event highlights the dynamism and versatility of Galerie B-312, which has become, over time, a reference on the Montréal’s contemporary art scene. 

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.

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.

In this non-linear work, the double dialectic of confrontation and concord is constantly replayed without finding a terminology, except that of opening a space of reflection without limit on the question of the motive of the gesture.

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.

Andrea Szilasi, Annie Martin, Carmen Ruschiensky and Karilee Fuglem rented an apartment, the time to work there and to present the result of the cohabitation of four artistic minds. This time they have chosen to turn their sensibility towards a place steeped in history.

Push is a consideration of how photography engages the profound violence of the modern era. What is its capacity to reflect on this relationship and what is the necessity to do so? To what extent does such a reflection reside in a work whether explicitly intended or not.

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.

Michel Gonneville invited artists Michelle Boudreau, Luc Bourbonnais, Mario Côté and Claude Ferland to create a work based on Îles, a musical piece he composed in 1991 for choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault. 

Alice Cerdan, is a specialist in contemporary Amerindian art. She offers us the photographic work of two artists who are rarely shown in Quebec. She approached this project with the premise of the otherness in its relationship to cultural belonging.

The angle from which Louis Fortier approaches moulding allows a certain closeness to laboratory work. It is as if he was trying to form a genealogy from an individualized head, then repeated and transformed through experimentation.

The passage of time, its elasticity, boredom and the comfort of small everyday activities are all features that characterize Jours et nuits, Images et musiques et musique et temps, an installation by Natalie Font. 

It is with photography as a theme several Montreal artists have come together to participate in Galerie B-312's fall fundraising event. The exhibition is composed of different works that raise questions about the problematic of photography.

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.