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Gary LaPointe Jr.'s drawings and sculptures combine with Clay Mahn's paintings question the value, construction and transformation of the frame as form and conceptual foundation. 

In the second exhibition of this special program, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Marion Lessard and Vincent Routhier explore time as a material to think about and model.

Learn more about the artists exhibiting at Galerie B-312 as part of Conjuguer l'espace au temps | Composer.

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.

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?

At Galerie B-312, Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau present an exhibition featuring a sung and danced correspondence between an anonymous contemporary interlocutor and the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977).

Paméla Landry develops devices that perform a succession of movements evoking the ritualized manias of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in order to exploit and share with the audience the restorative quality of the ritual.

The most recent research of Mathieu Lévesque focuses on this ambiguity between the painter's know-how and laissez-faire, while the particular and recurring gestures, generators of style and palettes are often the result of habits, tics, even errors. 

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? 

The most recent research of Mathieu Lévesque is oriented around the ambiguity between the painter's know-how and laissez-faire, while the particular and recurring gestures, generators of style and palettes are often the result of habits, tics, even errors.

Clay Mahn's paintings and sculptures combine with Gary LaPointe Jr.'s drawings and transformed objets question the value, construction and transformation of the frame as a conceptual foundation as well as the languages and theories underline the concept of materiality.

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.

Originally from China and based in Toronto for six years now, the curator Yan Zhou proposes Breathing, a search and creation project bringing together Chinese and Canadian artists. The project addresses environmental, political, economic and social concerns resulting from the smog phenomenon.

Learn more about works and artists of the Breathing exhibition. 

Starting from the sensitive observation of her surroundings and through reproduction and manipulation, Véronique Lépine reinterprets the workshop materials and the objects of her daily life in order to strip them of their utilitarian functions.

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.

As part of Montréal ~ Habana : Rencontres en art actuel, Galerie B-312 is very pleased to present the works of Adam Basanta and Renée Lavaillante in a group exhibition hosted at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visueales in Havana.

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.

Galerie B-312 is thrilled to join forces with Momenta | Biennale de l'image to present the exhibition Maggie Groat + Jamie Ross: Living Entities. The artists explore the unique energy of objects, probing the connections between mind and body, image and object, life and death.

Learn more about the artists exhibiting at Galerie B-312 as part of Gráfica Abierta exhibition. 

Curator Santiago Pérez Garci, director of the Museo Nacional de la Estampa (Mexico) join forces with Arprim, and Circa art actuel, with the complicity of Galerie B-312, to host a collective exhibition with nine Mexican artists. 

For Ivan Lassere, the formal and chromatic minimalism is a way of supporting and giving importance to the gesture executed on the surface, however subtle it may be, until it becomes barely perceptible, blending in with the canvas, playing with layout and erasure

The first part of Statuer. Les figures du socle was recently presented at Action Art Actuel artist-run centre (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). With new artists and strictly pre-existing works, the second part take place at Galerie B-312. 

Jacinthe Loranger continues her research on still life and vanities by associating the allegories of the brevity of life, death and progressive degradation of flesh with kitsch, fast food and more generally our way of life axed on the consumption. 

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.

Mathieu Latulippe explores the links between the world of medicine and the environment - particularly the romantic conception of well-being and health care and its relation to architecture, landscape and nature.

Sandra Lachance portrays the daily life and hobbies of young Inuit teens who, on the threshold of adulthood, abandon their toys for new occupations. Mixing fiction and reality, the series bypasses clichés and stereotypes and offers a dreamlike and original point of view.

For several months, the Quebec artist Guillaume La Brie and the Japanese artist Satoru Tamura have been collaborating via the internet so that each can create the work of the other. Téléportation is a remote creation experience between two sculptors.