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Vernissage: To Move Across the Land: What Survives When Borders Fail

DateSunday, April 19, 2026
Time2 pm – 4:05 pm
WhereGalerie d'art Stewart Hall
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As part of the eighth edition of the Indigenous Contemporary Art Biennial, this exhibition brings together a wide breadth of Indigenous and diasporic artists whose work explores cultural survival, spiritual continuity, and embodied knowledge within their contexts shaped by colonial borders, displacement, and erasure. An ancestral tattooing performance by Megan Samms, Dion Kaszas, and Dr. Mel Lefebvre will take place as part of the reception.

Vernissage: Otherworlds by Jakob Kudsk Steensen

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
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Experience an immersive exhibition by Jakob Kudsk Steensen that explores contemporary ecological realities through virtual reality, sound, and video installations. Drawing from global fieldwork, the artist creates speculative digital worlds that blend scientific observation with imagination to examine the impacts of climate change. Featuring interconnected works, including the North American premiere of Psychosphere (2025), the exhibition unfolds as a layered, dreamlike narrative.

Vernissage: Lies lies lies by Paola Pivi

DateWednesday, April 22, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
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Discover Paola Pivi's first major exhibition in Québec, a traveling show featuring sculptural installations that explore themes of freedom, truth, and misinformation. Through immersive and imaginative works, the artist reinterprets familiar symbols to challenge our perception of contemporary reality. At the heart of the exhibition, Lies (2018) invites visitors to reflect on the blurred line between truth and falsehood.

Vernissage: One's Own Eyes

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
Where2 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2X 1K4
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By adopting strategies akin to visual ethnography, the trio, composed of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, multiplies perspectives on the modernization of Iran, its rural regions, and the families witnessing their industrialization. Archives and image-making apparatuses become playgrounds and sites of subversion as much as catalysts for encounters, from which the artists conduct an autopsy of a territory.

Vernissage: Romances by Lynda Gaudreau

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time5 pm – 8 pm
Where2 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2X 1K4
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Dissecting and reassembling the elements of photonovels, Gaudreau draws forth details that disrupt its usual narrative continuity. This pop literary genre is thus reconfigured into a choreographic space in which texts and images tumble out of sync.

Vernissage: Passage à découvert 2026

DateThursday, April 23, 2026
Time5:30 pm – 7:35 pm
Where1400 Rue Berri, Montréal, QC H2L 4S8
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Presented each spring at Galerie de l'UQAM, Passage à découvert showcases the work of UQAM's graduating students in the Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts program, highlighting their creative vitality, freedom, and curiosity. Thanks to the multidisciplinary approach favoured by UQAM's School of Visual and Media Arts, the student works on display address a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and techniques in dialogue with the contemporary world. This year, several projects reimagine the concept of materiality by examining its transformations and modes of perception. Others explore the relationship to the body, identities, and performativity, deploying playful displays that convey a sensitive relationship to reality.

Vernissage: Aire de jeu

DateFriday, April 24, 2026
Time5 pm – 9 pm
Where6450 Avenue Christophe-Colomb, Montréal, QC H2S 2G7
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Aire de jeu is the collective exhibition of Samuel Alie, Zélie Delespierre and Gilliane April, graduate students in visual and media arts at UQAM. This exhibition is carried out as part of the Atelier II course facilitated by Professor Claire Savoie, at the CDEx Dissemination and Experimentation Centre.

VERNISSAGE student show

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
Whererue saint-jacques
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Art
Performance à 19h30

Finissage: Racines créatives

DateSaturday, April 25, 2026
Time9 pm – 11:05 pm
Where3980 Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2W 2M2
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Racines créatives is a group exhibition bringing together seven artists and designers from the Afro-descendant community, spanning from Montreal to Martinique. The exhibition creates a dialogue between their creative expressions, offering a rich and multifaceted cultural portrait. Through a variety of mediums and themes, each participant contributes a unique vision, fostering a collective reflection on cultural identities and urban interactions.

Vernissage: Deux Artisans

DateTuesday, April 28, 2026
Time7 pm – 9:05 pm
WhereCentre de Céramique Bonsecours
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Photographer Vincent Castonguay and filmmaker David Simard captured the final days of the residency, translating the essence of the space, the richness of gestures, and the beauty of shared daily life into images. The exhibition features photography, ceramic objects by Alexandra Gelinas, and the short film reflecting this living cultural transmission. Beyond borders, this collaboration embodies a choice: to become together. For the past year, Dan, Alexandra, and Quartier Artisan have joined forces to develop a future maker-space in Lac-Mégantic: a multi-disciplinary workshop site dedicated to preserving artisanal knowledge and hosting Québec artisans and designers. Deux Artisans stands as a manifesto for a resilient community in the making. Exhibition presented by SIALart.

Vernissage: Point de chute: The World of Design and Arts and Crafts

DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereAtelier Retailles
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Art
The exhibition will present the work of designer-makers in ceramics, glass, textiles, and woodworking who were invited to reflect on the revalorization and creative reuse of production offcuts and scraps. An inevitable by-product of artisanal production, these materials are either reimagined through new techniques and materials or approached through installative works that reveal their technical, economic, ecological, and poetic dimensions.

Vernissage: Ourse x Lambert et Fils

DateWednesday, April 29, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereGalerie 6250
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After a two-year hiatus, Lambert & Fils is reopening its gallery located in the heart of its Mile End workshop. To mark this happy news, the studio is welcoming Ourse, a Toronto-based contemporary furniture manufacturer with production workshops in Montreal, as its first guest. A reservation is required for this one.

Vernissage: Bonus Room

DateThursday, April 30, 2026
Time7 pm – 10 pm
Where3655 Boul. Saint-Laurent
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Bonus Room addresses the gallery as a third space estranged from the digital sphere. In a distinct moment in time when artists are producing for both physical and digital spaces, the art process and experience can be dissonant from their social intent. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture, seven artists–Andrea Chenier, Julia Mobbs, Thomas Prodani, Dane Matthews, Meriem Haddou, Beatrix Prior, and Colin Mills–explore the contradiction between the flat digital image and the real experience of art's material origins. Responding to the saturation of artwork in the digital sphere, artists question the physical experience of trend-oriented artworks, playfully considering space, material, and image origin. Bonus Room is open for one night only. BYOB.

Vernissage: Sténopé by Matéo L. Sampaio

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 10 pm
WhereGalerie Deschênes
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Sténopé is the first solo exhibition of Matéo L. Sampaio curated by Mathieu Deschênes. Developed from photographic negatives discovered in an abandoned site, the project unfolds at the intersection of reality and fiction, activating fragments of memory linked to a forgotten family.

Vernissage: Passagers by Galerie Mold

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 10 pm
WhereWIP
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New Age Contamination. MOLD, a nomadic gallery, presents Passengers, an exhibition highlighting the work of designers and artists Emile Algue, Geneviève Grenier, Jacqueline Beaumont, Jean-Michel Gadoua, Juliette Dupont, L.L.Y. Atelier, Olivier Bonnard, Philippe St-Denis, Rachel Bussin, Simon Johns and Sophie Murphy, who challenge the established order, push boundaries, and follow their own path.

Vernissage: Ex-tension

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereAtelier L'Abri
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Ex-Tension is an interdisciplinary group exhibition bringing together designers and artisans from Mile-Ex. Conceived as an extension of a neighbourhood, a network, and a place, the project highlights the creative density of this area through an immersive experience. This event will inaugurate Atelier L'Abri's new space with a group exhibition orchestrated by Procedures Industry. The proposal invites the public to discover the richness of the practices and partnerships that animate this creative ecosystem, made up of collaborations, materialities, processes, and exchanges.

Vernissage: Soft Goods by Double Entendre

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time5 pm – 7:05 pm
WhereWhite Wall Studio
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Soft Goods, an exhibition organized by Double Entendre, explores how soft materials can give rise to objects through the creative process. Bringing together Canadian designers, artists, and architects, the exhibition invites experimentation with malleable and flexible materials such as fabric, foam, paper, silicone, and other mediums to shape objects that reveal the full creative potential of softness. Focusing on furniture, objects, and small-scale lighting, the exhibition creates a coherent dialogue between works ranging from tactile, organic forms to pieces that evolve toward more structured or unexpected results.

Vernissage: 1,978sq/ft exhibition

DateFriday, May 1, 2026
Time6 pm – 8:05 pm
WhereBeaumont Studios
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Genuinely one of the most interesting artist studios within walking distance from the Mile End. Studio Beaumont, once a functioning industrial building, is now a creative home for an assortment of artists and designers. The tenants are neither an organization nor collective, but instead neighbours sharing walls, tools, and ideas; cooperating to maintain one of the few remaining affordable spaces for independent practices in Montreal.

Event: Corps habité by MAAT Gallery

DateSaturday, May 2, 2026
Time12 pm – 4 pm
WhereStudio Idéal
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As part of Montreal Design Week, MAAT Gallery presents Corps habité, a design exhibition at Studio Idéal featuring a curated selection of local creators.

Festival BD de Montréal

DatesMay 14, 2026 – May 18, 2026
Whererue Saint-Denis
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Art
https://www.fbdm-mcaf.ca/preparer-sa-visite/plan-du-site/

Le Festival BD de Montréal lancera le bal sur la rue Saint-Denis, du 14 au 18 mai.