Montreal Cultural Calendar

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As part of Montreal Design Week, MAAT Gallery presents Corps habité, a design exhibition at Studio Idéal featuring a curated selection of local creators.