Programming & Activities

Still Air
Evoking feelings of anticipation, marked both by waiting for something to happen and waiting for something not to happen, Still Air entangles hope and fear together. Inspired physically by water infrastructure and spatially by architectural enclosures such as courtyards, this installation offers a slowing of time and room for contemplation. The precariousness of everyday life is present in materials that can melt, seep away, or evaporate into thin air.

Call for Proposals — reworlding
reworlding, came about from a discussion around what we need, individually, collectively, environmentally and socially, right now. During uncertain and turbulent times, art helps us (re)imagine, hope, and dream about alternative (possible) worlds that may be hard to imagine otherwise.

A Part of Me, Apart from Me
A Part of Me, Apart from Me presents selected works from Park’s long-term project, the Aejang Project, which began with his father’s oldest memory: accompanying the artist’s grandfather to bury his one-year-old sister. Her body was buried in the form of “aejang,” a Korean practice intended to forget the child, avoid bad luck, and ease its passage into the next life. The exhibition explores dimensions of melancholia as an ontological inquiry into belonging and memory.

I Wonder How I Wonder Why
Drawing on early encounters with Western culture, Dong uses the song “Lemon Tree”, by Fool’s Garden, as a symbolic and aspirational fantasy of Western life: bright, carefree, filled with promise. For Dong, Western fantasies were shaped through cultural exports like music, media, and fashion, each offering an idealized, unattainable version of the West. Bittersweet childhood memoirs are transformed in this exhibition into acts of resistance and empowerment.

The Clouds, They Look Like Mountains
The 8th edition of Slut Island Festival is here. In times of unending grief and peril, we must resist despair. Art and music divorced from the commercial sphere is a vehicle for messaging that begs to be heard and with the power to invigorate us. We will congregate with expanded lenses, confirmed suspicions and new perspectives, undoubtedly (re)shaped and shattered by ongoing tyranny abroad and at home.

Call for Proposals — 2025-2026
For its 2025-2026 programming year, articule has chosen ABUNDANCE as its theme. We invite local, national and international artists, collectives, art institutions and curators to submit exhibition proposals that respond to this theme in whatever way they see fit.

Landbeing
Landbeing plays with interpretations of living on the land, whether as residents or visitors, and various ways of adapting to the environment. Land is innately embedded in being and in the basic elements that create a shared life force that runs through all things. Working with materials and techniques from the lands they arrive at and those they reach towards, these three artists seek to orient themselves towards Landbeing.

Af-Flux - Storytelling Performances
articule is proud to partner once again with Af-Flux and host the Black Transnational Biennale for their second edition. We will be presenting performers Kim Ninkuru and storyteller Jacques Adler Jean-Pierre for a Storytelling Performances Festival on January 13th.

Call for Submissions : MANIFESTATIONS
As the year comes to a close, the staff of Articule and the Members Committee would like to invite members to submit their proposals for the 2024 Members' Exhibition - Manifestations. The members' shows are unique opportunities for participants to collaborate around a theme and to transform our gallery. It is a great opportunity for emerging artists and curators to broaden their network and showcase their practice.

I want you to know that I am hiding something from you / since what I might be is uncontainable
This two-part installation is concerned with the perception and visibility of racialized bodies. Nnebe creates an interactive experience for the viewer by playing with opacity and space; the act of navigating the gallery becomes a medium for the work itself. Focused on the process of racialization, specifically on how it impacts Black communities, the work attempts to ground discussions around representation in theory coming from the French Caribbean, as well as African cosmologies and folkloric traditions.

Call for Submissions : (Re) Generation
The members' shows are unique opportunities for participants to collaborate around a theme and to transform our gallery. It is a great opportunity for emerging artists and curators to broaden their network and showcase their practice.

capsize // together: building collective futures
capsize // together: building collective futures exhibition strives towards an equitable future through the different lenses of Futurism and the intersection of diverse knowledge and new technology to resist colonial structures of repression and suppression.

Umm al Raml’s Sand Narratives
In this speculative fiction project, “Umm al Raml’s Sand Narratives,” artist Shirin Fahimi render visible the absence of female prophets within Islamic literature, and the challenges of representing them.

CREDOS IV
Credos is a series of four edition that started of table-top group mini-exhibitions conceived for church-basement bazaars in Laval and Greater Montreal throughout 2019–20.

Af-Flux Monde Bossale
Launch of the biennale: September 11th
Performances Festival at articule : Novembre 14th
articule is pleased to announce its participation as a host for this first edition of the Black Transnational Biennale.


Unboxed / Déballé
Garfield Morgan, seeley quest, Joyce Joumaa, Annik St-Arnaud, Kathryn Delaney, Jay Bosse, arkadi lavoie lachapelle, Gabriel Dorais, Fernando Belote, kimura byol-nathalie lemoine
Celebration: Sept. 11, 7:00 PM

Credos (postponed)
Michael Eddy (MTL)
Location: Ste-Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus, 8200 rue St-Hubert (entrance of bazaar on rue Mistral), Montreal, H2P 1Z2

What is Nature? (cancelled)
Camille Huang, Magali Alanis Rodriguez-Beaudoin, Joshua Jensen, Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Elisabeth Perrault, Colin Courtney, Tristan Lajarrige, David Durham
Finissage: Saturday, Mar 21, 7:00 PM


The Sisters' Fart Corner
Sarah Mihara Creagen (NYC)
Opening: Friday, Nov 8, 2019, 7:00 PM