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ARTCH FESTIVAL
At the heart of our system is our annual festival. It allows us to identify, support, train and promote emerging contemporary artists, as well as creating links between local art communities, the business world, new art collectors and the general public.
Every year through this event our renowned jury selects a new cohort of emerging artists to take under our wings. To support and prepare them for their professional career, alongside a high level training to propel their artistic career is offered to 23 chosen artists.
They then exhibit their artwork in an outdoor exhibition in the middle of downtown Montreal. In addition to a variety of workshops, conferences and professional mediation, this event made for a vast public aims to democratize contemporary art and initiate people to become collectors.
PLEIN SOLO
Plein solo is a major initiative celebrating the diversity and vitality of Quebec’s emerging art scene. This unique project, financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communications, offers six visual artists from past ARTCH cohorts an exceptional opportunity to present their first solo exhibition in major cultural institutions across Quebec. By pairing each artist with a partner institution, Plein solo creates a unique dialogue between creators and their host venues, while strengthening the place of emerging artists in Quebec’s cultural landscape.
The artists also benefit from a creative residency within their host institution, allowing them to produce new works while being accompanied by curators and mentors.
From January 2025 to March 2026, Plein solo offers an unprecedented journey through six solo exhibitions that will be presented in these emblematic venues:
Nina Vroemen – l’Écart, Rouyn-Noranda
Cristel Silva – Centre Sagamie, Alma
Camille Lescarbeau – Musée régional de Rimouski
Geneviève Dagenais – Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul
Zacharie Gauvreau – Atelier Silex, Trois-Rivières
Florence Viau – Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup
Espace sensible
Espace sensible is a series of outdoor exhibitions produced by Artch and aiming to promote the work of contemporary emerging visual artists of Quebec.
This project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Quebec government through the call for proposals of projects to promote Quebec’s culture.
Espace sensible takes place through a variety of outdoors exhibitions all over Quebec and hosts exhibitions and conversations between different protagonists located in multiple spaces of the province. The idea of this trans-territorial project is to create links between creators to foster the promotion of Quebecers artists outside of their hometowns. Through all seasons of the year, Espace hosts the work of local artists under its pavilions, giving them visibility outside of institutional environments all while democratizing contemporary art, being made accessible on anyone and everyone’s path.
Artch is the recent recipient of a $300,000 grant from the Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications for the Espace Sensible project. This project contributes to making Quebec culture shine on a larger scale, bringing it closer to citizens and to generating pride in the province’s emerging talents in contemporary art.
Espace sensible exhibitions
Gatineau – July 8 to October 30, 2022
Rouyn-Noranda – October 21 to December 30, 202
Chicoutimi – October 20, 2022 to January 13, 2023
Québec – March 23 to April 11, 2023
Trois-Rivières – February 24 to March 17, 2023
Rivière-du-Loup – March 23 to May 22, 2023
Related projects
Thanks to many cultural partners and collaborators, we can offer multiple exhibition projects and opportunities to artists who have been a part of our previous cohorts. We create these events to offer ongoing support to the career of emerging artists and foster a growing artistic community within Artch.
We have previously been fortunate to collaborate with le LivArt, Fais-moi l’art and the Cultural center George-Vanier.
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