Art Matters

Name: Art Matters
Address: Montreal, QC, CA
Telephone: +1 514-848-2424

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Art Matters is a student-run festival that showcases the diversity of Concordia University's artisti

Art Matters is a student-run festival that showcases the diversity of Concordia University's artistic community. The festival promotes emerging talent and provides students with professional experience by working alongside cultural institutions, galleries, and artist-run centers in Montreal and beyond. The Art Matters festival has exhibited work produced by Concordia undergraduate students in the

fields of dance, video, music, design, creative writing, theatre and the visual arts. Annually occurring in March, Art Matters features exhibitions curated by Concordia students in venues throughout the city and hosts many special events such as vernissages, workshops and other events. Art Matters est un festival étudiant qui expose la diversité de la communauté artistique de l'Université Concordia. Le festival encourage le talent émergent et offre des expériences professionnelles aux étudiantes en collaborant avec les institutions culturelles, les galeries et les centres d’artistes basés à Montréal et ailleurs. Le festival Art Matters a exposé le travail des étudiantes au premier cycle de l’université Concordia dans les domaines de la danse, la vidéo, la musique, le design, la création littéraire et les arts visuels. Se déroulant à mars chaque année, Art Matters comporte d'expositions commissariées par les étudiants de Concordia dans divers lieux répandus à-travers la ville, de nombreux événements spéciaux tels que des vernissages, ateliers et autres.

04/24/2026

Join us for our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday May 6th at the VAV Gallery!

This is an excellent opportunity to share feedback related to the festival–positive or negative–that you think should be noted for the editions going forward.

+ Meet next year’s coordinators!

If you are not able to join in person you can attend through Zoom! A link will be provided closer to the 6th!

04/14/2026

Facilitated by Alec Turgeon, Re:bodying was a night of celebration featuring the work of Nathaniel Cancela Edsell, Adaline Kuranko, Kira-Madina Storch, Celine Blais, Finn De Beckers, Angel Gabriel Buell, and Kaylen Schumann!

04/03/2026

fit check pt. 2!!!!

04/02/2026

Some of my favourite shots from the Art Matters opening party Royaume Unlike Ur Own! Can’t wait to see you all tomorrow at our closing party Fault Lines!!

03/27/2026

SEDIMENTS

1-3. Nolan Henry, DREAMING OF LABOUR, Mokuhanga reduction prints on woodpanel, 48 × 72 in, 2024–25.

4-6. Annisa Burgos, Je pense à toi, beaucoup, Photographic series

7-10. Clo Juncal, Espace à geste, Performance

11-14. Beatrix Prior, Artists Notes, pencil on paper, 9 × 7 in, 2026.

03/24/2026

Sediments - Experience accumulates, like layers of sediment building over time. An encounter offers the opportunity to reflect on singular moments, ideas, and feelings, a kind of meditation from which a shared world of sensibility emerges. Observed in this way, it becomes a stratum that traces awareness and meaning between people.

1-3. Viva Egoyan-Rokeby, Witnesses, graphite on paper, AI generated text, birch, 15 drawings, each 14 × 20 cm, 2025.

4-6. Mahélie Boulanger, I Know You Are But What Am I, Enlarged Polaroids printed on silk paper, 16 × 16 in each, 2026 (ongoing).

7-9. Indigo Olson, Umwelt, 8-channel sound installation.

03/19/2026

Did you know that Art Matters is an artist run centre? If you’ve ever been curious about what an artist run centre is, how to start your own, or how to get involved (beyond this festival) this workshop is the place to start!

Quebec has a rich history of artist-run centers: non-profit organizations operated by artists for artists. Like Art Matters, artist run centres promote values of participation, experimentation and innovation. The main activity of these institutions is to encourage the production, promotion, and research of contemporary art. All this, in spaces that exist outside of commercial structures, independent of the imperatives of the art market.

Wednesday March 25 (18:00–20:00)
VAV Gallery, 1395 boul. Rene-Levesque

Présentation de l’atelier sur les centres d’artistes autogérés

Les centres d’artistes autogérés : incubateurs pour artistes émergent.e.s

Les centres d’artistes autogérés sont des organismes sans but lucratif, dirigés par les artistes pour les artistes. Promouvant les valeurs de participation, d’expérimentation et d’innovation, ces établissements ont pour activité principale de favoriser la production
d’œuvres, leur diffusion et la recherche en art actuel dans des espaces qui se situent en dehors des structures commerciales, indépendamment des impératifs du marché de l’art. Ils mettent à la disposition des artistes des espaces, des équipements, des services et des ressources spécialisées et proposent des activités de réflexion, de formation, de
perfectionnement et d’accueil lors de résidences et de séjours de production. Cet atelier vise à dresser un portrait général de la culture des centres d’artistes autogérés afin de mieux comprendre leur importance dans la professionnalisation et l’intégration des
artistes émergent.e.s au monde de l’art actuel.

03/16/2026

Meet the Art Matters team part II.

Art Matters would not be possible without the hard work and commitment of our amazing staff!! This amazing team works with our coordinators to make the festival you know and love happen!

11/06/2025

The artist callout is live! This year, we extend an open invitation to consider our shifting landscapes and the foundations we build upon them through the theme of Unstable Grounds. As we face ever-mounting uncertainties, Art Matters asks you to consider what it means to come together and form community as a radical act.

The theme of ‘Unstable Grounds’ asks, “How do you navigate our current landscape?” It encourages exploration of art as a lens through which to examine our place in the past, contextualize our role in the present, and envision a future.

All “Art” matters, and the festival has seen the inclusion of traditional visual arts mediums, installation, new media, performance, music, film, literary arts, and so on. We encourage artists from all disciplines to apply with their work and wish to exhibit a wide diversity of styles.

Art Matters 2026 honours creation, community, and collaboration. When considering your submission, take the opportunity to dream, to project, to yearn, and to righteously imagine.

Submission deadline: November 30th, 2025.

Apply through the link in our bio 🔗

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Montreal, QC

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+1 514-848-2424

Website

http://artmattersfestival.org/

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