"The Vision of Art POP"

Art POP is the visual arts segment of the POP Montreal International Music Festival.

Each year it presents an energetic, curated slate of some 20 solo and group exhibitions, site-specific installations, public artworks, performances, screenings and artist talks – free and open to the public.

In harmony with POP Montreal’s mandates, Art POP strives to create a place for young, emerging artists and curators to share space alongside established talent, and to find challenging and creative ways to situate Montreal’s artistic community within the context of international contemporary art practices.

Past Headliners

2018
• Dance and movement performance by renowned New York duo FlucT + Mich Cota
• Independent writers reading event presented with Expozine
• Friends & Neighbours Present: Crying-Laughing (je ris pour ne pas pleurer) Group exhibition
• XX FILES Radio Broadcast
• Sabrina Ratté Cité-jardin | Video installation
• Distroboto Art vending machines

2017
• Video installation and performance (in collaboration with two Montreal dancers) by Detroit-based artist Maya Stovall
• Performance and Q&A with New York-based artist Baseera Khan
• Video installation and screening of 8-artist video art program, guest curated by CK2
• Temporary artist residency conceived by Céline Bureau, installed at POP Quarters
• Multimedia installation by Quebec artist Dominique Sirois
• Solo photography exhibition by Toronto-based Swedish artist Johanna Heldebro
• Artist-community collaborative project with Toronto-based Mohawk artist Walter Scott
• Group exhibition (Nadine Faraj, Triciia Middleton, Rebecca Storm and Jana Sterbak) at Never Apart, on view July 13-September 23
• Performance by multidisciplinary Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist Skeena Reece, co-presented by OBORO

2016
• Kalup Linzy - Live multimedia performance and talk • Jayson Musson - Screening and artist talk
• Feelings Film Festival Montreal Screening
• Seth Bogart Installation
• Adam Basanta Installation
• Maya Fuhr Curated Group Show
• Mitch Dixon Installation
• Hugo Dufour-Bouchard Installation

2015
• Sneak-peek screening of Outfitumentary with artist K8 Hardy in attendance
• Artist talk with Olaf Breuning
• Group show Discipline & Plug In, curated by galerie CK2
• Video installation Quartered, by Geo Wyth
• Video installation The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim: The Five Boroughs of the Soul, by David Blandy
• Sculpture installation I Scream, by Michael Doerksen
• Collaboration with the youth group LOVE (Leave Out Violence) and street artist Miss Me

2014
• Screening of dunia tak akan mendengar by Phil Collins, with artist in attendance
• Artist talk between Phil Collins and Damon & Naomi
• Video Installation by German artist Sylvia Schedelbauer
• First collaboration with the youth group LOVE (Leave Out Violence), putting forth a project with artist Dominique Pétrin

2013
• Elizabeth Price screening at MACM
• Dan Graham talk and video entitled Minor Threat
• Elizabeth Price artist talk
• Archives MTL exhibition

2012
• A performance by Los Angeles-based duo lucky dragons
• Vincent Morisset and Caroline Robert’s exhibition The Art of “The Suburbs” which included an elaborate re-staging of the set used in the making of the album artwork for Arcade Fire’s album “The Suburbs”
• o F F Love FAN ART BEDROOM, a site-specific installation exploring the teenage fan bedroom in homage to the musician o F F Love

2011
• World premiere of Death Disco Dancing by Marcel Dzama, live scored performance and Q&A with artist
• Raincoats: Adventures, featuring an artist talk with the band and a 5 day exhibit presenting a collection of photos, clippings, and drawings
• Two significant and complementary exhibits And no one was around and Did It make a sound, which gathered over 40 artists such as Richard Kerr, Connor Willumsen, Richmond Lam, the Publié/Autopublié collective, and more!

2010
• Concert/Projection by Koudlam and Cyprien Gaillard at the MACM
• Pop-Up Gallery curated by Matt Goerzen
• Daily print party at DHC/ ART
• Art-Expo by Jordan McKenzie (Elfin Saddle)

2009
• Giant theremin installation
• Installation by The Happiness Project
• Exhibit by Brendan Reed

2008
• Laser POP with Ubisoft
• Jacques Tardi at Art Mûr
• Adrian Norvid installation at the Notman House

2007
• Exhibits by Jad Fair, Will Murray, and Joseph Arthur

2006
• Rodney Graham exhibit and concert at the MACM
• Seripop show at 100-Sided Die

2005
• Billy Childish exhibit
• First ever Art POP poster art exhibit