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Alexandra Levasseur + Ber Arce | Soft Existentialism
March 28, 2019

Alexandra Levasseur + Ber Arce | Soft Existentialism

In Soft Existentialism, Quebec artist Alexandra Levasseur is presenting the results of a year of exploration in ceramics, testing different kind of clays and glazes. With these new delicate artworks, she has been revisiting past subjects in their tridimensional version.

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Scope Art Show | New York
February 21, 2019

Scope Art Show | New York

Galerie C.O.A will be participating in the 19th edition of SCOPE art fair in New York! From March 7th to 10th, we’ll be showing the brand new works of MissMe, a woman artist whom we are very proud to represent.

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New Classics | Group Show
January 17, 2019

New Classics | Group Show

From January 31th until March 2nd, Galerie C.O.A. is proud to present "New Classics", a group exhibition featuring works by 11 international artists. Curated by Sasha Bogojev, the presentation will include works by selected artists whose practice revolves around...

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Scope Art Show | Miami
November 28, 2018

Scope Art Show | Miami

We are thrilled to announce that Galerie C.O.A is participating in the next edition of SCOPE Art Show in Miami, from December 4th - 9th, 2018. 

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Eric Godin | Solo show
November 28, 2018

Eric Godin | Solo show

Galerie C.O.A is proud to celebrate Eric Godin’s 35-year career with a solo show. Godin’s work never stops evolving while delivering a steady deeply touching signature, whichever art he chooses to explore as an editorial cartoonist, painter, sculptor, writer or illustrator.

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MissMe x Cheap Festival
November 02, 2018

MissMe x Cheap Festival

In partnership with Festival La Violenza Illustrata, MissMe was invited in by Cheap (Street Poster Art Festival) to create a wall dedicated to feminist struggles, women who voice out and those who regain possession of their bodies and their own pleasure.

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PASSAGE | Group show
October 11, 2018

PASSAGE | Group show

From October 25th to November 17th, 2018, we'll be presenting a group show where all the featured artists, through different mediums and ideals, express a common desire to change perceptions, morals or any established fact.

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Éric Nado | QW3RT¥
August 30, 2018

Éric Nado | QW3RT¥

Eric Nado lives and works in Montreal. For 20 years, he has collected, deconstructed and reassembled industrial objects in series. Each of the resulting sculptures is a true technical exploration. His concern for skills and performance always comes with a common thread to the artist’s work: the storytelling of our collective past through the creation of evocative works.

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Ms. Teri + Cat Prince | Crafty Cunts
August 06, 2018

Ms. Teri + Cat Prince | Crafty Cunts

Curated by two women, the exhibition "Crafty Cunts" is a meeting between fine art and craft, crossing historical and contemporary imagery. 

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Danny Gretscher | There Is Enough Light
May 29, 2018

Danny Gretscher | There Is Enough Light

Galerie C.O.A is delighted to present Danny Gretscher’s first solo exhibition in Montreal. Multidisciplinary artist, he presents here a selection of paintings and drawings.

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Pop-Up Show MissMe x Mural
May 25, 2018

Pop-Up Show MissMe x Mural

Galerie C.O.A is thrilled to open MissMe Pop-Up Show from June 7th to 17th, 2018. Launch party on June 8th from 5 to 9pm.

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The Mêmes-Cacaïstes
April 18, 2018

The Mêmes-Cacaïstes

Galerie C.O.A. is pleased to present the Mêmes-Cacaïstes latest exhibition from May 3rd to June 2nd 2018. The art show will feature a selection of paintings, silkscreens, sculptures and a film projection. The vernissage is on May 3rd, from 5 pm to 9 pm.

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Hélène Cenedese | E V E R Y D A Y
March 01, 2018

Hélène Cenedese | E V E R Y D A Y

For the first time, the Galerie C.O.A is hosting a solo exhibition of Hélène Cenedese, an artist from Montreal. The exhibition will occur from march 15th to april 21st and spotlights her last drawings and paintings, plastic testimonies of a daily routine comon to all.

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Andrés & Valentina Layos | Grandir ensemble
January 20, 2018

Andrés & Valentina Layos | Grandir ensemble

Galerie C.O.A is pleased to announce its new upcoming exhibition titled “Grandir ensemble”, presented from February 1st to March 3rd, 2018

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"La Singularité" | A Short Created by Alexandra Levasseur
January 09, 2018

"La Singularité" | A Short Created by Alexandra Levasseur

Galerie C.O.A. is proud to present "La Singularité”, an animated short created by Alexandra Levasseur, based on a series of paintings titled “Puzzle". Thursday, January 18th, from 5 to 8 PM. Free admission. 

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SCOPE Miami Beach | 2017
November 21, 2017

SCOPE Miami Beach | 2017

Galerie C.O.A is participating in the 2017 edition of the SCOPE Art Show in Miami Beach, from December 5th - 10th, 2017. We will be presenting new works from artists Sandra Chevrier, Alexandra Levasseur, MissMeand Éric Nado.

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Hélène Cenedese | Traces, Between Memory and Oblivion
November 16, 2017

Hélène Cenedese | Traces, Between Memory and Oblivion

Galerie C.O.A is pleased to present the most recent addition to its stable of artists, Montreal artist Hélène Cenedese.

Born in  1973, Hélène Cenedese is a Montreal-based visual artist principally versed in drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her works are characterised by a visual language that is both poetic and visceral. Hélène Cenedese is an Honours graduate from Concordia University's Visual arts program and has established a career as a social worker over the past 20 years. Working mainly in Montreal's South West, she is brought to develop connections with individuals experiencing loss of independence. Their intimate spaces - their homes, daily lives, memories and life stories - make up her work environment. Cenedese has also worked in Nunavik, in the northernmost part of Quebec's Hudson Bay, between 2000 and 2003. Following this pivotal residence among the Inuits (Nunavimmiut), she chose to further explore, and develop her artistic practice. 

To discover Cenedese's artworks and find out more about her practice, please visit the artist's page.

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Writing as Warfare: Éric Nado's Reconstructive Typewriter Guns
October 11, 2017

Writing as Warfare: Éric Nado's Reconstructive Typewriter Guns

The Peak Singapore's Liao Xiangjun has penned an insightful and incisive article on Éric Nado's artwork, and it is worth a read!

The Montreal-based artist provocatively bringing the power of the written word to the forefront in his reassembled Typewriter Gun sculptures.

Each typewriter gun is specific to the original typewriter it sprang from,” Nado tells The Peak. “Colours are preserved and the results are uniquely different.” His works have gone down well with private collectors, and he has also been commissioned to reconstruct machines close to some clients’ hearts. But the series’ pertinence, he says, lies in more than a nostalgia trip. [...] the typewriter guns become some sort of social commentary about words being stronger than arms.”

Read the complete article here.

Click the following link to view the Typewriter Guns, as well as the very recently-released limited-edition Typewriter Gun Prints

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Between Life and Art: Éric Nado Typewriter Gun Prints
October 03, 2017

Between Life and Art: Éric Nado Typewriter Gun Prints

Today’s release of Éric Nado’s typewriter gun prints had been scheduled months ago. In light of last week’s tragic, catastrophic and devastating Las Vegas shooting, we hesitated to share this news. It initially seemed to be insensitive, and ill-advised. However, we chose to go on with the release. Éric Nado’s work is all about the futility of weapons and arms and ultimately, the power of thought, speech and communication: words. Currently, there is a resurgence of a heated debate: whether gun-use and possession should be restricted in the United States, as is the case in Canada, or Australia, for example. We believe Eric’s work is highly eloquent in this regard. 

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Pussylluminati | MissMe x Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev
August 24, 2017

Pussylluminati | MissMe x Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev

Galerie C.O.A is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition titled Pussylluminati, on display from September 7th to October 7th, 2017.

Street artist, vandal, activist, and masked speaker MissMe presents her first exhibition at Galerie C.O.A this September, kicking off the Montreal art gallery’s 2017-2018 programme.

 In November of 2016, MissMe begins a relational artistic experiment inspired by her Pussylluminati project. She solicits participants for a female genitalia photo shoot and casts subjects of varying origins and contrasting life experiences. MissMe stages both artistic shots of pubes, and stripped portraits of vulvas, shot by emerging photographer Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev. The photo shoot becomes the setting for exchange, creativity, and experimentation. Although the photographs document the project, the participating women's testimonials - their words - are its articulating force. The Pussylluminati exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue, presents MissMe’s plastic interventions onto her project, in which she combines photography, painting, and collage.

 The vernissage will take place at the gallery on Thursday, September 7th, from 5 PM to 9 PM, and the eponymous catalogue will be released on the same occasion.

Our vernissage is generously sponsored by Les Subversifs Microdistillery with their artisanal Piger Henricus Gin, and Brasserie Les 2 Frères Brewery, with their Charles-Henri and Hickson craft beers.

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***Please note that the exhibition displays content of a graphic anatomical nature which may not suit all audiences. That being said, children are most definitely welcome.

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ANTI + REFLET
June 14, 2017

ANTI + REFLET

Five artists whose approaches address the concept of distortion have been brought together for this occasion. Anti+reflet is a group show which sets forth the diverse ways in which matter - such as plaster, upholstery, and photography - and the object’s function - statuette, bust, furniture or portrait - can be delved into. Despite their various processes, these artists reveal their pursuit of unexplored paths to clear, and their quest for new channels leading to both the familiar and the unknown. Anti+reflet, or anti-reflective, bears this name because these works of art cast a light on areas different from custom, convention, or popular belief. Instead of reflecting, they cannibalise the codes which they draw from, in search of alternatives.

The vernissage will be held Thursday, June 22nd, as of 5 PM.

Exhibiting Artists: Florian EymannJ.FREDE, Kay Healy, Kyle Montgomery, and Christina A. West.

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Our vernissage is generously sponsored by Les Subversifs Microdistillery with their artisanal Piger Henricus Gin, and Brasserie Les 2 Frères Brewery, with their Charles-Henri and Hickson craft beers.

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Copy/Paste/Erase | Collective exhibition
April 27, 2017

Copy/Paste/Erase | Collective exhibition

Galerie C.O.A is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition titled Copy/Paste/Erase, which will be on display from May 11th to June 10th, 2017. This collective exhibition sets forth multiple overlapping perspectives on creating visual arts in the Post-Internet era.

9 emerging and established artists, both local and international, have been brought together for this event: Jérémiedb, Zoltan Veevaete (Canada), Nick Flatt & Paul Punk (Germany), David Rosado (Portugal), Mic Linder (Sweden), Joe Suzuki, Charles Clary, and Mauro C. Martinez (United States).

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Open the Whale of Love | Olivier Martineau
March 08, 2017

Open the Whale of Love | Olivier Martineau

Quebec artist Olivier Martineau presents Open the Whale of Love, his first solo exhibition at the Galerie C.O.A (6405 St-Laurent Blvd.) from March 23rd to April 29th, 2017. Martineau roams the streets of Montreal and the highways of Quebec, gleaning abandoned objects that inspire him. Stray wheel caps, umbrellas, toboggans and other discarded articles feed the artist’s whimsy.

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XMAS EXHIBITION - Collective show
December 22, 2016

XMAS EXHIBITION - Collective show

This Christmas season, discover recent artworks created by 9 artists represented by Galerie C.O.A, and a few pieces from our guest artists, Nicolas Nabonne and the Connery + Pigeon duo. On the occasion of this collective exhibition, we are pleased to present two of our newest recruits, MissMe and Patrick Forchild.

Discover the exhibited artwork →

Please note that the gallery will be closed from the 24th of December to January 2nd, inclusively. 

We wish you very Happy Holidays, and an excellent New Year !

The Galerie C.O.A Team

 

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