Final Holds draws on the world of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a match echoes the last gesture of holding a loved one.
Programming
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreMichelle Caron-Pawlowsky
Finishing HoldsRead moreÆlab
Entre branches, bronches et rayons.Read moreThe duo Ælab, part of the Interventions component of the 2026–2027 program, is presenting two bike-and-audio activities with the Mobile Station, as well as an AV performance featuring modular synthesis, exploring the combined power of plants and mobility.
Caroline Gagné
Peupleraie - Corps social et corps sonoreRead morePeupleraie invites us to explore the soundscape of a community of trees, poplars, in the urban fabric of the Petite-Bourgogne neighborhood and the Lachine Canal, as a metaphor for the “living environment” and the social body. Anyone passing through the South-West neighborhood with an internet-connected device and a pair of headphones can experience the project. Various connectors are available at the HALTE or at the DARE-DARE offices.
Andréanne Martin
Les seins ballants, je m'en vais au ventRead moreLes seins ballants, je m’en vais au vent is a micro-edition of nomadic artist books that explore the idea of wandering from a feminist and decolonial perspective, and are designed to evolve over the course of a year.
Ventology Training and Sensing
Read moreWhat does the air above your neighbourhood actually smell like? What sounds are escaping through the vents on your block? Ventology Training and Sensing invites you into a world full of blowing hot—and sometimes pulpy—air.
Archives
1993 one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-three
Infiniment petit 1993
Fundraising EventRead moreDARE-DARE invites last season's artists to create a work no larger than 3 inches x 3 inches.
Les cracheurs d’images
Artworks and filmsRead moreFilmmakers have always made films about the lives and works of artists. We had the idea of reversing the roles: why not ask artists to create a work based on a film?
Sophie Jodoin and Susie Acheson
Natures mortes en sept tableaux & Le corps-fantômeRead moreAn installation of paintings and photography.
Agnès Fortin, Ginette Prince and Manon B. Thibault
InfiltrationRead moreThe exhibition stages different mixes: photo-painting, photo-watercolor, photo-video and other materials that are coupled with photography.
Lucie Gagnon and Julie Pelletier
Open studio: printmaking and mixed mediaRead moreDuring Lucie Gagnon and Julie Pelletier's time at DARE-DARE, the gallery space is transformed into a working studio.
Lise-Hélène Larin
Vice de formeRead moreThe installation is a PARA/SITE which aims, in a playful spirit, to test the resistances of the art system, its immunology (!), by modifying the exhibition context as well as the habits of the artist and the viewer.
Jocelyn Philibert
Coupe à blancRead moreInstallation in gallery.
Literary Afternoons
Francine d’Amour, Nicole Houde, Hélène Dorion, Nathalie Parent, France Mongeau,Germaine Monard, Francine Déry and Hélène PedneaultRead moreDARE-DARE, in collaboration with La Centrale, presents the Literary Afternoons.
Sarla Voyer
Lieux-dits : les similitudesRead moreInstallation, sculptures and photographs. In this project, photography is integrated as a constituent material of a work that closely links two and three-dimensional space, one lending itself to the construction of the other.
Suzanne Maurice
Calendes GaïesquesRead moreThe works of Suzanne Maurice do not oppose the discourse and the matter. Her ceramics representing women's bodies are matter of the discourse whose source is the daily life.
Auguste trio
MusicRead moreA music that unfolds, stimulated by rhythms and sounds, in contexts that go from classical jazz to modern jazz.
Sophie Lanctôt
PaintingsRead moreBorn in Montreal, Sophie Lanctôt has a master's degree in painting from Concordia University.
Alain Bouchard
InstallationRead moreExhibition in gallery. Alain Bouchard seeks to give a poetic value to both objects and materials.
Carren Tyler
SculpturesRead moreCarren Tyler wants to make visual language easily accessible, even familiar to the viewer.