Born of a growing need to inform a modernizing public, press photography experienced an unprecedented boom in Montreal between 1920 and 1940.

Marked by industrialization, social movements and urban transformations, this period saw the emergence of a generation of photographers whose images became privileged witnesses to daily life, labor conflicts and the major events of the day. Published in daily newspapers, these photographs created a collective visual memory that is still very much alive today. With their direct style, dramatic tension and meticulous composition, they inaugurated a new way of looking at reality.

This exhibition pays tribute to these behind-the-scenes artisans, attentive witnesses to a changing Montreal at the dawn of media modernity.

La Photographie De Presse à Montréal, 1920-1940

January 24 to february 2, 2026

Created in 1927 by Paul Renner, the Futura typeface quickly established itself as an emblem of typographic modernism.

Born in Germany between the wars, it embodies the ideals of the Bauhaus: functionality, clarity and geometry. Adopted by avant-garde artists and major corporations alike, Futura has endured through the decades without ever losing its impact. Used in signage, advertising, posters and space exploration, it even accompanied the plaque left on the Moon by Apollo 11.

Futura is both a visual signature and a graphic utopia. This exhibition traces the history and influence of this emblematic typeface, while exploring the reasons for its constant presence in the visual imagination of the 20th century and beyond.

Futura

April 4 to april 14, 2026

Ten views, ten writings, ten ways of inhabiting the world through the lens. This exhibition brings together the work of ten photographers with singular practices, whose works paint a plural portrait of our relationship to the image.

Whether documenting the everyday, questioning memory, exploring the intimate or hijacking the codes of the medium, these artists share a desire to question the visible. Their approaches, rooted in a variety of aesthetic, social and political contexts, form a constellation in which photography becomes a language in perpetual reinvention.

More than a simple panorama, the exhibition invites us to take a sensitive and critical look at the contemporary diversity of the photographic gaze.

10 Photographes

July 15 to july 30 2026

Born in the context of the American economic boom, the promotional postcard from the 1950s to the 1970s became an emblematic graphic medium.

Far from their initial epistolary use, they were transformed into advertising tools, combining colorful aesthetics, striking typography and the idealization of the American way of life. This exhibition offers an immersive journey through twenty-five monumental enlargements of these photochrome-printed images. Presented as veritable billboards, they reveal how consumption, mobility, family and death have been aestheticized in the service of a collective dream.

By revisiting this forgotten object, the exhibition questions the boundary between visual communication and cultural memory, between industrial banality and the evocative power of design.

Ça, C'est Du Protochrome: La carte Postale Promotionnelle Américaine 1950-1970

November 7 to november 30 2026