...  I have formulated my studio production through an aesthetic of re-use, repurposed and a kind of performed distress that characterizes the Foundry environment.  What I have also been toying with recently...

For his first dedicated solo show in Canada, Montreal based artist Michael Eddy presents various aspects of his recent work, including prints of scenes of contemporary life, intimate videos, and humanoid...

Swirls of smoke are floating all summer long over the Darling Foundry’s Place Publique. With its trademark caustic wit, the trio BGL has chosen to take over that space by showing Chicha Muffler, a participatory...

Although Montréal was already the commercial centre of Canada by the late 18th century, the invention of the steam-powered engine in 1811 was the catalyst for the industrial revolution here, just as in...

Conglomerates, Anachronies, and other Amalgams Featuring the most recent works of David Armstrong Six, this exhibition presents an installation especially made for the Darling Foundry’s main hall, as...

Incorporated in 1993 in the Sud-Ouest borough, district of Pointe-Saint-Charles, Quartier Éphémère is a non-profit cultural organization, recognized as a charity for the educating the public to contemporary...

Camille Charbonneau works with the surviving images from their failure within Mormonism. Viewing this haunted state as a type of contamination of the present, they observe the slow transformations of...

Take the sound of the room breathing 1/at dawn 2/ in the morning 3/in the afternoon 4/ in the evening 5/ before dawn Bottle the smell of the room of that particular hour as well.   Yoko Ono[1] The immaterial...

At the initiative of students of artist and professor Tadashi Kawamata, the Paris School of Fine Arts and Montreal’s Darling Foundry have come together to offer nine young artists the experience of a...

Fonderie Darling is home to twelve creative studios spread over three floors of a carefully converted 19th-century industrial building. Eight of our studio spaces are dedicated to Montreal visual artists...

Objects, that lie in each other’s neighbourhood, even those, who have nothing in common like an old computer monitor and a sink, with a faucet which must have been made of brass, these objects often feel...

Curator : Alice Jim In a corner of a city centre undergoing modernization and gentrification, fraught with conflicting economic scales of living together, a means of voluntary reclusion is on offer via...

Fonderie Darling is a visual-arts venue that was founded and is directed by the not-for-profit art organization Quartier Éphémère, which has the mandate of supporting the creation, production, and dissemination...

Jon Knowles' projects are characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. In his work, there is often a synthesis of formats - photo, text, video, audio, found object, painting, performance, sculpture...

Le Serpent, Fonderie Darling's restaurant Fonderie Darling’s restaurant, Le Serpent, opened its doors on New Year's Eve 2013 for the great enjoyment of all our visitors. Its name has been borrowed from...

A neighbourhood event to get a behind the scenes look at the exceptional space The Darling Foundry is a multifaceted visual arts centre. The venue is known as an important part of Montreal’s industrial...

After a retrospective in 2019 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vikky Alexander presents Nordic Rock, a precious, fantasy-rich installation that contrasts the brutalist and imposing architecture of the Fonderie...

Olivia Boudreau pursues a reflection about the image, the body, experience and perception through research into performance and video art. She mainly creates long, laborious video sequences that place...

Mahshid Rafiei’s work considers the ways a process, a material and an image can become so inextricable, so indistinguishable, that they ossify projections of a prejudiced imaginary. Her work has been...

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the sorrow, the closer God is.”Apollon Maïkov, 1878 “Darkness is your candle,” wrote the Sufi mystic Rumi in the 13th century, inviting us to...