...Now there's no hope of getting out of here I can feel I'm going soft Dirty waters soak my fibres The whole saucepan's getting hot So I may as well resign myself Make friends with a few peas But I just...

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...

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...

PRESENTATION The Fonderie Darling is a visual arts center housed in an outstanding industrial building located in the west end of Old Montreal. Founded in 2002 and administrated by the non-profit organization...

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...

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...

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...

By crossing several mediums such as installations, photography, editions, and serigraphs, Yannick Langloisl’s work questions the news of a sculptural production in the realms of moving images. These objects...

Jeremy Shaw’s work constitutes an ongoing exploration of altered states of mind and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Often positioned at the intersection...

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...

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...

Jonas Baumann portrays a critical and humorous view on society and popular culture. Through metaphor, his paintings and drawings with vivid colors tell stories that depict fantastical universes, related...

Courte-Pointe (Quilt) wraps around the building of the Darling Foundry as though a passing giant had left his bed cover to dry in the sun. This cumbersome mass interferes with the building’s functionality...

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...

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...

Vikky Alexander est une artiste montréalaise reconnue pour ses contributions continues aux stratégies de critique par appropriation de la Pictures Generation. Engageant un féminisme discrètement réfléchi...

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...

The research and production of Pamela Desjardins are focussed on the relationship between contemporary art practices, cultural policies and institutional critique in Latin America. She is particularly...

The Cuban artist Levi Orta will end his residency at the Darling Foundry with a presentation, in his studio, of the investigation titled Honour without Courage : “In Quebec, 85% of the population rejects...

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...