Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal

The Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC / CIAC MTL) is a contemporary art organization created in October 1983 by Claude Gosselin. Its first public manifestation took place in 1985, the year of the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal and the exhibition Aurora Borealis. The CIAC develops programming that articulates the legacies of modern Québec with contemporary and digital practices, continuing its mission and commitments since 1983. It also offers services including the organization of cultural activities, development of private and corporate collections, sale of artworks, and advertising, and it has carried out exhibition mandates for the governments of Québec and Canada as well as cultural organizations.

The Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal was created in October 1983 by Claude Gosselin. After serving as director of exhibitions at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal from 1979 to 1983, Claude Gosselin was commissioner of visual arts for Québec 84, the public corporation in charge of the event marking the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's arrival in Québec. At the end of 1984, back in Montréal and drawing on his experience in Québec, he wanted to create a visual arts event that would be the counterpart of the festivals then active in Montréal (theatre, cinema, dance). He founded Les Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal, a stage for the visual arts. To realize an exhibition involving numerous artists, he asked René Blouin and Normand Thériault, two leading figures in Montréal visual arts, to join him. Together the three curators selected thirty established Canadian artists. The title of the exhibition, Aurora Borealis, was proposed by Normand Thériault. Occupying vacant commercial premises of the La Cité residential complex at the intersection of Du Parc and Prince-Arthur streets, Aurora Borealis caused a shockwave on the cultural scene. The year 1985 was the first public manifestation of the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal. The CIAC develops programming that articulates the legacies of modern Québec with contemporary and digital practices, in continuity with its mission and commitments since 1983. It has created the Fonds Paul-Émile Borduas on its website as a place for publishing new texts on the artist and his works and as a reference point on Borduas. It has also pursued the Pavillon des Arts de la Cité-du-Havre project, involving the reassignment of the Expo 67 art museum to its original use as the Pavillon des Arts de la Cité-du-Havre and its dedication to the Automatistes.

A contemporary art organization that articulates the legacies of modern Québec with contemporary and digital practices, and a cultural partner for exhibitions and cultural activities in Canada and internationally.

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