CLARK has spent over three decades carving out space for experimental art in Montreal. What started in 1988 as a scrappy downtown collective has evolved into a vital artist-run centre headquartered in the Mile End’s 5455 avenue de Gaspé—a building now synonymous with the city’s independent arts ecosystem. With two gallery rooms, a fully equipped woodworking studio (Atelier CLARK), a sound art program, a publishing corner, and an active residency space, CLARK operates more like a small constellation than a single gallery. Its mandate stretches beyond exhibitions, extending into production, collaboration, and community engagement through offsite performances and partnerships across Quebec and abroad. The emphasis is on autonomy, artist involvement, and peer support, and its programming reflects that ethos: daring, interdisciplinary, and defiantly local. CLARK is where projects that might not fit elsewhere find both a platform and the tools to come to life, offering Montreal artists room to make noise—and build the walls to hang it on.
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