International Partnerships

France

PUI

The partnership between Rencontres and PUI – Pratiques et Usages de l’image, located in Nantes, aims to stimulate a network of exchange dedicated to the authorial photobook. Upcoming: exhibitions, public events and hands-on workshops in France and in Québec.

Diaphane

Rencontres and Diaphane, pôle photographique en Hauts-de-France launched an international artistic-exchange platform in 2015. It emphasizes international exploration and dissemination by offering a program of exchange residencies and exhibitions.

2015-2017: Gaspésie-Picardie pour la photographie

2017-2019: Territoires imprimés: exhibitions, publications and exchange residencies

2019-2021: Territoires numériques: exhibitions and residencies in digital arts.

Territoires imprimés: a magazine for 4 years of exchange residencies

Italy

Cortona on the move

Rencontres’ partnership with this Italian contemporary-photography festival, which was to have begun in 2020, has been postponed until 2021. The collaboration will focus on among other things an exchange residency project involving Italian and Québec artists.

Lithuania

NoRoutine Books

Rencontres initiated a partnership in 2019 with NoRoutine Books, the goal being to offer Québec and Lithuanian artists a dissemination platform. Founded in 2014 by artists Vilma Samulionytė and Gytis Skudžinskas, this independent Lithuanian publishing house designs and publishes exceptional books in the fine arts. Every edition is limited to 99 copies (+AP) and contains one-of-a-kind elements.

International France-Québec Partnership

Networking lies at the heart of Rencontres activities. Through it, our aim is to set up creation and exhibition platforms serving artists and contemporary creativity. It is in that perspective that we collaborate with France and that we are currently laying the groundwork for future collaborations with other countries.

TERRITOIRES NUMÉRIQUES

TERRITOIRES NUMÉRIQUES (formerly TERRITOIRES IMPRIMÉS) is an international artistic-exchange program initiated in 2015 by Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie and Diaphane, pôle photographique en Hauts-de-France.

TERRITOIRES NUMÉRIQUES combines the strengths of the two partners, expands their dissemination networks and facilitates artist movement in order to develop new tools in the service of artists and of contemporary creation. Through these joint actions, Rencontres and Diaphane – resolutely committed to current creation and to its standing overseas – carry out one-of-a-kind initiatives in their respective regions while at the same time working towards a new, shared artistic space.

THE BOOK SPACE

A common reflection on the part of Rencontres and the Nantes-based organization Les PUI – Pratiques et Usages de l’Image concerning photography and the place of the book gave rise to this idea of creating an international platform on the author’s photographic book. “The Book Space”, an original form of exhibition and get-togethers around an object, the photobook, was organized in 2019 in Québec and France with a view to promoting the circulation and exposure of artists’ works while stimulating the interest of a broad audience.