Artexte

Located on the third floor of the 2-22 building, Artexte is part art library, part archive, and part exhibition space—built around a collection that tells the unofficial history of Canadian contemporary art since 1965. Founded in 1980 by Angela Grauerholz, Anne Ramsden, and Francine Périnet, the non-profit resists institutional blind spots by preserving what others overlook: zines, pamphlets, artist books, posters, and ephemera, much of it donated by the artists themselves. Keyworded, catalogued, and made physically and digitally accessible, the materials here are free to browse in open stacks or through e-artexte online. It’s not just a resource—it’s an evolving, community-built record of what matters in art, all redefining who gets remembered in its own way. The tone is friendly, the mandate democratic.