About us

EXMURO GOES BEYOND GALLERY WALLS TO DESIGN, PRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THOUGHT-PROVOKING PUBLIC ART IN QUEBEC AND AROUND THE WORLD.

By making art accessible in outdoor public spaces, we are opening doors and filling our cities with artworks that inspire, surprise and make us think.

Because art can transport us to unknown realms beyond the everyday, EXMURO puts artworks out into the world where they belong.

Our mandate

History

AIRE PUBLIQUE

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Careers

MISSION

Established in 2007, EXMURO is a non-profit organization dedicated to designing, producing, disseminating and circulating contemporary art in public spaces. Through a broad range of projects, we enrich the urban experience by creating provocative encounters, fostering dialogue and raising challenging questions.

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OUR MANDATE

Create innovative dissemination contexts for contemporary art

Advance the careers of professional artists

Foster the creation of artworks

Welcome and develop audiences

Bring people together and strengthen social cohesion

Our values

Authenticity

Audacity

Expertise

Generosity

Agility

Pleasure

HISTORY

EXMURO was born in 2007 of a desire to take art beyond the confines of gallery walls. Our wide-ranging original concepts for exhibiting public art include printing on public infrastructure (Artistique Avenue, 2011), large-format photographs on building facades (Marnages, 2012), poetic incursions into the city (Force de travail, 2013) and surprising urban juxtapositions (Faits divers, 2014). From 2014 to 2023, EXMURO presented 10 editions of the annual PASSAGES INSOLITES public art circuit, showcasing over 100 works of public art in Quebec City’s central and historic districts.

In 2016 we embarked on an ambitious circulation program with a far-reaching professional network. Some fifty works have since been exhibited outside our home base in Quebec City, giving artists opportunities to tour their work throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

In 2021, EXMURO partnered with Boston’s Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) to present highlights of their collection at the Espace 400 gallery. In 2022, EXMURO moved to its current home, Maison Hazeur in Place Royale, and presented a new MOBA exhibition there. 2024 marks the start of a new chapter for EXMURO as we shift focus from seasonal public art exhibitions to programming available year-round. Meanwhile we are reimagining Maison Hazeur with Aire Publique, an indoor public space conceived to experience art in new ways. In 2021, EXMURO partnered with Boston’s Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) to present highlights of their collection at the Espace 400 gallery. In 2022, EXMURO moved to its current home, Maison Hazeur in Place Royale, and presented a new MOBA exhibition there.

2024 marks the start of a new chapter for EXMURO as we shift focus from seasonal public art exhibitions to programming available year-round. Meanwhile we are reimagining Maison Hazeur with Aire Publique, an indoor public space conceived to experience art in new ways.

EXMURO was born in 2007 of a desire to take art beyond the confines of gallery walls. Our wide-ranging original concepts for exhibiting public art include printing on public infrastructure (Artistique Avenue, 2011), large-format photographs on building facades (Marnages, 2012), poetic incursions into the city (Force de travail, 2013) and surprising urban juxtapositions (Faits divers, 2014). From 2014 to 2023, EXMURO presented 10 editions of the annual PASSAGES INSOLITES public art circuit, showcasing over 100 works of public art in Quebec City’s central and historic districts.

In 2016 we embarked on an ambitious circulation program with a far-reaching professional network. Some fifty works have since been exhibited outside our home base in Quebec City, giving artists opportunities to tour their work throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2021, EXMURO partnered with Boston’s Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) to present highlights of their collection at the Espace 400 gallery. In 2022, EXMURO moved to its current home, Maison Hazeur in Place Royale, and presented a new MOBA exhibition there. 2024 marks the start of a new chapter for EXMURO as we shift focus from seasonal public art exhibitions to programming available year-round. Meanwhile we are reimagining Maison Hazeur with Aire Publique, an indoor public space conceived to experience art in new ways.

In 2021, EXMURO partnered with Boston’s Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) to present highlights of their collection at the Espace 400 gallery. In 2022, EXMURO moved to its current home, Maison Hazeur in Place Royale, and presented a new MOBA exhibition there.

2024 marks the start of a new chapter for EXMURO as we shift focus from seasonal public art exhibitions to programming available year-round. Meanwhile we are reimagining Maison Hazeur with Aire Publique, an indoor public space conceived to experience art in new ways.

AIRE PUBLIQUE

EXMURO’s Aire Publique is a vibrant and welcoming creative space where art by anyone can be experienced by everyone. Aire Publique is located in a historic building in Place Royale known as Maison Hazeur. Dating back to New France, this former family home went through many incarnations before becoming a museum after a fire in the 1990s. The resulting architecture blurs boundaries between inside and outside, melding an antique domestic interior with the urban public sphere. Maison Hazeur is an ideal playground for EXMURO that embodies our ethos of breaking down the borders between private and public space.