Currently
Sam Krack (Dudelange, Luxembourg)
October 1 - 31, 2026
Artemis, 2022 © Sam Krack
Originally a carrier pigeon breeder on the roof of the Montpellier School of Fine Arts, Sam Krack began painting during the lockdown. He rediscovered the slowness of the act, which structures time and fills it with the rhythm of everyday life.
Currently
Sous, hiboux, bijoux
Yen-Chao Lin (Montréal, Qc)
August 6 to December 12 2026
Sous, hiboux, bijoux, exhibition opening by Yen-Chao Lin, August, Thursday 6
Starting Thursday, August 6, La Gare presents the exhibition Sous, hiboux, bijoux by Taiwan-born Montreal artist Yen-Chao Lin, whose main body of work is created using black coins flattened by trains.
Recent past
QUEBEC-ACADIA
RESIDENCIES
Lhasa Simard (Petite-Lamèque, N.-B.)
September 8 - 26, 2026
In her work, Lhasa Simard explores the sublimation of everyday objects through the act of finding. Allowing her practice to be guided by the serendipity of gathering, she envisions installations in which found and created objects interact, always within a process-oriented approach to sculpture. By playing with the materiality of forms, the artist replicates pipes, handles, vases, tubes, caps, spouts, and other odds and ends to create modular installations in which their utilitarian nature is transformed. Her works combine references to market gardening and craftsmanship to offer a counterpoint to mass production and overconsumption. Among her favorite techniques are ceramics, glass casting, molding, and assemblage.
OPEN ACCESS
RESIDENCIES
L'imaginaire
Patricia Gallant (Saint-Alexis, Qc)
August 10 -23 2026
presentation on Saturday 22 from 11 a.m.
A native of Saint-Alexis-de-Matapédia and the second-youngest of 15 children, Patricia Gallant grew up on a farm, surrounded by a wealth of experiences and with a deep love for all things related to nature. This passion led her to pursue training in horticulture, followed by a 37-year career at the Jardins de Métis, 23 of which she spent as head horticulturist.
Winter, a quieter time professionally, gave her free time to devote to photography. It was during those years that she developed a genuine fascination with snow and, in particular, with ice. Its textures, transparency, shapes, and veins—and the images it can reveal—became a source of inspiration.
Aria Maillot (Toulouse, France)
June 4-30
A.G.E © Aria Maillot
Aria Maillot explores food-related metamorphoses as narratives of personal transformation. Initially guided by the idea of changes brought about by travel, her work has gradually shifted toward a reflection on aging: that of the body, of time, and of materials that transform, ferment, or erode. Her experiments with maple syrup and its derivatives explore these transitional states. In cooking as in the body, sugar marks the passage of time. Through a process called glycation, it stiffens tissues, freezes cells, and leaves irreversible traces.
PERFORMANCE
Mon Père était chef de Gare
Rachel Thibault
Saturday, June 13, 12:30 p.m.
© Charlotte Perron
Rachel Thibault pays tribute to her father, who served as stationmaster in Matapédia from 1959 to 1974, through a three-part performance: the first part recounts the artist’s childhood, the second is a tribute to her father, and the third is intended as a tribute to the railway family.At that time, passenger trains from Gaspé, Halifax, and Montreal arrived every day, and a complex series of train movements—much like those at a rail yard—unfolded before his childish eyes. The participatory performance involved volunteers who agreed to play the part of train cars to form a human train, as well as students from École des Deux-Rivières who created banners.
QUEBEC-ACADIA
RESIDENCIES
© Jean-Denis Boudreau
The Quebec-Acadia Residencies project will enable some fifteen artists to create and share their work from Montreal to Cap-Pelé, via Matapédia and Moncton, between August 2024 and June 2027. Gare de Matapédia - Pôle artistique et communautaire has joined forces with Fonderie Darling (Montreal), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton) and Projet Borgitte (Cap-Pelé) to launch this unique initiative.
TRANSATLANTIC RESIDENCIES
Second hand métamorphose (Flashing Light), Baptiste Eybert, February 21, 2026 public presentation © Gare de Matapédia
INTERNATIONAL
RESIDENCIES
Absolute Treshold, Kate Power, December 20, 2025 public presentation © Gare de Matapédia
Dans les entrailles du ravin
Valérie Cain Bourget
November 15, 2025 - April 1, 2026
Aube, 2025 © Gare de Matapédia
ACTIVITIES
ARTIST RESIDENCY
EXHIBITIONS
EVENTS
The Matapédia station is a heritage building whose initial architecture is intact. It evokes the development of the regions by train and multiple journeys, witnesses of different eras. The Matapédia station becomes a studio for creations offered to visual artists.
The waiting room two artworks by the Rimouski artist Fernande Forest, a mural and a tondo made from archive photos of the station and the surrounding railway courtesy of railroad enthusiasts, who admirably make the link between the old and the new vocation of the place while underlining its great heritage value.
Various community events and activities take place at Matapédia Station. It is a new place of expression in the heart of the municipality where presentations take place from time to time in the premises outside of the artist-in-residence presentations.
Visit
OPENING HOURS
8 a.m. - 8 p.m.,7 days a week
Photo Credit: Jean-François Côté
Photo Credit: Jean-François Côté
Crédit photo: Maryse Goudreau
Photo Credit: Jean-François Côté