International Partnerships

France

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.

2021-2022: Intersection of disciplines (literature, photo/video) and digital territories

2023-2025: Creation and dissemination platforms: cultural development in France and in Québec

Territoires imprimés: a magazine for 4 years of exchange residencies

Photo: Robert Charlotte

Italy

INSTITUTO DI CULTURA, MONTRÉAL

Our collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal began in 2021 and encourages artist travel between the two countries, in particular around a project involving exchange artist residencies.

Photo: Luana Rigolli

Gibellina Photoroad festival

In 2025, Les Rencontres initiated a collaboration with the Gibellina Photoroad Festival, a biennial event dedicated to outdoor photography and visual arts. This partnership takes shape through reciprocal exhibitions: Italian artists are showcased in Quebec, while Quebec photographers exhibit their work in Gibellina, Sicily.

This year’s participating artists are Davide Degano (Italy) and Eliane Excoffier (Quebec).

The fifth edition of the Gibellina Photoroad Festival will take place from June 20 to August 20, 2025, transforming this Sicilian town into an open-air museum.

The aim of this partnership is to promote contemporary creation and to offer new visibility to artists from both countries.

Photo: Davide Degano

Japan

FOTOZOFIO

From April 9 to 20, 2025, our director Claude Goulet and photographer Serge Clément journeyed into the heart of Japanese photography, invited by the Japanese FOTOZOFIO festival—further strengthening the bonds of cooperation between Quebec and Japan in photographic creation and dissemination.

Photographer Serge Clément presented his exhibition Post Huis Clos at the MOMENT Contemporary Art Center in the city of Nara.

In the summer of 2025, Les Rencontres will welcome Japanese photographer KAI Fusayoshi to Carleton-sur-Mer with his exhibition Hidden Village.

Photo: KAI Fusayoshi