About...

Artist studio and contemporary art gallery located on the 4th floor of the Belgo building, in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles in Montreal.

Espace St-Jean is also home to the studio of the visual artist and painter Louis-Bernard St-Jean.

The Studio-Gallery

Formerly known as Espace 230 before moving to suite 521, then to 423 in the Belgo, the gallery-studio was originally conceived to to present and promote the studio and its occupants.

The Belgo Building

Photo by Wm. Notman & Son, 1912 / Public domain

Formerly the luxury department store Scroggie's, the Belgo building was designed in 1912, then completed in 1913 by architects Finley & Spence.

Following the exodus from the fur district to the Chabanel sector in the 1980s, artists gradually began to settle there, organizing temporary exhibitions, then setting up their studios and eventually, art galleries.

the Belgo building takes its name from the Belgo Canadian Pulp & Paper Company, a pulp and paper company of Brussels origin whose main factory was established in Shawinigan, thus keeping its head office in Montreal.

The Belgo building houses the largest concentration of contemporary art galleries in Canada (nearly thirty a few years ago), as well as a number of artists' and designers' studios, architect firms, and communications companies.

You can find the list of all exhibitions currently happening withing the building on the belgo.art website.