MUTEK Market, Expanded: A Convergence Point for the…

An Expanded Market for Digital Creativity

MUTEK Market returns from August 26 to 28, 2026, in a significantly expanded format, now fully integrated across the Festival and Forum as one of their defining features.

The Market connects artists, creative studios, companies, and professionals from Québec and Canada working across the music and digital creativity sectors with more than 150 international buyers, presenters, curators, programmers, and decision-makers.

Three Days of Meetings and Professional Development

The programme includes:

Daily curated one-on-one meetings between international delegates and artists, studios, and companies from Québec and Canada;
Three days of conferences, case studies, performance lectures, and industry cocktails as part of MUTEK Forum;
Targeted outreach to decision-makers across museums, performing arts venues, public spaces, cities, location-based entertainment, architecture, science museums, festivals, and organisations ranging from cultural institutions to large-scale commercial activations.

Two Matchmaking Tracks

This edition introduces two complementary matchmaking tracks, designed to connect participants with the people, expertise, and opportunities most relevant to their projects and sectors.

Immersive and Creative Industries

This track connects creative studios, producers, and technology-driven companies with international decision-makers seeking immersive, interactive, and digitally driven experiences.

Artists and Music Industry

This track connects artists and music-sector professionals with festivals, venues, curators, programmers, labels, and other international partners.

While each track has its own focus and matchmaking approach, the two ecosystems naturally intersect. Many international organisations work across both artistic programming and creative production, creating opportunities for dual-track meetings, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and new hybrid projects.

An International Professional Network

The Market brings together professionals working across digital arts, immersive media, the music industry, performing arts, audiovisual performance, creative technologies, and public space programming throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East.

MUTEK Market is presented for the first time with the support of the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec (SODEC).

Investissement Québec International is also collaborating on this edition by mobilising its network of trade representatives to invite international delegates and facilitate their participation in the event.

This support further strengthens MUTEK Market’s role as a strategic platform for the international visibility and development of Québec and Canada’s creative industries.

Concrete Opportunities for Collaboration

At a pivotal moment for Montréal’s digital arts ecosystem, the Market creates the conditions for lasting relationships and concrete outcomes: commissions, co-productions, touring opportunities, festival presentations, and residencies.

Over three days, it offers an opportunity to discover emerging talent, forge cross-border partnerships, and engage in the creative and technological collaborations shaping the future of the sector.

MUTEK Market’s dedicated B2B space will be located at the Wilder Building – Espace danse, in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles.

Confirmed Organisations

Confirmed delegates include: ArtScience Museum (Singapore), Videocittà (Italy), the Barbican (UK), The Bentway (Canada), Noor Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Gray Area (USA), Getty (USA), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo / MUAC (Mexico), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (USA), New Museum (USA), Arts Korea Lab (South Korea), Qatar Museums (Qatar), M+ (Hong Kong), Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), UNQP Ltd (South Korea), Factory 360 (USA), Somerset House (UK), Perlan Museum (Iceland), VR Future (Türkiye), Shibuya City (Japan), Brazil Music Art (Brazil), Museo Kaluz (Mexico), Alserkal Avenue (UAE), Illuminate Adelaide (Australia), Public Art Company (USA), Portland Art Museum (USA), URBANLIME Real Estate (USA), InSpace (Mexico), The Royal Danish Collection (Denmark), CMMAS (Mexico), The Dalí Museum (USA), and Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (USA), alongside many other international organisations.

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Participate in MUTEK Market

Artists, studios, creative companies, and professionals from Québec working across the music and digital creativity sectors are invited to submit their interest in participating in MUTEK Market.

International delegates, presenters, programmers, curators, labels, and representatives from festivals, museums, cultural institutions, performing arts venues, public spaces, cities, and municipalities outside Québec are also invited to apply.

Call for participation — deadline: July 30, 2026

Submit your interest

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. To ensure meaningful matchmaking and productive meetings, space is limited and participation is not guaranteed.

Selected participants will receive additional information and a registration link by email. Early expressions of interest are encouraged.

A Coalition of Partners

MUTEK would like to thank its partners, who play a key role in sustaining and developing its activities.

The Government of Québec, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the ministère du Tourisme du Québec, the Secrétariat à la région métropolitaine du ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation du Québec, the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec, the ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie du Québec, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, FACTOR and Canada’s private radio broadcasters, the Department of Canadian Heritage, Musicaction, Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Ville de Montréal, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Tourisme Montréal, the Consulat général de France à Québec, Investissement Québec International, XN Québec, and the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO).