What's On in Calgary

The Beyond Within is an exhibition of recent work by Toronto-based artist Annie MacDonell, exploring feminist conceptions of everyday as a basis for political engagement with the world. Bringing together a series of video installations and photographic works, the exhibition proposes personal and political reorientation strategies.

Ragnar Kjartansson creates performances exploring the intertwining of pathos, humour, and collective emotion by testing the limits of repetition and the endurance of both performers and audience. The Visitors is a large sound and video installation consisting of nine audio and video channels documenting a single-take musical performance.

Margaux Williamson is a painter who also writes and makes videos. Within her multifaceted practice, Williamson’s painting has evolved through long rhythms; her bodies of work have been produced over the years. Check out Interiors as part of Esker Foundation’s winter 2023 exhibition season!

The Alberta Society of Artists presents Voices of Abstraction, featuring the work of Alberta artists: Barb Kreuter & Sharon Thompson, who are both attracted to abstraction as a compelling open-ended way to explore and bring together feeling and intuition without the mental directives and limitations necessitated by representation.  

The Alberta Society of Artists presents the group exhibition Manifesting the Hidden featuring the work of 16 Alberta artists who were asked to explore ideas of the hidden and intangible in photography or incorporate a photographic element. Make sure to check it out!

Experience the mesmerizing 25-metre hand-drawn animation Retainers of Anarchy from artist Howie Tsui. The exhibition showcases Tsui’s talent at bringing together martial arts characters and techniques with social and political realities of present-day Hong Kong. Make sure to check it out!

Alberta Printmakers is thrilled to open the year with a new exhibition in their Main Gallery. RESIDUE is a collaborative installation by Andrew Testa and Guillermo Trejo. Testa and Trejo are interested in the in-between spaces of printmaking. In their individual practices, they see collaboration as a necessity.

Exposure 2023 exhibition programme has over 30 shows that display a wide range of narratives, subjects, practices, and explorations of the photographic medium. Check out an exciting and diverse programme of group and solo exhibitions and diverse curatorial themes that audiences can engage with!

As part of the Exposure Photography Festival, Framed on Fifth brings Sculpt running. Lee Nordbye explores the Canadian Rockies from the valley floor to the summits of it’s magnificent peaks to view, in his mind, the best sculptures in the world and formed by nature.

The Alberta Society of Artists is proud to present the solo exhibition Wild Alberta featuring paintings by Alberta artist Laara Cassells. The series depicts images of Alberta wildlife based on personal observation and photos Cassells has taken of wolves and foxes and their habitats around Alberta.