What's On in Calgary

Full of mini-documentaries, exhibition montages, and behind the scenes experiences, the Esker Foundation’s website has tons of awesome content for you to explore whenever you want. We particularly love its current audio series featuring Katie Ohe talking about her intricate and ingenious sculptural works.

The Exposure Photography Festival is working to allow access to arts and culture during this difficult time. With new online programming providing a platform for learning, professional development, and enjoyment, it will be sharing talks from its exhibiting artists over the next few weeks so check back regularly.

Bringing you the best of Glenbow online, this local institution is connecting with the community throughout its closure with virtual tours, online collections, educational videos, activity ideas, webinars, and more. It’s even got a hashtag—#GlenbowFromHome—where you can share your own content.

Contemporary Calgary’s collection of online initiatives endeavours to develop programming that is welcoming, inclusive, engaging, and relevant through digital platforms. Each week, explore a wide variety of programming including artist talks, interviews, workshops, fun art challenges, and more!

Herringer Kiss Gallery has invited their artists to create work that speaks to the strategies, opportunities, problems, and outcomes of isolation. This could, of course, refer directly to the COVID-19 crisis or isolation in general. This work has been submitted for you to enjoy free at cost and new content is added regularly.

Each season, Esker commissions a response from compelling voices within or beyond the visual arts. Asking contributors to consider each of the current exhibitions together as a means of generating new ideas and connections, explore this new digital art publishing project online. A new essay will be released every two weeks.

Each year, Grad Show celebrates the talent, determination, and creativity of Alberta University of the Arts’ students. Moving online with a brand-new website, Alberta University of the Arts is proud of these students and their achievements, looking forward to the continued growth of each unique voice.

An extension of Kandis Friesen’s postponed exhibition in storage, two video works are hosted in continuous loops; one consists of rhythmic text, the other a tableau vivant of an ancient oak tree in Ukraine. This exhibition in absentia becomes the new exhibition space for an indefinite extension of time.

Anna Gustafson enshrouds discarded appliances in old, white linen—a manner historically used by many cultures to prepare the dead for burial. Presented in partnership with The New Gallery, see it in the Esker Foundation’s Project Space and register for an artist talk.

Featuring 16 portraits, all black and white made with oil stick and charcoal, this new series was created during Erik Olson’s isolation in his Düsseldorf-based home and studio. The drawings depict the rich emotions of longing and need for connection, drained of colour by isolation.

Sensationships is an investigation into the relationships and sensations created by the combination of colours and patterns. This work by Rhys Douglas Farrell is an in depth search into the effects created by colours, their properties and how they cooperate or conflict.

The forms deployed in Howard Lonn’s recent paintings possess an architectonic sense of scale and structure, free of the burden of giving us an architectural image. Explore Lonn’s ambition for current work in progress in this show.

The works presented in this exhibition by the Alberta Society of Artists have conjuring powers in our own temporal narratives and imagination, with an emphasis is on stillness either literally or formally.

The Knox Contemporary Gallery of Art has brought together an eclectic array of contemporary art from artists around the world that celebrates and explores the human figure, sexuality & identity in it’s first online exhibition.