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Art of Reclamation
Hotel Arts’ new collaboration with Whiskey Jack Gallery and artist Shannon Carla King brings you an installation that’s as thought-provoking as it is beautiful. These pieces celebrate the incredible work of reclamation experts, transforming forgotten lands into renewed spaces.
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson commemorates the centenary of one of Canada’s greatest musical legends. The exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life, music, and legacy of the virtuosic jazz pianist, composer, and humanitarian who captivated audiences around the world.
Unfamiliar Perspectives
Built around archival photographs, sketches, newspaper pages, personal journals and government records, this exhibit at The Confluence highlights lesser-known stories about the North-West Mounted Police.
Erik Olson: In the Garden
In the Garden is a series of large-scale oil paintings begun by Erik Olson in Düsseldorf, Germany during the early, uncertain months of the pandemic in 2020. The works draw on the historic Hofgarten—Germany’s oldest public park—as both a physical site and a psychological landscape.
Preston Pavlis: You There
You there—is it a greeting, a call, or a way of marking someone’s place? At once familiar and ambiguous, the phrase reflects the shifting dynamics at the heart of Preston Pavlis’ work: the act of seeing and being seen, the relation between self and other, and the distance between here and elsewhere.
Kristine Zingeler: In the Balance
Zingeler’s new site-specific installation offers a series of ceramic vessels inspired by the overlooked beauty and labyrinthine complexity of wasp nests. While wasps are often maligned, their role as both predators and pollinators makes them crucial to the balance of an ecosystem.
Yu Chen: Portraits of Belonging
Chen’s work focuses on portrait painting, cultural identity and personal stories, combining traditional Chinese painting and Western oil painting to explore ideas of heritage, belonging and the emotions connected to migration.
Entwined: Group Show
Unfolding over several spaces of Contemporary Calgary’s iconic building, Entwined brings together works by nineteen artists and collectives from the Prairies and beyond to consider our relationship as humans with the land and all forms of life.
Nelly-Eve Rajotte: Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz
Montreal-based artist Nelly-Eve Rajotte presents this large-scale multi-media installation that combines moving image, generative sound, and technological devices that listen through a modular synthesizer connected to a live tree, bringing nature, technology and the romantic imagination in dialogue to consider the deeper connections within our ecosystem.
This small parcel of earth
This small parcel of earth is a two-part screening program that looks at gardens as spaces that are both domestic and tender, but also unrestrained and untamable. Bringing together works by Christina Battle and Nour Ouayda, it reflects on the garden as a site of care and sustenance, disruption and unruliness.
Shadowlands
Shadowlands, an exhibition by painter Cindy Bouwers at Ambrose University, explores the meeting of light and shadow in nature and inner life. Through layered colours and intuitive gestures, the works invite reflection on moments of transition, uncertainty and emotional nuance.
The Artist’s Lens 2026: Families
The Alberta Society of Artists’ annual photography exhibition returns with a thoughtful exploration of the many meanings of “family,” from human and animal bonds to plant lineages shaped by nature and climate. Part of the Exposure Photography Festival.
Wildfire
Wildfire is a group exhibition examining our changing relationship with fire in an era of escalating climate crisis. Featuring artists from diverse regions and contexts, the show reflects on shared experiences of loss, care, and kinship in the face of an increasingly unhealed global wound.
An Alberta A(r)ttitude
Featured artists in this exhibition include Allison, Eyre, Farrell, Navalta, Riley, Savoie, Sutherland and Te, embodying a collective community shaped by decades of creative education, experimentation, and development. In their work, we see an Alberta a(r)ttitude: fierce, unwavering, and entirely unique.
Monstress
In this stylistic gothic thriller, a disgraced female doctor receives a letter from a wealthy father soliciting an impossible request: to resurrect his recently deceased daughter. When the Doctor succeeds, withoutregards for the outcome, the question emerges — which one is the real monstress?
Craft Perspectives
Craft Perspectives showcases new works inspired by historical objects, archival collections and cultural artifacts found across the province — reimagined by artists through the lens of contemporary craft.
Let It Be Beatles
Celebrate the timeless music and infectious spirit of The Beatles as Jubilations Dinner Theatre brings the Fab Four to life in a high-energy, interactive dinner show. Packed with iconic songs, humour, and surprises, Let It Be Beatles! invites audiences to sing along and maybe even become part of the act.
Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned
Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions, he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gestures. Personal and poetic, Cudahy’s figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments.
Magalie Guérin: Orange to Rattle
Magalie Guérin presents a striking body of work by the Marfa-based artist known for her rigorous, expressive approach to painting and drawing. Drawing on decades of international exhibition and critical acclaim, Guérin’s work balances formal precision with emotional intensity.
Alexandre Pépin: Lavender
Alexandre Pépin: Lavender presents luminous paintings that draw from fresco traditions and modern decorative movements to explore Queer intimacy, memory, and spiritual reflection. Pépin’s richly layered works blend historical influence with personal iconography.
Free This Week
This week’s roundup is bursting with exhibitions and performances, plus celebrations of love and family. Step into a high-energy hip-hop... Read More
February Exhibitions
Check out new visual art exhibitions in Calgary this February — from photography-driven shows, to intimate material-based practices. Each month,... Read More
Free This Week
From artist talks and gallery openings, to winter festivals and community celebrations, February is off to a frenzied start! Check... Read More
Chinook Blast
Running until February 16, 2026, Chinook Blast returns to downtown Calgary celebrating its final weekend of winter fun, bringing together... Read More
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