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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.
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.
The Boss of It All
He’s the man calling the shots… or so everyone thinks. When an aloof company owner hires an actor to pose as the boss to avoid the business of being disliked, office politics explode into a comedy of errors. This biting satire skewers workplace egos and the idea of leadership—proving that sometimes the person in charge
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.
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.
Justin de Verteuil: sie will / muse. zur marionette
This exhibition features evocative oil paintings that explore the shifting relationship between figure, space and spectator. Through ambiguity and carefully placed detail, de Verteuil’s work invites projection and interpretation, turning each scene into a psychological encounter.
Chinook Blast
Running from January 30 to February 16, 2026, Chinook Blast returns to downtown Calgary with three weekends of winter fun,... Read More
Free This Week
From artist talks, to open mics, to winter festivals, this week’s lineup has something for every kind of culture lover.... Read More
Free This Week
Get your dose of arts and culture — lend a helping hand at Storybook Theatre, celebrate Esker Foundation’s Winter Exhibitions,... Read More
Free This Week
Make the most of January with arts events around Calgary. Attend exhibition openings at Illingworth Kerr Gallery and The New... Read More
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
