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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.
Laura Grier: Dene Aesthetics
Dene Aesthetics is both an exhibition and a theory that seeks to bridge complex Dene renderings of being and language, reaching across alter-Native realms of knowing to trace the outlines of a living, ongoing aesthetical theory.
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.
Candle Making Workshop
Join Field Kit Studio for a relaxed, hands-on candle-making experience where you’ll craft two custom soy candles and explore the art of fragrance blending. Enjoy complimentary Wild Folk mocktails, exclusive discounts and an intimate creative atmosphere.
Sister Act
When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she hides in a convent disguised as a nun, where her soulful singing transforms the choir and community. Packed with infectious gospel music and hilarious antics, Sister Act is a joyful celebration of friendship and the power of sisterhood.
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.
Tiny Wonders: A Wunderbriefs Retrospective
Presented by the International Festival of Animated Objects Society, this exhibition brings together intimate, imaginative works by evvie lightpirate, Tia DeLauria, Jennifer LeBlanc, Sara McNeil, r u home yet collective, Simulations, and Almendra Vergara.
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.
In Process
This group exhibit featuring six Calgary abstract artists explores ideas of change, transition and the creative process. Working in various mediums and styles, these artists use abstraction to express emotion, memory, and transformation through mark-making, texture and experimentation.
Chelsey Rice: Liminal Sunday
Chelsey Rice’s Liminal Sunday explores themes of childhood nostalgia, memory, and undertones of a North American religious upbringing through liminal early 2000s digicam photography.
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.
High Performance Rodeo
OYR;s High Performance Rodeo presents touring performances from across Canada, acclaimed international shows and new and experimental work from artists here in Calgary! This year’s highlights include Dream Machine, the Ten Minute Play Festival, Swan?, Rare Beauties and much more.
Hamlet V or what’s new at Elsinore?
This original tragicomedy reimagines Hamlet with sharp wit, live music and a modern spirit, drawing on Czech and Slovak theatre traditions. Performed in Czech and Slovak with English surtitles, Hamlet V blends satire, rhythm, and Central European humour for a lively and unexpected night.
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.
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.
