Esker Foundation is a contemporary art gallery. A leader in the Calgary arts community, Esker Foundation connects the public to contemporary art through exceptional exhibitions, innovative education programs, along with an engaging digital and print publication program. Explore Esker’s online art publishing project Permanent Collection. The gallery is barrier free. Admission is free. Wed to Fri 11 am - 6 pm; Sat/Sun noon - 5 pm.
Esker Foundation
444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7
444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7
Wed to Fri 11 am - 6 pm; Sat/Sun noon - 5 pm
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Robin Arseneault
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Louise Bourgeois
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An Astonishment of Flowers
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Samuel Roy-Bois
Poetic and conceptual monuments to the mundane ask us to reconsider reality.
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Anna Gustafson
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Katie Ohe
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Nep Sidhu
A sublime interlude – if you’re open to the divine.
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Circumpolar Art
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Neil Campbell’s Wheatfield
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Jeremy Shaw's Quantification Trilogy
Three thematically linked video installations explore transcendental experiences in futuristic societies.
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Sarah Stevenson: Nothing Hidden
Ephemeral grids made from wire and thread defy traditional assumptions about the weight and solidity of sculpture.
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Fantastical Stitchery
Anna Torma’s lush and imaginative art fuses Hungarian textile traditions and feminist avant-garde practices. Her prolific and eclectic show is almost encyclopedic.
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Mary Anne Barkhouse's Animal Empire
"Le rêve aux loups (The Dream of Wolves)" at Calgary's Esker Foundation examines environmental concerns and Indigenous culture through the visual iconography of forest animals, including beaver, owl, wolf and coyote.
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Esker Foundation presents the Canadian premiere of "A Very Long Line" by Arts Collective Postcommodity
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Jason de Haan's Time Capsule
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"Earthlings," Esker Foundation, Calgary, January 21 to May 7, 2017
The show, with upwards of 100 pieces, many laden with detail and cryptic narratives, is an imaginative trove, much of which may confound as much as it beguiles.
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Wafaa Bilal, "168:01," May 28 to Aug. 28 at the Esker Foundation in Calgary
Iraqi-born, New York-based artist Wafaa Bilal’s "168:01" features a makeshift library filled with empty white books.
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Colleen Heslin, "Needles and Pins," Esker Foundation, Calgary, Jan. 23 to May 8, 2016
There’s a push and pull in Colleen Heslin’s quilt-like paintings, a pull to examine the undulating dyes and the rolling seams that stitch together second-hand fabrics used as surface and support.
Mar 14, 2016
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Courtesy of the artist and Parisian Laundry, Montreal
"Interiors, Other Chambers", Celia Perrin Sidarous: Sept. 26 to Dec. 20, 2015 at the Esker Foundation in Calgary
In "Interiors, Other Chambers", Montreal artist Celia Perrin Sidarous presents intuitively organized collages and sculptural assemblages that consider collections of objects and how they are transformed by the visual languages.
Sep 21, 2015
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Photo: Sue Wribcan.
MIA FEUER: "Synthetic Seasons," Esker Foundation, Calgary, May 23 to Sept. 6, 2015
Mia Feuer is highly regarded in the United States, much better known there than in Canada, and has garnered awards and exhibited widely since 2009, including a show last year at the former Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
May 20, 2015
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Photo: Guy L’Heureux.
CYNTHIA GIRARD: "Unicorns and Dictators," Esker Foundation, Calgary, May 31 to September 7, 2014
Inside a maze of white scaffolding, artist Cynthia Girard displays her collection of recent paintings, banners, sculptures and other objects at the Esker Foundation in Calgary.
Jun 12, 2014
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Image courtesy of the artist.
HEW (AND CRY): Peter von Tiesenhausen takes his axe to the city
A small boy on a northern Alberta homestead peers at the cutting block in his father’s workshop. Intrigued by the scores and gouges left by his dad’s radial arm saw, he sees in his mind a vast city in its rough-hewn expanse.
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Photo Credit: Kasian Architecture Interior
KASIAN WINS CALGARY MAYOR’S URBAN DESIGN AWARD FOR DESIGN OF ESKER
The MUDA’s are held every two years and celebrate the contributions the design community makes to enhancing the quality of life in the city.
Nov 12, 2013
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Photo: Robert McNair; courtesy of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
DAGMARA GENDA: "Panorama," June 15 to August 25, Esker Foundation, Calgary
A short flight of stairs invites viewers into Saskatoon-based artist Dagmara Genda’s drawing installation, Panorama. The work is suspended like an enormous lampshade, encircling the viewing platform.
May 14, 2013
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LANDON MACKENZIE "Nervous Centre," September 7, 2012 to January 5, 2013, Esker Foundation, Calgary
Vancouver-based painter Landon Mackenzie’s work is diverse. The surprisingly varied look of individual pieces in this survey of two decades of abstract painting and drawing represents well her central theme of movement.
Nov 21, 2012
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Photo: Dick Averns
"The New Alberta Contemporaries" Esker Foundation, Calgary June 15 - August 29, 2012
Choosing the right approach for a premiere exhibition in any new facility is a hard task, and it is refreshing that Esker didn’t opt for contemporary art stars or a blockbuster show from the historical canon.
Aug 5, 2012
