Esker Foundation

Name: Esker Foundation
Telephone: 403-930-2490
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444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7

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Address444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7

Phone403-930-2490

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Visits to the gallery & bookshop must be pre-booked. Wed to Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm.

Location Type - Art Galleries

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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. Visits to the gallery & bookshop must be pre-booked. Wed to Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm.

Care and Wear: Bodies Crafted for Harm and Healing

Crafted bodies emerge from the Museum of Fear and Wonder

Oct 9, 2023
asmaa al-issa

Quiet exhibition teeters between nostalgia, melancholy and hope.

Jul 17, 2023
Mel O’Callaghan

The pulse of the planet.

Jun 19, 2023
Ragnar Kjartansson

Icelandic artist’s epic nine-channel video is complex, intimate and deeply moving.

Feb 27, 2023
Margaux Williamson

Oddly unsettling interiors play with perspective.

Feb 13, 2023
Robin Arseneault

Dance moves and shadow play.

Sep 5, 2022
Gailan Ngan

Fundamental forms for now, here and beyond.

Aug 8, 2022
Michelle Bui

Complex photographs merge the appetizing and the abject.

Apr 4, 2022
Veronika Pausova

Paintings function with the brevity and power of flash fiction.

Feb 7, 2022
Diaspora and Painting

Diverse visual narratives explore identity as it relates to global migration.

Aug 9, 2021
Louise Bourgeois

While the Paris-born artist is best known for monumental sculptures of spiders, a Calgary show highlights her print, textile and holographic works.

Jun 28, 2021
An Astonishment of Flowers

Yvonne Kustec reveals an otherworldly Eden.

May 17, 2021
Samuel Roy-Bois

Poetic and conceptual monuments to the mundane ask us to reconsider reality.

Oct 19, 2020
Anna Gustafson

Artist enshrouds single-use plastics and small appliances to grieve ecological losses due to unbridled consumerism.

Mar 20, 2020
Katie Ohe

American critic Clement Greenberg foresaw her promise. A new show of kinetic sculptures reveals how right he was.

Feb 23, 2020
Nep Sidhu

A sublime interlude – if you’re open to the divine.

Nov 4, 2019
Circumpolar Art

Timely and compelling work by Indigenous artists from the North reflects on language, sovereignty and the land.

Jun 18, 2019
Neil Campbell’s Wheatfield

Artist plays with perception by shifting relationships between figure and ground.

Apr 8, 2019
Jeremy Shaw's Quantification Trilogy

Three thematically linked video installations explore transcendental experiences in futuristic societies.

Feb 23, 2019
Sarah Stevenson: Nothing Hidden

Ephemeral grids made from wire and thread defy traditional assumptions about the weight and solidity of sculpture.

Nov 5, 2018
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.

Jun 11, 2018
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.

Oct 24, 2017
Esker Foundation presents the Canadian premiere of "A Very Long Line" by Arts Collective Postcommodity

"A Very Long Line" by artist collective Postcommodity is an immersive four-channel video and sound installation comprised of four screens of moving images featuring desert landscapes, framed by the constant presence of a fence.

Sep 6, 2017
Jason de Haan's Time Capsule

Calgary-based artist Jason de Haan was due for greater recognition at home when the Esker Foundation stepped up with a solo show.

Jun 5, 2017
"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.

Feb 13, 2017
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.

Apr 28, 2016
John Dean

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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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