Koffler Arts

Koffler Arts We examine complex issues through transformative art experiences that stimulate intercultural dialogue and promote social change.

As a Jewish organization, we value – and aim to foster – social justice and equality while nurturing a passion for learning and understanding. These principles support the Koffler’s engagement with the best contemporary creative minds in producing and presenting art that provides common ground for experiences shaping our shared cultural life and defining our social values.

Last weekend to experience Glorious Catastrophe. A suspended world of paintings, objects, and projections.To close our p...
06/05/2026

Last weekend to experience Glorious Catastrophe. A suspended world of paintings, objects, and projections.

To close our program for Iles' show, we are presenting a special dance performance tomorrow, June 6, choreographed by Maxine Heppner, inspired by the exhibition.

Your ticket includes a drink and offers a unique, immersive experience within the world of the exhibition. Don’t miss it!

📅 Saturday, June 6
🕓 Timed tickets: 5:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 6:30 pm, and 7:00 pm
📍 Koffler Gallery
👉 Tickets: https://www.kofflerarts.org/whatson/performances/performance/dance-performance-feral-beauties

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It’s the last week of Glorious Catastrophe by Gillian Iles!"The roping and structural rigging evoke the feeling that the...
06/02/2026

It’s the last week of Glorious Catastrophe by Gillian Iles!

"The roping and structural rigging evoke the feeling that the gallery itself is being held up and supported. In this installation, the rigging mimics the rafters of a house, suggesting a hidden superstructure from which surfaces seem to peel away. The result is the experience of walking through a deconstructed architectural space: part building, part unraveling structure." Gillian Iles

Gallery hours:
Wednesday: 12:30 - 5 pm
Thursday: 12:30 - 8 pm
Friday: 12:30 - 5 pm
Saturday: 12:30 - 5 pm
Sunday: 12:30 - 5 pm

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Final days to experience the contradictions, precarity, and power of Glorious Catastrophe by Gillian Iles.At the Koffler...
05/29/2026

Final days to experience the contradictions, precarity, and power of Glorious Catastrophe by Gillian Iles.

At the Koffler Gallery until Sunday, June 7.

Gallery hours:
Wednesday: 12:30 - 5 pm
Thursday: 12:30 - 8 pm
Friday: 12:30 - 5 pm
Saturday: 12:30 - 5 pm
Sunday: 12:30 - 5 pm

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05/28/2026

Call for crystal for a new exhibition at Koffler Arts!

This summer Polish artist and architect Dr. Natalia Romik will present the North American debut of her exhibition Plague Crystals.

The exhibition will feature symbolic representations of contemporary plagues enclosed within crystal towers.

Dr. Romik repurposes leaded crystal and transforms it into these striking towers. If you have vases, glassware, or other leaded crystal homewares you would like to donate to the exhibition, please email [email protected] to arrange a drop-off.

Koffler Arts welcomes two internationally acclaimed artists for a rare and unforgettable conversation: Vera Frenkel and ...
05/27/2026

Koffler Arts welcomes two internationally acclaimed artists for a rare and unforgettable conversation: Vera Frenkel and Atom Egoyan.

A Governor General’s Award recipient and one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Frenkel joins Egoyan, Cannes prize winner and Academy Award nominee, for an afternoon exploring memory, displacement, technology, and modern life through art and film.

📅 Saturday, June 6 | 2 - 3 PM
📍 Koffler301, 180 Shaw St., 3rd floor
🎟️ $10 tickets
👉 Buy your tickets here: https://www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-programs/program/in-conversation-artist-vera-frenkel-and-filmmaker-atom-egoyan

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Step into Glorious Catastrophe with Allegra Charleston for a guided tour with a twist!Guided by Susie Burpee’s alter ego...
05/25/2026

Step into Glorious Catastrophe with Allegra Charleston for a guided tour with a twist!

Guided by Susie Burpee’s alter ego, you'll experience a beautifully controlled chaos that plays with the fragile tensions in Gillian Iles’s work, offering an unconventional way to visit (or re-visit) the exhibition.

📅 Thursday, May 28 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM
📍 Koffler Gallery, 180 Shaw St., 1st floor
👉 Register here: https://www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-programs/program/gallery-tour-allegra-charleston-on-glorious-catastrophe

Susie Burpee is a multi-faceted artist and award-winning performer based in Toronto. Known for her character-driven choreographic works, Susie has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Choreography and Performance, and she is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Dance.

Koffler Arts and the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation co-present Maintenance Artist at the Jewish Film Festival.This “visu...
05/20/2026

Koffler Arts and the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation co-present Maintenance Artist at the Jewish Film Festival.

This “visually explosive portrait” (NBC New York) follows groundbreaking artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, whose revolutionary Maintenance Manifesto transformed caregiving, sanitation work, and everyday labour into powerful public art.

📅 Wednesday, June 10 | 5:30 - 7 PM
📍 Carlton Cinema
👉 Buy your tickets here: https://www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-programs/program/film-maintenance-artist
🎟️ Use discount code: KA@TJFF

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Toronto, ON
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