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.

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

The gallery was packed this weekend for our panel discussion on Toronto’s changing urban spaces and their impact on peop...
05/19/2026

The gallery was packed this weekend for our panel discussion on Toronto’s changing urban spaces and their impact on people and nature inspired by Gillian Iles’s exhibition Glorious Catastrophe.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and to our moderator author, co-founder of Spacing magazine, and University of Toronto lecturer Shawn Micallef and panelists author of Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (winner of the 2026 Writers' Trust of Canada Shaugnessy Cohen Prize) Maggie Helwig, Professor at York University Jennifer Bonnell and PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, Bryan Mark.

Check out more public programs coming soon: https://www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-programs

Join artist and Vtape co-founder Lisa Steele for the first of two talks accompanying As If By Chance…, a two-channel vid...
05/16/2026

Join artist and Vtape co-founder Lisa Steele for the first of two talks accompanying As If By Chance…, a two-channel video and print installation by Vera Frenkel (May 21 - June 14).

The talk offers an introduction to Frenkel’s influential career as an early innovator in video, installation, and digital work.

📅 Saturday, May 23 | 2 -3 PM
📍 Koffler301, 180 Shaw St., 3rd floor
👉 Register here: https://www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-programs/program/gallery-talk-lisa-steele-on-vera-frenkel

Step into an immersive, site-specific dance performance conceived by Maxine Heppner, on which choreography responds to G...
05/12/2026

Step into an immersive, site-specific dance performance conceived by Maxine Heppner, on which choreography responds to Glorious Catastrophe | Gillian Iles.

Journey through the gallery in small groups as dancers explore the delicate tensions between humans’ urbanity, wildness, and precarity in contemporary times.

📅 Saturday, June 6
🕓 Timed tickets: 5:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 6:30 pm, and 7:00 pm
📍 Koffler Gallery, 180 Shaw St., Unit 105
🎟️ Ticket $20 (includes a beverage)
👉 Buy your tickets here: https://www.kofflerarts.org/whatson/performances/performance/dance-performance-feral-beauties

Koffler Arts is pleased to partner with Jewish Music Week to present a screening of The Lost Music of Auschwitz at the B...
05/11/2026

Koffler Arts is pleased to partner with Jewish Music Week to present a screening of The Lost Music of Auschwitz at the Bernard Betel Centre.

This powerful documentary follows composer Leo Geyer’s journey to recover forgotten music manuscripts from Auschwitz-Birkenau, revealing stories of resistance, survival, and the role of music within the camp.

📅 Wednesday, May 27
🕓 2:00- 3:15 PM
📍 Bernard Betel Centre, 1003 Steeles Ave W, North York
👉 Register for free here: https://www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-programs/program/film-the-lost-music-of-auschwitz

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