Polish artist and architect Natalia Romik speaks with Arcade about her exhibition Plague Crystals, now at Koffler Arts, and why fragile, translucent towers of crystal might hold what haunts us better than any stone monument.
With her new exhibition, Glorious Catastrophe, Toronto artist Gillian Iles seeks out the paradoxes and possibilities in moments of extreme transformation.
Toronto artist Kalmplex talks with curator David Liss about the inspirations behind his current exhibition at Koffler301 and his worries over the city losing its places of culture and connection.
Theatre designer Teresa Przyblski on creating an environment for William Kentridge’s film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, where immersion begins with restraint.
Actor, producer, and director Alon Nashman discusses World Play, an ongoing series of readings performed in multiple languages around a theme, and the pleasures of deep listening.
Often blurring the line between documentary and dreamscape, Tracey Snelling’s sculptures, installations, and other works—now showing at Koffler Arts—cast the viewer in the role of voyeur.
In Koffler301’s inaugural exhibition, Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart uses goats, pigeons, and plastic bags to strange, slapstick effect, blurring the boundary between the mundane and the magical.
Actor, director, and playwright Christopher Morris on the intensive research and moral questioning behind his play The Runner, opening this week in a new production presented by Koffler Arts.
Poet and playwright Titilope Sonuga on her new libretto for Stravinsky’s 1918 theatrical work being performed by the Art of Time Ensemble, inspired by the story of the Canadian army’s first all-Black battalion.
Arcade speaks with Toronto artist Nancy Friedland on what drove her mid-career transition from conceptual photography to painting, and how the anticipation of grief lay at the heart of much of her work.
As he approaches the first anniversary of his joining Koffler Arts as its new general director, Arcade spoke with Matthew Jocelyn about the tenuous position of Canadian arts organizations, and his vision for Koffler going forward.
A conversation with Brazilian artist Giselle Beiguelman about her exhibition Botannica Tirannica—now showing at Koffler Arts—and understanding the colonial imagination.
Experimental filmmaker Midi Onodera talks with Arcade about her early adoption and explorations of new technologies, how art making in Toronto has changed, and what the glut of media images might be doing to us.
The work of photographer of Vid Ingelevics, currently showing in the group show DECADE at Koffler Arts, documents moments of civic transformation with surprising intimacy.
Toronto author Tamara Faith Berger talks with Arcade about her latest novel, Yara, the different lenses on Jewish diasporic identity, and the malleability of language.
An interview with Oleksiy Makukhin, CEO of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, on how Russia's invasion of Ukraine has disrupted the centre's activities and forced it to question its approach to memorialization.
Manuel Herz, the Basel-based architect behind a new synagogue on the site of the Babyn Yar massacre, challenges prevailing notions of memorialization in architecture.
