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.
Choreographer Maxine Heppner with Oriah Wiersma, Chantelle Mostacho, Junia Mason & Eric Cadesky.
📅 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)
👉 Link in bio "Dance Performance: feral beauties"
Join Rui Pimenta tomorrow, April 23 at Koffler Arts for his walkthrough of my exhibition Glorious Catastrophe. Rui wrote the exhibition essay and he brings fresh perspectives and unique insights.
6:30 - 7:30pm. Not to be missed!
@artspintoronto@kofflerarts
Come discover Glorious Catastrophe through the eyes of its writer, Rui Pimenta.
With nearly 30 years of experience in visual arts and curation, Rui leads an exhibition walkthrough, offering a distinct perspective and insightful reflections on the powerful metaphors and dualities in Gillian Iles’ work.
🗓 April 23 , 6:30–7:30 PM
📍 Koffler Gallery
🎟 Register at link in bio: Public Programs
📸 @jeremieaw
Gillian Iles is interested in suspended moments and the possibilities they provide.
Found objects like teacups and plates balance in thin air, a grandfather clock hangs from the ceiling, and architectural beams rest on furniture.
In these moments outcomes feel yet to be determined.
📸 @jeremieaw
See Glorious Catastrophe by Gillian Iles:
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
Join us for two artist-led walkthroughs this weekend:
At 2 PM in Koffler301, Kalmplex shares insights into Blessed and Highly Favoured, offering a closer look into his portrait practice.
Then, we will gather in the Koffler Gallery, where Gillian Iles leads a walkthrough of Glorious Catastrophe, exploring ideas of tension, balance, and fragility.
📅 Saturday, April 11
🕚 2 - 3:30 PM
📍 Koffler301- Koffler Gallery
🎟️ RSVP via link in bio under "Public Programs"
📸: @shaymarkowitz@gillian_iles@kalmplex
Glorious Catastrophe by Gillian Iles is now on until June 7!
In this exhibition Gillian delves into the chaos of the current moment by exploring paradoxical themes of devastation, wonder, precarity, power, dereliction, and glory.
The work itself is precariously installed, gesturing toward the fragility of the world right now. Paintings on Tyvek and glassine are strung up with thread, and furniture pieces rest on tea cups.
📸 @jeremieaw
In Conversation with writer Rui Pimenta on Glorious Catastrophe
Koffler Gallery, 1 - 2 PM, Sunday, March 29
Artist Gillian Iles joins writer Rui Pimenta for a talk on the making of Glorious Catastrophe. Together they’ll discuss the ideas, references, and multi-stage process behind the exhibition, reflecting on themes of fragility, tension, and possibility in the present moment.
Gillian Iles at the Koffler Arts, 180 Shaw Street, Suite 104, Toronto, M6J 2W5
Exhibition runs from March 26 to June 7
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Glorious Catastrophe is a composite reality of order, disorder and
division, and the paradoxical confluence of wonder, dereliction, glory, devastation, power and precarity.
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#kofferarts @kofflerarts
Thanks to Rui Pimenta (@artspintoronto ) for your contribution and insight into this project.
🎉🎉🎉 Blessed and Highly Favoured and Glorious Catastrophe are now open! Visit the gallery this weekend and join us for an afternoon of conversation with Kalmplex and Gillian this Sunday. 🎉🎉🎉
📸 @shaymarkowitz
Opening tonight! Thursday, March 26, 6:30 to 8:30pm:
Sneak peak of our installation with a special thanks to Meredith, Brett and Nina for the support installing trees, a variety of chairs, shore posts, a 45 foot painting on Tyvek, teacups, ropes, grandfather clock and the many projectors.
Opening this Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30pm:
G L O R I O U S C A T A S T R O P H E
Gillian Iles at the Koffler Arts, 180 Shaw Street, Suite 104, Toronto, M6J 2W5
Exhibition runs from March 26 to June 7
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Glorious Catastrophe is a composite reality of order, disorder and
division, and the paradoxical confluence of wonder, dereliction, glory, devastation, power
and precarity.
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#kofferarts @kofflerarts
