Exhibition Schedule
September 2024 to July 2025
Xchanges Gallery’s exhibition 2024 to 2025 season opens on September 6 and continues until July 27, 2025 with a compelling range of artists, artworks, and media. Our gallery exhibition program is made up of diverse artists recommended by an independent jury of professional artists recognized for their contributions to local culture and their expertise in contemporary art.
Exhibitions throughout the year also include solo and group shows displaying the works of studio members in the Art Passage, the main gallery, or online.
The season’s exhibitions may include additional activities, such as Zoom openings, artist talks, and tours. Read each brief description and check out the artist or exhibition page link for full details.
Gallery hours
Opening night Fridays: 7 to 9 p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact us for other times or check out the Events Calendar.
On Now
July 11-27, 2025
Heidi Bergstrom & Adryan Bergstrom-Borins
Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories
In Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories, Heidi Bergstrom and Adryan Bergstrom-Borins express the story of their Icelandic and Metis heritage, which for many in their family, has only been myth and legend. The artists wrestle with aspects of their settler and Metis histories to debunk myths that are common in Canadian society and their own family, and to recognize and celebrate their ancestors.
The work is one installation comprised of several parts, in a variety of media from textiles to traditional beading to video mapping. The elements were created in Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, and in Canada in Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta), Manitoba (Gimli), and British Columbia (Metchosin). The creation of this work has required extensive research, collaboration, experimentation, and learning.
The underlying narrative of the work seeks understanding and respect, to acknowledge past wrongs, contradictions, and conflicts, and to honour and recognize the people, conditions – and resulting conditions, and unique histories.
Opening night reception: Friday, July 11, 2025 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: The show continues every weekend from Saturday, July 12 until Sunday, July 27 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Artist talk: Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 2PM
For more information about the show and link to the Artist Talk, check out artist page here.
Previous Exhibitions
September 6 to 22, 2024
Chantal New
The Weight of Time
Through drawing, sculptural installation, and large-scale photography, New examines the conditions of contemporary life, often defined by grief, disconnection, and injustice. Using the architecture of carceral institutions, The Weight of Time, explores the oppressive nature of time within a capitalist framework. Communicating through what is unseen, rather than through what is depicted.
Opening night reception: Friday, September 6, 2024 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Every weekend from Saturday, September 7 to Sunday, September 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Chantal New’s artist page.
October 4 to 20, 2024
Suzanne Hamilton
Unseen Landscapes
Using pencil, charcoal and pastel works on paper, Hamilton seeks to create a visual relationship that merges the seemingly ordinary with the complex and profound. As the cityscape changes, portraits emerge that are both ordinary and complex and also familiar and unknown.
Opening night reception: Friday, October 4, 2024 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Continues every weekend from Saturday, October 5 until Sunday, October 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out her artist page.
November 8 to 24, 2024
Cindy Wright
Field Notes: Impressions from the Pacific
Field Notes: Impressions from the Pacific weaves a tale of a journey through the eyes of a marine scientist. Using intaglio impressions, monoprints, and cyanotypes, Wright explores the functional and aesthetic beauty of the organisms that inhabit the marine realm and how they impact her life.
Opening night reception: November 8, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: Continues every weekend from Saturday, November 9 until Sunday, November 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Artist talk: Sunday, November 17 at 1 p.m.
Workshop: Sunday, November 24 from 12 to 3 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Cindy Wright’s artist page.
December 6 to 21, 2024
Annual Members’ Show
f’artin around
Opening night reception: Friday, December 6, 2024, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Continues every weekend from Saturday, December 7 until Sunday, December 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
January 3 to 19, 2025
Amber Lomax
Through the medium of dream imagery, Lomax seeks to create a space for viewers to connect with the universal language of dreams. The artworks serve as a conduit, allowing the observer to explore the interconnected threads of their own subconscious minds.
Opening night reception: Friday, January 3, 2025 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Continues every weekend from Saturday, January 4 until Sunday, January 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Amber Lomax’s artist page.
February 7 to 23, 2025
April Winter
I, Vanitas
I, Vanitas is a series of the artist’s self-portraits that express elements from classical still lifes from the 17th century. The themes are the transience of life, futility of pleasure or collecting vast amounts of wealth, and the certainty of death, through the western cultural lens that is experiencing a growing wealth gap and the attempt to stop aging through science and biotechnology.
Opening night reception: Friday, February 7, 2025 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: The exhibition continues every weekend from Saturday, February 8 until Sunday, February 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Artist talk: TBD
For more information about the show, check out April Winter’s artist page.
March 7 to 23, 2025
Derk Wolmuth
To be determined
This exhibition is a series of sculptures that utilize deconstructed furniture, which is recombined with mixed media to open it to alternate symbolic readings. These sculptures are grounded in the known domestic order, open to reveal alternate realities. These works suggests the interplay between the body, the condition of dwelling, and the uncanny of inhabitation.
Opening night reception: Friday, March 7, 2025 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: The exhibition continues every weekend from Saturday, March 8 until Sunday, March 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Derk Womuth’s artist page.
April 4-21, 2025
Francois Michaud
Rising Water and Migration
Opening Night Reception: Friday April 4 from 7-9pm
Gallery Hours: Sat/Sun 11am-4pm through April 21
May 2 to 18, 2025
Erik Volet
Tension between mental health and illness is investigated through art as means of making
sense of the world. Madness is a repository for the forbidden. Volet’s work unearths this
forbidden territory. The work explores the crossroads of the forbidden, madness, magic, and
possibilities for social transformation. The process and resulting artworks form a praxis
embodying possibilities for personal and transpersonal psychic and social transformation.
Opening night reception: Friday, May 2, 2025 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: The show continues every weekend from Saturday, May 3 until Sunday, May 18 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, check out Erik Volet’s artist page.
June 6 to 22, 2025
Anne K. Chou
Eco Illuminescence: A Sensory Crossing
Eco illuminescence: A Sensory Crossing offers an immersive experience that combines traditional sumi-e paintings, animal-shaped lanterns, upcycled garden waste objects, and semi-hard fabric sculptures. By leveraging the interplay of light, shadow, and tactile elements, this exhibition will take viewers on a sensory crossing, engaging multiple senses and fostering a deeper connection between art and audience.
Opening night reception: Friday, June 6, 2025 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: The exhibition continues every weekend from Saturday, June 7 to Sunday, June 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m
Xchanges gratefully acknowledges the support of the Province of British Columbia and the Capital Regional District for our gallery programs.
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