Russna Kaur: Been there twice, haven’t got there yet - Exhibition

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Russna Kaur’s paintings engulf and disorient. They extend beyond the canvas—cascading across walls, slicing through corners, and redefining space with sculptural urgency. In  Been there twice, haven’t got there yet (the space behind a thin screen, and prying eyes), Kaur builds an immersive environment that invites visitors to move around and through her work, rethinking painting as both surface and structure.

This exhibition marks a return. Raised in Brampton, Ontario, Kaur has been living and working in Vancouver for eight years and is finding her way back to Ontario this year. Her work carries a vibrant and uncontainable energy rooted in both places. The AGB’s 5,000-square-foot gallery—with its soaring 22-foot ceilings—offers her the freedom to expand, to play, and to stretch both her materials and her imagination. It’s a space befitting the ambition and scale of her practice, where canvases bleed into the room and paintings become architecture. In many ways, this exhibition can be read as a kind of funhouse—one built from memory, emotion, and pigment. Visitors may lose themselves in the vibrant blocks of colour, the “stitched” lines, and jagged edges. They are invited to enter a world where nothing is stable, where even the walls can shift. This is the uncontainable vision of Russna Kaur—a painter who refuses to be confined by the canvas, or by history.

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