INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY: Tracey Snelling

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Koffler Arts is thrilled to welcome contemporary artist Tracey Snelling for a solo exhibition, INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY (September 18 - December 14, 2025). Through the use of sculpture, photography, video, and installation, this exhibition is a blend of different worlds, geographies, people, and perspectives, forming a kind of visual and sonic cacophony. It’s a nod to global (or even galactic) unity, and to the idea that despite all the noise and division, we’re more alike than not. This is Snelling’s Canadian debut.

Snelling explains, “Through this work, I ask: how can we move beyond our fears, borders, and egos to become more humane? Perhaps by staying curious, open, and willing to see each other more fully, we can take a small step toward connection, and even a glimmer of peace for the future.”

Intergalactic Planetary brings together imagery and works inspired by cities including Shanghai, Chongqing, Berlin, Tokyo, Bangkok and locations across the United States. The title, appropriated from the iconic Beastie Boys song the artist listened to in her youth, captures something essential to the show: a sense of playfulness and humour, mixed with the idea of universality, a connection that transcends space, borders, and cultures. It evokes the feeling of zooming out and viewing the world through a wider lens -- not to erase difference, but to better understand the systems, tensions, and interdependencies that define how we live.

“Accidents happen,” says Matthew Jocelyn, General Director of Koffler Arts. “Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes great! Last September, I was walking across the Lützoplatz in Berlin heading from one exhibition to another, when I saw a sign for a show I had not clocked in my carefully curated program for the day. It was in the Haus am Lützoplatz, and when I walked in, I immediately knew I had stumbled across something very special indeed. Tracey had invested the multiple rooms of this house turned gallery with her astonishing architectural and domestic constructions, creating a visual cacophony of international urban squalidness, that somehow magically enabled the infinite poetry of individualised markings - our need to inscribe some kind of personality into our domestic space, however restricted, however impoverished - to emerge. A form of grace. 

While this exhibition could have been demoralizing, it was, in fact, the opposite.   An affirmation of our need to create, to personalise, to make a home of where we are with what we have. It was clear that Tracey Snelling and her work had to come to Toronto.”

Gallery Hours
Wed 12:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Thurs 12:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Fri – Sun 12:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Admission is free

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• Koffler Arts Website kofflerarts.org

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Koffler Arts

Koffler Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts platform that celebrates Jewish artistic voices within a diverse and exploratory framework of contemporary expression.

Firm believers in the inherent value of art as an essential vehicle for creating meaning and providing enjoyment, we strive to affirm our collective need for the compass and connection offered by the artist’s eye upon the world.

Our programming aims to stimulate questions and conversations through a multi-pronged offering of contemporary visual arts and human interest exhibitions, live performance, film and video, literary events and publications, accompanied by a robust program of artistic and educational engagement initiatives.

Working with an expansive network of local, pan-provincial Canadian and international artists, Koffler Arts provides a stimulating environment for the promotion of current artistic practices, the creation of new work, and the exchange of ideas across disciplines.

Through its prismatic web of programming, Koffler Arts seeks to engage audiences in artful, constructive, at times disruptive, at others playful ways, using every opportunity to broaden and refine the multiple lenses through which we see the world.