AHVA Gallery

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Christos Dikeakos giving an artist talk at the AHVA Gallery in the Audain Art Centre

The AHVA Gallery is located in room 1001 in the Audain Art Centre at 6398 University Boulevard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

This 2000 square foot purpose-built, contemporary exhibition space serves the Visual Art, Art History and Curatorial Studies programs of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Providing a site for student and faculty artistic and curatorial collaborations from within the department, the university as a whole and with artists and art students outside the university community; the Gallery allows for interactions on issues relating to art, culture and creative research. Each academic year the Gallery provides a showcase for the work of student, faculty and other professional artists through the BFA, MFA and Faculty exhibitions as well as selected curatorial projects.

AHVA Gallery hours during exhibitions are 12 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday (closed holidays). For more information call (604) 822-4563.

For upcoming exhibition and schedule information please visit the Exhibitions page.

Current Exhibition

  • Some Kind of Darkness

    Sep 19th, 2018 to Oct 26th, 2018

    “The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.”  – Giorgio Agamben Five MFA candidates present new work engaging different iterations and relationships with darkness. This exhibition combines diverse practices and process-based research via performance, sculpture, photography, animation, and video....

Recent Exhibitions