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THIS Gallery's mandate is to create a vibrant, fun, and essential arts space. The gallery is open from noon to 5 Tuesday to Saturday. Visit thethisgallery.com.

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Exhibition openings are on the first Saturday of every month.

57 artists showed their work at THIS in 2022. There were:
7 solo exhibitions.
3 poetry readings.
4 workshops.
3 group exhibitions. In total, over 300 works of art were shown. If you want to support the gallery, the best way is to buy original art from these artists.

10/13/2026

Kyla Bourgh artist talk this Saturday at 2 pm.

Kyla Bourgh is a Canadian artist and writer based in Vancouver. A graduate of the Master of Visual Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, her practice encompasses visual art, writing, publishing, and curatorial projects. She previously curated Atelier 8.18, a home gallery presenting local and international artists in group exhibitions. French Ending is her first book published under her given name and her first illustrated book.

Kyla Bourgh

10/10/2026

Join us Saturday, October 10 for the opening reception for French Ending a new book written and illustrated by Kyla Bourgh.

The title French Ending alludes to the concept used in cinema and literature. Unlike the closed resolutions typical of an “American Ending,” the “French Ending” functions as a narrative strategy that invites the audience to complete the ending of the work from their own experience and interpretation. The book’s theme setting of France, a collaboration between Kyla Bourgh (Vancouver, Canada) and Viviana Maidanik (Buenos Aires, Argentina) presents the multi-faceted process that happened worlds apart, yet remains connected and cohesive.

This concept aligns directly with the multi-lingual book, which conceives writing, art and translation as open practices in constant dialogue with each other. Illustrations add another layer of hints towards unspoken narrative and visual expression. The book compiles illustrations and a series of meta-narrative stories written by Bourgh. In these stories, the author explores the experience of living in a country where only partial mastery of the local language generates estrangement and a sense of identity displacement. From her English-speaking perspective, a language often considered “universal” within the framework of cultural globalization, she reflects on the impossibility of fully expressing herself, to her artistic peers, the discomfort of not recognizing her own words, and, simultaneously, the powerful bonds formed despite fragmented language.

Saturday, October 10 12-4 pm
THIS Gallery
108 e Broadway
(Alley entrance)
Vancouver, BC

Kyla Bourgh

10/08/2026

Kyla Bourgh
French Ending
October 9–18, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 12–4 pm THIS Gallery, Vancouver

THIS Gallery is pleased to present French Ending, an exhibition and book project by Vancouver artist and writer Kyla Bourgh. Bringing together Bourgh’s original conté illustrations, writing, and the collaborative process behind the publication of a bilingual French and English book, the exhibition explores language, translation, and the connections that can emerge through partial understanding.
French Ending is a collaboration between Bourgh and Buenos Aires-based illustrator, designer, and publisher Viviana Maidanik, with French translations by Antonio Werli. Created across countries, languages, and disciplines, the project considers writing, visual art, publishing, and translation as open practices that continually shape and respond to one another.

Kyla Bourgh

10/05/2026

Coming next to THIS Gallery: French Ending by Kyla Bourgh.

What happens when you don’t have the words to fully express yourself?

Through writing, conté illustration, and translation, French Ending explores the experience of living between languages and the connections that can form despite misunderstanding, distance, and incomplete communication.

The bilingual book was created across continents by Vancouver artist and writer Kyla Bourgh and Buenos Aires-based publisher and designer Viviana Maidanik, with French translations by Antonio Werli.

October 9–18, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 12–4 pm

Finding connection beyond words.

Kyla Bourgh

10/04/2026

Please enjoy the tinkling sound of these ceramic nunchucks by Kate Metten Ceramics

TACTILE closes today, Sunday, October 4 at 4 pm.

Co-curated by THIS Gallery founder Shannon Pawliw and Sophia Crompton, a fourth-year Art History student at McGill University and summer 2026 intern at THIS Gallery, TACTILE brings together seven artists selected from an open call that received submissions from 70 artists.
Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to hold, rub, turn, unzip, manipulate, lean against, embrace and play with the artworks. Rather than treating touch as a threat to the objects on display, TACTILE considers physical interaction as another way of understanding them.

The exhibition brings together works by Natasha Bakas, K8L35 (Kate MacDonald + Les Sears), Kate Metten, Anne Steves, Asma Sultana, WhiteFeather Hunter and Anna Dimoff. Working across painting, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, found objects and unconventional materials, the artists approach touch as a means of investigation, play, empathy, intimacy, memory, comfort and bodily awareness.

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10/02/2026

It’s the final weekend to visit Tactile, a group exhibition featuring art that you can, not only touch, but interact with!

The exhibition brings together works by Natasha Bakas, K8L35 (Kate MacDonald + Les Sears), Kate Metten, Anne Steves, Asma Sultana, WhiteFeather Hunter and Anna Dimoff.

The gallery is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

K8L35
Kate Metten Ceramics
Anne Steves Artist
Asma Sultana
Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter
Proof Handmade Goods

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108 E Broadway (alley Entrance)
Vancouver, BC
V5T1V9

Website

https://thisgallery.org/

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