Erik Olson: In the Garden

Erik Olson, The Buzzard and the Lamp Post, 2021

Erik Olson: In the Garden

Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB - To Feb 15, 2026

by Lissa Robinson

In this exhibition, Erik Olson reimagines Hofgarten, the oldest public park in Germany, as a series of psychological landscapes where the boundaries between reality and dreams shift and dissolve. Through vivid colours, shifting perspectives and layered imagery, Olson transforms the park into a collective arena for contemplation, memory and transformation. His large-scale oil paintings invite viewers into theatrical, liminal spaces where desire, unease and mythical wonder merge and collide, revealing states of emotional and imaginative flux. contemporarycalgary.com