The Bentway ‘takes to the water’ this September
August 7, 2025
Join the massive canoe procession: 500 Volunteers invited to bring an unprecedented artwork to life, and co-create with renowned artist Melissa McGill.
The Bentway co-commissions a new work by media artist Quayola, premiering this weekend at Italy’s Videocittà festival
July 2, 2025
Set to close out our Sun/Shade program this October, this debut international collaboration will dazzle visitors with an immersive night-time solar experience. The Bentway is proud to announce a landmark partnership with Videocittà, Rome’s celebrated festival dedicated to video and digital culture, through the co-commissioning of a major new artwork by Italian artist Quayola. SOLAR […]
Toronto’s Summer Forecast? More Art Workshops, Roller Skating, and Urban Canopy Parades
June 17, 2025
The Bentway’s summer 2025 programming is in full swing and we are excited to announce that tickets are available for our events in July, August, and September! Spend some time in your community and meet us under the Gardiner for workshops, parades, parties, and more.
A Giant Sand Dune is Appearing Under the Gardiner this week
June 9, 2025
Experience the world premiere of Sand Flight, from choreographer Ingri Fiksdal and theatre director Jonas Corell Petersen. Eight dancers and a 50-person choir descend on a massive sand dune under the Gardiner Expressway for a powerful performance that speculates on climates-to-come, where shade-worshipping becomes a new tradition. Sand FlightA new creation by Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell […]
Sun & Shade take centre stage at The Bentway this summer
April 14, 2025
The Bentway’s summer 2025 programming explores sun as a creative collaborator, shade as a new essential resource, and brings back visitor-favourites like roller skating.
Bentway set to grow to second hub site, marking our continued expansion
September 26, 2024
Field Operations and Toronto’s Brook McIlroy will design The Bentway Islands, transforming additional underutilized lands under the Gardiner Expressway into new space for play, shared experiences, and regenerative landscape.
Unexpected beauty revealed and remixed alongside the Gardiner’s reconstruction
September 12, 2024
The Bentway and Exhibition Place are proud to co-present Resurfacing, a new public artwork by Jessica Thalmann, opening September 12, 2024.
Visit us at Nuit Blanche 2024
August 27, 2024
This Nuit Blanche, we invite you down to The Bentway neighbourhood for a series of installations that light up the areas along the Gardiner Expressway. Premiering for the City of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche on Saturday, October 5th, we’re pleased to renew the monumental Staging Grounds scaffolding towers (45 Dan Leckie Way) with a new work […]
Crafting Connections
June 24, 2024
RBC Foundation supports The Bentway’s new project by Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams.
Dominoes, a massive public art project, coming to Toronto this September
June 11, 2024
Over 8,000 giant dominoes weave and fall along an epic 2.5km journey through downtown neighbourhoods. (Created by artists Station House Opera and powered by Choice Properties as Presenting Sponsor.)
In the News: Five great exhibitions to check out at the CONTACT Photography Festival [Toronto Star]
April 27, 2018
Five great exhibitions to check out at the Contact Photography Festival Murray Whyte, Visual Arts Critic at the Toronto Star, recommends Dana Claxton’s A Forest of Canoes as one of the top five exhibitions to check out at the 2018 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. The embarrassment of riches that is the annual Contact Photography Festival only […]
In the News: Toronto’s Bentway will be a new platform for public art [Globe and Mail]
March 5, 2018
The Globe and Mail MATTHEW HAGUE SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 28, 2018 Ilana Altman is accustomed to working with some of the world’s top design firms and art galleries to make great spaces. Now she’s tasked with persuading Toronto residents to spend their spare time under a freeway. As the director […]
The Bentway gets love from Mercartto
January 30, 2018
Alexa Samuels, Founder and Chief of Mercartto, writes about The Bentway’s Constructions of the Everyday art exhibition. Read an excerpt here and the full piece on their blog. A few weeks after its official launch, The Bentway – Toronto’s newest urban park, under a major downtown highway no less – is thriving. The Bentway is […]