Located in the former Centennial Planetarium/Telus World of Science in the city's downtown core, the gallery offers contemporary art programming by local, national, and international artists.
[1][2][3] The group put forward a proposal to the City of Calgary to repurpose the vacant Centennial Planetarium for this goal.
[5] In December 2019, it announced that this stage of renovations had been completed and that it would launch its first exhibitions in 2020, with opening hours expanded to six days per week.
[7] On January 23, 2020, the organization held its official opening, with two exhibitions nodding to the building's history as a planetarium: Planetary, a group exhibition created by 35 local artists during workshops and residencies held on site, and British artist Luke Jerram's large-scale Museum of the Moon installation.
[8] In March 2020, the organization temporarily closed its physical location due to the COVID-19 pandemic and began offering programming online.