The Power Plant, Contemporary art gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
The Power Plant is a contemporary art gallery on the waterfront in Toronto, Canada. It presents rotating solo and group exhibitions of visual art across several connected exhibition spaces inside the building.
The building was constructed in 1926 as a working powerhouse serving the Harbourfront area. It was converted into an art gallery in the 1980s, keeping its industrial shell while clearing space for exhibitions.
The Power Plant sits in the Harbourfront area, a stretch along Lake Ontario where people come to walk, eat, and spend time outdoors. The building, with its tall chimney and wide windows, is easy to spot from the waterfront promenade.
Admission to all exhibitions is free, which makes it easy to stop in without planning ahead. The gallery is straightforward to navigate, and spending an hour or two is usually enough to see the current presentations at a comfortable pace.
Since 2006, the gallery has commissioned artists to create works made specifically for its spaces, meaning those pieces were never shown anywhere else first. Some of these works were built directly into the architecture of the building and cannot simply be moved or reproduced elsewhere.
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