No Theme

Art & events in Winnipeg. No theme, no rules.

What is No Theme?

No Theme is a Winnipeg-based collective putting on shows that refuse a single subject. Painters next to noise musicians, film loops next to poetry. The only brief is that there is no brief. We make room for work that doesn't fit anywhere else.

Past nights

What it actually looks like down there.

A barber cutting someone’s hair on a stool while a band plays behind them in a green-lit basement, paintings propped against the brick wall.

The room seen through a circular lens, red stage light and a scatter of rainbow refraction across the floor.

A table of synthesizers, drum machines and effects pedals tangled in green and blue patch cables, people talking in the background.

An audience standing and sitting on stacked tires, watching a performer at the far end of the basement.

Three musicians playing electronics and keyboards between stacks of speaker cabinets, lit red and green.

A long-exposure photograph of a lit building at night, its windows smeared into diagonal streaks of yellow, red and green.

Upcoming

What's next on the calendar.

Sat, September 26, 2026

Nuit Blanche — Journey into the Subconscious

No Theme Gallery, 296 McDermot Ave 6:00 PM

An all-night journey into the subconscious for Nuit Blanche. Free admission until midnight; the afters are ticketed.
Tickets for the afters ↗

Download the poster ↓

Open call

Submit your work

Pitch a show at the No Theme gallery — a solo exhibition, a group exhibition, or a screening or performance. Any medium, no theme. Bring the exhibit name, a proposal and a list of the work.

Supporting material — your CV and 5–10 images of recent work — is sent by email separately; the form tells you where.

Open the submission form ↗

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