What's on
Current and upcoming
exhibitions around New Zealand
Tū te Whaihanga
A recognition of creative genius The return of Taonga Māori from Europe to Tairāwhiti after 250 years Exhibition now extended to 2021
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Tairawhiti Museum
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East Coast
A Place Apart
Painters CHRISTINA PATAIALII and RUTH IGE traverse abstraction and figuration, their work manifesting an enigmatic in-between.
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City Gallery Wellington
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Wellington
Oracles
Working across performance, photography, and video, PATI SOLOMONA TYRELL and CHRISTIAN THOMPSON channel historical spirits and consequences through masquerade.
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City Gallery Wellington
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Wellington
Terminal
The airport was one of the iconic symbols of the modern age and is now a site where the contradictions and problems of the contemporary world circle and land. It has become a battle line in issues around globalisation, border control, state security, and individual freedom. Flight itself has lost its romance. It is now recognised as an environmental threat, subject to flygskam (flight shame).
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City Gallery Wellington
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Wellington
New Artists Show 2020
VANESSA CROFSKEY, MILLIE DOW, ARY JANSEN, CLAUDIA KOGACHI, MATT RITANI, LUKE SHAW, ASHLEIGH TAUPAKI, JASMINE TUIA, LOUIE ZALK-NEALE.
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Artspace Aotearoa
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Auckland
Iain Cheesman, Signs of Earlier
Cheesman melds together sculpture, painting, and language with a diverse range of materials, including cow hides and op shop treasures, to create unique objects that at first seem humorous, but slow reveal more sinister concerns.
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Aigantighe Art Gallery
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Timaru
Alluring Shores
Drawing from the Aignatighe Art Gallery’s Collection, this exhibition celebrates a distinctive group of expatriate artists during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Aignatighe Art Gallery
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Timaru
A Year in Aotearoa
Witness the wonder of Aotearoa New Zealand in this raw and unfiltered photographic exhibition featuring images from the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year 2020 Competition. Look through the lens of some of New Zealand’s top photographers across a range of categories including aerial, landscape, wildlife, society, and photostory.
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New Zealand Maritime Museum
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Auckland
The Lockdown Alphabet
JOE BUCHANAN, Diatom Press
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Mahara Gallery
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Wellington
Frances Hodgkins & the Field Collection
FRANCES HODGKINS and ISABEL FIELD
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Mahara Gallery
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Wellington
The Bubbles of Paekakariki
Portraits from a Village in Lockdown by BOB ZUUR
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Mahara Gallery
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Wellington
The 29th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2020
Showcasing the works that won the ten prizes on offer, and the exciting works that makeup the travelling show.
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The Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead
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Auckland
Salon Des Refusés 2020
The works that nearly made the finalists travelling show of the 29th Annual Wallace Art Awards.
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The Wallace Arts Trust, Pah Homestead
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Auckland
Hard Sell Future
A major new site-specific commission and exhibition for the entry atrium gallery by artist JK RUSS, titled Hard Sell Future.
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Tauranga Art Gallery
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Bay of Plenty
Matthew Couper: Isolation Paintings
MATTHEW COUPER'S practice over the past decade has appropriated aspects of western art history. Here he uses historical forms to talk about present issues.
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Tauranga Art Gallery
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Bay of Plenty
Wallace Secondary School Art Awards 2020
In the spirit of the Wallace Art Awards, the Secondary School Art Awards recognise and celebrate emerging artistic talent in NZ.
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The Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead
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Auckland
SHANNON NOVAK / DANIEL METCALF
SHANNON NOVAK / DANIEL METCALF
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JB Contemporary
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East Coast
Splash 2020
A highlight of the Wellington arts calendar that features guest artist SVETLANA ORINKO and over 200 works from around the country. All works will be for sale.
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Academy Galleries, 1 Queens Wharf
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Wellington
100 Days - a Journey
SARA BOLAND, day 32
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Mahara Gallery
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Wellington
On Watch – Graham Bennett
Preview Sunday 15 November 2-4pm at The Diversion Gallery. Including the launch of a major Ron Sang book Around Every Circle on prominent sculptor GRAHAM BENNET.
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The Diversion Gallery
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Marlborough