Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
FAFSWAG at documenta15
documenta15, Kassel, Germany
18 June —
25 September 2022
Operating across a multitude of art forms and genres, FAFSWAG’s artists work collaboratively to activate public and digital space. They celebrate Queer Brown bodies, contemporary Pacific arts, and cultural restoration. Their online platform documents in an artistic manner the cultural connectivity of Queer Pacific People of Color navigating their unique identities within New Zealand’s urban landscapes. The collective develops site specific cultural experiences and arts engagements that speak to their unique and diverse contexts as LGBTQ people from Oceania. FAFSWAG is a Moana Oceanic arts collective founded in Aotearoa in 2013.
They aim to challenge the lack of representation of Queer and Indigenous people in the creative industries by evading heteronormativity and establishing multicultural identities and an interdisciplinary practice. FAFSWAG have presented and exhibited extensively within Aotearoa New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery, the Auckland War memorial Museum, ARTSPACE NZ, COCA Centre of Contemporary Arts Christchurch, and are the 2017 Company in residence at Basement Theatre and the winners of the 2017 Auckland Theatre Award for best overall work. Furthermore, FAFSWAG’s work has been shown worldwide, among them at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2018) and HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2020). In 2020, FAFSWAG received the Arts Foundation Laureate Award for Interdisciplinary Arts and represented New Zealand at the 22nd Sydney Biennale.
Operating across a multitude of art forms and genres, FAFSWAG’s artists work collaboratively to activate public and digital space. They celebrate Queer Brown bodies, contemporary Pacific arts, and cultural restoration. Their online platform documents in an artistic manner the cultural connectivity of Queer Pacific People of Color navigating their unique identities within New Zealand’s urban landscapes. The collective develops site specific cultural experiences and arts engagements that speak to their unique and diverse contexts as LGBTQ people from Oceania. FAFSWAG is a Moana Oceanic arts collective founded in Aotearoa in 2013.
They aim to challenge the lack of representation of Queer and Indigenous people in the creative industries by evading heteronormativity and establishing multicultural identities and an interdisciplinary practice. FAFSWAG have presented and exhibited extensively within Aotearoa New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery, the Auckland War memorial Museum, ARTSPACE NZ, COCA Centre of Contemporary Arts Christchurch, and are the 2017 Company in residence at Basement Theatre and the winners of the 2017 Auckland Theatre Award for best overall work. Furthermore, FAFSWAG’s work has been shown worldwide, among them at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2018) and HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2020). In 2020, FAFSWAG received the Arts Foundation Laureate Award for Interdisciplinary Arts and represented New Zealand at the 22nd Sydney Biennale.
Hone Papita Raukura (Ralph) Hotere, ONZ (1931- 2013) (Te Aupōuri) at documenta 14
documenta 14 - Kassel, Germany
10 June —
17 September 2017
New Zealand art will be exhibited for the first time at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions, documenta, which is held just once every five years.
Ralph Hotere is widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s most significant artists and his work within the context of documenta 14 is significant as it assists with the reframing of modernism through the works of New Zealand indigenous artists. He studied, worked and exhibited in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy in the 1960s. In 1999 the large scale work Black Water, a collaboration between Hotere and fellow New Zealand artist Bill Culbert, was part of Toi Toi Toi: Three Generations of arts from New Zealand at the Museum Fridericianum. Hotere's Malady Panels exhibited at documenta take their title from a pattern poem by Bill Manhire, a play on words ‘malady’, ‘melody’, and ‘my lady,’ that was used as the basis of several of Hotere’s works in the early 1970s.
New Zealand art will be exhibited for the first time at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions, documenta, which is held just once every five years.
Ralph Hotere is widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s most significant artists and his work within the context of documenta 14 is significant as it assists with the reframing of modernism through the works of New Zealand indigenous artists. He studied, worked and exhibited in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy in the 1960s. In 1999 the large scale work Black Water, a collaboration between Hotere and fellow New Zealand artist Bill Culbert, was part of Toi Toi Toi: Three Generations of arts from New Zealand at the Museum Fridericianum. Hotere's Malady Panels exhibited at documenta take their title from a pattern poem by Bill Manhire, a play on words ‘malady’, ‘melody’, and ‘my lady,’ that was used as the basis of several of Hotere’s works in the early 1970s.
Mata Aho Collective at documenta 14
documenta 14 - Kassel, Germany
10 June —
17 September 2017
New Zealand art will be exhibited for the first time at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions, documenta, which is held just once every five years.
Mata Aho Collective are Erena Baker, Sarah Hudson, Bridget Reweti and Terri Te Tau. The collective produces large scale textile works and their practice is founded within the contemporary realities of mātauranga Māori. Their work for documenta 14, Kiko Moana, uses light-duty blue tarpaulin that is folded, stitched and slashed. Employing accessible materials and customary Māori sewing tools and techniques, the work explores how innovation becomes tradition and will be exhibited at the Hessian State Museum in Kassel, Hessisches Landesmuseum.
New Zealand art will be exhibited for the first time at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions, documenta, which is held just once every five years.
Mata Aho Collective are Erena Baker, Sarah Hudson, Bridget Reweti and Terri Te Tau. The collective produces large scale textile works and their practice is founded within the contemporary realities of mātauranga Māori. Their work for documenta 14, Kiko Moana, uses light-duty blue tarpaulin that is folded, stitched and slashed. Employing accessible materials and customary Māori sewing tools and techniques, the work explores how innovation becomes tradition and will be exhibited at the Hessian State Museum in Kassel, Hessisches Landesmuseum.
Nathan Pohio (Waitaha, Kati Mamoe, Ngāi Tahu) at documenta 14
documenta 14 - Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
08 April —
17 September 2017
Athens 08.04.2017 — 16.07.2017
Kassel 10.06.2017 — 17.09.2017
New Zealand art will be exhibited for the first time at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions, documenta, which is held just once every five years.
Nathan Pohio will present two different large photographic works with the title Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course for the centre of an ever setting sun! in Kassel and Athens. Pohio reproduces photographs recording the visit of the British Governor General and his wife to Tuahiwi. In it, Māori leaders on horseback in full ceremonial dress, korowai and kākahu (cloaks), are flanking Lord and Lady Plunket in their car on the day that Ngāi Tahu land claim was brought to vice-regal attention.
Athens 08.04.2017 — 16.07.2017
Kassel 10.06.2017 — 17.09.2017
New Zealand art will be exhibited for the first time at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions, documenta, which is held just once every five years.
Nathan Pohio will present two different large photographic works with the title Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course for the centre of an ever setting sun! in Kassel and Athens. Pohio reproduces photographs recording the visit of the British Governor General and his wife to Tuahiwi. In it, Māori leaders on horseback in full ceremonial dress, korowai and kākahu (cloaks), are flanking Lord and Lady Plunket in their car on the day that Ngāi Tahu land claim was brought to vice-regal attention.