Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Alice Connew, Bruce Connew, Catherine Griffiths and Katie Kerr in UNFOLD 2023: Shanghai Art Book Fair
Start Museum, Shanghai, China
09 June —
11 June 2023
Shanghai-based design studio Pocca presents numerous books by Aotearoa artists at this year's UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair.
They include Catherine Griffiths' book SOLO IN [ ] SPACE, a record of Griffiths' first investigative solo exhibition in China in 2019, and also the process and thinking behind her design practice for more than 30 years; and five books by Vapour Momenta Books, a pocket-sized publishing arm co-founded by Griffiths and fellow Aotearoa New Zealand artist Bruce Connew. Most of the content of the five books—folded eggs, Body of Work, I Must Behave, I Saw You and Stopover—feature Connew's photography practice, and are designed by Griffiths and Connew together.
GLORIA Books, an intercontinental publishing platform for art and photography books, operated by Alice Connew and Katie Kerr, will also present two new books at UNFOLD 23: Dwelling in the Margins and Still Looking Good.
Shanghai-based design studio Pocca presents numerous books by Aotearoa artists at this year's UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair.
They include Catherine Griffiths' book SOLO IN [ ] SPACE, a record of Griffiths' first investigative solo exhibition in China in 2019, and also the process and thinking behind her design practice for more than 30 years; and five books by Vapour Momenta Books, a pocket-sized publishing arm co-founded by Griffiths and fellow Aotearoa New Zealand artist Bruce Connew. Most of the content of the five books—folded eggs, Body of Work, I Must Behave, I Saw You and Stopover—feature Connew's photography practice, and are designed by Griffiths and Connew together.
GLORIA Books, an intercontinental publishing platform for art and photography books, operated by Alice Connew and Katie Kerr, will also present two new books at UNFOLD 23: Dwelling in the Margins and Still Looking Good.
André Hemer and Grace Wright at West Bund Art & Design
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
10 November —
13 November 2022
The ninth edition of West Bund Art & Design will be held over three days at West Bund Art Center with a line-up of 118 leading galleries and art institutions from 19 countries and 43 cities, presenting artworks ranging from paintings and sculptures to photography, installations, design and digital art.
Vienna-based Aotearoa artist André Hemer presents his 2022 HD video/NFT work Sky Sculpture (Sterkfontein/Vienna/Sicily), and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based Grace Wright presents two new acrylic on linen works, Nature Replay (2022), and Insisting On Imagination (2022).
The ninth edition of West Bund Art & Design will be held over three days at West Bund Art Center with a line-up of 118 leading galleries and art institutions from 19 countries and 43 cities, presenting artworks ranging from paintings and sculptures to photography, installations, design and digital art.
Vienna-based Aotearoa artist André Hemer presents his 2022 HD video/NFT work Sky Sculpture (Sterkfontein/Vienna/Sicily), and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based Grace Wright presents two new acrylic on linen works, Nature Replay (2022), and Insisting On Imagination (2022).
Christopher Ulutupu, Gavin Hipkins, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Cathy Carter, Lara Lindsay-Parker and John Vea in Almost Paradise, co-curated by Hutch Wilco
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
30 October —
12 December 2021
Almost Paradise, Mis/perceptions of Leisure and Labor in the Asia-Pacific takes as its starting point the colonial history of the Asia Pacific, and how the perception of the Pacific as an idyll, and Asia as the world’s factory continue to impact today. The exhibition seeks to upend the tropes and stereotypes associated with the region through the illuminating works of 16 artists from around the Pacific, SEA, and China.
Featuring the work of Aotearoa artists Christopher Ulutupu, Gavin Hipkins, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Cathy Carter, Lara Lindsay-Parker and John Vea, each of the artists in Almost Paradise illuminate the contradictions and pretensions inherent in the narratives that have sought to define our region, and in doing so, they enlarge and diffuse the locational episteme beyond the simple binary.
Almost Paradise, Mis/perceptions of Leisure and Labor in the Asia-Pacific takes as its starting point the colonial history of the Asia Pacific, and how the perception of the Pacific as an idyll, and Asia as the world’s factory continue to impact today. The exhibition seeks to upend the tropes and stereotypes associated with the region through the illuminating works of 16 artists from around the Pacific, SEA, and China.
Featuring the work of Aotearoa artists Christopher Ulutupu, Gavin Hipkins, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Cathy Carter, Lara Lindsay-Parker and John Vea, each of the artists in Almost Paradise illuminate the contradictions and pretensions inherent in the narratives that have sought to define our region, and in doing so, they enlarge and diffuse the locational episteme beyond the simple binary.
Southern Transmissions: Contemporary Video Art From Oceania
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
20 November —
13 December 2020
Southern Transmissions: Contemporary Video Art From Oceania features work by Lucy Aukafolau, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Robert George, Lisa Reihana, Angela Tiatia, Christian Thompson, and Christopher Ulutupu.
Shanghai-based New Zealand curator Hutch Wilco said, “Ironically, it is the tumultuous forces of colonialism and globalisation that have once again enabled the diverse communities of Oceania to reforge connections with Asia. Southern Transmissions provides an opportunity to connect with artists from across Oceania who explore issues that have challenged their region through the format of video, from anxieties about the preservation of customary knowledge, or the legacy of the South Pacific slave trade, to contemporary concerns about rising sea levels enveloping communities, the exhibition serves as an introduction both to Oceanic video practices and the diversity of Oceanic preoccupations.”
Southern Transmissions: Contemporary Video Art From Oceania features work by Lucy Aukafolau, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Robert George, Lisa Reihana, Angela Tiatia, Christian Thompson, and Christopher Ulutupu.
Shanghai-based New Zealand curator Hutch Wilco said, “Ironically, it is the tumultuous forces of colonialism and globalisation that have once again enabled the diverse communities of Oceania to reforge connections with Asia. Southern Transmissions provides an opportunity to connect with artists from across Oceania who explore issues that have challenged their region through the format of video, from anxieties about the preservation of customary knowledge, or the legacy of the South Pacific slave trade, to contemporary concerns about rising sea levels enveloping communities, the exhibition serves as an introduction both to Oceanic video practices and the diversity of Oceanic preoccupations.”