Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
New publication, edited by André Hemer
Naives and Visionaries, Berlin, Germany.
08 December —
09 December 2016
Published by Naives and Visionaries, Painting Regarding the Present is a collection of paintings that can best be described as an esoteric yearbook of painting practice. It includes twenty-seven painters, each represented by a single painting made during 2016, including New Zealand artists Judy Millar, Martin Basher and André Hemer who also contributed a piece of writing that playfully reflects on painting as a representation of its time of making.
Published by Naives and Visionaries, Painting Regarding the Present is a collection of paintings that can best be described as an esoteric yearbook of painting practice. It includes twenty-seven painters, each represented by a single painting made during 2016, including New Zealand artists Judy Millar, Martin Basher and André Hemer who also contributed a piece of writing that playfully reflects on painting as a representation of its time of making.
Mladen Bizumic: Kodak Employed 140,000 People. Instagram 13.
M O S T Y N, Cymru, Wales, UK.
22 October 2016 —
05 February 2017
Through photography and sculpture Bizumic's work traces a timeline of Kodak's development, from its founding in 1880 to its subsequent demise in 2012 when the company filed for bankruptcy. The history of photography and of technology's progression and obsolescence, alongside a chronological parallel of corporate hubris, is captured in this new series. These issues act as a lens through which to consider much larger concepts – how the capturing of images, and the technology that enables this, influences not only aesthetic, social and economic relations, but also the resulting effects when they are replaced and taken out of the picture.
Through photography and sculpture Bizumic's work traces a timeline of Kodak's development, from its founding in 1880 to its subsequent demise in 2012 when the company filed for bankruptcy. The history of photography and of technology's progression and obsolescence, alongside a chronological parallel of corporate hubris, is captured in this new series. These issues act as a lens through which to consider much larger concepts – how the capturing of images, and the technology that enables this, influences not only aesthetic, social and economic relations, but also the resulting effects when they are replaced and taken out of the picture.
Darcy Lange: Enduring Time
Tate Modern, London, UK
20 October —
22 October 2016
Supported by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, this Tate Film Pioneers series was the most extensive presentation of New Zealand artist Darcy Lange’s films and videos in the UK to date, exploring the breadth of his socially-engaged practice. Trained as a sculptor at Royal College of Art, Lange subsequently began working with video, creating remarkable studies of people at work that draw from conceptual art, documentary traditions and structuralist videomaking. He recorded people at work in English factories, mines and schools and in agricultural communities in New Zealand and Spain.
Supported by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, this Tate Film Pioneers series was the most extensive presentation of New Zealand artist Darcy Lange’s films and videos in the UK to date, exploring the breadth of his socially-engaged practice. Trained as a sculptor at Royal College of Art, Lange subsequently began working with video, creating remarkable studies of people at work that draw from conceptual art, documentary traditions and structuralist videomaking. He recorded people at work in English factories, mines and schools and in agricultural communities in New Zealand and Spain.
Fiona Connor at Paris Internationale 2016
1301PE gallery at Paris Internationale, France
19 October —
23 October 2016
Fiona Connor was the singular New Zealand representation we could spot at Paris Internationale, the hip alternative and running parallel to FIAC. The work Gilded Newspaper (July 11, 2016) was exhibited by her dealer gallery 1301PE, based in her hometown of Los Angeles.
Fiona Connor was the singular New Zealand representation we could spot at Paris Internationale, the hip alternative and running parallel to FIAC. The work Gilded Newspaper (July 11, 2016) was exhibited by her dealer gallery 1301PE, based in her hometown of Los Angeles.
FIAC 2016
Grand Palais, Paris, France
18 October —
23 October 2016
FIAC is one of the world's most important contemporary art fairs. It is directed by Jennifer Flay who left New Zealand in 1980 and has worked in the French art gallery sector since. We spotted a work by Simon Denny who was represented by his hometown dealer gallery Buchholz, Berlin. We hope to see New Zealand galleries there in the future!
FIAC is one of the world's most important contemporary art fairs. It is directed by Jennifer Flay who left New Zealand in 1980 and has worked in the French art gallery sector since. We spotted a work by Simon Denny who was represented by his hometown dealer gallery Buchholz, Berlin. We hope to see New Zealand galleries there in the future!
Francis Upritchard at Frieze 2016
Kate MacGarry Gallery at Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K.
06 October —
09 October 2016
Francis Upritchard created a mini “encyclopedic museum” at the booth of Kate MacGarry, dressed with dubious specimens drawn from natural history, tribal, and ancient art. Here the authority bestowed by museumlike display legitimized Upritchard’s ersatz anthropo-archeological specimens, while the colorful booth created an appealing foil for her bright modelling paste sculptures (Artnews.)
Francis Upritchard created a mini “encyclopedic museum” at the booth of Kate MacGarry, dressed with dubious specimens drawn from natural history, tribal, and ancient art. Here the authority bestowed by museumlike display legitimized Upritchard’s ersatz anthropo-archeological specimens, while the colorful booth created an appealing foil for her bright modelling paste sculptures (Artnews.)
Sriwhana Spong in residency
Gasworks, London, U.K.
03 October —
19 November 2016
Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, Sriwhana Spong explores the fertile margins where things meet, playing in the crevices of culturally inscribed boundaries. During her residency at Gasworks, Spong will explore the multiple and possible identities that emerge in The Book of Margery Kempe. Dictated by the English mystic of the title, it is considered the first autobiographical work in the English language.
Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, Sriwhana Spong explores the fertile margins where things meet, playing in the crevices of culturally inscribed boundaries. During her residency at Gasworks, Spong will explore the multiple and possible identities that emerge in The Book of Margery Kempe. Dictated by the English mystic of the title, it is considered the first autobiographical work in the English language.
Hannah O'Neill performs at Nuit Blanche
Ile aux cygnes, Paris, France
6.30PM — 10.00PM
01 October 2016
Ballet dancer for the prestigious Opéra de Paris, O'Neill performed in a collaborative show as part of the French capital's annual one-night festival, Nuit Blanche. The performance Pas de Choeur, brought a group of brave ballet dancers to the tip of Île aux cygnes, an island on the river Seine, for an endless circuit of choreographic interpretations with their hands and bodies.
Ballet dancer for the prestigious Opéra de Paris, O'Neill performed in a collaborative show as part of the French capital's annual one-night festival, Nuit Blanche. The performance Pas de Choeur, brought a group of brave ballet dancers to the tip of Île aux cygnes, an island on the river Seine, for an endless circuit of choreographic interpretations with their hands and bodies.
James R Ford : At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike you in the face
KELDER, London, UK
30 September —
23 October 2016
As part of Art Licks Weekend, KELDER has commissioned James R Ford to create a window installation. A series of text-based works offer a glimpse into the personal reality of the artist; thoughts, ideas and questions jotted down as visual reminders to not be forgotten. Bringing into mind screaming sale-banners of retail window displays, Ford’s giant musings are in line with his fascination with perception and the absurd.
As part of Art Licks Weekend, KELDER has commissioned James R Ford to create a window installation. A series of text-based works offer a glimpse into the personal reality of the artist; thoughts, ideas and questions jotted down as visual reminders to not be forgotten. Bringing into mind screaming sale-banners of retail window displays, Ford’s giant musings are in line with his fascination with perception and the absurd.
Anne Noble & Hayden Chisholm: Song, Sting, Sworm
Abbaye de Noirlac, Centre culturel de rencontre, Bruere-Allichamps, France
6.30PM — 8.00PM
17 September 2016
In conjunction with her exhibition Abeille at the French Abbaye de Noirlac, photographer Anne Noble collaborated with New Zealand saxophonist and composer Hayden Chisholm to produce an immersive performance. Song, Sting, Swarm consisted of a large-scale visual score by Noble projected on the majestic architecture of the abbatial church and music by Chisholm, combined with recordings made of bees kept at the abbey and interactive lighting design.
Click on the image to see the video.
In conjunction with her exhibition Abeille at the French Abbaye de Noirlac, photographer Anne Noble collaborated with New Zealand saxophonist and composer Hayden Chisholm to produce an immersive performance. Song, Sting, Swarm consisted of a large-scale visual score by Noble projected on the majestic architecture of the abbatial church and music by Chisholm, combined with recordings made of bees kept at the abbey and interactive lighting design.
Click on the image to see the video.
Anywhere But Here: co-curated by Vera Mey
Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, France
14 September —
05 November 2016
The exhibition brings together artworks that seek out some circulations of objects, figures or gestures in relation to Cambodia, and more broadly within the geopolitical context of Southeast Asia. Vera Mey is a New Zealand curator currently based in London.
The exhibition brings together artworks that seek out some circulations of objects, figures or gestures in relation to Cambodia, and more broadly within the geopolitical context of Southeast Asia. Vera Mey is a New Zealand curator currently based in London.
George Nuku: Ducal Salon
MUDEC, Milan, Italy
01 September —
13 October 2016
The artist George Nuku, who is based in France, undertook a month-long residency at MUDEC resulting in the exhibition 'Ducal Salon': a room furnished with Kartell furniture sculpted by the artist using traditional Maori carving techniques. 'Ducal Salon' is the room of an imaginary noble Milanese palace, adorned with twenty-six pieces of carved furniture that were auctioned off at the end of the exhibition.
The artist George Nuku, who is based in France, undertook a month-long residency at MUDEC resulting in the exhibition 'Ducal Salon': a room furnished with Kartell furniture sculpted by the artist using traditional Maori carving techniques. 'Ducal Salon' is the room of an imaginary noble Milanese palace, adorned with twenty-six pieces of carved furniture that were auctioned off at the end of the exhibition.
lightreading in artist residence and publication 'Ultra Vires'
lothringer13_florida, München, Germany
01 August —
30 September 2016
Ultra Vires is a series of architectural propositions toward a fictional nightclub complex. Each room in the club was designed by an individual architect and the building coalesces in the pages of the publication.
lightreading is the collaborative identity of New Zealand artists Sarah Rose and Sonya Lacey.
Ultra Vires is a series of architectural propositions toward a fictional nightclub complex. Each room in the club was designed by an individual architect and the building coalesces in the pages of the publication.
lightreading is the collaborative identity of New Zealand artists Sarah Rose and Sonya Lacey.
Fiona Connor at Liste Art Fair 2016
Hopkinson Mossman at Liste, Basel, Switzerland
14 June —
19 June 2016
Fiona Connor was represented by her Auckland gallery at Liste Art Fair, which runs parallel to Art Basel. In 'Community Notice Boards', Connor looks to the processes and physical forms of socially driven content generation, management and circulation. Her sculptures are quoted from existing bulletin boards found in various geographical locations. Read a review here.
Fiona Connor was represented by her Auckland gallery at Liste Art Fair, which runs parallel to Art Basel. In 'Community Notice Boards', Connor looks to the processes and physical forms of socially driven content generation, management and circulation. Her sculptures are quoted from existing bulletin boards found in various geographical locations. Read a review here.
Michael Stevenson at Art Basel 2016
Carl Freedman Gallery at Art Basel, Switzerland
13 June —
17 June 2016
We spotted Transparency Masters at Art Basel this year, a sizeable work by New Zealand artist Michael Stevenson, who was represented by Carl Freedman Gallery.
Stacked aircraft wheel-chocks and a plexiglass vitrine, inverted and open to the wider air space above - the work is a tableau of objects dedicated to the 1994 spirit revival at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
We spotted Transparency Masters at Art Basel this year, a sizeable work by New Zealand artist Michael Stevenson, who was represented by Carl Freedman Gallery.
Stacked aircraft wheel-chocks and a plexiglass vitrine, inverted and open to the wider air space above - the work is a tableau of objects dedicated to the 1994 spirit revival at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Michael Stevenson: Signs & Wonders
Carl Freedman Gallery, London, U.K.
06 June —
07 July 2016
Signs & Wonders connects aviation, modern Pentecostal movements, education, and simulation software, inciting the viewer to consider the global distribution of technology and belief. Our personal experience of this exhibition, as with much of Stevenson’s work involves the discovery of numerous unravelling threads between art and anthropology, documentary object and memento, purely private mythology and collective reception.
Signs & Wonders connects aviation, modern Pentecostal movements, education, and simulation software, inciting the viewer to consider the global distribution of technology and belief. Our personal experience of this exhibition, as with much of Stevenson’s work involves the discovery of numerous unravelling threads between art and anthropology, documentary object and memento, purely private mythology and collective reception.
Anne Noble: Abeille
Abbaye de Noirlac, Centre culturel de rencontre, Bruère-Allichamps, France
04 June —
06 November 2016
After a residency in a former Cistercian monastery in France, photographer Anne Noble presented an extensive site-specific exhibition. It involved a colony of bees, a cabinet of curiosities, recordings of bee sounds, a suite of large prints of the wings of dead bees and a beekeeper’s suit inspired by a Bruegel drawing.
Read Contemporary HUM's essay Anne Noble: Singing with the Bees written by Pauline Autet in response to this event.
After a residency in a former Cistercian monastery in France, photographer Anne Noble presented an extensive site-specific exhibition. It involved a colony of bees, a cabinet of curiosities, recordings of bee sounds, a suite of large prints of the wings of dead bees and a beekeeper’s suit inspired by a Bruegel drawing.
Read Contemporary HUM's essay Anne Noble: Singing with the Bees written by Pauline Autet in response to this event.
Replika - launch
Berlin, Germany
01 June —
30 June 2016
REPLIKA is a three dimensional magazine bringing together artists from all spheres to explore a unified concept. With each issue, artists, writers, musicians and creators of all descriptions are invited to explore a given theme, and to respond with an object-based, serialised work. Co-developed by New Zealand artist Freya Copeland, Replika was launched in July 2016 with its first issue Echo, and included fellow New Zealand artist Anna Hanlon.
REPLIKA is a three dimensional magazine bringing together artists from all spheres to explore a unified concept. With each issue, artists, writers, musicians and creators of all descriptions are invited to explore a given theme, and to respond with an object-based, serialised work. Co-developed by New Zealand artist Freya Copeland, Replika was launched in July 2016 with its first issue Echo, and included fellow New Zealand artist Anna Hanlon.
'Politics of Sharing – On Collective Wisdom'
31 May —
02 October 2016
ifa-Galerie, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany
31.05.2016 — 10.07.2016 | 22.07.2016 — 02.10.2016
'We breathe the same air.' This is the fundamental idea underlying the 'hongi', the Māori greeting. What does sharing mean for us, and under which conditions does it take place? Which value systems are necessary to preserve good living conditions on our planet?
Co-curated by Artspace, Auckland and ifa-Galerie, the exhibition includes international and New Zealand artists, including Natalie Robertson, Kalisolaite ’Uhila, Peter Robinson and Lonnie Hutchinson.
ifa-Galerie, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany
31.05.2016 — 10.07.2016 | 22.07.2016 — 02.10.2016
'We breathe the same air.' This is the fundamental idea underlying the 'hongi', the Māori greeting. What does sharing mean for us, and under which conditions does it take place? Which value systems are necessary to preserve good living conditions on our planet?
Co-curated by Artspace, Auckland and ifa-Galerie, the exhibition includes international and New Zealand artists, including Natalie Robertson, Kalisolaite ’Uhila, Peter Robinson and Lonnie Hutchinson.
Future Islands: New Zealand Architecture Pavilion
Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy
28 May —
27 November 2016
New Zealand’s second national exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents New Zealand architecture as a grouping of metaphorical islands, an imagined archipelago encompassing a variety of approaches and responses to the fluid and uncertain conditions of contemporary practice. The exhibition explores some of the opportunities available to architects working in one of the world’s smallest, most open, informal and diverse societies.
Read Contemporary HUM's essay Reporting from the Front Desk: New Zealand at the Venice Architecture Biennale written by Chris Winwood in response to this event.
New Zealand’s second national exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents New Zealand architecture as a grouping of metaphorical islands, an imagined archipelago encompassing a variety of approaches and responses to the fluid and uncertain conditions of contemporary practice. The exhibition explores some of the opportunities available to architects working in one of the world’s smallest, most open, informal and diverse societies.
Read Contemporary HUM's essay Reporting from the Front Desk: New Zealand at the Venice Architecture Biennale written by Chris Winwood in response to this event.
Alicia Frankovich and Tahi Moore in 'Les Limbes'
La Galerie, Contemporary art center, Noisy-le-Sec, France
21 May —
16 July 2016
'Limbes' in French suggest borders, fringes, both in a geographical and psychological sense; an in-between state, perhaps a realm – both real and imaginary – where reflection is possible and difference treasured. Curated by Caterina Riva—previously Director of Artspace, Auckland from 2011 to 2014—the group exhibition 'Les Limbes' includes New Zealand artists Alicia Frankovich and Tahi Moore.
Read Contemporary HUM's published text Passing Torches, a conversation between Caterina Riva and Barbara Sirieix in response to this event.
'Limbes' in French suggest borders, fringes, both in a geographical and psychological sense; an in-between state, perhaps a realm – both real and imaginary – where reflection is possible and difference treasured. Curated by Caterina Riva—previously Director of Artspace, Auckland from 2011 to 2014—the group exhibition 'Les Limbes' includes New Zealand artists Alicia Frankovich and Tahi Moore.
Read Contemporary HUM's published text Passing Torches, a conversation between Caterina Riva and Barbara Sirieix in response to this event.
Simon Denn : Business Insider
WIELS, Bruxelles, Belgium
20 May —
14 August 2016
For his first solo presentation in Belgium, Simon Denny combines elements from Secret Power – his project for the New Zealand Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennial – with work made over the past year. It explores the culture (and cult) of secrecy that increasingly surrounds both private companies and public institutions.
For his first solo presentation in Belgium, Simon Denny combines elements from Secret Power – his project for the New Zealand Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennial – with work made over the past year. It explores the culture (and cult) of secrecy that increasingly surrounds both private companies and public institutions.
Trigger Points
Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A.
18 May —
20 June 2016
Co-curated by Heather Galbraith, Trigger Points brings together contemporary and historical art work from New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Finland and the United Kingdom to explore the potent and slippery nature of memory through the visual arts. The exhibition is conceived in relation to Memory Works, a collaborative symposium between Massey University’s College of Creative Arts and Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition explores triggers of smell, touch, submersion, psychoanalysis, incantation, the act of drawing, and acts of repetition. New Zealand artists participating in the show are Stuart Foster + Kura Puke, Karl Fritsch + Gavin Hipkins, Dane Mitchell, Sally J. Morgan, Morgan + Richards, Anne Noble and Shannon Te Ao.
Co-curated by Heather Galbraith, Trigger Points brings together contemporary and historical art work from New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Finland and the United Kingdom to explore the potent and slippery nature of memory through the visual arts. The exhibition is conceived in relation to Memory Works, a collaborative symposium between Massey University’s College of Creative Arts and Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition explores triggers of smell, touch, submersion, psychoanalysis, incantation, the act of drawing, and acts of repetition. New Zealand artists participating in the show are Stuart Foster + Kura Puke, Karl Fritsch + Gavin Hipkins, Dane Mitchell, Sally J. Morgan, Morgan + Richards, Anne Noble and Shannon Te Ao.
Lisa Chandler in residency
Leipzig International Artist Programme, Germany
01 March —
30 June 2016
After photographing the urban environment around the suburb of Plagwitz, near the Spinnerei, and studying the images, Chandler began to notice patterns emerging. Negative spaces between buildings, roof trusses and broken windows became the compositional focus of a new body of work called Between Yesterday and Tomorrow.
LIAP is located in the Spinnerei, which is a huge art hub based in an old cotton mill with around 100 artist studios and 15 galleries/art spaces. The cotton mill was the largest in Europe and at its peak employed up to 40,000 people.
After photographing the urban environment around the suburb of Plagwitz, near the Spinnerei, and studying the images, Chandler began to notice patterns emerging. Negative spaces between buildings, roof trusses and broken windows became the compositional focus of a new body of work called Between Yesterday and Tomorrow.
LIAP is located in the Spinnerei, which is a huge art hub based in an old cotton mill with around 100 artist studios and 15 galleries/art spaces. The cotton mill was the largest in Europe and at its peak employed up to 40,000 people.
Francis Upritchard at Art Concept
Art Concept, Paris, France
09 January —
06 February 2016
The question of identity and cultural representations is at the heart of the respective approaches of the three expatriate artists in this exhibition, including London-based Francis Upritchard. The space seems transformed into a strange ethnographic museum where small-scale models and replicas trace the evolution of different civilizations in human history. Cultures from other places and other times are summoned in this collective exhibition. By bringing their personal mythologies with them, the three artists all contribute to highlight the mechanisms of the development of our representations of otherness and foreignness.
The question of identity and cultural representations is at the heart of the respective approaches of the three expatriate artists in this exhibition, including London-based Francis Upritchard. The space seems transformed into a strange ethnographic museum where small-scale models and replicas trace the evolution of different civilizations in human history. Cultures from other places and other times are summoned in this collective exhibition. By bringing their personal mythologies with them, the three artists all contribute to highlight the mechanisms of the development of our representations of otherness and foreignness.