Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Sriwhana Spong, The Poem is a Temple
Studio Spaces, Wapping, London, UK
6.00PM — 7.00PM
16 December 2021
A live performance of The Poem is a Temple by Aotearoa artist Sriwhana Spong at Studio Spaces in London, beginning at 6 pm, 16 December 2021.
The Poem is a Temple re-enacts and vocalises sections from the twelfth-century Javanese poem the Bhomāntaka. This epic mythological tale is described by its unknown author as a caṇḍi — a temple which is built with language.
Working in close collaboration with the Javanese dhalang (puppeteer) and throat singer, Ki Sujarwo Joko Prehatin, Sriwhana Spong performs fragments from the epic, exploring the shifting boundaries of bodies and spaces and how we can understand the Bhomāntaka as a temple of language.
A live performance of The Poem is a Temple by Aotearoa artist Sriwhana Spong at Studio Spaces in London, beginning at 6 pm, 16 December 2021.
The Poem is a Temple re-enacts and vocalises sections from the twelfth-century Javanese poem the Bhomāntaka. This epic mythological tale is described by its unknown author as a caṇḍi — a temple which is built with language.
Working in close collaboration with the Javanese dhalang (puppeteer) and throat singer, Ki Sujarwo Joko Prehatin, Sriwhana Spong performs fragments from the epic, exploring the shifting boundaries of bodies and spaces and how we can understand the Bhomāntaka as a temple of language.
Oscar Enberg, Domestic Drama
HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria
14 December 2021 —
20 February 2022
The ongoing global crisis, triggered by the Corona Pandemic, continues to test everyday life such as living and working to this day. Domestic Drama, a group exhibition conceived for the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, focuses on the interior, i.e. the architecture of the home and the objects that often exist in passing within it, and creates a specific narrative about the home that is currently being put to the test.
The exhibition features Aotearoa artist Oscar Enberg - working mainly sculpturally, his pieces are a compilation of diverse forms and materials that reference film, literature, art and society.
Recent solo exhibitions include the Stadium, Berlin; St. Joseph, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland; The Agamemnon, Frankfurt am Main; and the Sculpture Terrace, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Artspace, Auckland. In 2016 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and in 2017, Enberg was on show at Art Basel Statements and awarded the German ars viva 2018 Prize, which included exhibitions at Kunstverein Munich and S.M.A.K in Ghent, Belgium.
The ongoing global crisis, triggered by the Corona Pandemic, continues to test everyday life such as living and working to this day. Domestic Drama, a group exhibition conceived for the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, focuses on the interior, i.e. the architecture of the home and the objects that often exist in passing within it, and creates a specific narrative about the home that is currently being put to the test.
The exhibition features Aotearoa artist Oscar Enberg - working mainly sculpturally, his pieces are a compilation of diverse forms and materials that reference film, literature, art and society.
Recent solo exhibitions include the Stadium, Berlin; St. Joseph, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland; The Agamemnon, Frankfurt am Main; and the Sculpture Terrace, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Artspace, Auckland. In 2016 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and in 2017, Enberg was on show at Art Basel Statements and awarded the German ars viva 2018 Prize, which included exhibitions at Kunstverein Munich and S.M.A.K in Ghent, Belgium.
Yonel Watene, Needles in the Hay
Prinsengracht 675, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12 December 2021 —
31 January 2022
The Curators Room presents Needles in the Hay, a group show curated by Sasha Bogojev, featuring work from Aotearoa artist Yonel Watene.
With an extensive overview of numerous studio practices and the positioning of people working there, Juxtapoz magazine’s contributing editor eye-picked a selection of international artists whose works deserve their own time in the spotlight. Hailing from all over the world, from New Zealand, over Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, to the USA, and across Europe and the UK, the exhibition is meant to provide a focused digest of exciting practices taking place at (mostly painters’) studios at the present time.
The Curators Room presents Needles in the Hay, a group show curated by Sasha Bogojev, featuring work from Aotearoa artist Yonel Watene.
With an extensive overview of numerous studio practices and the positioning of people working there, Juxtapoz magazine’s contributing editor eye-picked a selection of international artists whose works deserve their own time in the spotlight. Hailing from all over the world, from New Zealand, over Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, to the USA, and across Europe and the UK, the exhibition is meant to provide a focused digest of exciting practices taking place at (mostly painters’) studios at the present time.
Zac Langdon-Pole, Splendide Mendax
Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
11 December 2021 —
22 January 2022
A collaborative exhibition between Daniel Boyd and Zac Langdon-Pole, inspired by Horace's famous oxymoron to tell a noble lie, Splendide Mendax examines complex notions of perspective, history, and the colonial exotifying gaze, and seeks new forms of seeing and understanding.
A collaborative exhibition between Daniel Boyd and Zac Langdon-Pole, inspired by Horace's famous oxymoron to tell a noble lie, Splendide Mendax examines complex notions of perspective, history, and the colonial exotifying gaze, and seeks new forms of seeing and understanding.
Francis Upritchard in I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
09 December 2021 —
19 March 2022
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality, a group exhibition exploring corporeal hospitality and featuring Aotearoa artist Francis Upritchard. Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept with juridical implications, an ethical concern or a social/political practice. This exhibition shifts the focus to consider the stealth work of hospitality on our material and political understanding of bodies.
I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality invites visitors to consider how hospitality has simultaneously circumscribed what we think bodies are, what we imagine they can do, how we feel they relate, whom we believe they can encounter, and ultimately, how they engage with each other and in the world. The exhibition explores these questions in space by weaving together open-ended experiential connections between works in a range of media, from painting, sculpture, textile, installation and performance to lens- and time-based practices.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality, a group exhibition exploring corporeal hospitality and featuring Aotearoa artist Francis Upritchard. Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept with juridical implications, an ethical concern or a social/political practice. This exhibition shifts the focus to consider the stealth work of hospitality on our material and political understanding of bodies.
I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality invites visitors to consider how hospitality has simultaneously circumscribed what we think bodies are, what we imagine they can do, how we feel they relate, whom we believe they can encounter, and ultimately, how they engage with each other and in the world. The exhibition explores these questions in space by weaving together open-ended experiential connections between works in a range of media, from painting, sculpture, textile, installation and performance to lens- and time-based practices.
Edith Amituanai, Brian Fuata, Alex Monteith, Shannon Novak, Christina Pataialii and Shannon Te Ao at the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
04 December 2021 —
25 April 2022
The tenth chapter in the Gallery’s flagship exhibition series will include 69 projects with new and recent work by more than 100 emerging and established artists, collectives and filmmakers from more than 30 countries. For its landmark tenth edition, the Asia Pacific Triennial looks to the future of art and the world we inhabit together. The vast majority of the exhibition will consist of newly commissioned works of art developed through sustained engagement with this culturally diverse region.
Exhibiting artists from Aotearoa New Zealand include Edith Amituanai, Brian Fuata, Alex Monteith (and Kā Paroro o Haumumu: Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions collaborators), Shannon Novak, Christina Pataialii, and Shannon Te Ao.
The tenth chapter in the Gallery’s flagship exhibition series will include 69 projects with new and recent work by more than 100 emerging and established artists, collectives and filmmakers from more than 30 countries. For its landmark tenth edition, the Asia Pacific Triennial looks to the future of art and the world we inhabit together. The vast majority of the exhibition will consist of newly commissioned works of art developed through sustained engagement with this culturally diverse region.
Exhibiting artists from Aotearoa New Zealand include Edith Amituanai, Brian Fuata, Alex Monteith (and Kā Paroro o Haumumu: Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions collaborators), Shannon Novak, Christina Pataialii, and Shannon Te Ao.
Gill Gatfield, Alter Ego
Foyer Gallery - Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany
27 November 2021 —
31 March 2022
On the occasion of her first solo presentation in Berlin, Alter Ego, Aotearoa New Zealand born artist Gill Gatfield conceived a project in two chapters – a large scale crystal-glass sculpture and a public space virtual reality installation – which talk and expand towards the human being.
Renowned for her minimal, conceptual and abstract sculptures, and for her inclusive public monuments, Gatfield’s project relates to the public, the architecture, structures and infrastructures of the city, the area of Berlin Mitte and the L40 building, home of the Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz.
On the occasion of her first solo presentation in Berlin, Alter Ego, Aotearoa New Zealand born artist Gill Gatfield conceived a project in two chapters – a large scale crystal-glass sculpture and a public space virtual reality installation – which talk and expand towards the human being.
Renowned for her minimal, conceptual and abstract sculptures, and for her inclusive public monuments, Gatfield’s project relates to the public, the architecture, structures and infrastructures of the city, the area of Berlin Mitte and the L40 building, home of the Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz.
Ash Kilmartin in The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse
Rib, Rotterdam, Netherlands
24 November 2021 —
31 January 2022
In the first stage of Rib's long term project The Last Terminal, Aotearoa artist Ash Kilmartin has been invited to participate in Survival of the Fittest: the big toe of little big man.
Artist Eléonore Pano-Zavaroni's Afspraak Future invites seven artists, including Kilmartin, to contribute ‘things-of-unstable-status’, in a collaborative work, inviting the audience to leave the realm of spectatorship and come closer.
In the first stage of Rib's long term project The Last Terminal, Aotearoa artist Ash Kilmartin has been invited to participate in Survival of the Fittest: the big toe of little big man.
Artist Eléonore Pano-Zavaroni's Afspraak Future invites seven artists, including Kilmartin, to contribute ‘things-of-unstable-status’, in a collaborative work, inviting the audience to leave the realm of spectatorship and come closer.
Alex Chalmers, Purgatory
1822-Forum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
23 November 2021 —
26 February 2022
The Frankfurter Sparkasse has been running the 1822-Forum as a non-commercial gallery in downtown Frankfurt since 1970. Artists from Frankfurt and the surrounding area who are not yet established have the space and opportunity here to organize their first exhibition and to design an exhibition catalogue. They present their works to the public at a vernissage and the subsequent six-week exhibition period.
Alex Chalmers (b. 1991, Whangārei, Aotearoa New Zealand) currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. At the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, he is currently pursuing a Meisterschule in professor Haegue Yang’s class.
The Frankfurter Sparkasse has been running the 1822-Forum as a non-commercial gallery in downtown Frankfurt since 1970. Artists from Frankfurt and the surrounding area who are not yet established have the space and opportunity here to organize their first exhibition and to design an exhibition catalogue. They present their works to the public at a vernissage and the subsequent six-week exhibition period.
Alex Chalmers (b. 1991, Whangārei, Aotearoa New Zealand) currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. At the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, he is currently pursuing a Meisterschule in professor Haegue Yang’s class.
Richard Lewer, Flow: Stories of River, Earth and Sky in the SAM Collection
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia
20 November 2021 —
20 November 2022
Flow: Stories of River, Earth and Sky in the SAM Collection explores the narratives we weave through the places we inhabit and the myriad ways in which nature shapes our lives and culture. Drawn from the Shepparton Art Museum Collection, the exhibition features the artwork of over 60 artists from the 1800s to now, including New Zealand artist Richard Lewer.
Flow: Stories of River, Earth and Sky in the SAM Collection explores the narratives we weave through the places we inhabit and the myriad ways in which nature shapes our lives and culture. Drawn from the Shepparton Art Museum Collection, the exhibition features the artwork of over 60 artists from the 1800s to now, including New Zealand artist Richard Lewer.
Ash Kilmartin, Total Control
Explore the North Festival, WORM Rotterdam, The Netherlands
19 November —
21 November 2021
Explore the North is a wintry urban festival from Leeuwarden for music, literature, theatre and more. Besides that Explore the North is also an interdisciplinary production house. Its productions share literature, language and multilingualism as a common feature, and this year features Total Control, a performance from Aotearoa artist Ash Kilmartin about collective voicing, improvisation, and feeling ok with uncertainty.
Explore the North is a wintry urban festival from Leeuwarden for music, literature, theatre and more. Besides that Explore the North is also an interdisciplinary production house. Its productions share literature, language and multilingualism as a common feature, and this year features Total Control, a performance from Aotearoa artist Ash Kilmartin about collective voicing, improvisation, and feeling ok with uncertainty.
Len Lye, Individuals, Networks, Expressions
M+, Hong Kong
12 November 2021 —
05 February 2023
The artists and artworks presented in Individuals, Networks, Expressions form a complex web of connections. Together, they create a story of visual art that unfolds across time and intertwines individual and shared experiences. At the centre of this web is Asia, a geographic designation and a broad cultural space that informs a spectrum of identities, histories, and perspectives. The artists featured in this exhibition make use of a vast array of techniques, materials, formats, and methods to reflect on their cultural or social contexts or on larger shifts in the geopolitical world order. Included in the exhibition is Len Lye's work, Free Radicals (1958-79).
The artists and artworks presented in Individuals, Networks, Expressions form a complex web of connections. Together, they create a story of visual art that unfolds across time and intertwines individual and shared experiences. At the centre of this web is Asia, a geographic designation and a broad cultural space that informs a spectrum of identities, histories, and perspectives. The artists featured in this exhibition make use of a vast array of techniques, materials, formats, and methods to reflect on their cultural or social contexts or on larger shifts in the geopolitical world order. Included in the exhibition is Len Lye's work, Free Radicals (1958-79).
Kate Newby, Cold Water
Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
12 November —
23 December 2021
Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting an exhibition of new work by Kate Newby, COLD WATER.
The exhibition comprises works from Kate Newby’s most recent body of sculpture made with ceramic and glass.
This is Kate Newby’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on from 12 November to 23 December 2021.
Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting an exhibition of new work by Kate Newby, COLD WATER.
The exhibition comprises works from Kate Newby’s most recent body of sculpture made with ceramic and glass.
This is Kate Newby’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on from 12 November to 23 December 2021.
Yota Ayaan, Trauma Response
Duplex AIR, Lisbon, Portugal
12 November —
03 December 2021
Aotearoa artist Yota Ayaan features in Trauma Response, a group exhibition at Duplex AIR, Lisbon.
There are many collective, personal and environmental traumata in history and there is a conspiracy of silence around many of them. In these times of human made catastrophes, we need to look at these shadows of human existence, so we can finally learn from them, become aware of dangerous patterns and not repeat history. Now is an especially critical and interesting time in human history and we can set the direction where humanity is going to head. This is a moment in time where culture could experience an evolution. Creating is culture and culture evolves in crisis. We have to see it as an opportunity to begin something anew.
This exhibition tries to shed light on a variety of ways of responding to trauma. It tries to show its contrasting sides: the suffering, but also possibilities of coping and the beauty that can emerge from it. How do we respond to trauma? How can we heal after incising, paralyzing pain and suffering? Like the Jacaranda tree, that blooms twice a year in Portugal - in spring and again in autumn, when it is spring in its origin Brazil - we also can evolve and create something beautiful out of our traumata.
Aotearoa artist Yota Ayaan features in Trauma Response, a group exhibition at Duplex AIR, Lisbon.
There are many collective, personal and environmental traumata in history and there is a conspiracy of silence around many of them. In these times of human made catastrophes, we need to look at these shadows of human existence, so we can finally learn from them, become aware of dangerous patterns and not repeat history. Now is an especially critical and interesting time in human history and we can set the direction where humanity is going to head. This is a moment in time where culture could experience an evolution. Creating is culture and culture evolves in crisis. We have to see it as an opportunity to begin something anew.
This exhibition tries to shed light on a variety of ways of responding to trauma. It tries to show its contrasting sides: the suffering, but also possibilities of coping and the beauty that can emerge from it. How do we respond to trauma? How can we heal after incising, paralyzing pain and suffering? Like the Jacaranda tree, that blooms twice a year in Portugal - in spring and again in autumn, when it is spring in its origin Brazil - we also can evolve and create something beautiful out of our traumata.
Jess Johnson, Collection+
MPRG Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
12 November 2021 —
13 March 2022
An ambitious new series Collection+ will pair newly commissioned work by leading artists represented in the MPRG Collection, alongside select institutional loans.
The first exhibition in this series features new work by trailblazing Aotearoa artist Jess Johnson, with one of the pioneers of the pop art movement, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
Johnson was the winner of MPRG’s National Works on Paper Prize in 2014. Her energetic and diverse drawing practice has established her as one of the most captivating artists working today. Pairing Johnson’s work with Sir Eduardo Paolozzi draws attention to the dizzying structural elements underlying their work; form, pattern, repetition and colour and creates a dialogue between artists of different generations whose work share a unique visual logic.
An ambitious new series Collection+ will pair newly commissioned work by leading artists represented in the MPRG Collection, alongside select institutional loans.
The first exhibition in this series features new work by trailblazing Aotearoa artist Jess Johnson, with one of the pioneers of the pop art movement, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
Johnson was the winner of MPRG’s National Works on Paper Prize in 2014. Her energetic and diverse drawing practice has established her as one of the most captivating artists working today. Pairing Johnson’s work with Sir Eduardo Paolozzi draws attention to the dizzying structural elements underlying their work; form, pattern, repetition and colour and creates a dialogue between artists of different generations whose work share a unique visual logic.
Stella Corkery, Brendan McGorry, Billy Apple, Fiona Connor, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Kāryn Taylor, Kate Newby, Natasha Wright, Robert Jahnke and Ronnie van Hout at Explore Sydney Contemporary
Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
11 November —
21 November 2021
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, presents Explore Sydney Contemporary online From 11–21 November 2021.
With 80 participating galleries from Australia and New Zealand, Explore presents a digital edition of Sydney Contemporary: experience the Fair and buy art anywhere, anytime. Featuring Aotearoa artists Stella Corkery, Brendan McGorry, Billy Apple, Fiona Connor, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Kāryn Taylor, Kate Newby, Natasha Wright, Robert Jahnke and Ronnie van Hout!
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, presents Explore Sydney Contemporary online From 11–21 November 2021.
With 80 participating galleries from Australia and New Zealand, Explore presents a digital edition of Sydney Contemporary: experience the Fair and buy art anywhere, anytime. Featuring Aotearoa artists Stella Corkery, Brendan McGorry, Billy Apple, Fiona Connor, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Kāryn Taylor, Kate Newby, Natasha Wright, Robert Jahnke and Ronnie van Hout!
Anna Korver at the Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium
Riyadh Art, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10 November —
02 December 2021
New Zealand artist Anna Korver is among 20 artists selected for the Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium. This 22-day event is a platform for international and Saudi artists to create public sculptures in a live setting. The work will be on view for 5 days at the end of the Symposium (2nd – 6th December 2021) before moving to various outdoor locations across the city.
The theme for Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium 2021 is The Poetics of Space. Exploring the connections between matter and emptiness, light and shadow, TISS invites participating artists to create mesmerizing sculptures that imply poetry and create their own space while being in harmony with the surrounding public realm of JAX District, Al Diriyah.
New Zealand artist Anna Korver is among 20 artists selected for the Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium. This 22-day event is a platform for international and Saudi artists to create public sculptures in a live setting. The work will be on view for 5 days at the end of the Symposium (2nd – 6th December 2021) before moving to various outdoor locations across the city.
The theme for Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium 2021 is The Poetics of Space. Exploring the connections between matter and emptiness, light and shadow, TISS invites participating artists to create mesmerizing sculptures that imply poetry and create their own space while being in harmony with the surrounding public realm of JAX District, Al Diriyah.
Rodney Bell, Hau Tipua o Aotearoa
Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia
09 November —
13 November 2021
Join Rodney Bell in this digital production celebrating the extraordinary disabled artists of Aotearoa and Te Paapaka-a-Maui. Cloaked with honouring the Tangata Whenua of both countries, this work presents a group of Māori performers who each bring a strong cultural vitality and sensitivity to the screen. Joining from across Aotearoa, these artists have each created their own part of Hau Tipua o Aotearoa, acknowledging their personal Mauri, Mana, and ancestors past and present.
A series of dance works created by globally renowned disabled and non-disabled choreographers prior to the pandemic, also feature. After the initial broadcast, this work will be available to view on demand from 9.30am, 11 November until 11.59pm, 13 November 2021 (AEDT).
Join Rodney Bell in this digital production celebrating the extraordinary disabled artists of Aotearoa and Te Paapaka-a-Maui. Cloaked with honouring the Tangata Whenua of both countries, this work presents a group of Māori performers who each bring a strong cultural vitality and sensitivity to the screen. Joining from across Aotearoa, these artists have each created their own part of Hau Tipua o Aotearoa, acknowledging their personal Mauri, Mana, and ancestors past and present.
A series of dance works created by globally renowned disabled and non-disabled choreographers prior to the pandemic, also feature. After the initial broadcast, this work will be available to view on demand from 9.30am, 11 November until 11.59pm, 13 November 2021 (AEDT).
Jewellery from Aotearoa New Zealand
Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
07 November 2021 —
17 January 2022
Fifteen jewellery artists from Aotearoa feature in the Galerie Marzee's exhibition, Jewellery from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Featuring Fran Allison, Vanessa Arthur, Becky Bliss, Octavia Cook, Mary Curtis, Nina van Duijnhoven, Warwick Freeman, Karl Fritsch, Kelly McDonald, Craig McIntosh, Shelley Norton, Renée Pearson, Moniek Schrijer, Caroline Thomas and Lisa Walker, the exhibition is brought to the Netherlands by MAKERS101 and curated by Marie-José van den Hout in cooperation with The Handshake Project
Fifteen jewellery artists from Aotearoa feature in the Galerie Marzee's exhibition, Jewellery from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Featuring Fran Allison, Vanessa Arthur, Becky Bliss, Octavia Cook, Mary Curtis, Nina van Duijnhoven, Warwick Freeman, Karl Fritsch, Kelly McDonald, Craig McIntosh, Shelley Norton, Renée Pearson, Moniek Schrijer, Caroline Thomas and Lisa Walker, the exhibition is brought to the Netherlands by MAKERS101 and curated by Marie-José van den Hout in cooperation with The Handshake Project
Yona Lee, Jan van Eyck Academie Residency
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands
01 November 2021 —
30 September 2022
Aotearoa artist Yona Lee begins an 11 month residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands, starting from 1 November 2021.
Lee’s large-scale installations invite viewers to enter into and interact with the work in places, and her work allows itself open to being read as structure or system, as serious or funny, as aggressive or playful, as authoritarian or utopian, as utilitarian or pointless, as site-specific or self-contained, as light touch or heavy duty. Having played the cello since childhood, there are parallels between Yona Lee’s approach to the making of sculpture and the sculptural experience of her work with her classical training in music – both in the physical engagement with objects/instrumentation, the specificities and contingencies of audiences and spaces, and relationships between the individual and the collective.
Aotearoa artist Yona Lee begins an 11 month residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands, starting from 1 November 2021.
Lee’s large-scale installations invite viewers to enter into and interact with the work in places, and her work allows itself open to being read as structure or system, as serious or funny, as aggressive or playful, as authoritarian or utopian, as utilitarian or pointless, as site-specific or self-contained, as light touch or heavy duty. Having played the cello since childhood, there are parallels between Yona Lee’s approach to the making of sculpture and the sculptural experience of her work with her classical training in music – both in the physical engagement with objects/instrumentation, the specificities and contingencies of audiences and spaces, and relationships between the individual and the collective.
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.
Christina Pataialii at the New Museum Triennial
The New Museum, New York, U.S.A.
27 October 2021 —
23 January 2022
Soft Water Hard Stone, the fifth New Museum Triennial, brings together works across mediums by forty artists and collectives from around the world, including Aotearoa artist Christina Pataialii.
In this moment of profound change, where structures that were once thought to be stable are revealed to be precarious, broken, or on the verge of collapse, the 2021 Triennial recognizes artists reimagining traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established institutional paradigms. Their works exalt states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures, porous and unstable surfaces, and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic media. The works included in the exhibition look back toward overlooked artistic traditions and technological building blocks, while at the same time look forward toward the immaterial, the transitory, and the creative potential that might give dysfunctional or discarded remains new life.
Soft Water Hard Stone, the fifth New Museum Triennial, brings together works across mediums by forty artists and collectives from around the world, including Aotearoa artist Christina Pataialii.
In this moment of profound change, where structures that were once thought to be stable are revealed to be precarious, broken, or on the verge of collapse, the 2021 Triennial recognizes artists reimagining traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established institutional paradigms. Their works exalt states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures, porous and unstable surfaces, and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic media. The works included in the exhibition look back toward overlooked artistic traditions and technological building blocks, while at the same time look forward toward the immaterial, the transitory, and the creative potential that might give dysfunctional or discarded remains new life.
Virginia Leonard, Golden Legs and Other Bits
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, USA
23 October —
25 November 2021
Virginia Leonard continues to create works that focus on pain and healing. Choosing a creative path to confront personal trauma, Leonard creates a world of beauty from tragedy. “My works are representations of my body. It is an ongoing dialogue I have with the realities of the voiceless- ness of chronic pain and bodily scarring and the daily need to articulate and divine a visual language to process and translate life with scarring and chronic pain. My work holds connotations of revulsion, but it also vital, evolving and honest. I feast upon the process and change, championing the organic reality of my body, its fragility and its involvement in a world of flux. Human physicality isn’t static or closed, the classical ideal is impossible and sterile. More exciting is to understand that I inhabit a ‘body of becoming’."
Virginia Leonard continues to create works that focus on pain and healing. Choosing a creative path to confront personal trauma, Leonard creates a world of beauty from tragedy. “My works are representations of my body. It is an ongoing dialogue I have with the realities of the voiceless- ness of chronic pain and bodily scarring and the daily need to articulate and divine a visual language to process and translate life with scarring and chronic pain. My work holds connotations of revulsion, but it also vital, evolving and honest. I feast upon the process and change, championing the organic reality of my body, its fragility and its involvement in a world of flux. Human physicality isn’t static or closed, the classical ideal is impossible and sterile. More exciting is to understand that I inhabit a ‘body of becoming’."
Philip Trusttum, Marcus Hipa and Ahsin Ahsin in Hop Hip
The Nomadic Art Gallery, Leuven, Belgium
22 October —
27 November 2021
The inaugural exhibition Hop Hip explores the dynamic field of tension between music and visual art, between rhythm and colour. The term hop literally means jump while hip, freely translated, is a term that catapults you to imaginary places where you are enlightened to act or enjoy. By bringing together three artists from different backgrounds working in New Zealand with a Belgian sculptor, The Nomadic Art Gallery aims to visually/conceptually dissect the rhythmic cadence inherent in the artworks.
In the main space, Philip Trusttum (1949), one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists, exhibits four works from the ‘Pictures at the Exhibition’ series (2001-2004) inspired by the same piece for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgorsky. In the white-cube space and basement, Trusttum is showing nine works from the ongoing selfie and mask series started in 2018.
The upstairs space is filled with paintings and drawings by two Pacific artists, Marcus Hipa and Ahsin Ahsin. Cook Island raised, New Zealand born Ahsin Ahsin’s impressions of the digital realm made it to the real world. The three exhibited works, the Lilac series, reveal a nostalgic and at times dreamlike engagement with popular entertainment and technology of previous decades. Visually Ahsin incorporates early internet imagery, late 1990s web graphics, his trademark crocodiles, glitch, 3D rendered objects, unnatural hues, sci-fi and cartoons. The raw drawings of Niue-born Marcus Hipa follow the visual and conceptual beat of Hip Hop. The convoluted and interlocked lines merge into another, creating an image that seems to expand and bubble-up.
The inaugural exhibition Hop Hip explores the dynamic field of tension between music and visual art, between rhythm and colour. The term hop literally means jump while hip, freely translated, is a term that catapults you to imaginary places where you are enlightened to act or enjoy. By bringing together three artists from different backgrounds working in New Zealand with a Belgian sculptor, The Nomadic Art Gallery aims to visually/conceptually dissect the rhythmic cadence inherent in the artworks.
In the main space, Philip Trusttum (1949), one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists, exhibits four works from the ‘Pictures at the Exhibition’ series (2001-2004) inspired by the same piece for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgorsky. In the white-cube space and basement, Trusttum is showing nine works from the ongoing selfie and mask series started in 2018.
The upstairs space is filled with paintings and drawings by two Pacific artists, Marcus Hipa and Ahsin Ahsin. Cook Island raised, New Zealand born Ahsin Ahsin’s impressions of the digital realm made it to the real world. The three exhibited works, the Lilac series, reveal a nostalgic and at times dreamlike engagement with popular entertainment and technology of previous decades. Visually Ahsin incorporates early internet imagery, late 1990s web graphics, his trademark crocodiles, glitch, 3D rendered objects, unnatural hues, sci-fi and cartoons. The raw drawings of Niue-born Marcus Hipa follow the visual and conceptual beat of Hip Hop. The convoluted and interlocked lines merge into another, creating an image that seems to expand and bubble-up.
Louisa Afoa, Edith Amituanai, Darcell Apelu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Raymond Sagapolutele, Kereama Taepa, Pati Solomona Tyrell in Ocean Memories, curated by Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss
Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany
17 October —
14 November 2021
With the exhibition Ocean Memories, the Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover is showing a selection of contemporary photography, poetry, video and 3D prints by artists from Oceania.
Curator Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss developed the concept of the exhibition as a journey together with the artists. A journey into contemporary art. This trip is shaped by the examination of their indigenous history. In this tradition lies the starting point of the exhibition, which tells of the memories of stories, dances, navigation and handicrafts of their ancestors.
Featuring Aotearoa and Pacific artists, Louisa Afoa, Edith Amituanai, Darcell Apelu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Raymond Sagapolutele, Kereama Taepa and Pati Solomona Tyrell, the works in the exhibition depict the tension between traditional and contemporary art and culture, opening up a dialogue of reflection and examination of colonialism and racism as well as gender and diversity.
With the exhibition Ocean Memories, the Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover is showing a selection of contemporary photography, poetry, video and 3D prints by artists from Oceania.
Curator Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss developed the concept of the exhibition as a journey together with the artists. A journey into contemporary art. This trip is shaped by the examination of their indigenous history. In this tradition lies the starting point of the exhibition, which tells of the memories of stories, dances, navigation and handicrafts of their ancestors.
Featuring Aotearoa and Pacific artists, Louisa Afoa, Edith Amituanai, Darcell Apelu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Raymond Sagapolutele, Kereama Taepa and Pati Solomona Tyrell, the works in the exhibition depict the tension between traditional and contemporary art and culture, opening up a dialogue of reflection and examination of colonialism and racism as well as gender and diversity.
Kate Newby, The Flames: The Age of Ceramics
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
15 October 2021 —
06 February 2022
Gathering over 350 pieces dating from the Neolithic to the present day, the exhibition The Flames: The Age of Ceramics is an immersive exploration of the medium, a fresh, fruitful dialogue between objects from different periods and contexts that brings to light influences as well as coincidences.
Presenting ceramics by modern and contemporary artists and ceramicists, among them Aotearoa artist Kate Newby, the exhibition's transhistorical approach focuses on ceramics as inherently related to art and, more broadly, to humankind. Long underestimated among the arts, the medium can be both functional and sculptural, and as such compels us to rethink existing categories and traditional hierarchies. In its mingling of art, craft and design, The Flames explores not only ceramics' relationship to the decorative, the culinary and the performative, but also its scope of application in the fields of medicine, aeronautics and ecology.
Gathering over 350 pieces dating from the Neolithic to the present day, the exhibition The Flames: The Age of Ceramics is an immersive exploration of the medium, a fresh, fruitful dialogue between objects from different periods and contexts that brings to light influences as well as coincidences.
Presenting ceramics by modern and contemporary artists and ceramicists, among them Aotearoa artist Kate Newby, the exhibition's transhistorical approach focuses on ceramics as inherently related to art and, more broadly, to humankind. Long underestimated among the arts, the medium can be both functional and sculptural, and as such compels us to rethink existing categories and traditional hierarchies. In its mingling of art, craft and design, The Flames explores not only ceramics' relationship to the decorative, the culinary and the performative, but also its scope of application in the fields of medicine, aeronautics and ecology.
Vivian Lynn at Frieze London
Frieze Art Week, London, United Kingdom
13 October —
17 October 2021
Southard Reid, London will be showing Aotearoa artist Vivan Lynn at Frieze Art Week, London, 13 - 17 October 2021. From both within and outside of the conventional structures of the art establishment, Lynn sought to construct and record an alternative tradition for art, one that had deep roots but which she re-worked so that its symbols were no longer inimical to women. She interwove a diverse range of media: sculpture, installation, collage, painting, photography, drawing, print and book-making, incorporating references to history, culture, politics, society, technology and chemical, biological and medical processes.
Southard Reid will also be showing other artists Ann Craven, Celia Hempton, Joanna Piotrowska, Neal Jones.
Southard Reid, London will be showing Aotearoa artist Vivan Lynn at Frieze Art Week, London, 13 - 17 October 2021. From both within and outside of the conventional structures of the art establishment, Lynn sought to construct and record an alternative tradition for art, one that had deep roots but which she re-worked so that its symbols were no longer inimical to women. She interwove a diverse range of media: sculpture, installation, collage, painting, photography, drawing, print and book-making, incorporating references to history, culture, politics, society, technology and chemical, biological and medical processes.
Southard Reid will also be showing other artists Ann Craven, Celia Hempton, Joanna Piotrowska, Neal Jones.
Cat Auburn, Carpet Territory
36 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
09 October —
17 October 2021
Carpet Territory is an exhibition by Aotearoa artist Cat Auburn, with Alan Lynn and Jessica Ramm. ALR are an artist-researcher group with deep interests in ‘the ability to know’ and structures that undermine that ability. They create work at the intersection of their research interests and practices: the slippery process of remembering, borrowing, erasing, forgetting and re-discovering.
Carpet Territory is the culmination of a year-long digital collaboration in which ALR explore the fear of physical and ethical contagion. This fear flows from an awareness of the struggles associated with late capitalism and contradictions we face whilst trapped in systems that command our complicity. ALR use an Oriental rug as a provocation to work through theoretical and ethical concerns surrounding contradictions present in objects, narratives, embodiment, and identity. In particular, they address the performative metaphor of ‘trying to get off the carpet upon which we stand’ (an impossibility), and ‘pulling the rug out from underneath someone’ (a betrayal). Working within the wider context of the pandemic necessitated a shift into a technological space in which ALR’s bodies were constrained. The result is a series of art objects and a video in which three autotheoretical protagonists adopt distinct personas roughly characterised as ‘Compromised, ‘Contaminated’ and ‘Thwarted’ as they grapple with their awareness of an unspecified malignant presence.
Carpet Territory is an exhibition by Aotearoa artist Cat Auburn, with Alan Lynn and Jessica Ramm. ALR are an artist-researcher group with deep interests in ‘the ability to know’ and structures that undermine that ability. They create work at the intersection of their research interests and practices: the slippery process of remembering, borrowing, erasing, forgetting and re-discovering.
Carpet Territory is the culmination of a year-long digital collaboration in which ALR explore the fear of physical and ethical contagion. This fear flows from an awareness of the struggles associated with late capitalism and contradictions we face whilst trapped in systems that command our complicity. ALR use an Oriental rug as a provocation to work through theoretical and ethical concerns surrounding contradictions present in objects, narratives, embodiment, and identity. In particular, they address the performative metaphor of ‘trying to get off the carpet upon which we stand’ (an impossibility), and ‘pulling the rug out from underneath someone’ (a betrayal). Working within the wider context of the pandemic necessitated a shift into a technological space in which ALR’s bodies were constrained. The result is a series of art objects and a video in which three autotheoretical protagonists adopt distinct personas roughly characterised as ‘Compromised, ‘Contaminated’ and ‘Thwarted’ as they grapple with their awareness of an unspecified malignant presence.
Dan Arps, The New Brutal
Disneyland Paris, Melbourne, Australia
09 October —
23 October 2021
Aotearoa artist Dan Arps' solo exhibition at Disneyland Paris, a project space in Melbourne, Australia. Dan Arps’ installations, sculptures, and paintings fuse architecture, public space, and nomadic structures to expand and reflect upon modernist traditions of abstraction, alienation, and the everyday. His work explores and responds to the contemporary urban environment and its related subjectivities.
Aotearoa artist Dan Arps' solo exhibition at Disneyland Paris, a project space in Melbourne, Australia. Dan Arps’ installations, sculptures, and paintings fuse architecture, public space, and nomadic structures to expand and reflect upon modernist traditions of abstraction, alienation, and the everyday. His work explores and responds to the contemporary urban environment and its related subjectivities.
Salome Tanuvasa, Golden Daughters of the Sun
Kunstraum London, UK
08 October —
31 October 2021
Curated by Southern Stars founder and director Gabriela Salgado, the group show, featuring Aotearoa artist Salome Tanuvasa, includes drawing, painting, performance & textile art and focuses on women empowerment and their bond to nature as an act of resilience and spiritual balance.
Curated by Southern Stars founder and director Gabriela Salgado, the group show, featuring Aotearoa artist Salome Tanuvasa, includes drawing, painting, performance & textile art and focuses on women empowerment and their bond to nature as an act of resilience and spiritual balance.