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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Simon Denny, INFORMATION (Today)
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
25 June —
10 October 2021
Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines—all are products of twenty-first-century data-based capitalism. As a result, the proliferation of information, and data’s nebulous modes of circulating and being processed, fundamentally shape our existence now. INFORMATION (Today) is a group show featuring contemporary artists seeking to unravel this phenomenon.
INFORMATION (Today) features a selection of international artists loosely culled from the two generations since 1970, for whom the processing and formalizing of data is among the central tenets of their work. The current exhibition presents a range of artistic positions, including recent work and new commissions in diverse media (from sculpture and painting, to video and performance, and from the undeniably material to the wholly immaterial), thus providing an overview of some of the most promising and challenging practices grappling with data, technology, and information today. The exhibition features two sculptures from Aotearoa artist Simon Denny, Remainder 1 and Remainder 2 (2020).
Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machines—all are products of twenty-first-century data-based capitalism. As a result, the proliferation of information, and data’s nebulous modes of circulating and being processed, fundamentally shape our existence now. INFORMATION (Today) is a group show featuring contemporary artists seeking to unravel this phenomenon.
INFORMATION (Today) features a selection of international artists loosely culled from the two generations since 1970, for whom the processing and formalizing of data is among the central tenets of their work. The current exhibition presents a range of artistic positions, including recent work and new commissions in diverse media (from sculpture and painting, to video and performance, and from the undeniably material to the wholly immaterial), thus providing an overview of some of the most promising and challenging practices grappling with data, technology, and information today. The exhibition features two sculptures from Aotearoa artist Simon Denny, Remainder 1 and Remainder 2 (2020).
Simon Denny, Collective Worldbuilding - Art in the Metaverse
Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland
03 June —
13 August 2023
The group exhibition Collective Worldbuilding - Art in the Metaverse presents a selection of international artists who explore the possibilities of an Internet that promises more self-determination, decentralisation and transparency. The works on display encourage the exploration of more inclusive virtual spaces, a renewed sense of communality and a decentralised organizational structure in the digital realm.
Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini, the exhibition includes an installation by artist Simon Denny that shows the market processes surrounding the hype of NFTs. In this work, questions about the storage of data, diversity and the promise of technological salvation are put up for discussion with a critical attitude.
The group exhibition Collective Worldbuilding - Art in the Metaverse presents a selection of international artists who explore the possibilities of an Internet that promises more self-determination, decentralisation and transparency. The works on display encourage the exploration of more inclusive virtual spaces, a renewed sense of communality and a decentralised organizational structure in the digital realm.
Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini, the exhibition includes an installation by artist Simon Denny that shows the market processes surrounding the hype of NFTs. In this work, questions about the storage of data, diversity and the promise of technological salvation are put up for discussion with a critical attitude.
Ruth Buchanan, Heute nacht geträumt: Pre-history – Future
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
19 March —
14 August 2022
Invited by the Kunstmuseum Basel, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan continues her investigation into the relationships between institutions such as archives, libraries, or museums and their publics. The exhibition Heute Nacht geträumt, which translates as 'Dreamt Tonight', asks how these relationships could be shaped otherwise. Departing from the specific context of the paper factory on the Rhine, which was converted into a museum for contemporary art in the late 1970s, she pursues the narratives inscribed in the architecture.
These manifold components become part of an engine of research that examines the building itself, the surrounding area, its exhibition history, its visitors, and especially the works of art which it has housed since it opened in 1980. The exhibition title stems from the eponymous painting by internationally renowned artist Miriam Cahn. Recently acquired for the collection, heute nacht geträumt (meine werkstatt in N.Y.) (2011) elicits Buchanan’s desire to reconsider the paradigms under which a museum might function.
Invited by the Kunstmuseum Basel, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan continues her investigation into the relationships between institutions such as archives, libraries, or museums and their publics. The exhibition Heute Nacht geträumt, which translates as 'Dreamt Tonight', asks how these relationships could be shaped otherwise. Departing from the specific context of the paper factory on the Rhine, which was converted into a museum for contemporary art in the late 1970s, she pursues the narratives inscribed in the architecture.
These manifold components become part of an engine of research that examines the building itself, the surrounding area, its exhibition history, its visitors, and especially the works of art which it has housed since it opened in 1980. The exhibition title stems from the eponymous painting by internationally renowned artist Miriam Cahn. Recently acquired for the collection, heute nacht geträumt (meine werkstatt in N.Y.) (2011) elicits Buchanan’s desire to reconsider the paradigms under which a museum might function.
Len Lye: Motion Composer
Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
23 October 2019 —
26 January 2020
Simon Denny at Art Basel 2018
Art Basel art fair (Buchholz gallery) and Parcours programme, Basel, Switzerland.
14 June —
17 June 2018
In Simon Denny’s recent works inspired by board games and crypto currency, computer servers are mining bitcoin in real time. Denny's « The Haunted Mansion of Crypto » project runs across two gaming-themed venues in Basel. One is a historical board games collection in the attic of Historisches Museum while the other is a sci-fi and fantasy store selling games and other merchandise. The project is produced as part of Art Basel’s Parcours, a programme curated by Samuel Leurnberger of site-specific interventions, sculptures and performances throughout Basel.
In addition, another work of the same series is presented in the Bucholz gallery booth within the main section of the Art Basel fair.
Yavuz Gallery is presenting new work by André Hemer as part of its group booth presentation.
In Simon Denny’s recent works inspired by board games and crypto currency, computer servers are mining bitcoin in real time. Denny's « The Haunted Mansion of Crypto » project runs across two gaming-themed venues in Basel. One is a historical board games collection in the attic of Historisches Museum while the other is a sci-fi and fantasy store selling games and other merchandise. The project is produced as part of Art Basel’s Parcours, a programme curated by Samuel Leurnberger of site-specific interventions, sculptures and performances throughout Basel.
In addition, another work of the same series is presented in the Bucholz gallery booth within the main section of the Art Basel fair.
Yavuz Gallery is presenting new work by André Hemer as part of its group booth presentation.
André Hemer at Volta14
Yavuz Gallery, Volta Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland.
11 June —
16 June 2018
VOLTA, Basel's art fair for new international positions, debuted in 2005 as a collaboration between dealers and friends. The aim was to secure a platform for international galleries beyond young art stalwart Liste and market heavyweight Art Basel. Concerns and aspirations of the exhibiting gallerists have been first and foremost since VOLTA's inception; in combination with the curatorial mind of Artistic Director Amanda Coulson, eclectic and dynamic presentations with a strong focus on solo presentations find a stage as refined as at the main fair.
Yavuz Gallery is presenting new work by André Hemer as part of its group booth presentation.
VOLTA, Basel's art fair for new international positions, debuted in 2005 as a collaboration between dealers and friends. The aim was to secure a platform for international galleries beyond young art stalwart Liste and market heavyweight Art Basel. Concerns and aspirations of the exhibiting gallerists have been first and foremost since VOLTA's inception; in combination with the curatorial mind of Artistic Director Amanda Coulson, eclectic and dynamic presentations with a strong focus on solo presentations find a stage as refined as at the main fair.
Yavuz Gallery is presenting new work by André Hemer as part of its group booth presentation.
Kate Newby at Liste 2018
The Sunday Painter, Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland.
11 June —
17 June 2018
The London-based gallery The Sunday Painter will feature Kate Newby in a two-artist booth at Liste. Working with a variety of media including installation, textile, ceramics, casting and glass, Kate Newby is a sculptor who is committed to exploring and putting pressure on the limits and nature of sculpture. In doing so she celebrates the minutiae of everyday life as her work provokes a consideration of the overlooked and a renewed awareness of our environments. Where and how the sculpture takes place are as important as the form and material it employs and as such the works frequently exist beyond the gallery space, while physically redefining the architecture of a place. In using a range of half found and half fabricated quotidian fragments, including coins, nails, ring pulls and ceramic pebbles, her installations can take the form of a lo-fi archaeological dig, acting as traces and memories of the passing world.
The London-based gallery The Sunday Painter will feature Kate Newby in a two-artist booth at Liste. Working with a variety of media including installation, textile, ceramics, casting and glass, Kate Newby is a sculptor who is committed to exploring and putting pressure on the limits and nature of sculpture. In doing so she celebrates the minutiae of everyday life as her work provokes a consideration of the overlooked and a renewed awareness of our environments. Where and how the sculpture takes place are as important as the form and material it employs and as such the works frequently exist beyond the gallery space, while physically redefining the architecture of a place. In using a range of half found and half fabricated quotidian fragments, including coins, nails, ring pulls and ceramic pebbles, her installations can take the form of a lo-fi archaeological dig, acting as traces and memories of the passing world.
Ruth Buchanan, Fiona Connor, Oscar Enberg at Liste 2018
Hopkinson Mossman, Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
11 June —
17 June 2018
The Auckland gallery Hopkinson-Mossman will be returning to Basel this year with a booth presentation at Liste Art Fair. The featured artists are:
Ruth Buchanan (1980, New Plymouth, Te Ati Awa / Taranaki) lives and works in Berlin
Fiona Connor (1982, Auckland) lives and works in Los Angeles
Oscar Enberg (1988, Christchurch) lives and works in Berlin
The Auckland gallery Hopkinson-Mossman will be returning to Basel this year with a booth presentation at Liste Art Fair. The featured artists are:
Ruth Buchanan (1980, New Plymouth, Te Ati Awa / Taranaki) lives and works in Berlin
Fiona Connor (1982, Auckland) lives and works in Los Angeles
Oscar Enberg (1988, Christchurch) lives and works in Berlin
Luke Willis Thompson: _Human
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
08 June —
19 August 2018
Questions of race, representation, and the body as a locus of political inquiry recur in the films, performances, and installations of Luke Willis Thompson (* 1988). Making works of sober elegance as he tackles the traumatic legacies of race and class, the New Zealand-born artist presents his first solo exhibition in Switzerland that addresses these urgent themes for our present.
Questions of race, representation, and the body as a locus of political inquiry recur in the films, performances, and installations of Luke Willis Thompson (* 1988). Making works of sober elegance as he tackles the traumatic legacies of race and class, the New Zealand-born artist presents his first solo exhibition in Switzerland that addresses these urgent themes for our present.
Oscar Enberg at Art Basel 2017
represented by Hopkinson Mossman gallery at Statements, Art Basel, Switzerland
15 June —
18 June 2017
Oscar Enberg is the 2016 recipient of the Creative New Zealand 12 months artist residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. He is developing a solo presentation for the Statements section of Art Basel 2017, featuring a film and installation: 'mephistopheles scanning scandals', 2017. Statements presents exciting new solo projects by emerging artists, who are eligible to receive the prestigious Baloise Art Prize.
Oscar Enberg is the 2016 recipient of the Creative New Zealand 12 months artist residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. He is developing a solo presentation for the Statements section of Art Basel 2017, featuring a film and installation: 'mephistopheles scanning scandals', 2017. Statements presents exciting new solo projects by emerging artists, who are eligible to receive the prestigious Baloise Art Prize.
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.