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Crossing Currents: Episode 4
By Contemporary HUM
13.07.2024
Architect, artist and mother Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta speaks to Contemporary HUM about her presentation The Body of Wainuiātea, which is featured alongside work by Latai Taumoepeau in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania, an exhibition curated by Taloi Havini at TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice. She discusses the influence of the Māori pūrākau (mythological tradition) of the atua (deity) Wainuiātea, the need to re-establish a sacred relationship to the ocean and the conversations that guided the creation of the work, including with Havini and Taumoepeau.
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Fiona Connor and Francis Upritchard, Sculpture Exhibition
13 June —
03 August 2024
Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 3
By Contemporary HUM
06.07.2024
Contemporary HUM interviews artist Caitlin Devoy about BODYOBJECTS, her presentation in the 2024 edition of Personal Structures in Venice. Speaking to HUM in April 2024, Devoy discusses using humour as a feminist strategy to challenge the power relations encoded in gallery spaces, resulting in works that refuse disembodied objectivity in favour of tactility, subjectivity and intuition.
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 2
By Contemporary HUM
29.06.2024
Contemporary HUM interviews Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) about Wastelands (2024), his work in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Graham discusses Wastelands as a commentary on extractive attitudes to land, the logistics of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and what it’s like to be included alongside an intergenerational selection of Māori artists, including his father, Fred Graham.
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 1
By Contemporary HUM
22.06.2024
Aotearoa New Zealand artist Areez Katki speaks to HUM about The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House, his presentation in the 7th edition of Personal Structures. Katki discusses the processes and politics of exhibiting in Personal Structures and the two series he produced for the exhibition, which take migrant and queer positionalities as points from which to restore notions of pedagogy and learning from patriarchal, religious dictates to an affectual, instinctual realm of care.
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Ruth Buchanan for Artspace Aotearoa: 292 Karangahape Road
09 March 2024 —
01 January 2029
GfZK, Leipzig, Germany
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Richard Frater, The Park as Lover
10 June —
15 September 2024
Lantz’scher Park, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Moniek Schrijer, GLOWWORM
08 June —
27 July 2024
Galerie Door, Veghel, Netherlands
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Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice
Podcast series
Despite there being no national pavilion for Aotearoa New Zealand this year, the 60th Venice Biennale is an historic edition for Aotearoa artists. Not only are there an unprecedented number of artists from Aotearoa featured in Venice – both within the International Exhibition of the Biennale and in concurrent events taking place across the city – but it also features the most Māori artists to be included.
In Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice, Contemporary HUM speaks with the artists featured in the 60th Venice Biennale and parallel events Personal Structures and Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania as they reflect on presenting in Venice during an historic year for Aotearoa art, Ngā toi Māori and Indigenous art globally.
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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Collective
21 June —
17 August 2024
MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
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Sorawit Songsataya, Orbiting body
13 June —
08 September 2024
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
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Yuki Kihara, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao
29 June —
07 October 2024
National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri Canberra, Australia
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Richard Frater, L'Effet de serre
29 June —
18 August 2024
Abbatiale Bellelay, Saicourt, Switzerland
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Lisa Reihana, GLISTEN
14 June 2024 —
30 March 2025
National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Writing
HUM live from the 2024 Venice Biennale
16.04.2024
From 16–21 April 2024, Contemporary HUM will publish live coverage, exclusive images and videos from the opening week of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Click through for coverage of the Aotearoa New Zealand artists presenting work in the curated section of the Biennale, as well as in other events held off-site.
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Alicia Frankovich, I wanna be your anti-mirror
23 May —
18 August 2024
La Trobe Art Insitutue, Bendigo, Australia
Writing
Living Things
16.03.2024
In this short piece, originally put together as a HUMcard mailout for Contemporary HUM's Publishers Circle, Aotearoa-based artist Yukari Kaihori reflects on her two-week residency at Ma Umi Residencies on Ishigaki Island, Japan. The impacts of climate change and marine debris on the subtropical island offer the context for a meditation on the ecological entanglements between objects, animals, and places.
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David Rickard, Intension (the concept ‘dog’ encapsulates its ‘dogness’)
01 June —
27 July 2024
Copperfield, London, UK
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Sarah Rose, Versam residency and exhibition
01 June —
31 July 2024
Kunst Garage Versam, Graubünden, Switzerland
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Kate Newby, anything, anything
09 June 2024 —
27 April 2025
Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany
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Andy Leleisi’uao, Archipelago Area 51
28 May —
27 July 2024
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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Yona Lee: An Arrangement for a Room in Seoul
24 May —
04 August 2024
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
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Jemma Woolmore, NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract
25 May —
29 September 2024
iMAL, Brussels, Belgium
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Yona Lee, The same crowd never gathers twice
10 May —
13 October 2024
Buxton Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
Writing
We Work Well Together
By Julia Craig
11.02.2024
Presented at Phillida Reid, Claudia Kogachi’s Labour of Love and Nova Paul’s Hawaiki offer frames through which to view the role of collaborative practice in building worlds of love, care, and self-determination.
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Areez Katki, The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Caitlin Devoy, BODYOBJECTS in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Mizuho Nishioka, Movement_17; Tasman Sea in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
Writing
“To see us on our best day.”
By Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak
15.12.2023
Offering a glimpse at the wide range of emotions and encounters that Aotearoa-based artist Maungarongo Te Kawa and Northern Sámi activist Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak share in their multifaceted experiences at different edges of the globe, this conversation takes Te Kawa’s recent residency and touring exhibition in Norway and Sámi territories as a departure point.