Lisa Reihana (Ngā Puhi, Ngai Tu, Ngāti Hine), 'A Maori dragon story' (still), 1995. DVD: 15 minutes, colour, sound, ed. 1/20. Purchased 2002, Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. © Lisa Reihana

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Yuki Kihara and Lisa Reihana, sis Pacific Art 1980-2023

26 August —
08 September 2023

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

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Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising

10 October —
12 October 2023

Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia

Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall. Photo: Courtesy of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation.

Writing

soft and weak like water

By Amy Weng

13.06.2023

Reporting from a visit to South Korea, curator Amy Weng writes about how works by Yuki Kihara and Mataaho Collective connect the ambitious themes and ideas of the 14th Gwangju Biennale to specific histories from their homes in Aotearoa New Zealand and Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.

Front cover, pen and black ink. Detail from the manuscript Avant et après by Paul Gauguin. © The Courtauld.

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Yuki Kihara, 'Avant et après: Gauguin’s final words' conference

23 June —
24 June 2023

online

George Nuku, 'Bottled Ocean 2123', installation view. Image © Andy Catlin. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland

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Angela Tiatia, George Nuku, Louisa Humphrey and Yuki Kihara, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania

12 August 2023 —
14 April 2024

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

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Yuki Kihara, Powerhouse Late x Vivid Ideas: Paradise Fair

15 June 2023

Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia

Mataaho Collective, 'Tuakirikiri', 2023. Courtesy of the artists.

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Yuki Kihara, Mataaho Collective at 14th Gwangju Biennale: soft and weak like water

07 April —
09 July 2023

Gwangju, South Korea

Three Fa‘afafine (After Gauguin), 2020 by Yuki Kihara from Paradise Camp series. Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp

24 March —
01 December 2023

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

Poster for 'TAKING CARE: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe'

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Yuki Kihara at Taking Care Conference

02 November —
04 November 2022

Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands

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Yuki Kihara, Going Native

01 November 2022 —
08 January 2023

Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands

Yuki Kihara at Aichi Triennale 2022. Photo: ToLoLo studio

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Still Alive

By Stuart Munro

18.10.2022

For this year's Aichi Triennale, writer Stuart Munro takes a trip to some of its more isolated venues to see works by Aotearoa artists Nikau Hindin and Yuki Kihara. Visiting buildings of historical significance where the various parts of the exhibition are installed, Munro unravels the far-reaching connections of Hindin and Kihara's contributions to family, survival and place.

Genesis 9:16 (After Gauguin) by Yuki Kihara. Part of Paradise Camp series (2020/2022) presented at 59th La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Yuki Kihara and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, TALANOA FORUM: Swimming Against the Tide

11 October —
19 October 2022

Online & Venice, Italy & Leiden/Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Nikau Hindin, Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022 Photo: ToLoLo studio

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Nikau Hindin and Yuki Kihara, STILL ALIVE, Aichi Triennale 2022

30 July —
10 October 2022

Various venues across Aichi, Japan

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An interview with Yuki Kihara

By Contemporary HUM

24.05.2022

In the opening week of the 2022 Biennale di Venezia, HUM sat down with the artist representing Aotearoa, Yuki Kihara, to discuss her exhibition Paradise Camp, and what it means to bring a Pasifika, Fa'afafine voice to the international audience of this major event.

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An interview with the curators of 'Paradise Camp'

By Contemporary HUM, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Natalie King

24.05.2022

In the opening week of the 2022 Biennale di Venezia, HUM sat down with the Aotearoa New Zealand pavilion’s Curator, Natalie King, and Assistant Pasifika Curator Ioana-Gordon Smith, to talk about bringing Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp to Venice.

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HUM live from the 2022 Venice Biennale

By Contemporary HUM

24.04.2022

From 20 - 24 April 2022, HUM brings you live coverage, exclusive images and videos from the opening week of The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, including Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp for the New Zealand Pavilion. Stay tuned!

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OCEANIA NOW: Contemporary Art from the Pacific

Partnership

Christie's, Paris presents OCEANIA NOW: Contemporary Art from the Pacific, a physical exhibition and an online sale, produced in collaboration with New Zealand gallerists Alison Bartley and John Gow. Featuring 36 works from 14 artists, many based in Aotearoa, this is the institution’s first dedicated auction of works by contemporary artists from the Pacific. HUM is thrilled to be a media partner of this unprecedented project, running from 11 February - 01 March 2022.

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Whose Oceania?

By James Belich, Lana Lopesi, Matariki Williams, Pauline Autet

14.11.2018

Missed HUM's panel discussion Whose Oceania? in London? We're excited to publish the transcript of this discussion, which proved to be a stimulating talk interrogating the themes and issues addressed in the exhibition Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, as well as the responses to it from across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.

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HUM live from the Venice Biennale

Updates from the vernissage

For the past three editions, the HUM team has attended the vernissage of La Biennale di Venezia in Italy. We bring you live coverage during the opening week, not only from the official New Zealand pavilion, but also from collateral events featuring artists from Aotearoa. In addition to posting daily blog entries, videos and images, we also publish exclusive interviews with some of the New Zealand artists and arts practitioners involved in putting together this major international event.

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Yuki Kihara at the 59th Venice Biennale

Partnership

Small island ecologies, climate change, queer rights, Gauguin’s gaze, intersectionality and decolonization; these are just some of the topics explored by interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara in her project Paradise Camp, representing New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale in Italy. HUM is proud to be a media partner of this exciting project, open to the public from 23 April - 27 November 2022.