Exhibitions
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Yuki Kihara, transfeminisms Chapter III: Fragile Archives
05 July —
17 August 2024
Mimosa House, London, UK
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Tia Ansell, Coda
03 July —
27 July 2024
Gallery 9, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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Rhea Maheshwari, The Tapestry of Time - An Exploration of Indian Miniature Art
10 July —
14 August 2024
MAG Contemporary, New Delhi, India
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Susan Te Kahurangi King, HERALBONY Art Prize 2024 Exhibition
10 August —
22 September 2024
SMBC Earth Garden Gallery Space, Tokyo, Japan
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Alicia Frankovich, And This Time the Well Is Alive
17 August —
13 October 2024
Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Kah Bee Chow, Sites of Passage
27 July —
31 August 2024
SKF/Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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Paul Handley, Our Turn to Play
18 July —
08 September 2024
Le K.A.B, Paris, France
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Lisa Walker, News From Nowhere
22 June —
18 August 2024
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Australia
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 8
By Contemporary HUM
17.08.2024
Contemporary HUM speaks with Aotearoa New Zealand artist Sandy Adsett (Ngāti Pahauwera), a pioneer in the customary artform of kōwhaiwhai and an active figure in the emergence and presentation of contemporary Māori art on the national and international scenes. He discusses being featured in the 60th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, his experience as a teacher, and the question of the uses and future of Māori representation at events such as the Biennale.
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Busan Biennale 2024:《Seeing in the Dark》
17 August —
20 October 2024
various locations in Busan, South Korea
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Crossing Currents: Episode 6
By Contemporary HUM
03.08.2024
On the occasion of an historic edition of the Venice Biennale for Aotearoa New Zealand, Contemporary HUM speaks with Mataaho Collective, who were awarded one of the top prizes at the Biennale, the Golden Lion, for their work Takapau. Mataaho Collective discuss the logistics of transforming Takapau for the Biennale, as well as working within a continuum of contemporary Māori art practice that also situates them alongside the intergenerational contingent of Māori artists presenting at this year’s Biennale. HUM also speaks with artist, writer and researcher Rychèl Thérin.
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Tom Denize and Iann An, An obscuring of self - a veil between yours and theirs
03 April —
15 June 2024
Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Bundoora, Australia
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Fiona Connor and Francis Upritchard, Sculpture Exhibition
13 June —
03 August 2024
Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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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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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.
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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.
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Amanda Newall and Ecke Bonk, Stranded – W(h)ale a Remake Portfolio – More Than This, Even
06 June —
29 September 2024
Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
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Duty of Care: Part One
29 June —
22 September 2024
Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch
06 July —
20 October 2024
Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarntanya Adelaide, Australia
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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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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.