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Michael Stevenson, steirischer herbst '23: Humans and Demons
21 September —
15 October 2023
Kunsthaus Graz and various venues, Graz, Austria
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Ilke Gers, ENTROUVERTE by 019
10 September —
22 October 2023
LLS Paleis, Antwerp, Belgium
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Simon Denny, Read, Write, Own
16 September —
21 October 2023
Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA
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Seung Yul Oh, Orbit
15 August 2023 —
15 August 2028
101 Collins St, Melbourne, Australia
Writing
Feeling, pressed
By Ash Kilmartin
18.08.2023
Zooming-in to personal memory and bodily encounter, Rotterdam-based artist Ash Kilmartin writes on the work of Alexis Hunter (1948–2014) in An Emergency Exit Sealed Shut at Kunstverein, Amsterdam.
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Ruth Buchanan, *INNEN
15 October —
26 November 2023
Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Fiona Connor, Drawing something under itself
23 September —
26 November 2023
Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Fiona Connor, Continuous Sidewalk
18 August —
28 October 2023
Artist studio, Los Angeles, USA
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Yota Ayaan, HUMAN IS A COSMIC PLANT
15 July —
23 July 2023
frappant.ev, Hamburg, Germany
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Fiona Connor, A Preview of an Exhibition Under Construction
13 September 2023
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Essen, Germany
Writing
Semantics of a City
By María Inés Plaza Lazo
26.06.2023
In May, publisher María Inés Plaza Lazo visited Ruth Buchanan’s A garden with bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear), a walk-in sculpture and the result of a multi-part collaboration with the New Patrons that brings the synapses between all elements of Mönchengladbach, Germany, to new impulses.
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On Measuring Distance: THE FIELD
By Helen Hughes
12.07.2023
Art historian Helen Hughes examines how THE FIELD—featuring work by Ming Ranginui, Shannon Te Ao and Shiraz Sadikeen, and curated by Tamsen Hopkinson at Gertrude Contemporary in Naarm Melbourne—inhabits the spaces between categories and haunts institutional memories through a unique curatorial approach.
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Josephine Cachemaille, Joya: A.i.R residency
01 August —
31 August 2023
Joya: AiR, Vélez Blanco, Spain
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Seung Yul Oh, Guttation
23 June —
23 July 2023
ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
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Christoper Duncan, Evangeline Riddiford-Graham and Victoria Wynne-Jones, never together
20 July —
19 August 2023
FUTURES, Melbourne, Australia
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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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Kate Newby, What a great year for music
05 May —
15 June 2023
Marfa Book Co, Marfa Texas, USA
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Richard Frater, What remains of a naturalist
10 December 2023 —
27 April 2024
Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany
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Ilke Gers and Tanu Gago, Into Nature: Time Horizons
29 July —
29 October 2023
various venues around Drenthe, the Netherlands
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Karen Sewell, Zum Lob der Natur (A Celebration of Nature)
12 May —
14 May 2023
Kunsthaus Dreho, Korschenbroich, Germany
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Taipei Popcorn, 1972, Toffler – Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition
13 September —
29 October 2022
Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
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Jen Valender, Broken Chord
02 September —
30 October 2022
The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Booragul, Australia
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Simon Denny, Dotcom Séance
16 October —
04 December 2022
Now Building, London, UK
Writing
On Wet Ontologies, Fluid Hierarchies and Hope-Soaked Propositions at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney
By Emma O'Neill
26.08.2022
This year’s Biennale of Sydney, titled rīvus, included the work of Aotearoa-based artists Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi and Mataaho Collective. Emma O’Neill, a writer working on Gadigal Land, responds to the exhibition and some of the work presented by the 89 participants invited to interact with different forms and bodies of water.
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The Way Through Doors
By Andrew Berardini
22.06.2022
Andrew Berardini visits Fiona Connor’s solo exhibition at Château Shatto in LA, where the artist’s carefully rendered replicas of the doors of closed down clubs conjure up memories of forgotten youth.
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Reimagined Futures
By Johanna Bear
23.03.2022
Featuring work from Aotearoa artists Edith Amituanai, Brian Fuata, Christina Pataialii, Shannon Novak and Shannon Te Ao as well as collaborators from Aotearoa in the project Kā Paroro o Haumumu: Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions, this piece from writer and curator Johanna Bear considers the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial’s celebration of Indigenous futures, collaborative and community-based practices, and new ways of understanding the world around us.
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On Civicness and Participating in Public Life through Art Practice - Panel discussion transcript
By Cat Auburn, Daniel Malone, Pauline Autet, Ruth Buchanan
14.12.2021
For Contemporary HUM’s third panel in October 2021, On Civicness, we sat down with Cat Auburn, Ruth Buchanan, and Daniel Malone in Berlin to talk about their practices, recent projects and what “civicness” means to them as Aotearoa artists working abroad—spanning Polish experimental theatre, the memory functions of NFTs and the power relations of collecting institutions. Read the full transcript of the panel discussion here!
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They Call Me The Believer
By Habib William Kherbek
21.09.2021
Michael Stevenson’s retrospective at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, traces a 35 year practice exploring the intricacies of storytelling and truth in popular culture, media and technology. In this piece, Habib William Kherbek explores how Stevenson’s practice calls into question the infrastructures of knowledge formation in a sprawling, fragmented exhibition from inside the belly of a whale.
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Plant Data
By Alice Bonnot
22.07.2021
Porto-based New Zealand artist Yota Ayaan investigates the possibilities of human-plant communication in Plant Data, an exhibition at the Galeria da Biodiversidade, Centro Ciência Viva, in Porto’s Botanical garden. After visiting the show, writer and curator Alice Bonnot discusses here the urgent lessons that can be gleaned from it in the current climate crisis.
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Some Kind of Travelogue
By Esther Lu
18.06.2021
Aotearoa-based artist Sorawit Songsataya’s practice explores the many tangents that connect and redefine our understandings of subjectivity and ecology. Songsataya was invited to participate in the group show, The Turn of the Fifth Age, at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space in Bandung, Indonesia, earlier this year, where they exhibited their work Jupiter. Here, co-curator Esther Lu responds to that work.