Biennials
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Shannon Te Ao, 15th Gwangju Biennale Pavilion
07 September —
01 December 2024
Suha Gallery, Gwangju, South Korea
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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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Jasmine Togo-Brisby in Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum
01 March —
02 June 2024
Art Gallery of South Australia, Kaurna land Adelaide, Australia
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Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces film screening
7.30PM — 9.00PM
03 April 2024
Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
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Elisapeta Hinemona Heta, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania
23 March —
13 October 2024
Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
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24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
09 March —
10 June 2024
six venues across Sydney, Australia
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Nikau Hindin, Time Honoured Technologies panel discussion
12.45PM — 1.30PM
10 March 2024
White Bay Power Station, Sydney, Australia
Writing
Mataaho Collective at the Dhaka Art Summit
By Pauline Autet
21.04.2020
We finish our first series focusing on the Asia region with Contemporary HUM Editor Pauline Autet interviewing Mataaho Collective on their participation in the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh in February 2020, where they partook in panel discussions and practised a type of waiata (song) called a pātere.
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Wesley John Fourie, Home Away from Home: 2023 Larnaca Biennale
11 October —
24 November 2023
Larnaca Municipal Art Gallery, Cyprus
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Bruce Barber and Tāhū Collective, 2023 XIV Edition Florence Biennale
14 October —
22 October 2023
Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
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Nikau Hindin, 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
06 September —
10 December 2023
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
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Judy Millar in 5th Kyiv Biennial: Against the Logic of War
17 October —
17 December 2023
Ukraine, Austria, Poland, Belgium and Germany
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.
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Thinking Historically in the Present
By Megan Tamati-Quennell
17.04.2023
Having attended the opening week of Sharjah Biennial 15, Megan Tamati-Quennell writes about the work of Aotearoa artists Robyn Kahukiwa and Kahurangiariki Smith, included in this large-scale exhibition in the United Arab Emirates, and how Hoor Al Qasimi has carried the curatorial mantle from Okwui Enwezor to create an exhibition that both celebrates the late curator’s legacy and the diversity, solidarity and strength of non-Western art.
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Wanda Gillespie, Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2023
31 March —
11 November 2023
MUZA, Eretz Israel Museum, Israel
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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
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Nina Tonga, March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960
09 March —
12 March 2023
Sharjah Institute of Theatrical Arts, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Robyn Kahukiwa, Kahurangiariki Smith in Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present
07 February —
11 June 2023
19 venues across 5 cities in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Dr Kirsten Lyttle, TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili
01 April —
16 July 2023
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Wurundjeri Country, Healesville, Australia
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Wesley John Fourie, New Paradigms of Happiness, 28th Slavonian Biennale
15 December 2022 —
28 February 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
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Brian Fuata at Singapore Biennale 2022
16 October 2022 —
19 March 2023
Tanjong Pagar Distripark and various locations, Singapore
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Edith Amituanai at We, On the Rising Wave: Busan Biennale 2022
03 September —
06 November 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Yeongdo, South Korea
Project
HUM stands for NZ at Venice
Special feature
In light of the review of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ‘official’ presence at the Venice Biennale, HUM invited New Zealanders on- and off-shore who have visited or been involved in ‘New Zealand at Venice’ projects—as artists, pavilion attendants, exhibition installers or designers—to reflect on how involvement in (or experience of) our previous national pavilions have influenced their own careers, and the international profile of contemporary art from Aotearoa.
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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documenta fifteen or lumbung one?
By Bruce E. Phillips
12.08.2022
For documenta fifteen, the arts collective FAFSWAG were invited to participate as members of the lumbung process established by this year’s curatorial collective ruangrupa. In the absence of the trophy artist phenomenon so entrenched within mega-exhibitions, Bruce E. Phillips responds to the work of different participating collectives exhibiting in Kassel and discusses how introducing a non-European exhibition-making concept into the heart of arguably Europe’s most revered art event was bound to confound those unwilling to consider a differing perspective.
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Sriwhana Spong, 17th Istanbul Biennial
17 September —
20 November 2022
Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
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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, Contemporary 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, Contemporary 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.
