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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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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp: Homecoming film screening

24 June —
27 June 2024

Espace Encan, La Rochelle, France

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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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Yuki Kihara, artist talk

6.00PM — 7.00PM
04 July 2024

Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK

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Justine Walker, NARS Foundation residency

01 April —
24 June 2024

NARS Foundation, NYC, USA

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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Caitlin Devoy, BODYOBJECTS in Personal Structures

20 April —
24 November 2024

Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy

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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Asia TOPA Radar

6.30PM — 9.00PM
27 March 2024

The Substation, Naarm Melbourne, Australia

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Yuki Kihara, Art Basel Conversation

12.30PM — 1.30PM
30 March 2024

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

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Yuki Kihara, Staging Oneself

24 February —
19 May 2024

Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia

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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp

01 June 2024 —
31 January 2025

Saletoga Sands Resort, Upolu Island, Sāmoa

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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Queer PHOTO: Alteration

27 January —
24 March 2024

The Substation, Melbourne, Australia

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Claudia Kogachi, Labour of Love

20 January —
17 February 2024

Phillida Reid, London, UK

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Ann Shelton, worm, root, wort...& bane

09 March —
26 May 2024

Alice Austen House, New York, USA

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Alexis Hunter, Women in Revolt: Art, Activism and the Women’s movement in the UK 1970–1990

08 November 2023 —
07 April 2024

Tate Britain, London, UK

Project

Championing Aotearoa New Zealand women artists

Partnership

Contemporary HUM is excited to launch our partnership with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. The Paris-based non-profit organisation, founded in 2014, focuses on the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. During our partnership with AWARE we have worked on including more Aotearoa New Zealand women artists in their online profiles. AWARE is a great resource for championing women artists and we’re thrilled to be working with them. A huge thanks to Creative New Zealand for making this partnership possible.

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Natasha Wright, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This

12 October —
28 October 2023

.M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia

Project

Forever Fresh Talanoa Series

Partnership

A collaboration between In*ter*is*land Collective and Contemporary HUM consisting of four edited online talanoa (conversations) between several tagata Moana (Māori and Pasifika people) across the globe which centre around the principles of talanoa; ofa, mafana, malie and faka'apa'apa (love, warmth, humour and respect) and the ability to have a "reciprocal knowledge exchange".

The talanoa within this series will focus on topics such as life in the diaspora, moana futurism, queer identities, and ReMoanafication, and all will be individually responded to in written form by Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa), reminding us of our intricate connection and shared ancestry in Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

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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Richard Frater, What remains of a naturalist

10 December 2023 —
27 April 2024

Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany

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Yuki Kihara, Powerhouse Late x Vivid Ideas: Paradise Fair

15 June 2023

Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia

Writing

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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Alexis Hunter, An Emergency Exit Sealed Shut

22 April —
03 June 2023

Kunstverein, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Writing

Meandering Gestures, Infiltrating Language

By Imaad Majeed

08.09.2022

Artist, curator and writer Imaad Majeed talks with Aotearoa artist Areez Katki about his participation in Language is Migrant, the latest edition of the international arts festival Colomboscope, in Sri Lanka, and about using embroidery and textiles to explore ideas of displacement, trajectories of violence, and the colonial legacy of his own Parsi heritage.

Writing

HUM live from the 2022 Venice Biennale

By Contemporary HUM

24.04.2022

From 20—24 April 2022, Contemporary 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.

Writing

Ann Shelton’s Strange Flowers Set the Stage

By Katie White

14.04.2021

Inspired by ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, Ann Shelton's photographs subtly recall both ancient and contemporary female archetypes and the subversive histories of natural medicine - a sharp reminder of our forgotten affinities with nature in the current moment of climate crisis and the ongoing politicisation of female bodies.

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Handshake 5: In Dialogue

By Roseanne Bartley

22.01.2020

A look at Handshake, a project dedicated to developing emerging New Zealand jewellers nationally and internationally, and their recent exchange with Coda Museum in the Netherlands. Participating jewellers from Aotearoa include Neke Moa, Vivien Atkinson, Sarah Read, Becky Bliss, Vanessa Arthur, Sarah Walker-Holt, Sandra Schmid, Nadene Carr, Caroline Thomas, Brendon Monson, Nik Hanton, and Kelly McDonald.

Writing

The Transcendent and Domestic in Joanna Margaret Paul's Films

By Eleanor Woodhouse

19.04.2018

Artist, poet and filmmaker, Joanna Margaret Paul passed away suddenly in 2003 leaving behind a vast archive of never-before-seen work. London-based writer Eleanor Woodhouse explores Paul’s practice, and considers the significance of her work being shown abroad, most recently the programme of her filmic work touring the UK: Through a Different Lens.

Writing

Nature at its Queerest

By Ulrike Gerhardt

20.05.2017

Ulrike Gerhardt reponds to Berlin-based New Zealand artist Alicia Frankovich's first major solo show in Germany, OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.