Gender
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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
Writing
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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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
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.
Calendar
Justine Walker, NARS Foundation residency
01 April —
24 June 2024
NARS Foundation, NYC, USA
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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.
Calendar
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.
Writing
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.