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Alicia Frankovich, Brett Graham and Sorawit Songsataya, The Charge That Binds
07 December 2024 —
16 March 2025
ACCA, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Sarah Rose, Torpor
14 June —
07 September 2025
Tramway, Glasgow, UK
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Te Matahiapo Collective in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
07.05.2025
On the occasion of Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Contemporary HUM speaks with Kura Puke, Inahaa Te Urutahi Waikerepuru, Stuart Foster and Mike Bridgman of the research initiative Te Matahiapo Collective. They discuss their multi-media installation work, Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū - Ī Ō Ē Ā Ū: Ko Pari Haruru (2025), and its various resonances in the Biennial and Sharjah at large as an embodied exploration of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge systems).
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ei numeroa
12 April —
01 June 2025
Finnish Museum of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
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Kate Newby in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
09.04.2025
Contemporary HUM speaks to Aotearoa-born, Texas-based artist Kate Newby about Cold Water (2025), her new commission for Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry. Newby discusses her process of responding to the sea-side site in Sharjah, and the influence of its elemental characteristics—light and space; sun, water and desert—on the work.
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Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
In February 2025, Contemporary HUM was on the ground during the opening week of Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, co-curated by Aotearoa curator Megan Tamati-Quennell with Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz.
Sharjah Biennial 16 convenes under the title “to carry”, a multivocal and open-ended proposition that connects stories and traditions across generations and cultures. The five co-curators of Sharjah Biennial 16 present their projects both individually and collectively, gathering under the rubric of a single proposition: What does it entail to carry a home, ancestors and political formations with you?
Megan Tamati-Quennell’s project assembles a significant number of artists and practitioners from Aotearoa New Zealand: Albert L. Refiti, Ana Iti, Fiona Pardington, Kate Newby, Mara TK, Saffronn Te Ratana, Luke Willis Thompson, Michael Parekōwhai and Te Matahiapo Collective, whose projects collectively speak to themes of place, space and whakapapa (genealogy).
Writing
And I dance into the future with the past, as a bird
By Haruko Kumakura
27.12.2024
Writing on Aotearoa New Zealand’s presentation at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Shannon Te Ao’s Ia rā, ia rā (rere runga, rere raro) - Everyday (I fly high, I fly low) (2021), Haruko Kumakura argues that the work brings into focus what the thematic exhibition of the Biennale misses: a weaving together of the voices of the past, present and future appropriate both to the political context of its exhibition and the social and ecological urgencies of our time.
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Kate Newby, Live near friends
02 November —
20 December 2024
Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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Simon Denny, Minotaurs
11 October —
03 November 2024
Foreign Domestic, NYC, USA
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Ann Shelton and Sriwhana Spong, A thinking wild
17 October —
21 November 2024
The Renshaws, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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Yukari 海堀 Kaihori, KAIR Artist Residence 2024 Exhibition and Art Tour
26 October —
10 November 2024
Kamiyama-cho Noson Kankyo Kaizen Center, Kamiyama, Japan
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Yona Lee, between the lines
19 October —
16 November 2024
Openspace Bae, Busan, South Korea
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Simon Denny, Poetics of Encryption
28 September 2024 —
12 January 2025
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Simon Denny, Sea and Fog
07 November 2024 —
25 January 2025
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
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Lisa Reihana and Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Bangkok Art Biennale 2024: Nurture Gaia
24 October 2024 —
25 February 2025
various venues across Bangkok, Thailand
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Jude Broughan and Justine Walker, Reflective Realities
09 October —
11 November 2024
ART LAB at Social & Environmental Justice Institute, New York, USA
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Wesley John Fourie, I WAS ONCE A GREAT LAKE
23 August —
18 November 2024
Playspace Gallery, Wodonga, Australia
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Francis Upritchard, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
28 September 2024 —
16 February 2025
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Anh Trần, On Ma
19 September —
16 November 2024
Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
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Hawkfish, A Taste of Honey
10 October —
08 December 2024
St. Lawrence University, Canton, USA
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Fiona Connor, Hereditary
24 August —
15 October 2024
100 Belltowers, Tiohtià:ke Montréal, Canada
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Shiraz Sadikeen, Gasworks residency
30 September —
16 December 2024
Gasworks, London, UK
Writing
On truth and telling stories
By Hana Pera Aoake
04.10.2024
Aotearoa artist Hana Pera Aoake reflects on their visit to the Venice Biennale and the questions posed by its central exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. Unearthing the fraught political contexts of Venice, Aoake asks who is really made strange by the Biennale; and whether the presenting Aotearoa artists are able to retain the specificities of place within a curatorial frame that groups categories of difference under the theme of the “stranger”.
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Kate Newby, WHO IS THIS SONG?
21 September —
09 November 2024
COOPER COLE, Tkaronto Toronto, Canada
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Ruth Buchanan, How Not to Be Seen
10 May —
08 September 2024
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Radicant
21 September —
30 November 2024
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Tkaronto Toronto, Canada
Writing
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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et al.: epochal
05 October —
07 December 2024
Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Kate Newby, Hours in wind
29 August 2024 —
04 September 2025
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
