Māori
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 5
By Contemporary HUM
27.07.2024
Contemporary HUM speaks to esteemed Māori sculptor Fred Graham, a pioneering figure in contemporary Māori art who is part of a generation that forged a new path in ngā toi Māori in post-war Aotearoa. Reflecting on his practice of over 70 years, Graham discusses the influence of his teaching and the importance of friends and family, as well as the experience of exhibiting alongside his son, Brett Graham, at the Venice Biennale.
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 4
By Contemporary HUM
13.07.2024
Architect, artist and mother Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta speaks to Contemporary HUM about her presentation The Body of Wainuiātea, which is featured alongside work by Latai Taumoepeau in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania, an exhibition curated by Taloi Havini at TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice. She discusses the influence of the Māori pūrākau (mythological tradition) of the atua (deity) Wainuiātea, the need to re-establish a sacred relationship to the ocean and the conversations that guided the creation of the work, including with Havini and Taumoepeau.
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 2
By Contemporary HUM
29.06.2024
Contemporary HUM interviews Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) about Wastelands (2024), his work in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Graham discusses Wastelands as a commentary on extractive attitudes to land, the logistics of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and what it’s like to be included alongside an intergenerational selection of Māori artists, including his father, Fred Graham.
Project
Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice
Podcast series
Despite there being no national pavilion for Aotearoa New Zealand this year, the 60th Venice Biennale is an historic edition for Aotearoa artists. Not only are there an unprecedented number of artists from Aotearoa featured in Venice – both within the International Exhibition of the Biennale and in concurrent events taking place across the city – but it also features the most Māori artists to be included.
In Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice, Contemporary HUM speaks with the artists featured in the 60th Venice Biennale and parallel events Personal Structures and Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania as they reflect on presenting in Venice during an historic year for Aotearoa art, Ngā toi Māori and Indigenous art globally.
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Lisa Reihana, GLISTEN
14 June 2024 —
30 March 2025
National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
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Tamsen Hopkinson, The Wishing Well
20 June —
20 July 2024
Connors Connors, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Art Summit 2024
13 June —
15 June 2024
various locations in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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Hoʻoulu Lāhui: Regenerating Oceania: 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture
06 June —
16 June 2024
Hawaiʻi Convention Center and various locations in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Writing
“To see us on our best day.”
By Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak
15.12.2023
Offering a glimpse at the wide range of emotions and encounters that Aotearoa-based artist Maungarongo Te Kawa and Northern Sámi activist Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak share in their multifaceted experiences at different edges of the globe, this conversation takes Te Kawa’s recent residency and touring exhibition in Norway and Sámi territories as a departure point.
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Mataaho Collective and Megan Tamati-Quennell, Indigenous Visions
10.00AM — 6.00PM
16 April 2024
Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy
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The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
20 April —
24 November 2024
Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, Italy
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Robert Jahnke, Te Wepu MMXXIII in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Hana Pera Aoake, Delfina Foundation residency
02 April —
23 June 2024
Delfina Foundation, London, UK
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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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Nikau Hindin, Badu Gili: Celestial
15 December 2023 —
01 December 2024
Sydney Opera House, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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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
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Architecture of Aroha, Luleå Biennial 2024
02 March —
26 May 2024
Kulturenshus, Luleå, Sweden
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The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania
24 October 2023 —
15 January 2024
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Writing
The Polyphonic Sea
By Emma O'Neill
10.10.2023
Presented at Bundanon Art Museum, deep in the territory of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups, The Polyphonic Sea features new commissions and recontextualised work by Antonia Barnett McIntosh, Andrew Beck, Ruth Buchanan, The Estate of L. Budd, Sione Faletau, Samuel Holloway and et al., Sarah Hudson, Sonya Lacey, Nova Paul, Sriwhana Spong and Shannon Te Ao.
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Kahurangiariki Smith, Lisa Reihana and Yuki Kihara, Singing in Unison Part 8: Between Waves
10 October 2023 —
12 January 2024
Industry City, New York, USA
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.
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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Clay Te Pai, Indigenous Artists Exchange
19 October —
24 October 2023
Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji
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Good Company Arts, Festival After Cage
25 October —
27 November 2023
Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain and online
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.
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Rychèl Thérin in Vienna Art Week
11 November —
12 November 2023
WEST Space, Vienna, Austria
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Jade Townsend, Sticks & Stones
06 October —
03 December 2023
Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
