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Telly Tuita, Tongpop Fervour
17 June —
12 July 2025
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga
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Vivian Lynn, A garment, a pin, a seam, a shield
23 May —
26 July 2025
Phillida Reid, London, UK
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Fiona Pardington in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
23.04.2025
Aotearoa artist and representative for Aotearoa New Zealand at the upcoming 61st Venice Biennale (2026) Fiona Pardington talks to Contemporary HUM about her presentation of works from “Āhua: A beautiful hesitation” (2010) at Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry. In the conversation, she discusses the power of ancestral imagery beyond their capture by colonial pseudoscience, while also offering some early insights into her project for Venice.
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Alicia Frankovich, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, curated by Anna Briers
18 February —
14 June 2025
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
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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).
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Louise Beer, Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle
14 November —
23 November 2024
Bright Island Studio, Minster, UK
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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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Replika Publishing, Flyleaf Book & Zine Festival
24 October —
27 October 2024
various venues in Berlin, Germany
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Kezia Barnett, PIVOTAL: Digitalism
26 September —
29 September 2024
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
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Ann Shelton, When Images Take Care
27 August —
15 September 2024
Centre de la photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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Luke Willis Thompson, Mouvement des Malades
07 September —
15 September 2024
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
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Yuki Kihara, transfeminisms Chapter III: Fragile Archives
05 July —
17 August 2024
Mimosa House, London, UK
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Replika Publishing, Kalt - Weathering - Lar
28 June —
30 June 2024
Blue Room, Berlin, Germany
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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Collective
21 June —
17 August 2024
MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
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Alex Chalmers, IM GÄSTEZIMMER ZWEI
22 April —
07 June 2024
Sammlung Pohl, Marburg, Germany
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Richard Frater, L'Effet de serre
29 June —
18 August 2024
Abbatiale Bellelay, Saicourt, Switzerland
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Michael Dell, Distant Pictures
21 June —
25 July 2024
Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
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Talia Smith, The light draws along...
20 April —
23 June 2024
Incinerator Gallery, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Justine Walker, NARS Foundation residency
01 April —
24 June 2024
NARS Foundation, NYC, USA
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Mizuho Nishioka, Movement_17; Tasman Sea in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Pale Blue Dot Collective, Of Immeasurable Consequence
24 March —
07 April 2024
All Saints Church, Aldwincle, UK
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Louise Beer, Aesthetica Art Prize 2024
16 February —
21 April 2024
York Art Gallery, York, UK
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PHOTO 2024: International Festival of Photography
01 March —
24 March 2024
various venues across Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, Staging Oneself
24 February —
19 May 2024
Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia
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Stephanie O'Connor, Photographic Explorations °01
25 January —
17 March 2024
254forest, Brussels, Belgium
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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp
01 June 2024 —
31 January 2025
Saletoga Sands Resort, Upolu Island, Sāmoa
Writing
Collective
By Emily Jan
20.11.2023
Upon visiting Treaty 8 territory for the exhibition Collective, by collaborative duo Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Alberta, Canada-based artist and writer Emily Jan considers how these photographic works function as a body which, like the trees they depict, carries stories; of human desires, needs, and actions of destruction or care.
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Alicia Frankovich, Spaces of Life
03 February —
09 March 2024
1301SW, Melbourne, Australia
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Queer PHOTO: Alteration
27 January —
24 March 2024
The Substation, Melbourne, Australia
