Photography

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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

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Louise Beer, artist talk

5.00PM — 7.00PM
02 February 2024

Kindred House, Margate, UK