Sculpture
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Through Air, Breath and Stone
By Yuka Keino
07.10.2025
Travelling to Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, curator Yuka Keino responds to Aotearoa artist Sarah Hudson’s work Reconciliation. Keino explores the role of stone as a medium of memory, linking the distant islands of Moutohorā, Aotearoa, and Megijima, Japan, through material practices and ancestral knowledge, suggesting a site specificity that is transformed into something translocal, relational and ultimately decolonial.
Writing
From Moutohorā to Megijima
20.08.2025
Aotearoa artist Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāi Tūhoe) speaks to UK artist Joanne Coates on the occasion of her participation in the Naoshima Art Residency and Setouchi Triennale in Japan, and simultaneous exhibition in Whakatāne, Aotearoa New Zealand. Taking Hudson’s series of works "Reconciliation" as a point of departure, Hudson and Coates discuss how histories embedded in land and community can be explored in different lands, among different communities, and the radical act of protecting space for quietness, calmness and reciprocity.
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Sarah Rose, Torpor
14 June —
07 September 2025
Tramway, Glasgow, UK
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Gill Gatfield, Art+Tech CODAsummit
24 September —
26 August 2025
CODAworx, Washington D.C, USA
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Gill Gatfield, NARS Foundation Exhibition
29 August —
16 September 2025
NARS Foundation, New York, USA
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Gill Gatfield, NARS Foundation International Artist Residency
01 July —
27 September 2025
NARS Foundation, New York, USA
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Matthew Galloway, Quishile Charan, Summer School | Revolutionary Roads Destination: Comradeship
24 August —
31 August 2025
Ljubljana, Slovenia; Belgrade, Serbia; Podgorica, Montenegro
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Yona Lee, Melbourne Art Fair
20 February —
23 February 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
19 May —
06 June 2025
The Design Gallery, Melbourne School of Design, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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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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ei numeroa
12 April —
01 June 2025
Finnish Museum of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
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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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Kate Newby, Live near friends
02 November —
20 December 2024
Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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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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Grace Mirams, Buinho residency
21 September —
26 October 2024
Buinho, Messejana, Portugal
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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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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
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Kate Newby, WHO IS THIS SONG?
21 September —
09 November 2024
COOPER COLE, Tkaronto Toronto, Canada
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Crossing Currents: Episode 7
By Contemporary HUM
10.08.2024
Robert Jahnke (Ngāi Taharora, Te Whānau a Iritekura, Te Whānau a Rakairo o Ngāti Porou) speaks to Contemporary HUM about his work Te Wepu MMXXIII, which is featured in the 7th edition of Personal Structures in Venice. Jahnke discusses the influence of Te Wepu, the battle flag of the 19th-century Māori prophet Te Kooti, and how the work highlights a formal whakapapa (genealogy) between Te Kooti, who was not only a religious visionary but an artistic innovator in his own right, and contemporary references to the flag, including by the late sculptor and painter Paratene Matchitt.
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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
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Yukari 海堀 Kaihori, Kamiyama Artist in Residency
29 August —
05 November 2024
Kamiyama Cho, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
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Francis Upritchard, DAUWRAUW: A Bruegelian Landscape
30 June —
30 September 2024
Bornem Castle, Bornem, Belgium
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.
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Zac Langdon-Pole, Chimera
10.00AM — 5.00PM
28 July 2024
Art on James, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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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.
