Francis Upritchard, 'Swamp Creature', 2022, bronze with steel armature. Courtesy Kate MacGarry

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Francis Upritchard, DAUWRAUW: A Bruegelian Landscape

30 June —
30 September 2024

Bornem Castle, Bornem, Belgium

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Zac Langdon-Pole, Chimera

10.00AM — 5.00PM
28 July 2024

Art on James, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia

Writing

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.

'Crossing Currents: Fred Graham in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk

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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.

Exhibition detail: view of works by Fiona Connor, Francis Upritchard, and Ricky Swallow. Courtesy Fine Arts, Sydney

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Fiona Connor and Francis Upritchard, Sculpture Exhibition

13 June —
03 August 2024

Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal Lands Sydney, 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.

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Lisa Reihana, GLISTEN

14 June 2024 —
30 March 2025

National Gallery Singapore, Singapore

'Crossing Currents: Caitlin Devoy in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk

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Crossing Currents: Episode 3

By Contemporary HUM

06.07.2024

Contemporary HUM interviews artist Caitlin Devoy about BODYOBJECTS, her presentation in the 2024 edition of Personal Structures in Venice. Speaking to HUM in April 2024, Devoy discusses using humour as a feminist strategy to challenge the power relations encoded in gallery spaces, resulting in works that refuse disembodied objectivity in favour of tactility, subjectivity and intuition.

'Crossing Currents: Brett Graham in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk

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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.

'Crossing Currents: Areez Katki in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk

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Crossing Currents: Episode 1

By Contemporary HUM

22.06.2024

Aotearoa New Zealand artist Areez Katki speaks to HUM about The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House, his presentation in the 7th edition of Personal Structures. Katki discusses the processes and politics of exhibiting in Personal Structures and the two series he produced for the exhibition, which take migrant and queer positionalities as points from which to restore notions of pedagogy and learning from patriarchal, religious dictates to an affectual, instinctual realm of care.

Alex Chalmers, 'Untitled', 2021. Photo: Jiyoon Chung. Courtesy Sammlung Pohl

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Alex Chalmers, IM GÄSTEZIMMER ZWEI

22 April —
07 June 2024

Sammlung Pohl, Marburg, Germany

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Dane Mitchell, Summer Workshops on Cosmomorphic Practices

6.00PM — 8.00PM
26 June 2024

Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France

Yukari Kaihori installing work at Ma Umi Residencies on Ishigaki Island, Japan. Photo: Valérie Portefaix. Courtesy of the artist.

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Living Things

16.03.2024

In this short piece, originally put together as a HUMcard mailout for Contemporary HUM's Publishers Circle, Aotearoa-based artist Yukari Kaihori reflects on her two-week residency at Ma Umi Residencies on Ishigaki Island, Japan. The impacts of climate change and marine debris on the subtropical island offer the context for a meditation on the ecological entanglements between objects, animals, and places.