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Yuki Kihara, Gauguin and Kihara: First Impressions
08 May —
06 December 2025
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Cophenhagen, Denmark
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Brit Bunkley, Experimental Film & Video 2025
21 May —
15 June 2025
CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
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Brit Bunkley, FILE 2025
15 July —
07 September 2025
FIESP Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
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Luke Willis Thompson in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
07.05.2025
In February 2025, Contemporary HUM spoke with Luke Willis Thompson from Sharjah Biennial 16 about his commissioned work Whakamoeamoeā. Set on Waitangi Day in 2040 as a public broadcast, the film imagines constitutional transformation in Aotearoa New Zealand, giving form to an Indigenous-focused dream of the future.
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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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Vidéo Club New Zealand, Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces
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For the second international edition of “Vidéo Club”, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in France joins forces with Te Tuhi in Aotearoa New Zealand in an exchange initiated by curator Marie Griffay and supported by Contemporary HUM.
In this exchange, FRAC presents works by three Māori moving image artists, Russ Flatt, Kahurangiariki Smith and Suzanne Tamaki, taken from Te Tuhi’s 2024 exhibition Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces. These works use a variety of subject matter, including karaoke, photogrammetry and social networks, to explore Indigenous spaces and possibilities that have yet to see the light of day. Aotearoa audiences can then see works by French artists Anouk Nier-Nantes, Émilie Pierson and Marina Smorodinova, at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
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Simon Denny, Poetics of Encryption
28 September 2024 —
12 January 2025
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lisa Reihana and Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Bangkok Art Biennale 2024: Nurture Gaia
24 October 2024 —
25 February 2025
various venues across Bangkok, Thailand
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Vidéo Club New Zealand, Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces
11 October 2024 —
12 January 2025
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
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Jude Broughan and Justine Walker, Reflective Realities
09 October —
11 November 2024
ART LAB at Social & Environmental Justice Institute, New York, USA
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David Rickard, Ars Electronica 2024
04 September —
08 September 2024
POSTCITY, Linz, Germany
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SaVĀge K'lub, transfeminisms Chapter IV: Care and Kinship
12 September —
26 October 2024
Mimosa House, London, UK
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Shannon Te Ao, 15th Gwangju Biennale Pavilion
07 September —
01 December 2024
Suha Gallery, Gwangju, South Korea
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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Radicant
21 September —
30 November 2024
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Tkaronto Toronto, Canada
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Luke Willis Thompson, Mouvement des Malades
07 September —
15 September 2024
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
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Matthew Galloway, Empty Vessels
01 September —
30 September 2024
Piccadilly Lights, London, UK
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Katrina Iosia, QATACON 2024
11 July —
13 July 2024
Queensland College of Art & Design, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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Brit Bunkley, III International Gyumri Art Week: City & Beyond
02 August —
18 August 2024
Gyumri and various regions in Armenia
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Greg Semu, Sacred + Forbidden
03 July —
23 September 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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Duty of Care: Part One
29 June —
22 September 2024
Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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Denise Batchelor, RIFF 2024
31 May —
02 June 2024
various locations in Eina, Norway
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Tom Denize and Iann An, An obscuring of self - a veil between yours and theirs
03 April —
15 June 2024
Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Bundoora, Australia
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Jasmine Togo Brisby, It Is Not a Place
20 April —
16 June 2024
Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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Sorawit Songsataya, Orbiting body
13 June —
08 September 2024
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Writing
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.
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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp: Homecoming film screening
24 June —
27 June 2024
Espace Encan, La Rochelle, France
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Brit Bunkley, New York City Independent Film Festival
04 June —
08 June 2024
Theater 1, NYC, USA
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Rozana Lee, Studio Kura residency
01 May —
31 May 2024
Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan
Writing
We Work Well Together
By Julia Craig
11.02.2024
Presented at Phillida Reid, Claudia Kogachi’s Labour of Love and Nova Paul’s Hawaiki offer frames through which to view the role of collaborative practice in building worlds of love, care, and self-determination.
