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 ◉ Ammon Ngakuru: Three Scenes
➲ When: Friday 27th September 2024 - Sunday 18th October 2026
Auckland Art Gallery In his new sculpture project, artist Ammon Ngakuru (Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Roroa and Ngāpuhi, born 1993) explores the theatrical potential of the North Terrace at Auckland Art Gallery T ..

Ammon Ngakuru: Three Scenes
 ◉ Areta Wilkinson: Te Mauri o te Puna
➲ When: Monday 8th September 2025 - Sunday 15th February 2026
Christchurch Art Gallery The mauri of this puna bubbles with life, creativity and wellbeing. With flowing shapes that suggest a pool of sparkling water surrounded by thriving flora and fauna, Te Mauri o ..

Areta Wilkinson: Te Mauri o te Puna
 ◉ Gothic Returns: Fuseli to Fomison
➲ When: Saturday 2nd September 2023 - Sunday 16th November 2025
Auckland Art Gallery Gothic Returns: Fuseli to Fomison explores the persistent appeal of ‘the gothic’, a broad term that embraces some of the most darkly charismatic imagery ever produced. Incorpora ..

Gothic Returns: Fuseli to Fomison
 ◉ Hye Rim Lee: Swan Lake
➲ When: Saturday 2nd August 2025 - Sunday 23rd November 2025
Christchurch Art Gallery An immersive, dreamlike digital reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet. Shimmering swans glide across a misty, dreamlike sapphire lake in this shifting, immersive rei ..

Hye Rim Lee: Swan Lake
 ◉ Jenny Holzer | STATEMENT - Truisms +
➲ When: Wednesday 27th March 2024 - Sunday 26th April 2026
Auckland Art Gallery Jenny Holzer’s text works, called Truisms, were first executed as pithy and sometimes provocative slogans on the streets of New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s as stickers, t- ..

Jenny Holzer | STATEMENT - Truisms +
 ◉ Louise Bourgeois: In Private View
➲ When: Friday 27th September 2024 - Sunday 17th May 2026
Auckland Art Gallery Louise Bourgeois: In Private View is the first solo exhibition in Aotearoa New Zealand of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), one of the most intriguing and influential artists of the last ..

Louise Bourgeois: In Private View
 ◉ Ngā Taonga Tūturu: Treasured Māori Portraits
➲ When: Wednesday 18th September 2024 - Sunday 29th November 2026
Auckland Art Gallery Representations of tūpuna, ancestors, hold profound significance in te ao Māori, the Māori world. They embody customary cultural values including mana, tapu and mauri (prestige, sac ..

Ngā Taonga Tūturu: Treasured Māori Portraits
 ◉ Pae o Te Rangi
➲ When: Friday 8th August 2025 - Saturday 22nd November 2025
Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices. Horizontal and vertical plan ..

Pae o Te Rangi
 ◉ Peter Robinson: Charcoal Drawing
➲ When: Saturday 2nd August 2025 - Sunday 23rd November 2025
Christchurch Art Gallery A roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms. In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminiu ..

Peter Robinson: Charcoal Drawing
 ◉ Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
➲ When: Saturday 25th October 2025 - Sunday 8th March 2026
Christchurch Art Gallery Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists. Expatriate painter Raymond McIntyre (1879–1933) is renowned for ..

Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
 ◉ Shona Rapira Davies: Ko te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa
➲ When: Saturday 19th April 2025 - Sunday 19th April 2026
Christchurch Art Gallery A major installation remembering the peaceful resistance shown by the children of Waitara and Parihaka. In the form of a tohorā (whale) tail, Ko te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa is a memo ..

Shona Rapira Davies: Ko te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa
 ◉ Spiral Collectives
➲ When: Friday 22nd August 2025 - Sunday 7th December 2025
Christchurch Art Gallery A closer look at the publications of the influential women's group Spiral Collectives. This year, Spiral Collectives celebrates fifty years of making space for women in Aotearoa ..

Spiral Collectives
 ◉ Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in Aotearoa
➲ When: Saturday 20th April 2024 - Sunday 30th May 2027
Auckland Art Gallery Taimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as ..

Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in Aotearoa
 ◉ The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity
➲ When: Friday 9th February 2024 - Sunday 1st February 2026
Auckland Art Gallery The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity celebrates the monumental gift of significant artworks from the collection of New York philanthropists Julian (1932–2022) and Josie Robert ..

The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity
 ◉ Threads of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles
➲ When: Saturday 2nd September 2023 - Saturday 15th November 2025
Auckland Art Gallery Threads of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles is a jewel-box display in the historic Mackelvie Gallery that offers a survey of European art from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Present ..

Threads of Time: Travel, Trade & Textiles
 ◉ Whāia te Taniwha
➲ When: Saturday 20th September 2025 - Sunday 15th February 2026
Christchurch Art Gallery Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa. Ever-present within the rich kōrero that have sustained Māori for generations, taniwha are often describe ..

Whāia te Taniwha