Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Tīrama Mai 2025
Tīrama Mai is back this winter to celebrate Puanga Matariki with an array of artistic lighting and cultural displays in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
E tuwhera ana te wharetoi i kā rā e 7 o te wiki, 10am - 5pm
Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
Along the Heaphy Highway
An invitation to stay with friends at Mapua recently was an offer too good to turn down, and provided a thankful respite from the beaten and bruised town of Christchurch.
When green is the new brown
You can't polish a turd – or so they say, but full credit to the Christchurch City Council for trying.
Bridge of Remembrance 1937 and 2011
As the city changes, it's a good opportunity to revisit some of the less well-known items in our collection.
Volunteer guides reconnect at Sunday sessions
Our dedicated team of 42 volunteer guides dearly miss their work at the Gallery.
Hopping up North
Malt is the soul of beer and yeast gives it life but the kiss of the hop is the vitality of that life. Tom Inglis
A war played out twice a week
This month marks thirty years since the South African rugby team began its controversial 'Springbok' tour of New Zealand in the face of widespread and growing protest.
There's no business, like snow business
It seems we're really just not set up to deal with snow in Christchurch.
I dont want no retro spective
Let's talk titles again.
Not titles of paintings this time, but whole survey shows. Your life as an artist is being summed up in one exhibition, and what are you going to call it?
Tips for Trying Times #1 (an occasional series)
1. NEVER go to bed in anything you wouldn't want to wear in the middle of the street.
2. NEVER put the cornflour at the front of your pantry and ALWAYS close the pantry doors.
3. DON'T drive down Madras Street north of Bealey Avenue (contender for The Bounciest Liquefaction-enhanced City Street award), but if you do...