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
Ah, the good old days...
One of the strangest things about Christchurch's post-quake afterlife is how quiet and empty those once-bustling central city streets have become.
Heavy metal and the black arts
To a self-confessed printing-press spotter like me, this Diadem treadle platen press, which belonged to Leo Bensemann, is quite simply an awesome machine.
Ruinlust
Close readers of this blog might have noticed that many of us – curators, teachers, public programmes folk, visitor hosts – are not in our usual offices but instead rubbing shoulders in the Gallery's library. And naturally, we're glad to see visitors. But a week or so ago the human residents of the library were thoroughly upstaged by – what do you know – a book. Or rather 'the book', because that's what visitors called it when they came in for a viewing. Its reputation preceded it.
A Glowing Start
The 20th Kidsfest kicked off on Saturday night with the Lantern Parade in Hagley Park.
Just because...
Obviously, there doesn't really need to be a reason for putting up an image as dazzling as this, but: today is National Poetry Day.
A not-so-fond farewell
Whenever I see this painting by Michael Smither I'm struck by two things: how knowingly and accurately he conveys domestic life and how much I hate highchairs.
Who watches the watchmen?
John Robert Godley (1814–1861) and William Rolleston (1831–1903), two key players in the history of Christchurch, both tumbled off their perches on 22 February.
Road works ahead
Like a little boy picking scabs, the Gallery's skin is being removed at strategic points to see just what is going on underneath.
The Easy Ride
Cycling is still one of the easiest way to get round the inner suburbs of Christchurch after the run of recent earthquakes, but you have to have your wits about you.