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
To Russia with love
The Gallery owns an assortment of British eighteenth-century prints copied from paintings at Houghton Hall in England.
Touring On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
Michael Parekowhai's extraordinary sculptural installation On first looking into Chapman's Homer, New Zealand's official presentation at this year's Venice Biennale, finished its triumphant outing at this amazing exhibition on 23 October.
Decline and fall
Here we have Hamilton Palace, one of Scotland's finest houses, as depicted in its final moments by the Australian actor/artist W.S. Percy.
Finale
I bike past this relatively new building on the corner of Peterborough and Victoria streets every morning and marvel at its demise.
Coming unstuck
Darryn George's The Lambs' Book of Life (Folder Wall) has been taken down again, apparently for the last time.
Painting free
School groups in Christchurch have been learning about abstract art as part of the Gallery's outreach programme.
Heart in the high country: Austen Deans (1915 - 2011)
For Austen Deans, OBE, painting was an expression of his love of the outdoors and, in particular, the Canterbury high country.
Computer art
Two works dating from about 1880 can claim to be the earliest computer generated art in the collection.