Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
New exhibition now open.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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
Record breaker
It's official – Ron Mueck has become the most popular paid-entry exhibition ever to be shown at Christchurch Art Gallery!
Art for arms?
As a registrar, when I open a miscellaneous box marked 'freight' I expect to find paperwork relating to, well, freight...
Love him or hate him?
That was the question posed by Emilie Sitzia and Louise Palmer to a large group of forty who had come along to listen to the ArtBite on Wild man last Wednesday.
Mark Braunias at work
Artist Mark Braunias is in the building working on a new mural commission for the Gallery.
Ron Mueck comments
We've put a comments book in the Ron Mueck show where visitors have expressed their pleasure, and in a few cases their disquiet. My favourite comment is "It looked scary but wasn't" which is in fact rather a profound thought.
Big up to the designers
We were delighted to hear that this website was awarded not only a gold medal, but the Purple Pin in the interactive category at last Friday night's BeST awards.
New bunker work installed
We've just had Wayne Youle in, creating a new work for the Gallery's carpark bunker.
You big baby
While we're looking at sculptures at the larger end of the scale bracket, here's Ron Mueck's A girl.
Under the sheets
Downstairs in the galleries the exhibitions team have been working flat out for the last couple of weeks to prepare for Ron Mueck.