Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Collection
Imogen Taylor Bud
Bud is one of a series of works painted by Imogen Taylor while staying a friend’s bach in Naseby in Central Otago, where she arrived in 2020 after a six-month award residency in New York was abruptly cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. Maintaining familiar processes and a kind of asymmetrical equilibrium, she employed art historical quotations – nods to cubism, Bauhaus and modernism – to deliver a knowing twist. Bodily references reflect a kind of activism: Bud ostensibly refers to stonefruit of the Central Otago region, but also performs as code for something possibly more sexual.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Exhibition
Turumeke Harrington: Tātou tātou, nau mai rā
The gallery reimagined as an ever-changing maze. Find your own path through!
Exhibition
Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the Context of a Room
A major retrospective celebrating the career and legacy of Joanna Margaret Paul.
Notes
Lonnie Hutchinson: Ahu Timataka / Trace Elements
Kawakawa, a rongoā/medicinal plant indigenous to Aotearoa, is central to this exciting two-part project by leading Ngāi Tahu artist Lonnie Hutchinson, on show at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū from 19 June to 31 October 2021.
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Things That Shape Us
Things That Shape Us reflects on how we cope with trauma, and how it changes us as a community, at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū from 24 July to 7 November.