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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Collection
Ronnie van Hout Quasi II
Ronnie van Hout relishes the first-person plural. Versions of the artist – some credible, some more unhinged – show up regularly throughout his practice. Almost-Ronnies revisit his childhood, filter his experiences of the art world and act out darkly funny imaginings. The fun-sized effigies here are the smaller, more mobile offspring of Quasi, the giant, disembodied face-in-a-hand that loomed from the rooftop of this building in 2016. Whereas the original had a mournful malevolence, these more rambunctious homunculi seem cloned in the service of mischief and mayhem.
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
Collection
Ronnie van Hout Quasi I
Ronnie van Hout relishes the first-person plural. Versions of the artist – some credible, some more unhinged – show up regularly throughout his practice. Almost-Ronnies revisit his childhood, filter his experiences of the art world and act out darkly funny imaginings. The fun-sized effigies here are the smaller, more mobile offspring of Quasi, the giant, disembodied face-in-a-hand that loomed from the rooftop of this building in 2016. Whereas the original had a mournful malevolence, these more rambunctious homunculi seem cloned in the service of mischief and mayhem.
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
Exhibition
Jeffrey Harris: The Gift
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most celebrated painters.
Exhibition
Cheryl Lucas: Shaped by Schist and Scoria
Seductive surfaces and tough issues – these are ceramics made for the eyes and mind.
Exhibition
The Moon and the Manor House
Aestheticism, Arts and Crafts, and the avid pursuit of beauty.
