Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū

Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales

New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.

What’s On

Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills

A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.

From Here on the Ground

Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!

Cora-Allan: Encountering Aotearoa

A major body of new work that considers the whenua from the vantage point of the moana.

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Timekeeper

For those of you who got to see the De-Building exhibition way back in 2011, for the few weeks it was on display before the earthquakes, you may remember a wonderful piece by Pierre Huyghe, in which concentric rings revealed various layers of paint below the walls surface, a kind of archaelogical exploration of the gallery's exhibition history.

Green with envy

Here's a little collection of works in our collection with links to the Emerald Isle

What is Artbox?

While our main building is closed we are still exhibiting real art in real spaces. One of our new spaces is ArtBox.

It's a stick up

Game, as they say, on.

We do this by Alexis Hunter

This article first appeared as 'I am woman see me paint' in The Press on 14 March 2014.

Nor'western Sky

Yesterday descendents of an old Christchurch identity, John Bradley, presented a charcoal drawing by Petrus van der Velden to Christchurch Art Gallery.

Alexis Hunter

What is important is that artists lend their voice to expressions of freedom in their own unique way. Sometimes an artist's complex reading of a situation, which then can be put in a simple pure image, can help a movement become more popular. Art is an expressive medium, and if it is used to portray the values of a retrogressive regime, the art will be stilted and lifeless. That is why fascistic regimes always kill the poets and writers, and ban contemporary artists from showing. Just by the making of it, real art becomes the voice of freedom.

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