Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Kāi Tahu and Anne Noble: Unutai e! Unutai e!
Unutai e! Unutai e! harnesses the power of contemporary art to shed light on an urgent environmental crisis: the deteriorating state of fresh water across the Ngāi Tahu takiwā.
Kā Whakatauraki: The Promises
A landmark exhibition bringing together the ten Ngāi Tahu land sale purchase deeds.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
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What You're Saying About Burster Flipper
Positive, bright, colourful, fun and stunning are words that our audiences are using to describe our current ArtBox exhibition Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker. Here are some comments from our visitors book:
Art Bites are Back!
Art Bites were always a popular offering at the Gallery, so we've brought them back. And like most things in post-quake Christchurch, they're the same but different.
On the level
Despite the fact that we're closed, over the past few months one area of the building has enjoyed visitor numbers that would make a lot of exhibition spaces slightly jealous.
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.
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.
Green with envy
Here's a little collection of works in our collection with links to the Emerald Isle
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.