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Art Matters: Venice Biennale
Fiona Pardington, Taharaki Skyside installation (detail). Photo: Neil Pardington
Chloe Cull and Felicity Milburn
Talk
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Curators Chloe Cull and Felicity Milburn discuss Fiona Pardington’s Taharaki Skyside at the Aotearoa New Zealand pavilion in Venice and share their Biennale highlights.
Related reading: Talk, Venice Biennale, Fiona Pardington, Free event
Commentary
On the World Stage
When Fiona Pardington’s remarkable presentation Taharaki Skyside opens this May at the 2026 Venice Biennale, it will be the result of months of work by the artist and many others, including the team here at the Gallery. In January 2025 the Gallery was announced by Creative New Zealand as the exhibition delivery partner for the project, with curators Felicity Milburn and Chloe Cull at the centre of a team that would work with Pardington to develop the exhibition and accompanying publication. Bulletin asked Chloe and Felicity about the project.
Director's Foreword
Director’s Foreword
In late 2024, the Gallery received the great honour of being chosen by Creative New Zealand as their delivery partner for the national pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. That was the first step in a long process, and as I write this I am preparing to attend the opening of Fiona Pardington’s spectacular exhibition Taharaki Skyside. Our decision to propose Fiona for this occasion was based in our deep respect for her body of practice, and our belief that her current works – profoundly moving photographic portraits of taxidermied native manu in museum collections – were a perfect fit for this moment on the global stage.
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A Tale of Two Chiefs
If you have recently visited He Taonga Rangatira: Noble Treasures at the Gallery you will have been struck by Fiona Pardington's two large photographic portraits of lifelike busts of Ngāi tahu tipuna (ancestors).
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New Zealand in the Biennale of Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand
and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand
