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    • Live performance links with Jarman exhibition
      • Aaron Lister is Kai Pupuri Matua Senior Curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington staged the largest performance in its history in mid-November. Artist Tobias Allen and their collaborators from Footnote Dance roamed through all the currently vacant spaces of the gallery. These now mute, empty galleries were filled with sound, […] The post Live performance links with Jarman exhibition appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition Meditations takes collaborative approach to explore time
      • 30 November 2024 Meditations, the latest exhibition from City Gallery Te Whare Toi, at its temporary home in National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, is an exploration of time and the creation of personal archives. Four artists: Moorina Bonini (Yorta Yorta/Woiwurrung), Lily Dowd, Te Ara Minhinnick (Ngaati Te Ata) and Dr […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition Meditations takes collaborative approach to explore time appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Designing the alphabet with Julian Hooper
      • Megan Dunn is Curator Special Projects at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. A is for addictive! Last year I discovered the alphabet paintings of Tamaki Mākaurau Auckland based artist Julian Hooper and was instantly hooked. Since 2018, Hooper has amassed multiple drawings and paintings of the alphabet. His palette is stylised and pared back, […] The post Designing the alphabet with Julian Hooper appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi says goodbye to Quasi
      • One of Wellington’s most recognisable sculptures leaves the roof of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi this week, after five years surveying the city and its inhabitants. Quasiby Ronnie van Hout was initially commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in 2016, to grace the roof of Christchurch Art Gallery following the 2011 […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi says goodbye to Quasi appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Speaking in Darkness — Tobias Allen in Conversation
      • Performance artist Tobias Allen sat down with City Gallery Wellington’s Public Programmes Specialist, Graham Frost to discuss How Far Do Your Arms Reach? his upcoming collaborative performance with Footnote New Zealand Dance, commissioned by City Gallery Wellington to mark the exhibition Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days.  Can you tell us about the inspiration behind How Far Do […] The post Speaking in Darkness — Tobias Allen in Conversation appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Generation X looks back and remembers
      • Megan Dunn is Curator Special Projects at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. Satan is much bigger than I thought. I gasped when I saw her taken out of the crate. The two exhibition installers, Robin and Ollie ushered Satan into the red room and put her down on a pair of chucks. Chucks are […] The post Generation X looks back and remembers appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Te Whare Toi brings Julian Hooper: The Letter to National Library of New Zealand
      • 20 August 2024 It may be coincidence, but the first exhibition City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi is showing in partnership with National Library of New Zealand Te Puna o Mātauranga o Aotearoa is all about letters. JulianHooper:TheLetteris a City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition shown at National Library of New Zealand Te Puna […] The post City Gallery Te Whare Toi brings Julian Hooper: The Letter to National Library of New Zealand appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi announces partnership with National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
      • 18 July 2024 City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi is partnering with National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, to continue to bring exhibitions to Wellington while the gallery is temporarily away from home. Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington Tumu Whakarae Diana Marsh says the agreement with National Library, part of Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi announces partnership with National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi celebrates internationally renowned pioneering artist and gay rights activist
      • 10 July 2024 A new exhibition celebrates the work, activism and legacy of UK artist Derek Jarman, while also teasing out his connection to Aotearoa New Zealand. Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days will be presented at The Dowse Art Museum in partnership with City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi from 28 September 2024 to 26 January […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi celebrates internationally renowned pioneering artist and gay rights activist appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi celebrates Chartwell Collection with big noisy group show
      • 4 July 2024 What do a series of DIY modernist birdhouses, a perpetually spinning CD, and Minnie Dean’s unmarked grave have in common? They all feature in Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection. City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, in its first show away from home, is celebrating the Chartwell Collection with a […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi celebrates Chartwell Collection with big noisy group show appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi continues to bring art to Wellington despite leaving home
      • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi will continue to bring two significant exhibitions to Wellington this year despite disruptive construction work temporarily forcing it out of its iconic building in Te Ngākau Civic Square. Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington Tumu Whakarae Chief Executive Diana Marsh says her team has worked incredibly hard alongside partner institutions Museum […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi continues to bring art to Wellington despite leaving home appeared first on .

    • Divine symmetry
      • In her new exhibition, contemporary artist Julia Morison channels a new source of influence through her otherworldly art practice: the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint.By Theo Macdonald published by North & South Magazine In the mid-70s, freshly delivered from the art-school womb, multi-media artist Julia Morison (now 72) found herself swaddled in the spiky […] The post Divine symmetry appeared first on .

    • Contemporary artists explore the stories we tell in Memory Lines 
      • 29 February 2024 Five contemporary artists explore how knowledge can be shared across time and culture in Memory Lines, a new exhibition opening at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi.  The show brings together the work of Fiona Clark, Kirtika Kain, Rozana Lee, Sriwhana Spong and Hōhua Thompson (Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti […] The post Contemporary artists explore the stories we tell in Memory Lines  appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Neo-pop crocodiles feature in playful show at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi
      • January 2024 A new series of work, showcasing an entourage of neo-pop crocodiles, features in a new exhibition opening at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi next month. Turbo Croc 2.0 riffs off the evolution of multi-disciplinary artist Ahsin Ahsin’s half-human/half crocodile hybrid ‘Croc’ character, born out of research into amphora black-figure vase paintings, common […] The post Neo-pop crocodiles feature in playful show at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Eerie Pageantry combines artists’ fascination with folk horror and art
      • 11 October 2023 Visitors to City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi will delve into the folk horror genre when a new exhibition opens later this month. Eerie Pageantry brings together the work of New Zealand modernist artist Don Driver (1930-2011) and prominent contemporary Australian artist Julia Robinson, who both make art that balances dark content with […] The post Eerie Pageantry combines artists’ fascination with folk horror and art appeared first on City Gallery.

    • The sound of one hand waving 
      • By City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi Experience Wellington Curator Megan Dunn From his perch on the rooftop of City Gallery Wellington Quasi looks forward to the rebuild of Te Ngākau Civic Square. One wind-frightened day, a little boy in a yellow rain jacket turned back and looked across Te Ngākau Civic Square, his face […] The post The sound of one hand waving appeared first on .

    • On the Lure of the Sea
      • By Experience Wellington Curator Megan Dunn. Originally published on ArtNow.NZ. Alexis Hunter, mermaids and me THE LURE OF THE SEA is an oil painting by Alexis Hunter, but I first fell for it as a jpeg. I dragged and dropped it into a PowerPoint called ‘The Muse of War: Mermaids, Hybridity and Feminism in the art […]

    • Through a glass, glittery
      • By City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi Senior Curator Aaron Lister One of my favourite views of the exhibition Reuben Paterson: The Only Dream Left is from outside City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi at night. Looking through the glass doors you see that a four-and-a-half metre glittered tree has mysteriously taken root. The Golden […]

    • Ask Me Anything: Reuben Paterson
      • Exhibiting artist Reuben Paterson sits down to answer questions submitted by our audience. What is your advice to young artists? What is the inspiration behind your work Koro? What is your view on secondary art markets and equity for artists? Best and worst things about working with Glitter? Reuben answers these questions and more. The […]

    • Artists in Conversation: Martin Basher and Ben Buchanan
      • Artists Martin Basher and Ben Buchanan sit down for a candid conversation about their work, practice and the ideas that have brought them together for the exhibition SOUR GRAPES. Both artists push painting beyond the frame, into other media, onto walls, floors and into the world in order to explore some of the possibilities and […]

    • Simon Morris on Room of Time
      • Te Whanganui-a-Tara artist Simon Morris has made site-based paintings in most of Aotearoa’s public galleries. In this video series, we sit down with Simon to unpack his most recent work Walking Drawing as part of the exhibition Room of Time. Abstract in form and impermanent in nature, this painting exists only for the duration of […]

    • Art, Authorship & Reuse
      • Hosted by Caitlin Lynch · December 2, 2022 Sampling, reuse and copying have long been strategies and approaches in artistic practice and is a thread you can follow through art history. But who owns art? Should culture be under copyright? What are the limits of fair use? These questions are explored in the recent artworks exhibited at City […]

    • Debra Bustin: Illustrated Talk
      • City Gallery Wellington is excited to share an illustrated talk by artist Debra Bustin presenting her history of art making and exhibition. With exhibitions described in the press as ‘opulent phantasmagoria’ and ‘unexpected and undecipherable’, Debra Bustin has led an ambitious and challenging art practice spanning several decades. In this illustrated talk using documentation rarely […]

    • The Maker
      • Words by Maggie Tweedie. Originally published on Island.com. It’s both effortless and impractical to follow the work of Joanna Margaret Paul. Much like the words which emerge throughout her paintings, she is ever evolving. Imagined in the Context of a Room, gathers a breadth of works, spanning decades of her life from the early 70s to the […]

    • Notes on: Fruiting bodies
      • ‘Notes On’ is an online weekly exhibition column by Connie Brown. Originally published in The Art Paper, Issue 04. Online, mycology forums mimic their object of study. Threads accumulate, spreading deep and wide, bifurcate, and loop back upon themselves as users post images, seek help in identifying an unknown species, discuss medicinal uses, or simply […]

    • Thinking Out Loud: Moya Lawson
      • Moya Lawson on the development of At Thresholds at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. Originally published on Art Now, read the essay here. Making art about other species seems less restrained than writing about them. The artists in At Thresholds are experimental with their practices, harnessing colour, shape, and material—the organic and the machine. […]

    • Glen Hayward: Wish You Were Here
      • Artist Glen Hayward take us deeper with anecdotes and insights into the works that make up Wish You Were Here. Glen Hayward’s work blends carving, painting and conceptualism to snare the viewer in a standoff around what is real or illusionary, art or not art, profound or absurd. Wish You Were Here focuses on his […]

    • MATARAU – New group exhibition at City Gallery big on scale and ambition
      • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi’s exhibition Matarau responds to our turbulent times and exploresthe role that art can play in navigating new found complexities of everyday life. Matarau is a group exhibition of contemporary Māori art, guest curated by Walters Prize-winning Pōnekeartist, writer and curator, Shannon Te Ao. It features all new work made […]

    • Access to Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings on Saturday 12 March 
      • Due to a gathering at Te Ngākau Civic Square this Saturday, entry to Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings will be via our Harris Street entrance. We are closing our main entrance to ensure visitor safety following notification of a gathering by Freedoms & Rights Coalition in this space on Saturday. This is likely to […]

    • Ummu: Hilma af Klint Here and Now
      • Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, curated by Sue Cramer, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 June–19 September 2021, and City Gallery Wellington, 4 December 2021–17 March 2022.

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