JH
et al., the fundamental practice, 2005, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, with the support of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2008. Installation view: 51st Venice Biennale, 2005. Photograph by Jennifer French.

What Avant-Garde?

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

et al.

 

the fundamental practice

 

8 August - 15 November 2026

Revamped ‘radicality’?

JH

Darragh’s Pungent Planetary Critique

TWO ROOMS

Judy Darragh

 

Pool

 

22 July - 17 August 2026

Planetary Puke

JH

Glorious Exuberant Hybridity

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Yuki Kihara


Samoa no Uta. A Song About Samoa - Taiheiyo (Pacific) 2023

Samoan siapo (featuring barkcloth from the mulberry tree), textiles, felt, beads, plastic, kimonos: 1750 x 1410 x 250 mm each, installation dimensions variable.

Spell-binding Kihara


JH

Stichbury Portraits

Lett Thomas

Peter Stichbury

 

Grand Guignol

 

11 June - 11 July 2026

Recent works

JH
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Untitled (I Am In Training. Don't Kiss Me), 1927. Courtesy of Jersey Heritage Collections

Liberating in Many Senses

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore


Studies For a Keepsake


Essay by Lisa Beauchamp and Ruth Minh Ha


29 May - 22 August 2026

Bold Courageous Playful Artists

JH
Hugo Koha Lindsay, Vowels No.8, Cut and Reordered, 2026, graphite compound and synthetic polymer on cotton duck, 1370 x 1980 mm

Chopping Up (and Rearranging) Indecipherable ‘Drawn’ Language

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Hugo Koha Lindsay

 

Minor Infractions



10 June - 4 July 2026

Shuffling Around Bits of Mutilated Cursive Text


JH
Helen Calder, Black Wave (40 fl. oz.), 2009 -20, acrylic on ply, 1500 x 570 x 535 mm.

Inserting Earlier Actions into a Strip of Time

TWO ROOMS

Gretchen Albrecht, Helen Calder, John Nixon, Noel Ivanoff, Jeena Shin

 

Past Perfect

Essay by Lucinda Bennett


17 April - 30 May 2026

Looking at Past Perfect

JH
Gouache and watercolour work by Ralph Paine

Paine at St. Kevins

CHARLES NINOW

Ralph Paine

 

Cult of the Artist

 

1 May - 30 May 2026 [open Fri and Sats]

A Ninow Presentation

JH
Lu Pingyuan, The Best of the Best Draw--King of the Underground Peonies, 2024

Extraordinary Chinese Art

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now

 

Curated by Hutch Wilco



2 May - 23 August 2026

Inventive, Varied and Riveting


JH
Jane Bustin, Mary and Three Prayers, wood, brass, lenticular, 1970s

Abstraction with Religious / Erotic Narrative

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Jane Bustin

 

Sisters

 

13 March - 25 April 2026

Provocatively Inventive Bustin

JH
Sam Norton, When Love is Not Enough, 2023, two-channel video, runtime 4 min 25 sec

Split Screen Comparisons

TWO ROOMS

Sam Norton

 

When Love is Not Enough

 

13 March - 11 April 2026

Formal accentuations, despite ornithology

JH
Zac Langdon-Pole, Steer Skull (After Arthur Robinson) 2026, recombined jigsaw pictures of microscope picturing of mousebrain neurons and coloured 3D scan of a metamorphosising hawkmoth chrysalis. 1968 x 1505 x 40 mm (including frame)

Langdon-Pole’s Jigsaw Combinations

Lett Thomas

Zac Langdon-Pole

 

Caterpillar Soup

 

20 March - 18 April 2026

Startling Blended Pairings


JH
Henry Turner, In Your Eyes I See the Weight of Planets

Unusual Henry Turner Display

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Henry Turner

 

THE FEAR, THE GUILT & THE PAIN

 

14 March - 18 April 2026

Colourful Jewel-loaded Embroidery

JH
Installation shot of Colin McCahon's Safety in Numbers exhibition at AAG.

Ghostly Ethereal McCahon Numbers

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Safety in Numbers: Colin McCahon’s Dark Equations


Curated by Julia Waite

 

6 July 2025 - 10 May 2026

Painted Sheets with Different Sequencing Trajectories

JH
Seung Yul Oh, Pre, epoxy paint on PLA, 90 x 120 x 35 cm, ed. of 8.

Turning Within a Painted Stasis

STARKWHITE

Seung Yul Oh


Bod


28 February - 28 March 2026

The Freezing of Optic Consequences


JH
Jerome Ngan-Kee: four paintings on the short wall.

Using AI for ‘Drawn’ / Linear Text Paintings

CHARLES NINOW

Jerome Ngan-Kee

 

Realism

 

14 February - 7 March 2026

Unusual Selection of Textual Phrases & Images

JH
Julian Hooper, Setting Up, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 700 x 800 mm

Julian Hooper’s Ornate (But Diagramatic) Variety of Surrealism

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Julian Hooper

 

Bones


4 February - 7 March 2026

Highly Imaginative with Personal Schemata

JH
Pip Culbert, Zodiac, 1995, rubber, buckles, rope, eyelets, dimensions variable

Pip Culbert Sampler

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Pip Culbert

 

Anti-Utilitarian


February - March 2026

Reinventing Drawing So Fabric Seam Becomes Mark


JH
David Shrigley, Untitled (Contemporary Performance Art), 2024, ink on paper, 500 x 375 mm, framed

Deliriously Weird Shrigley Drawings

TWO ROOMS

David Shrigley


Works on Paper


10 February - 7 March 2026

Wry, Wobbly & Wonky Cartoons

JH
Installation view of part of Midwestern Unlike You and Me. At Michael Lett.

Exciting Dashper Survey

MICHAEL LETT

Julian Dashper

 

Midwestern Unlike You and Me

 

30 January 2026 - 07 March 2026

Amazing range of conceptual explorations

JH
Alberto Giancomett, Paris Sans Fini, published drawing

Psychologically Intense Giacometti Prints

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Without End

Curated by Kenneth Brummel

29 November 2025 - 11 July 2027

Drawing-based Lithographs