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Fiona Pardington, Sanguine Unicorn, 2016

Colourful Pardington

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
100% Unicorn

 

24 May - 25 June 2016

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Harum Farocki, Their Newspapers, 1968,  16 mm film transferred to video. 17 min. (Courtesy of Harun Farocki GbR). Photo: Sam Hartnett

On the Beach

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International Group exhibition
Beachhead’s PIECE OF MIND


5 May - 25 June 2016

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Trent Clarke's The Camera as God: Street Portrait Series, as installed at Two Rooms. This is the lefthand wall. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Urban Anomie

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Trent Parke
The Camera is God: Street Portrait Series

 

3 June - 9 July 2016


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Installation of New Zealand Photography Collected, 2016. Photo: Mike O'Neill (c) Te Papa.

Performance

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

 

A selection from the national collection of 165 years of photography
New Zealand Photography Collected

6 November 2015 - 7 August 2016

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Cover of Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch. Photo by Daegen Wells

Pauline Rhodes’s Dark Watch Publication

Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch
Co-edited by Abby Cunnane and Charlotte Huddleston

Foreword and essays by Christina Barton, Charlotte Huddleston, Ash Kilmartin and Rebecca Boswell

Published by St Paul St Gallery, AUT, 2016.

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Tanya Edwards, Me'akai 2, ngatu

Art in a Weimar Kingdom

ON THE SPOT ARTSPACE

Nuku’alofa

On the Spot Arts Collective
Tenth Anniversary Celebration
22 April 2016

 

Tanya Edwards
Me’akai, four new ngatu
22 April - 22 May 2016


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Works by Robyn Kahukiwa and Andrea Hopkins in Waitangi Wahine, at the Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne

Agitating Acutely

TAIRAWHITI MUSEUM

Gisborne


Robyn Kahukiwa, Tracey Tawhiao, Andrea Hopkins, Linda Munn and Suzanne Tamaki
Waitangi Wahine



15 April - 26 June 2016

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Suji Park, Zahra Killeen-Chance, Solomon Mortimer, Serruria Carmen, 2015-16, archival inkjet print, ed of 3 +1 ap, 1100 mm x 890 mm

Fascinating Collaborations

BOWERBANK NINOW

Auckland

 

Zahra Killeen-Chance, Solomon Mortimer, and Suji Park
647nM

 

11 May -18 June 2016

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Tony Garifalakis's Bloodline as presented at Sarah Scout Gallery's booth.

Attempting More than Commerce?

The Cloud

Downtown Auckland

 

40 dealer galleries from New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands and Chile.
Auckland Art Fair 2016

 

25 May - 29 May 2016


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The works of Sebastian Vargas as presented in the space of Mutt, from Santiago, Chile.

All’s Fair in Art and War

The Cloud

Downtown Auckland

 

Forty dealer booths representing galleries from New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands, and Chile

Auckland Art Fair 2016

 

26 May - 29 May 2016

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Ignacio Gumucio, Site-specific mural painting, 2016, mixed media. Courtesy of the artist, Chile.

The South American Imagination (3)

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland


International group show
Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America


7 May - 18 September 2016

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Ernesto Neto, Just like drops in time, nothing, 2002, textile, spices, dimensions variable. Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales -Purchased with the assistance of Clayton Utz.

The South American Imagination (2)

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

International group show
Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America

 

7 May - 18 September 2016


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Selection of stills from Cinthia Marcelle and Tiego Mata Machado's O Seculo (The Century), 2011, video.

The South American Imagination (1)

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

International group show

Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America

 

7 May - 18 September 2016

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Alter: Between Human and Non-Human, as installed at Gus Fisher. l-r: Nina Sellars, Scan, 2012; Agatha Haines, Drones with Desires, 2015; Stelarc, Prosthetic Head, 2002. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Blending Humanness with Machinery

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Stelarc, Sellars, Haines, Knox, Prophet, Lawler-Dormer and Sagar
Alter: Between Human and Non-human


22 April - 21 May 2016

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Frida painting the portrait of her father by Gisèle Freund, 1951 ©Frida Kahlo Museum

A Dove Ascending

TE MANAWA

Palmerston North

 

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo: her photos

19 March - 24 July 2016


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Julian Dashper, Dashper again and again, again, multiples from 1986 -2006, as installed at Michael Lett.

More and More (and More) Dashper

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Julian Dashper

Julian Dashper again and again, again

 

4 May - 4 June 2016

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Alfredo Jaar, A Logo fro America, 1087, framed Fujiflex print, 629 x 565 mm

Alfredo Jaar in Auckland

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Alfredo Jaar
The Politics of Images

 

7 May - 10 June 2016

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Geoff Thornley, WN #16, 2015, oil on canvas on board, 122 x 122 cm

Thornley’s Unusual Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Solo show
Geoff Thornley

 

16 April - 28 May 2016


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The corridor outside Ane Tonga's Men are from Maama, Women are from Pulotu. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Examining Tongan Nifo Koula

MANGERE ARTS CENTRE NGA TOHU O UENUKU

Mangere

 

Ane Tonga
Men are from Maama, Women are from Pulotu 

 

1 April - 28 May 2016

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Bryan Dew, Wedding breakfast, 1961, Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 2008/5

Agony in the Garden

MTG HAWKES BAY

Napier

 

Bryan Dew
Bryan Dew & the panorama of social unease: paintings and drawings


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15 April 2014 - 7 July 2016

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Andre Hemer's New Representation Part III, as installed at Gow Langsford

Hemer at Gow Langsford

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Andre Hemer
New Representation Part III

 

20 April - 14 May 2016