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Unfamiliar Asia forum introduction. Photo: John B Turner

Beijing Photo Biennial Symposium Pt 1

Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM)

Beijing


The Second Beijing Photo Biennial and Symposium


15 October - 29 October 2015.

APW
Zhonghao Chen's Environmental Freakology as installed at Jonthan Smart Gallery

Paint as Fuel or Food

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Zhonghao Chen
Environmental freakology

 

1 December - 19 December 2015

JH

Coleridge and Shakespeare as a Springboard to N*W

Close Your Eyes With Holy Dread
Edited by Henry Davidson

Kim Gordon, Robin Hyde, Andrew Durbin, Samuel Te Kani, Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Jesse Darling, Holly Childs


Artspace, 2015.


JH
Photo of Te Tuhi's front entrance by Sam Hartnett.

Gregorian Chant as Geographic Sandwich

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Olivia Webb
Scale

 

14 November 2015 - 14 February 2016

Adrienne Vaughan, Plyx (2013), Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show 2015, installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Photograph: Emil McAvoy.

Wet Paint: AAG’s ‘Necessary Distraction’

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Twenty NZ painters
Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show

 

28 November 2015 - 4 April 2016

PI

Life & Times

Jocelyn Carlin

Every Picture Tells a Story
A book of photographs

224 pp, hardback

Te Whenua publications, Auckland, 2015.


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Shigeyuki Kihara's Undressing the Pacific at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. Photo: Kevin Dornauf

Shigeyuki Kihara in Hamilton

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Shigeyuki Kihara
Undressing the Pacific

 

14 November 2015 - 29 February 2016

APW
Photo by Michael Clayton-Jones. Courtesy of The Age

Kees Hos: Printmaker, Gallerist, Teacher, War Hero

Kees Hos obituary.

WG
Simon Denny, Formalised Org Chart/Architectural model: GCHQ3 Agile/Holacracy Workspace, 2015, mixed media. 200 x 210 x 10 cm. Photo: Nick Ash, courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne

Denny’s Serpentine Show

SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY

London

 

Simon Denny
Products for Organising

 

25 November 2015 - 14 February 2016


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Staff install John Gibb’s Clearing up after rain, foot of Otira Gorge, 1887, oil on canvas. Purchased, 1964. Photograph by John Collie, Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu

The Build Up to Today’s CAG Opening

EyeContact Essay #12
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Sam Harrison: Untitled (Ink XIV), 2015, ink on paper,  96 x 65 cm; Untitled (Ink IX), 2015, ink on paper, 96 x 65 cm

Sam Harrison Ink Studies

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Sam Harrison
Inks /Woodcuts/Sculpture

 

26 November 2015 - 19 December 2015

JH
Over Under Sideways Down as installed at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Angular Abstraction

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Selina Foote, Jeena Shin, Jan van der Ploeg
Over Under Sideways Down

4 December 2015 - 23 January 2016


JH
Installation of Visiting Asia at Te Tuhi. In the centre is  Jade Townsend, Ancient, 2014, LED light, 500 x 240 x 800 mm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Kiwi Visitors to the East

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Visiting Asia


14 November - 21 February 2016

CA
Anida Yoeu Ali, The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (production still), 2015, 2-channel HD video projection, 7:00 minutes (looped), colour, sound, ed. of 5 A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugarno

The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY

Brisbane

 

International art triennial
APT8

 

21 November 2015 - 10 April 2016

SVG
Craig Freeborn, Bull Block, 2015, oil on canvas, 1750 x 3000 mm

Otago Polytech Grad Show

DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY

Dunedin


Various Artists
Site 2015


20 November - 28 November 2015


APW

Examining Te Papa’s Photography

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Photography Collected
Athol McCredie

Over 400 colour and b/w images from the national collection

368 pp, hardcover


Te Papa Tongarewa October 2015

JH
Jess Johnson, Alien Sex Magick, acrylic paint, ink, archival pigment print on paper, 101 x 73.5 cm (paper size), 109 x 80cm (framed)

Jess Johnson Prints and Drawings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jess Johnson
Sensorium Chamber

 

18 November - 19 December 2015

JH
Michael Parekowhai, Autumn Winds, 2015, aluminium, automotive paint, oak, 208 x 89 x 370 cm

Parekowhai Installation

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Parekowhai
Rules of the Game

 

13 November - 19 December 2016


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James Cousins' Restless Idiom at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Inventively Oblique Cousins

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Auckland

 

James Cousins
Restless Idiom

28 November 2015 - 21 February 2016

WG
Emily Jacir, Lydda Airport, 2009. Installation with single channel animation film and sculpture, dimensions variable, photo: Jason Mandella © Emily Jacir, courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York

Emily Jacir in London

WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

London

 

Emily Jacir
Europa

 

30 September 2015 - 3 January 2016

PI
Shigeru Takato, Television Studios.

Can Do” Photography

PHOTOSPACE

Wellington

 

Group exhibition
Selected Exposure
Curated by Haruhiko Sameshima

 

16 October - 2 November 2015