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JH
Blue Guts by Mark Braunias and Jill Kennedy, at the Film Archive: Egg Head, 2013, animation; Shit Face, 2013, animation

Braunias – Kennedy Collaboration

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Mark Braunias & Jill Kennedy
Blue Guts

 

3 September - 11 October

APW
Supply + Demand at The Physics Room, featuring Robert Hood's When the mountains bow down and become valleys (2013). Amy Howden-Chapman ‘s What Depressions Look Like (2013) is on the right. Photo: Daegan Wells

The Dark Arts of Capitalist Economics

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Bennewith, Hood, Howden-Chapman, Kirschner & Panos, Paton
Supply + Demand

 

31 August - 6 October

JH
Nick Austin, Shark Envelope, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 970 x 1940 mm

Terror in the Letterbox

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nick Austin
Total Dread

 

7 August - 6 September 2013


JH
Greg Semu, Battle of the Noble Savage, Illford galerie, gold fibre silk, 350gsm 1000 x 1000mm, ©Musée Quai Branly & Greg Semu 2007

Greg Semu’s Battling ‘Noble Savages’

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Greg Semu
Battle of the Noble Savage

 

23 August - 28 September 2013

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Zena Elliott, Familar Spaces: Diptych, 2012, acrylic on canvas. Photo by Aisha Roberts

Testing Notions of Identity

GALLAGHER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Zena Elliot
Glokool


16 August - 11 October 2013

FS
Ann Shelton: Samuel Butler. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames, from A Library; Rhodophyta, A view across the Rangitata River Valley to Erewhon Station, from Mesopotamia Station, Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa, New Zealand 2013.

Australasian New Media in Dunedin

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Australian and NZ artists
Among the Machines

 

6 July - 3 November 2013


JH
Oscar Enberg, Boothseat for Pukahontas, two pot automotive paint, fibreglass, permanent marker, powder-coated and chrome plated aluminium, leather, hand blown glass, rose plant, 3D printed plastic and brass spoon, 1200 x 600 x 510 mm

Unusual Synthesis

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Oscar Enberg
The Pynchons S01E01

 

15 August - 31 August 2013

JH
Installation of The Other Place at Allpress Gallery

Eight Elam Graduates

ALLPRESS GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
The Other Place


7 August - 23 August 2013

 

WG
Installation image of Through The Interface and Over Time.

From Binary Code to Rock Painting

DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM

Berlin

 

Nicky Broekhuysen
Potency Filled Things

 

21 June - 3 August 2013


JH
Mladen Bizumic's Kodachrome Presents on the Edmiston North Scuplture Terrace of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Bizumic on the Terrace

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Mladen Bizumic
Kodachrome Presents


10 August 2013 - 6 April 2014

WG
Bogusław Schaeffer, PR – I VIII 1972, drawing on paper Courtesy of the collection of Muzeum Sztuki, Łodź 6.

Eastern European Experimentation

CALVERT 22

London

 

Group Show
Sounding the Body Electric

 

26 June - 25 August 2013

pd
Dieneke Jansen, Morrison Drive, Hobsonville, 23 November, 2012. Image supplied by Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

Hamilton’s National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition
2013 National Contemporary Art Award

 

17 August - 10 November


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Bronwynne Cornish, Fox, High-fired red earthenware with white and coloured slips

Cornish & Dodd

THE NATIONAL

Christchurch

 

Bronwynne Cornish and Jane Dodd
Tooth and Claw

 

30 July - 17 August 2013

JH
Manon de Boer, One, two, many, 2012, 16 mm film transferred to HD video, 16:9, 21 mins, 38 secs.  Installed at Artspace. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Before and During Speech

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Hsu, de Boer, Cooper, Nashashibi, Jannides
Hermes’ Lack of Words


26 July - 31 August 2013

JM
Joe Sheehan, The Quick and the Dead, 2013, detail, greywacke, basalt, argillite. Photo: Kallan MacLeod

Sci-Fi Sheehan

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Joe Sheehan
The Quick and the Dead

 

30 July - 24 August 2013


KC
Mary Ann DeWeese, Swimsuit, 1961

Californian Design

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Assorted designers

Californian Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way

 

6 July - 29 September 2013

APW
Janet Lilo, Hit me with your best shot, at The Physics Room

Janet Lilo at The Physics Room

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Janet Lilo
Hit me with your best shot

 

26 July - 25 August 2013

JH
Julian Dashper (l-r): Untitled (2006),2 stacked reversed triangular primed canvases, 220 x 255 x 75 mm; Untitled (The End of All Obsessive Behaviour) Part 3, 2002, 4 stacked primed canvases, 155 x 155 x 170 mm; Untitled (2006), 3 joined primed canvases

Layered Dashper

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Julian Dashper
Untitled

 

2 August - 17 August 2013


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Michael Parekowhai, He Korero Purakau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river, 2011, Steinway grand piano, brass, steel, resin, ivory, ebony, mother of pearl, paua and lacquer, Purchased 2011, with the assistance of the Friends of Te Papa

Te Papa’s Rehang

TE PAPA TONGAREWA MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

 

Collection regrouping
Nga Toi - Arts Te Papa

 

Ongoing

JH
Roger Boyce, left to right: Mountain Head, 2011; Hills Head, 2011; Road Head, 2011 - all oil on board, 1300 x 1000 mm

Multiple Boyce

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Roger Boyce
Rock to Hide My Face

 

24 July -17 August 2013

KL
Joel Cocks and Sorawit Songsataya, Dakapo's Photostream, at Dog Park.

Cocks and Songsataya at Dog Park

DOG PARK

Christchurch

 

Joel Cocks and Sorawit Songsataya

Dakapo’s Photostream

 

20 July - 11 August 2013.