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A still from Thompson's film, Untitled, 2009

Luke Willis Thompson Performance

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Luke Willis Thompson
Untitled

 

Sunday 1 July, 3 pm

MA
Dark Sky at the Adam Art Gallery. Works on walls by Wolfgang Tillmans. Photo by Robert Cross

Pondering the Night Sky

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

International group show
Dark Sky

 

1 May - 8 July 2012

JH
Gregor Kregar's Dream House Project at Te Tuhi

Kregar’s Te Tuhi Foyer Installation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Gregor Kregar
Dream House Project

 

8 April - 28 October 2012


APW
Mouse's exhibition M(o)usings at Jonathan Smart

Going Through the Motions

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Mouse
M(o)usings

 

1 June - 7 July 2012

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Left to right. Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Mangere Mall, 2011, single channel digital video; Louise Afoa, Reload, 2011, single channel video; Mark Adams, Hinemihi, Clandon Park, Surrey..., 2000, C types, and Hinemihi, Te Wairoa..; Ans Westra, Washday at the Pa.

What is Documentation?

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

International group show
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary

 

25 May - 29 June 2012

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Derrick Cherrie: Constituent Parts #4 (Orange Runner) on the left. Constituent Parts #1 (untitled) on the right.

Cherrie at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Derrick Cherrie
Constituent Parts: Objects and Their Discontents

 

26 May - 29 July 2012


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Richard Serra, Te Tuhirangi Contour, 1999-2001, corten steel, 252 m x 6 m x 50 mm. Photo Marian Kerr.

Visiting the Gibbs Farm

GIBBS FARM

Kaipara

 

International group show
Works commissioned by Alan Gibbs

 

Visit by appointment

 

JH
John B. Turner's Postcards from China at projectspaceB431

Images from Beijing

PROJECTSPACE B431

Auckland

 

John B. Turner
Postcards from China

 

6 June - 23 June 2012

MD
Ben Buchanan's Forever at The Dowse. Photo by Mark Tantrum.

Groove Is In The Art

THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM

Lower Hutt

 

Ben Buchanan
Forever
(Part of Solo)

 

12 May - 19 August 2012


JH
Layla Rudneva-Mackay's Pointing at Trees, installed at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Beautiful but Backward

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Pointing at Trees

 

31 May - 30 June 2012

AH
Mitch Cairns, Smokey Sad Square 2012, oil on linen, 69 x 69 cm. Photo by Jamie North.

Discussing Painting Without Irony

BREENSPACE

Sydney

 

Mitch Cairns
Bass Principles

 

10 May - 2 June 2012

JH
Alex Monteith, 2.5 Kilometre Mono Action for a Mitage, 2011, super 16 mm/35 mm/digital video, colour, sound, 4.30 mm, detail

Website for NZ Film and Video Artists

CIRCUIT website

 

Curated by Mark Williams

 

Online


APW
Hannah & Aaron Beehre, Waters Above Waters Below (detail) 2012. Installation. Reproduced courtesy of the artists.

Christchurch through a Spectacular Camera Obscura

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Hannah and Aaron Beehre
Waters Above Waters Below

 

26 May - 17 June 2012

AH
Gregory & Watts, Manhattan Sydney, 2011,Digital video. 6:45 Edition of 5

Imbibing Rituals Saluting Place

CHALK HORSE

Sydney

 

Gregory & Watts
Cocktail Hour

 

22 March - 21 April 2012

JH
Sean Snyder's video Alalepsis, 2004, on the wall. Video without sound. On the three plinths, photographs from 2009, Untitled (ideological material, printed materials, celluloid); Untitled (digital image sensing devices, LCD screens). Photo Sam Hartnett

Digital dominance, proliferation and mutability

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Fuyama, Laric, Nerney, Riebeek and Snyder
alienate/demonstrate/edit
Curated by Arron Santry

 

25 May - 30 June 2012


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Patterned Paintings From Textile Offcuts

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Zac Langdon-Pole
Nothing by itself

 

18 May - 23 June 2012

CA
Louise Bennett at David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane

Cyberspace as Medium

DAVID PESTORIUS PROJECTS

Brisbane

 

Solo Show
Louise Bennett

 

9 March - 7 April 2012

MA
Murray Hewitt, Recessional, 2010, courtesy of the artist. Marsland Hill Memorial, New Plymouth

Moving Image From a Fixed Position

NEW ZEALAND FILM ARCHIVE

Wellington

 

Group Exhibition
Still

 


10 May - 22 June 2012


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Marker installed at Ramp

Examining The Poster

RAMP

Hamilton

 

Group Show
Marker
Curator: Kim Paton

 

May 29 - June 15

JH
Daniel Crooks, Imaginary Object #23, 2007, lambda print, 109 x 109 cm

Crooks Photographs and Videos

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Daniel Crooks
Imaginary Objects

 

25 May - 7 July 2012

WG
Larry Clark poster outside C/O Berlin

Larry Clark in Berlin

C/O BERLIN

Berlin

 

Solo exhibition

Larry Clark

 

26 May - 12 August 2012