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Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
Armanious’s Verisimilitude
Auckland
Hany Armanious
Hollow Earth
24 February - 26 March 2016
Extending beyond technique
Celia Hempton in Auckland
Auckland
Solo exhibition
Celia Hempton
24 February - 26 March 2016
Pondering masturbation with paint
Fiona Clark at Artspace
Auckland
Fiona Clark
For Fantastic Carmen (Part of THE BILL)
20 February - 11 March 2016
LGBT club scene
Christchurch Art Gallery Sampler
Christchurch
Post-earthquake - with about fifteen new Collection shows
Some exhibitions: 19 December 2015 - 3 April 2016
A taster from the contemporary art Collection shows
Ron Left’s Doctorate Painting
Auckland
Ron Left
Painting and Time: The dynamic of the actual and the virtual
27 January - 5 February 2016
Airports, Painting and Time
Pauline Rhodes at AUT’s St Paul St
Auckland
Pauline Rhodes
Dark Watch
19 February - 24 March 2016
Her installation in Gallery One
Christchurch’s Revamped Centre for Contemporary Art
Christchurch
International group show
Precarious Balance
Curated by Paula Orrell
12 February - 8 May 2016
All traces of art society origins removed
The Politics of Education
Auckland
Organised by Dorota Broda
the triumph of the old master
28 January - 24 February 2016
Pondering Rancière and Jacotot
Language and Installation Perfectly Combined
Auckland
Ash Kilmartin
Light Sleeper
18 February - 29 March 2016
Kilmartin at FrontBox
Class Division in Barcelona
Christchurch
Peter Wareing
La nuda vida
5 February - 12 March 2016
Peter Wareing film / installation
Jeff Thomson Sculpture Survey
Christchurch
Jeff Thomson
Corrugations: the Art of Jeff Thomson
4 December 2015 - 28 March 2016
Corrugated iron obsessively explored
Hito Steyerl at Artspace
Auckland
Hito Steyerl
Moving-Non-Moving Images Lab (Duty Free Art)
11 December 2015 - 17 February 2016
Videoed lecture extended into installation
Leigh Martin’s Glowing Textured Tunnels of Light
Auckland
Leigh Martin
Mass
4 February - 5 March 2016
Possibly referencing Fomison’s thin paint
Oscar Enberg’s Ambiguous Nativity
Auckland
Oscar Enberg
the prophet, the wise, the technician and the Pharisee
11 December 2015 - 12 February 2016
Clusters of linked stories (with a subversive criticality)
Luke Willis Thompson in Auckland
Auckland
Luke Willis Thompson
Sucu Mate / Born Dead
29 January - 27 February 2016
The value of an unacknowledged life
Seventies Feminist Photography & Film
Auckland
Janet Bayly, Minerva Betts, Popular Productions, Rhondda Bosworth, Jane Campion, Alexis Hunter, Joanna Margaret Paul
Fragments of a World
20 January - 20 February 2016
Experimenting with new technologies
Clemens Lightworks
Auckland
Eddie Clemens
Delusional Architecture (Commemorative)
20 January - 13 February 2016
Major ‘breached fencing’ installation
“On, With, And For Billy Apple”
Sold On Apple: The Complete Wystan Curnow Writings
Texts by Wystan Curnow on Billy Apple
Edited by Zara Stanhope
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2015
Curnow’s remarkable archive of commentaries
Adventurous Music / Photography Collaboration
I stayed a minute
Music composed for a two-sided 12 inch vinyl record by Eve de Castro-Robinson
Photography: Harvey Benge
Benge / de Castro-Robinson partnership
Talia Smith on Reeves Road
Pakuranga
Talia Smith
Plants and Rags
1 August 2015 - 21 February 2016
Looking at abandoned commercial sections
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.
Henry Davidson’s chosen texts
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