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Sorawit Songsataya, Bronies, 2016. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Intervening Agents

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Dorota Broda, James Richards, Sorawit Songsataya
The Non-Living Agent

 

11 June - 24 July 2016

Processes of ‘translation’

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Janet Lilo's Status Update, in Gallery Three, top floor of Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Janet Lilo ‘Survey’

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Janet Lilo
Status Update
Curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith

 

28 May - 28 August 2016

Varied range of assorted art projects

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Mason Vincent: You're out of touch, 2016, Oamaru stone, stained glass; I'm out of time, Oamuru stone, stained glass; Easy target, 2016, Oamaru stone, stained glass. Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Obscene and the Sacred

GLOVEBOX

Auckland

 

Mason Vincent
Sorry, I can’t, I’ve made other plans

 

7 June - 25 June 2016

Ugly but compelling


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Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Star circuit : Heart circuit  (Events within Boundaries), 2016 as installed at RM. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy at RM

RM

Auckland

 

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Star circuit : Heart circuit (Events within Boundaries)

 

9 June - 25 June 2016

Wire-covered wall and brass hoops

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John Lyall & Haru Sameshima, Twin trunk, Weeping style (Mapou), unique print, 950 x 630 mm

Sameshima / Lyall Combo

WHITESPACE

Auckland

 

Haruhiko Sameshima & John Lyall
Bonsai

 

31 May - 18 June 2016

 

Botanical sculpture, photography and stencils

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Fiona Pardington, Sanguine Unicorn, 2016

Colourful Pardington

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
100% Unicorn

 

24 May - 25 June 2016

More than kitsch


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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

Comparing turbulent times

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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

Unsettling photographic confrontation

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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.

Four writers discuss the Canterbury artist


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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

Exuberant colour photography

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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

The second ‘Cloud’ art fair

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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

Large multi-media survey


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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

Large multi-media survey

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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

Large multi-media survey

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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

Selected cyber explorations


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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

Lett version of Wairarapa show

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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

A mini-survey

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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

Scrutinising the edges


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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

Expanded now to include men

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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

The Digital as the New Nature.

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Clinton Watkins' installation of lowercase at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Clinton Watkins in Auckland

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Clinton Watkins
lowercase

 

19 April - 14 May 2016

Less immersive installation