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16 February 2010
Shane Cotton / The Sydney Biennale
The 17th Biennale of Sydney will be presented free to the public from 12 May until 1 August 2010.
Based on the curatorial theme THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, recent and new works by Australian artists will be showcased alongside international artists at Sydney’s leading cultural institutions, contemporary art spaces and heritage sites.
The free exhibition is expected to welcome more visitors than ever and audiences of all ages will be delighted, challenged and inspired by the artists and works in this Biennale. Visitors can walk from venue to venue along Sydney Harbour’s edge and then take the free ferry to Cockatoo Island. Artist talks, performances, forums, film screenings, family events, guided tours and other special events will be featured throughout the 17th Biennale exhibition period.
Cockatoo Island (in the middle of Sydney Harbour) returns as a major venue in 2010, featuring many new site-specific works created directly in response to the location. The venue will feature works by approximately 50 artists, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Tiger Lillies, AES+F, Isaac Julien, Kutluğ Ataman and Brook Andrew.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will devote its entire gallery space to the Biennale for the first time. One of the MCA’s largest galleries will be filled with 110 larrakitj (memorial poles) created by 41 Yolngu artists from North East Arnhem Land. Other artists exhibiting at the MCA include John Bock, Louise Bourgeois, Shane Cotton and Angela Ellsworth.
Artspace will become the home of SuperDeluxe, one of Tokyo’s leading alternative spaces for experimental music, culture and ideas. SuperDeluxe@Artspace is at once a performance venue, art gallery, bar and club, featuring a sensational line-up of Japanese performers, improvised collaborations with local artists and PechaKucha nights.
The Sydney Opera House will host an ephemeral work by Jennifer Wen Ma and performances by Finland’s Mieskuoro Huutajat (Shouting Men’s Choir).
Pier 2/3 will premiere a new installation by Paul McCarthy, while Fiona Hall will create a new work for the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, due to gallery renovations, participates as a supporting venue in 2010 exhibiting Biennale works in the Grand Court. Artists will include Hisashi Tenmyouya and Wang Qingsong.
The 17th Biennale of Sydney will be dedicated to the life and continuing influence of Nick Waterlow OAM and the Biennale’s keynote address from hereon will be named in Nick Waterlow’s memory.
5 February 2010
Seraphine Pick
City Gallery, Wellington
20 February – 16 May 2010
Seraphine Pick is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded painters: her distinctive and imaginative practice has become increasingly familiar to many New Zealand audiences since the early 1990s. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu presents Seraphine Pick, a large scale survey exhibition featuring works made between 1994-2009.
This exhibition traces the artist’s ongoing explorations into the imaginative realm, identity, memory, sexuality, and will unveil several new works. Seraphine Pick is both a long-overdue survey of a formidable New Zealand artist, and a chance to consider the development of her unique symbolism in the light of recent work. Curator Felicity Milburn has developed an exhibition that highlights recurrent threads in Pick’s practice, anchored by three themes: memory, identity and fantasy. The exhibition will be structured around these themes, between which there are many overlaps and points of connection.
Seraphine Pick will comprise 80-100 paintings, and a small selection of works on paper from throughout the artist’s career. It will be accompanied by a large, richly illustrated publication produced by Christchurch Art Gallery, featuring essays by the curator and Lara Strongman alongside shorter texts on individual works. This exhibition will come to City Gallery Wellington direct from Christchurch Art Galley, where its opening season runs from 24 July – 22 November 2009.
5 February 2010
Dan Arps, The Estate of L. Budd, Peter Madden
Unpacking My Library
Te Tuhi, Auckland
13 February 2010 - 11 April 2010
Unpacking My Library considers the act of collecting. Utilising twentieth century media theorist Walter Benjamin's text of the same title as a point of departure, Unpacking My Library seeks out expanded approaches to collecting. Like Benjamin's text, the exhibition takes interest in the process of collecting, as much as the content of a collection. Reflecting on his own library, Benjamin draws upon his obsession with collecting books in order to unpack the psychological drives of the collector. He argues that in a detailed collection certain traits of the collector will be revealed. His invitation into his unpacked library is an invitation to enter a collector's mind - to dwell upon what the order and disorder of collections reveals about their gatherers.
The exhibition presents both artists who actively explore collecting as a daily practice and artists who reflect on pre-existing systems of collating and organising objects. Firmly rooted in this former investigation is London based artist Elizabeth McAlpine who's ongoing project Found Time: Big Ben attempts to represent every minute of a twelve hour period through existing postcards of Big Ben. Works that analyse pre-existing collections include Ann Shelton's studies of the Fredrick Butler Archive, Neil Pardington's analysis of public art gallery collections and The Estate of L. Budd as a self-reflective archive, which appropriates the language and the rhetoric of institutional models. For the first time the entire contents of The Estate of L. Budd will be housed in a single gallery which will become a storeroom for a collection still approaching completion.
5 February 2010
Peter Madden, Michael Parekowhai, Campbell Patterson, Sriwhana Spong,
Unnerved
GoMA, Brisbane
1 May – 4 July 2010
The Gallery presents the second in a series of country-specific exhibition projects focusing on its contemporary collections with ‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’.
Holdings of contemporary work from New Zealand have grown rapidly since the early 1990s, partly through increased awareness and interest in the Asia Pacific Triennial exhibitions.
'Unnerved' explores a particularly rich dark vein that recurs in New Zealand contemporary art and cinema. Psychological or physical unease pervades many works in the exhibition, with humour, parody and poetic subtlety among the strategies used by artists across generations and genres.
Major sculptures by Michael Parekowhai, installations by Lisa Reihana and Michael Stevenson and photographic series by Yvonne Todd, Anne Noble and Greg Semu will feature alongside video art by Sriwhana Spong and Nathan Pohio. This exhibition will travel to the National Gallery of Victoria in late 2010.
26 January 2010
Feminism Never Happened
30 January — 27 March 2010
Institute of Modern Art / www.ima.org.au
This provocatively titled exhibition asks us to look at selected work by women artists from Australia and New Zealand as if feminism had never happened. Featuring the work of Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, and Jemima Wyman, it revels in gender archetypes, and features romanticised sex-crime landscapes, twisted glamour photography, appropriated pornography, a pagan Eden, mixed feelings about haute-couture, a coquettish red-dress performance, and tales of rejection, heartbreak, and true-love.
23 January 2010
Derek Henderson, Mercy Mercer
Michael Lett is pleased to announce the release of Mercy Mercer, a new book of photographs by Derek Henderson.
Copies are now available directly from Michael Lett and selected booksellers. For orders, retail or trade enquiries please contact: publications@michaellett.com or ph. +64 9 303 4211.
21 January 2010
Peter Madden, Media in Transition
Tom Gallant (GB), Jon Laxdal (IS), Stefan Kübler (D), Carmen Perrin (BOL), Peter Madden (NZ), Daniel Medina (VE), Roland Fuhrmann (D), Jörg Scheibe (D), Chris Jones (GB), Javier Piñon (USA), Fabian Seiz (A)
Media in Transition II
16th January - 6th March 2010
Hamish Morrison Galerie
Heidestrasse 46-52
10557 Berlin
Germany
www.hamishmorrison.com
16 December 2009
Simon Denny, The Perpetual Dialogue
The Perpetual Dialogue
12 December 2009 – 23 January 2010
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24 Street
New York, USA
www.andrearosengallery.com/present/
25 November 2009
Jacqueline Fraser
Somatechnics 111
MacQuarie University Art Gallery
16 - 26 November 2009
www.artgallery.mq.edu.au/
19 November 2009
Campbell Patterson, Artspace
Campbell Patterson, "floorshow"
12 December - 27 February
Opening Preview 6.00pm, Friday 11th December
Artspace
300 Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand
www.artspace.org.nz/
17 November 2009
Campbell Patterson, APT 6, Queensland Art Gallery
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6)
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
5 December 2009 – 5 April 2010
Stanley Place, South Bank, Queensland, Australia
Monday to Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 9.00am - 5.00pm
qag.qld.gov.au/
17 November 2009
Simon Denny, Standard, Oslo
SIMON DENNY
"CELEBRITIES’ HOUSES AT NIGHT: A PROJECTION"
13.11.2009-13.12.2009
STANDARD (OSLO)
HEGDEHAUGSVEIEN 3
N-0352 OSLO
+47 22 60 13 10
+47 22 60 13 11
INFO@STANDARDoslo.NO
WWW.STANDARDoslo.NO
17 November 2009
Hany Armanious, Raucci/Santamaria, Italy
Hany Armanious
“Running man”
29 October - 23 December 2009
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria
Corso Amedeo di Savoia, 190 - 80136 Naples
Italy
www.raucciesantamaria.com
13 November 2009
Diena Georgetti, Cubism & Australian Art
Diena Georgetti's paintings will feature in a new exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art: Cubism & Australian Art
24 November 2009 - 8 April 2010
Heide Museum of MOdern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Melbourne
Australia
www.heide.com.au
13 November 2009
Steve Carr, The Naked & The Nude
Steve Carr's work will feature in a new show at Christchurch Art Gallery: The Naked and the Nude
18 December 2009 - 18 April 2010
Christchurch Art Gallery
Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Crn Worcester Boulevard and Montreal Street
Christchurch
10 November 2009
Oubliette
Dan Arps, Campbell Patterson, Sriwhana Spong
OUBLIETTE
On the Table, Wellington
Opening: Thursday 19 November 2009 at 6pm
onthetablegallery.blogspot.com/
6 November 2009
Derek Henderson & Michael Parekowhai
THE DEPARTMENT STORE, Takapuna
Open to view on level 2, from 7 November 2009
Monday - Saturday 9-5pm
6 November 2009
Paul McCarthy, Black and White Tapes, 1970-1975
Screening: Wednesday 4 November 6pm
Paul McCarthy
Black and White Tapes
1970-75, 32:50 min, b&w, sound
This compilation of thirteen early black and white performance tapes from the 1970s reveals the nascent development of the themes, the raw physicality, and the performance personae that mark McCarthy's well-known later works. In several pieces, McCarthy uses his own body as a tool to examine the process of making art: He becomes a human paintbrush as he drags himself across the floor while holding an open can of white paint; he violently whips the walls and pillars of his studio with a large paint-soaked sheet. Often the artist uses his naked body, body parts, and body fluids in conceptual exercises. These performative acts can be overtly confrontational, as when he repeatedly spits directly onto the camera lens. Other pieces involve more subtle contradictions and inversions of objects, motion, light and shadow.
Image courtesy of EAI, New York
7 October 2009
Peter Madden, Plane of Touch
Peter Madden
Plane of Touch
14 October - 7 November 2009
ACFA
Suite 2c
Elliot St Apartments
Cnr Wellesley & Elliot Sts
Open: Thurs, Fir, Sat 1-6pm
18 August 2009
Simon Denny, Deep Sea Vaudeo, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Simon Denny
"Deep Sea Vaudeo"
Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Elisenstraße 4-6
50677 Köln, Germany
September 4th 2009 - October 31st 2009
Opening reception on Friday September 4, 2009 7:00 - 9:00 pm
www.galeriebuchholz.de/
18 August 2009
Kind of Blue, DPAG, Dunedin
Kind of Blue: new acquisitions and loans
including work by Campbell Patterson, Juliette Blightman and Martin Creed
29 August - 6 December 2009
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon
Dunedin 9016, Otago
dunedin.art.museum/
4 August 2009
Chris Lipomi at JMoCA
Justin's Museum of Contemporary Art
2335 Silver Ridge Ave.
Los Angeles CA 90039
www.jmoca.info
Opening reception, Friday August 7th
25 July 2009
Steve Carr, From the Depths of Suburbia: photo-media from Auckland
25 July 2009 - 27 September 2009
Edith Amituanai, Steve Carr, Conor Clarke, Sam Hartnett, Geoffrey Heath, Ava Seymour, Yvonne Todd
te tuhi
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga,
Manukau City,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Tel: (64 9) 577 0138
25 July 2009
Michael Parekowhai, Seldom is Herd
Michael Parekowhai
Seldom is Herd
Until 15 August 2009
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Lane
(off Hampden Street)
Paddington NSW 2021
Sydney Australia
www.roslynoxley9.com.au
23 July 2009
Seraphine Pick, Christchurch Art Gallery
23 July - 22 November 2009
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Open 10am to 5pm daily. Late night Wednesday until 9pm.
Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch.
23 July 2009
Peter Madden, Canterbury Museum
Snare/mâhanga: contemporary artists respond to birds in the Canterbury Museum collection
23 July – 13 September
Robert McDougall Gallery
Open 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Canterbury Museum
Rolleston Avenue
Christchurch
New Zealand
27 June 2009
Peter Madden + Eve Armstrong, Secondlife, Pataka
SECONDLIFE
Five Artist projects
Eve Armstrong, Judy Darragh, Niki Hastings-McFall, Joanna Langford and Peter Madden
27 June - 11 October 2009
PATAKA
cnr Norrie and Parumoana St
PO Box 50 218
Porirua City
Opening Hours:
Mon to Sat 10am - 4:30pm
Sunday 11am - 4:30pm
28 May 2009
Michael Parekowhai, One Day Sculpture, 28 May 2009
Michael Parekowhai
Yes We Are
Thursday 28 May 05.00 - 22.00
Multiple locations across Wellington
Public discussion
Friday 29th May 17.30-17.00
4B06, Massey Univeristy
www.onedaysculpture.org.nz
25 April 2009
Shane Cotton, Auckland Art Gallery
Picturing History: Goldie to Cotton
25 Apr 2009 - 21 Feb 2010
Auckland Art Gallery
New Gallery
Corner Wellesley & Lorne Streets
Auckland
New Zealand
Open: 10am - 5pm daily
8 April 2009
Michael Lett at Auckland Art Fair, 1-3 May 2009
Presenting work by:
Simon Denny, Shane Cotton, Jim Allen, Colin McCahon
And Michael Parekowhai and Steve Carr in the Sculpture Court
8 April 2009
Michael Lett at Liste Art Fair in Basel, 9-14 June 2009
Presenting work by:
Dan Arps, Diena Georgetti, Campbell Patterson
4 April 2009
Hany Armanious, Uncanny Valley at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Until 18 April 2009
www.roslynoxley9.com.au
4 April 2009
Peter Madden, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
MY OWN PRIVATE IDEALOGUE
Jaonna Langford, Peter Madden, Rohan Wheallans
17 April - 16 May 2009
Curated by Emily Cormack
www.gertrude.org.au
21 March 2009
Simon Denny, 7 Drunken Videos at Luttgen Meijer, Berlin
21 March - 25 April 2009
www.luettgenmeijer.com
4 March 2009
Jim Allen: Poetry for Chainsaws and Hanging by a Thread II
Published on the occasion of the current exhibition at Michael Lett, Auckland, this new publication features a major essay by Dr. Leonhard Emmerling focused on Poetry for Chainsaws, a seminal work of Allen’s from the 1970s, and the new installation at Michael Lett, Hanging by a Thread II.
Copies of Jim Allen: Poetry for Chainsaws & Hanging by a Thread II are now available directly from Michael Lett and selected booksellers: RRP NZD65.00 (inc. GST) + shipping (where applicable).
For orders, retail or trade enquiries please contact publications@michaellett.com
Ph. +64 (0)9 303 4211 / Fax +64 (0)9 303 4210
4 February 2009
Brian Kennon & Chris Lipomi at Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles
31 January - 27 February 2009
www.meslerandhug.com
22 January 2009
Ava Seymour and Eve Armstrong recipients of 2009 McCahon House Residencies
Michael Lett is pleased to announce that both Ava Seymour and Eve Armstrong were selected to undertake McCahon House Residencies in 2009.
4 January 2009
Simon Denny & Nick Austin at Centre, Berlin
Simon Denny will present new works alongside Nick Austin in the exhibition 'Aquarium Paintings' at Centre in Berlin.
14 December 2008 - 24 January 2009
4 January 2009
Ava Seymour at Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Ava Seymour currently has work on display at the Auckland Art Gallery as part of the exhibition 'In Shifting Light,' curated by Ron Brownson.
1 October 2008 to 13 April 2009
25 October 2008
Hany Armanious at Front Room, Museum of Contemporary Art St Louis
4 -23 November 2008
For more see: www.contemporarystl.org/frontroom.php
9 October 2008
Simon Denny, Joanne Robertson, Martin Creed at 79a Brick Lane
WORKS
Friday 17 - 31 October
79A Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
11 September 2008
Steve Carr at Silvershot, Melbourne
Life. Death. Thereafter
Steve Carr, Emily Floyd, Matthew Griffin, Kate Just, Patricia Piccinini
16 September - 4 October
Silvershot, 167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
11 September 2008
Simon Denny & Alexandra Bircken at Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
7 September – 19 October 2008
Under the curatorial guidance of Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel (Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam), the artists created new works for the exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Stiftung. They are to be representative positions of a comprehensive group exhibition that the curators have developed as a contribution to the 1st Brussels Biennial 2008.
9 August 2008
Simon Denny
Brussels Biennial
19 October 2008 to 4 January 2009
For more see: www.brusselsbiennial.be
9 August 2008
TarraWarra Biennial 2008, Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present
Eve Armstrong, Hany Armanious and Diena Georgetti are currently exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2008, Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present.
1 August - 9 November 2008
TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra, Australia.
For more info see: www.twma.com.au
9 August 2008
Chris Lipomi will open his second solo exhibition at Mesler&Hug, L.A. in September, 2008
For more info see: www.meslerandhug.com
9 August 2008
Dienna Georgetti at MUMA, Melbourne
Diena Georgetti
The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988 - 2008
Monash University Museum of Art
2 July 2008 -- 6 September 2008
For more info see: www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions
Shane Cotton / The Sydney Biennale
The 17th Biennale of Sydney will be presented free to the public from 12 May until 1 August 2010.
Based on the curatorial theme THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, recent and new works by Australian artists will be showcased alongside international artists at Sydney’s leading cultural institutions, contemporary art spaces and heritage sites.
The free exhibition is expected to welcome more visitors than ever and audiences of all ages will be delighted, challenged and inspired by the artists and works in this Biennale. Visitors can walk from venue to venue along Sydney Harbour’s edge and then take the free ferry to Cockatoo Island. Artist talks, performances, forums, film screenings, family events, guided tours and other special events will be featured throughout the 17th Biennale exhibition period.
Cockatoo Island (in the middle of Sydney Harbour) returns as a major venue in 2010, featuring many new site-specific works created directly in response to the location. The venue will feature works by approximately 50 artists, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Tiger Lillies, AES+F, Isaac Julien, Kutluğ Ataman and Brook Andrew.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will devote its entire gallery space to the Biennale for the first time. One of the MCA’s largest galleries will be filled with 110 larrakitj (memorial poles) created by 41 Yolngu artists from North East Arnhem Land. Other artists exhibiting at the MCA include John Bock, Louise Bourgeois, Shane Cotton and Angela Ellsworth.
Artspace will become the home of SuperDeluxe, one of Tokyo’s leading alternative spaces for experimental music, culture and ideas. SuperDeluxe@Artspace is at once a performance venue, art gallery, bar and club, featuring a sensational line-up of Japanese performers, improvised collaborations with local artists and PechaKucha nights.
The Sydney Opera House will host an ephemeral work by Jennifer Wen Ma and performances by Finland’s Mieskuoro Huutajat (Shouting Men’s Choir).
Pier 2/3 will premiere a new installation by Paul McCarthy, while Fiona Hall will create a new work for the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, due to gallery renovations, participates as a supporting venue in 2010 exhibiting Biennale works in the Grand Court. Artists will include Hisashi Tenmyouya and Wang Qingsong.
The 17th Biennale of Sydney will be dedicated to the life and continuing influence of Nick Waterlow OAM and the Biennale’s keynote address from hereon will be named in Nick Waterlow’s memory.
5 February 2010
Seraphine Pick
City Gallery, Wellington
20 February – 16 May 2010
Seraphine Pick is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded painters: her distinctive and imaginative practice has become increasingly familiar to many New Zealand audiences since the early 1990s. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu presents Seraphine Pick, a large scale survey exhibition featuring works made between 1994-2009.
This exhibition traces the artist’s ongoing explorations into the imaginative realm, identity, memory, sexuality, and will unveil several new works. Seraphine Pick is both a long-overdue survey of a formidable New Zealand artist, and a chance to consider the development of her unique symbolism in the light of recent work. Curator Felicity Milburn has developed an exhibition that highlights recurrent threads in Pick’s practice, anchored by three themes: memory, identity and fantasy. The exhibition will be structured around these themes, between which there are many overlaps and points of connection.
Seraphine Pick will comprise 80-100 paintings, and a small selection of works on paper from throughout the artist’s career. It will be accompanied by a large, richly illustrated publication produced by Christchurch Art Gallery, featuring essays by the curator and Lara Strongman alongside shorter texts on individual works. This exhibition will come to City Gallery Wellington direct from Christchurch Art Galley, where its opening season runs from 24 July – 22 November 2009.
5 February 2010
Dan Arps, The Estate of L. Budd, Peter Madden
Unpacking My Library
Te Tuhi, Auckland
13 February 2010 - 11 April 2010
Unpacking My Library considers the act of collecting. Utilising twentieth century media theorist Walter Benjamin's text of the same title as a point of departure, Unpacking My Library seeks out expanded approaches to collecting. Like Benjamin's text, the exhibition takes interest in the process of collecting, as much as the content of a collection. Reflecting on his own library, Benjamin draws upon his obsession with collecting books in order to unpack the psychological drives of the collector. He argues that in a detailed collection certain traits of the collector will be revealed. His invitation into his unpacked library is an invitation to enter a collector's mind - to dwell upon what the order and disorder of collections reveals about their gatherers.
The exhibition presents both artists who actively explore collecting as a daily practice and artists who reflect on pre-existing systems of collating and organising objects. Firmly rooted in this former investigation is London based artist Elizabeth McAlpine who's ongoing project Found Time: Big Ben attempts to represent every minute of a twelve hour period through existing postcards of Big Ben. Works that analyse pre-existing collections include Ann Shelton's studies of the Fredrick Butler Archive, Neil Pardington's analysis of public art gallery collections and The Estate of L. Budd as a self-reflective archive, which appropriates the language and the rhetoric of institutional models. For the first time the entire contents of The Estate of L. Budd will be housed in a single gallery which will become a storeroom for a collection still approaching completion.
5 February 2010
Peter Madden, Michael Parekowhai, Campbell Patterson, Sriwhana Spong,
Unnerved
GoMA, Brisbane
1 May – 4 July 2010
The Gallery presents the second in a series of country-specific exhibition projects focusing on its contemporary collections with ‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’.
Holdings of contemporary work from New Zealand have grown rapidly since the early 1990s, partly through increased awareness and interest in the Asia Pacific Triennial exhibitions.
'Unnerved' explores a particularly rich dark vein that recurs in New Zealand contemporary art and cinema. Psychological or physical unease pervades many works in the exhibition, with humour, parody and poetic subtlety among the strategies used by artists across generations and genres.
Major sculptures by Michael Parekowhai, installations by Lisa Reihana and Michael Stevenson and photographic series by Yvonne Todd, Anne Noble and Greg Semu will feature alongside video art by Sriwhana Spong and Nathan Pohio. This exhibition will travel to the National Gallery of Victoria in late 2010.
26 January 2010
Feminism Never Happened
30 January — 27 March 2010
Institute of Modern Art / www.ima.org.au
This provocatively titled exhibition asks us to look at selected work by women artists from Australia and New Zealand as if feminism had never happened. Featuring the work of Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, and Jemima Wyman, it revels in gender archetypes, and features romanticised sex-crime landscapes, twisted glamour photography, appropriated pornography, a pagan Eden, mixed feelings about haute-couture, a coquettish red-dress performance, and tales of rejection, heartbreak, and true-love.
23 January 2010
Derek Henderson, Mercy Mercer
Michael Lett is pleased to announce the release of Mercy Mercer, a new book of photographs by Derek Henderson.
Copies are now available directly from Michael Lett and selected booksellers. For orders, retail or trade enquiries please contact: publications@michaellett.com or ph. +64 9 303 4211.
21 January 2010
Peter Madden, Media in Transition
Tom Gallant (GB), Jon Laxdal (IS), Stefan Kübler (D), Carmen Perrin (BOL), Peter Madden (NZ), Daniel Medina (VE), Roland Fuhrmann (D), Jörg Scheibe (D), Chris Jones (GB), Javier Piñon (USA), Fabian Seiz (A)
Media in Transition II
16th January - 6th March 2010
Hamish Morrison Galerie
Heidestrasse 46-52
10557 Berlin
Germany
www.hamishmorrison.com
16 December 2009
Simon Denny, The Perpetual Dialogue
The Perpetual Dialogue
12 December 2009 – 23 January 2010
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24 Street
New York, USA
www.andrearosengallery.com/present/
25 November 2009
Jacqueline Fraser
Somatechnics 111
MacQuarie University Art Gallery
16 - 26 November 2009
www.artgallery.mq.edu.au/
19 November 2009
Campbell Patterson, Artspace
Campbell Patterson, "floorshow"
12 December - 27 February
Opening Preview 6.00pm, Friday 11th December
Artspace
300 Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand
www.artspace.org.nz/
17 November 2009
Campbell Patterson, APT 6, Queensland Art Gallery
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6)
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
5 December 2009 – 5 April 2010
Stanley Place, South Bank, Queensland, Australia
Monday to Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 9.00am - 5.00pm
qag.qld.gov.au/
17 November 2009
Simon Denny, Standard, Oslo
SIMON DENNY
"CELEBRITIES’ HOUSES AT NIGHT: A PROJECTION"
13.11.2009-13.12.2009
STANDARD (OSLO)
HEGDEHAUGSVEIEN 3
N-0352 OSLO
+47 22 60 13 10
+47 22 60 13 11
INFO@STANDARDoslo.NO
WWW.STANDARDoslo.NO
17 November 2009
Hany Armanious, Raucci/Santamaria, Italy
Hany Armanious
“Running man”
29 October - 23 December 2009
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria
Corso Amedeo di Savoia, 190 - 80136 Naples
Italy
www.raucciesantamaria.com
13 November 2009
Diena Georgetti, Cubism & Australian Art
Diena Georgetti's paintings will feature in a new exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art: Cubism & Australian Art
24 November 2009 - 8 April 2010
Heide Museum of MOdern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Melbourne
Australia
www.heide.com.au
13 November 2009
Steve Carr, The Naked & The Nude
Steve Carr's work will feature in a new show at Christchurch Art Gallery: The Naked and the Nude
18 December 2009 - 18 April 2010
Christchurch Art Gallery
Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Crn Worcester Boulevard and Montreal Street
Christchurch
10 November 2009
Oubliette
Dan Arps, Campbell Patterson, Sriwhana Spong
OUBLIETTE
On the Table, Wellington
Opening: Thursday 19 November 2009 at 6pm
onthetablegallery.blogspot.com/
6 November 2009
Derek Henderson & Michael Parekowhai
THE DEPARTMENT STORE, Takapuna
Open to view on level 2, from 7 November 2009
Monday - Saturday 9-5pm
6 November 2009
Paul McCarthy, Black and White Tapes, 1970-1975
Screening: Wednesday 4 November 6pm
Paul McCarthy
Black and White Tapes
1970-75, 32:50 min, b&w, sound
This compilation of thirteen early black and white performance tapes from the 1970s reveals the nascent development of the themes, the raw physicality, and the performance personae that mark McCarthy's well-known later works. In several pieces, McCarthy uses his own body as a tool to examine the process of making art: He becomes a human paintbrush as he drags himself across the floor while holding an open can of white paint; he violently whips the walls and pillars of his studio with a large paint-soaked sheet. Often the artist uses his naked body, body parts, and body fluids in conceptual exercises. These performative acts can be overtly confrontational, as when he repeatedly spits directly onto the camera lens. Other pieces involve more subtle contradictions and inversions of objects, motion, light and shadow.
Image courtesy of EAI, New York
7 October 2009
Peter Madden, Plane of Touch
Peter Madden
Plane of Touch
14 October - 7 November 2009
ACFA
Suite 2c
Elliot St Apartments
Cnr Wellesley & Elliot Sts
Open: Thurs, Fir, Sat 1-6pm
18 August 2009
Simon Denny, Deep Sea Vaudeo, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Simon Denny
"Deep Sea Vaudeo"
Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Elisenstraße 4-6
50677 Köln, Germany
September 4th 2009 - October 31st 2009
Opening reception on Friday September 4, 2009 7:00 - 9:00 pm
www.galeriebuchholz.de/
18 August 2009
Kind of Blue, DPAG, Dunedin
Kind of Blue: new acquisitions and loans
including work by Campbell Patterson, Juliette Blightman and Martin Creed
29 August - 6 December 2009
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
30 The Octagon
Dunedin 9016, Otago
dunedin.art.museum/
4 August 2009
Chris Lipomi at JMoCA
Justin's Museum of Contemporary Art
2335 Silver Ridge Ave.
Los Angeles CA 90039
www.jmoca.info
Opening reception, Friday August 7th
25 July 2009
Steve Carr, From the Depths of Suburbia: photo-media from Auckland
25 July 2009 - 27 September 2009
Edith Amituanai, Steve Carr, Conor Clarke, Sam Hartnett, Geoffrey Heath, Ava Seymour, Yvonne Todd
te tuhi
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga,
Manukau City,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Tel: (64 9) 577 0138
25 July 2009
Michael Parekowhai, Seldom is Herd
Michael Parekowhai
Seldom is Herd
Until 15 August 2009
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Lane
(off Hampden Street)
Paddington NSW 2021
Sydney Australia
www.roslynoxley9.com.au
23 July 2009
Seraphine Pick, Christchurch Art Gallery
23 July - 22 November 2009
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Open 10am to 5pm daily. Late night Wednesday until 9pm.
Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch.
23 July 2009
Peter Madden, Canterbury Museum
Snare/mâhanga: contemporary artists respond to birds in the Canterbury Museum collection
23 July – 13 September
Robert McDougall Gallery
Open 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Canterbury Museum
Rolleston Avenue
Christchurch
New Zealand
27 June 2009
Peter Madden + Eve Armstrong, Secondlife, Pataka
SECONDLIFE
Five Artist projects
Eve Armstrong, Judy Darragh, Niki Hastings-McFall, Joanna Langford and Peter Madden
27 June - 11 October 2009
PATAKA
cnr Norrie and Parumoana St
PO Box 50 218
Porirua City
Opening Hours:
Mon to Sat 10am - 4:30pm
Sunday 11am - 4:30pm
28 May 2009
Michael Parekowhai, One Day Sculpture, 28 May 2009
Michael Parekowhai
Yes We Are
Thursday 28 May 05.00 - 22.00
Multiple locations across Wellington
Public discussion
Friday 29th May 17.30-17.00
4B06, Massey Univeristy
www.onedaysculpture.org.nz
25 April 2009
Shane Cotton, Auckland Art Gallery
Picturing History: Goldie to Cotton
25 Apr 2009 - 21 Feb 2010
Auckland Art Gallery
New Gallery
Corner Wellesley & Lorne Streets
Auckland
New Zealand
Open: 10am - 5pm daily
8 April 2009
Michael Lett at Auckland Art Fair, 1-3 May 2009
Presenting work by:
Simon Denny, Shane Cotton, Jim Allen, Colin McCahon
And Michael Parekowhai and Steve Carr in the Sculpture Court
8 April 2009
Michael Lett at Liste Art Fair in Basel, 9-14 June 2009
Presenting work by:
Dan Arps, Diena Georgetti, Campbell Patterson
4 April 2009
Hany Armanious, Uncanny Valley at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Until 18 April 2009
www.roslynoxley9.com.au
4 April 2009
Peter Madden, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
MY OWN PRIVATE IDEALOGUE
Jaonna Langford, Peter Madden, Rohan Wheallans
17 April - 16 May 2009
Curated by Emily Cormack
www.gertrude.org.au
21 March 2009
Simon Denny, 7 Drunken Videos at Luttgen Meijer, Berlin
21 March - 25 April 2009
www.luettgenmeijer.com
4 March 2009
Jim Allen: Poetry for Chainsaws and Hanging by a Thread II
Published on the occasion of the current exhibition at Michael Lett, Auckland, this new publication features a major essay by Dr. Leonhard Emmerling focused on Poetry for Chainsaws, a seminal work of Allen’s from the 1970s, and the new installation at Michael Lett, Hanging by a Thread II.
Copies of Jim Allen: Poetry for Chainsaws & Hanging by a Thread II are now available directly from Michael Lett and selected booksellers: RRP NZD65.00 (inc. GST) + shipping (where applicable).
For orders, retail or trade enquiries please contact publications@michaellett.com
Ph. +64 (0)9 303 4211 / Fax +64 (0)9 303 4210
4 February 2009
Brian Kennon & Chris Lipomi at Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles
31 January - 27 February 2009
www.meslerandhug.com
22 January 2009
Ava Seymour and Eve Armstrong recipients of 2009 McCahon House Residencies
Michael Lett is pleased to announce that both Ava Seymour and Eve Armstrong were selected to undertake McCahon House Residencies in 2009.
4 January 2009
Simon Denny & Nick Austin at Centre, Berlin
Simon Denny will present new works alongside Nick Austin in the exhibition 'Aquarium Paintings' at Centre in Berlin.
14 December 2008 - 24 January 2009
4 January 2009
Ava Seymour at Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Ava Seymour currently has work on display at the Auckland Art Gallery as part of the exhibition 'In Shifting Light,' curated by Ron Brownson.
1 October 2008 to 13 April 2009
25 October 2008
Hany Armanious at Front Room, Museum of Contemporary Art St Louis
4 -23 November 2008
For more see: www.contemporarystl.org/frontroom.php
9 October 2008
Simon Denny, Joanne Robertson, Martin Creed at 79a Brick Lane
WORKS
Friday 17 - 31 October
79A Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
11 September 2008
Steve Carr at Silvershot, Melbourne
Life. Death. Thereafter
Steve Carr, Emily Floyd, Matthew Griffin, Kate Just, Patricia Piccinini
16 September - 4 October
Silvershot, 167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
11 September 2008
Simon Denny & Alexandra Bircken at Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
7 September – 19 October 2008
Under the curatorial guidance of Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel (Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam), the artists created new works for the exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Stiftung. They are to be representative positions of a comprehensive group exhibition that the curators have developed as a contribution to the 1st Brussels Biennial 2008.
9 August 2008
Simon Denny
Brussels Biennial
19 October 2008 to 4 January 2009
For more see: www.brusselsbiennial.be
9 August 2008
TarraWarra Biennial 2008, Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present
Eve Armstrong, Hany Armanious and Diena Georgetti are currently exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2008, Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present.
1 August - 9 November 2008
TarraWarra Museum of Art, TarraWarra, Australia.
For more info see: www.twma.com.au
9 August 2008
Chris Lipomi will open his second solo exhibition at Mesler&Hug, L.A. in September, 2008
For more info see: www.meslerandhug.com
9 August 2008
Dienna Georgetti at MUMA, Melbourne
Diena Georgetti
The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988 - 2008
Monash University Museum of Art
2 July 2008 -- 6 September 2008
For more info see: www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions