Exhibition listing

Dummies and Doppelgangers

2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025

The unforgettable art of being someone else.

Full of humour, surprise and heart, this  exhibition reveals how borrowed or re-imagined bodies can help us explore what it means to be human. Dummies & Doppelgängers combines sculpture, video, photography and more from the Gallery’s own collection and around Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, including captivating works by artists including Sarah Lucas, Yuki Kihara, Patricia Piccinini, Ah Xian, Michael Parekōwhai, Tony Oursler, Ron Mueck and Ronnie van Hout. It’s an exuberant and unexpectedly touching selection that will take you from the hyper-real to the surreal, and from the tender to the absurd.

Any Noise Annoys an Oyster will include more than 100 works and is the artist's first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The exhibition runs through 31 January 2025 at the Saletoga Sands Resort and Spa in Upolu Island.
We speak to Ronnie van Hout about doubles, 'bad' dads and his new work at Melbourne Art Fair, where he'll be exhibiting with Darren Knight Gallery.
Jane Wallace revisits the New Zealand Gothic, fifteen years since Robert Leonard first proposed the concept.
Ioana Gordon-Smith reports on the New Zealand pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Andrew Paul Wood reviews the exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2 April–7 August 2022.
Arihia Latham reviews the exhibition at Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, 28 May–21 August 2022.
Robert Leonard on photographer Tia Ranginui.
Shigeyuki Kihara’s recent award-winning performance videos are lamentations for the victims of the recent tsunami—and the scars of Samoa’s colonial past.
While she was in New Zealand for the launch of her first public sculpture, Loafers, expat New Zealand artist, Francis Upritchard, talked to Virginia Were about her Vienna Secession exhibition and life since the Venice Biennale.

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