Exhibition listing

Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa

25 November 2023 – 19 May 2024

A major exhibition featuring works that tell stories about personal and collective histories, communication, distance and relationships to our environment.

Working in textiles, sculpture, painting, photography, moving image and sound, the twenty-four artists in Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa explore the transitions between places and across time. An Ursula Bethell poem lends the exhibition its title, echoing the seasonal temporality and tenderness in the works. Spring Time is Heart-break compels you to think and feel.
The artist will be resident in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke’s Bay until mid-November.
The one-month residency will take place in Bundanon Australia.
Opening at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on Saturday 6 July, the triennial exhibition provides a platform for new art and ideas in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Connie Brown reviews the exhibition at Phillida Reid from 22 July–23 September 2023
Juliet Carpenter and Julian Dashper will present new works at the exhibition, which responds to the work of Mutlu Çerkez.
Bridget Riggir Cuddy profiles Sorawit Songsataya on the occasion of their Frances Hodgkins Fellowship.
Arihia Latham reviews the exhibition at Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, 28 May–21 August 2022.
Featuring artwork by Owen Connors, Aliyah Winter and Laura Duffy.
Robert Leonard on photographer Tia Ranginui.
Artists riding the fourth wave of feminism in recent New Zealand art talk to Megan Dunn about building pools, the body, motherhood, the Internet and the inescapable pressure to perform.

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