Photo de David Janesko during the 1st Tree Dance - ARBOReusement (TREELY) by Katy'taya Catitu Tayassu performed in 2014, at the Palais de Tokyo, in NUEVO MUNDO, Paris. Artwork courtesy of the artist.

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Mataaho Collective and Megan Tamati-Quennell, Indigenous Visions

10.00AM — 6.00PM
16 April 2024

Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy

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The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

20 April —
24 November 2024

Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Robert Jahnke, 'Te Wepu MMXXIII'. Photo: Norm Heke

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Robert Jahnke, Te Wepu MMXXIII in Personal Structures

20 April —
24 November 2024

Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy

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Hana Pera Aoake, Delfina Foundation residency

02 April —
23 June 2024

Delfina Foundation, London, UK

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Nikau Hindin, Badu Gili: Celestial

15 December 2023 —
01 December 2024

Sydney Opera House, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia

Kaaterina Kerekere, 'Takuahiroa' (video still), 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces film screening

7.30PM — 9.00PM
03 April 2024

Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta

Portrait of Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta. Photo: Jasmax. 'Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania' is commissioned by TBA21–Academy and Artspace, Sydney, and produced in partnership with OGR Torino, culture and innovation hub.

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Elisapeta Hinemona Heta, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania

23 March —
13 October 2024

Ocean Space, Venice, Italy

Maungarongo Te Kawa, 'Payday and the pātaka is full' (detail), 2022, quilted textile, found materials, 325 × 217 cm. Photo: Kunstdok / Tor Simen Ulstein / Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art.

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“To see us on our best day.”

By Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak

15.12.2023

Offering a glimpse at the wide range of emotions and encounters that Aotearoa-based artist Maungarongo Te Kawa and Northern Sámi activist Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak share in their multifaceted experiences at different edges of the globe, this conversation takes Te Kawa’s recent residency and touring exhibition in Norway and Sámi territories as a departure point.

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24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns

09 March —
10 June 2024

six venues across Sydney, Australia

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Nikau Hindin, Time Honoured Technologies panel discussion

12.45PM — 1.30PM
10 March 2024

White Bay Power Station, Sydney, Australia

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Architecture of Aroha, Luleå Biennial 2024

02 March —
26 May 2024

Kulturenshus, Luleå, Sweden

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The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania

24 October 2023 —
15 January 2024

National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Sriwhana Spong, 'Instrument H (Monster Chicken)', 2021, bronze (live performance). Photo: Zan Wimberley.

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The Polyphonic Sea

By Emma O'Neill

10.10.2023

Presented at Bundanon Art Museum, deep in the territory of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups, The Polyphonic Sea features new commissions and recontextualised work by Antonia Barnett McIntosh, Andrew Beck, Ruth Buchanan, The Estate of L. Budd, Sione Faletau, Samuel Holloway and et al., Sarah Hudson, Sonya Lacey, Nova Paul, Sriwhana Spong and Shannon Te Ao.

Kahurangiariki Smith, 'Mama Don't Cry' (still), 2019. Courtesy Brooklyn Rail

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Kahurangiariki Smith, Lisa Reihana and Yuki Kihara, Singing in Unison Part 8: Between Waves

10 October 2023 —
12 January 2024

Industry City, New York, USA

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Championing Aotearoa New Zealand women artists

Partnership

Contemporary HUM is excited to launch our partnership with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. The Paris-based non-profit organisation, founded in 2014, focuses on the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. During our partnership with AWARE we have worked on including more Aotearoa New Zealand women artists in their online profiles. AWARE is a great resource for championing women artists and we’re thrilled to be working with them. A huge thanks to Creative New Zealand for making this partnership possible.

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Mataaho Collective at the Dhaka Art Summit

By Pauline Autet

21.04.2020

We finish our first series focusing on the Asia region with Contemporary HUM Editor Pauline Autet interviewing Mataaho Collective on their participation in the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh in February 2020, where they partook in panel discussions and practised a type of waiata (song) called a pātere.

Baye Riddell, 'MANAIA', 76 x 44 x 20 cms. Courtesy The Fiji Museum.

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Clay Te Pai, Indigenous Artists Exchange

19 October —
24 October 2023

Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji

Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts, 'Pōtaka Nautilus' installation view, Museo de Navarra for Festival After Cage, Spain, October 2023. Courtesy of the artists.

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Good Company Arts, Festival After Cage

25 October —
27 November 2023

Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain and online

Image courtesy Jessica Palalagi/In*ter*is*land Collective

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Forever Fresh Talanoa Series

Partnership

A collaboration between In*ter*is*land Collective and Contemporary HUM consisting of four edited online talanoa (conversations) between several tagata Moana (Māori and Pasifika people) across the globe which centre around the principles of talanoa; ofa, mafana, malie and faka'apa'apa (love, warmth, humour and respect) and the ability to have a "reciprocal knowledge exchange".

The talanoa within this series will focus on topics such as life in the diaspora, moana futurism, queer identities, and ReMoanafication, and all will be individually responded to in written form by Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa), reminding us of our intricate connection and shared ancestry in Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.