Venice Biennale
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Veronica Green, From Where I Stand
12 April —
18 July 2024
Venice Art Projects, Venice, Italy
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HUM live from the 2024 Venice Biennale
16.04.2024
From 16–21 April 2024, Contemporary HUM will publish live coverage, exclusive images and videos from the opening week of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Click through for coverage of the Aotearoa New Zealand artists presenting work in the curated section of the Biennale, as well as in other events held off-site.
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Areez Katki, The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Caitlin Devoy, Body Objects in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Mizuho Nishioka, Movement_17; Tasman Sea in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Caroline Earley and Kate Walker in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
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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
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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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Elisapeta Hinemona Heta, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania
23 March —
13 October 2024
Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
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Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising
10 October —
12 October 2023
Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia
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Mizuho Nishioka, Personal Structures Public Screening
4.00PM — 5.30PM
26 November 2022
Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy
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HUM stands for NZ at Venice
Special feature
In light of the review of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ‘official’ presence at the Venice Biennale, HUM invited New Zealanders on- and off-shore who have visited or been involved in ‘New Zealand at Venice’ projects—as artists, pavilion attendants, exhibition installers or designers—to reflect on how involvement in (or experience of) our previous national pavilions have influenced their own careers, and the international profile of contemporary art from Aotearoa.
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Aotearoa Reviews its Official Participation in the Venice Biennale
By Anna Brown, Bruce Barber, Heather Galbraith, Hutch Wilco, James Goggin, Jennifer Flay, Jhana Millers, Julia Holderness, Laura Preston, Michael Stevenson, Ron Hanson, Sophie Thorn, Tessa Giblin, Tessa Laird
26.09.2022
In light of the current review of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ‘official’ presence at the Venice Biennale, HUM invited responses from New Zealanders on- and off-shore who have visited or been involved in ‘New Zealand at Venice’ projects, as artists, pavilion attendants, exhibition installers or designers, to enable insights into how involvement in (or experience of) our previous national pavilions have influenced people’s own careers, and the profile of contemporary art from Aotearoa.
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Yuki Kihara and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, TALANOA FORUM: Swimming Against the Tide
11 October —
19 October 2022
Online & Venice, Italy & Leiden/Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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An interview with Yuki Kihara
By Contemporary HUM
24.05.2022
In the opening week of the 2022 Biennale di Venezia, HUM sat down with the artist representing Aotearoa, Yuki Kihara, to discuss her exhibition Paradise Camp, and what it means to bring a Pasifika, Fa'afafine voice to the international audience of this major event.
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An interview with the curators of 'Paradise Camp'
By Contemporary HUM, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Natalie King
24.05.2022
In the opening week of the 2022 Biennale di Venezia, HUM sat down with the Aotearoa New Zealand pavilion’s Curator, Natalie King, and Assistant Pasifika Curator Ioana-Gordon Smith, to talk about bringing Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp to Venice.
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HUM live from the 2022 Venice Biennale
By Contemporary HUM
24.04.2022
From 20—24 April 2022, Contemporary HUM brings you live coverage, exclusive images and videos from the opening week of The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, including Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp for the New Zealand Pavilion.
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Gill Gatfield in Personal Structures
23 April —
27 November 2022
Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
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An interview with Dane Mitchell
By Contemporary HUM
24.06.2019
HUM's editorial team sat down with artist Dane Mitchell to discuss his work for the New Zealand Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, Post hoc. The work, both ambitious in scale and subject, has sparked discussions on global climate change and meditations on what has truly disappeared from the world.
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Learning from Athens (There and Elsewhere)
By Laura Preston, Wystan Curnow
18.12.2017
This is the second part of a correspondence between Laura Preston and Wystan Curnow, in which the two writers' share memories and snapshots of journeys through the art world from 1987 to 2007 and 2017.
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An interview with Bruce Barber
By Contemporary HUM
22.09.2017
As part of Contemporary HUM's series of interviews with New Zealand artists exhibiting during the 57th Venice Biennale, we talk with Bruce Barber about his work Party without Party (2017), included in the exhibition Personal Structures: Open Borders at the Palazzo Bembo.
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Islands on Sale
By Alastair Carruthers, Contemporary HUM, Mataaho Collective, Tessa Giblin
05.08.2017
In this panel discussion between Erena Baker and Bridget Reweti (Mataaho Collective), Alastair Carruthers (Commissioner of NZ at Venice 2017) and Tessa Giblin (Commissioner and Curator of Ireland at Venice 2017), the participants discuss globalisation, national identity, the politics of representation and New Zealand's role in contemporary international art discourse.
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Urges of Imperialism Unravelled
By Rhana Devenport
01.05.2017
Rhana Devenport, Curator of the New Zealand Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, sets the context for Emissaries, Lisa Reihana's exhibition representing Aotearoa New Zealand at the 57th Biennale di Venezia.
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This Model World, Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art
By Will Gresson
08.12.2016
Will Gresson reviews the book This Model World, Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art, by Anthony Byrt, published in 2016.
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Dane Mitchell, Post hoc on NTS Radio
01 August 2021 —
01 August 2022
NTS Radio, online
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Mizuho Nishioka in Personal Structures
23 April —
27 November 2022
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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Mahiriki Tangaroa in Personal Structures
23 April —
27 November 2022
Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
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HUM live from the Venice Biennale
Updates from the vernissage
Since 2017, the Contemporary HUM team has attended every vernissage of La Biennale di Venezia in Italy. Each time, we bring you live coverage during the opening week, not only from the official New Zealand pavilion, but also from other events featuring artists from Aotearoa. In addition to posting daily blog entries, videos and images, we also publish exclusive interviews with some of the New Zealand artists and arts practitioners involved in putting together this major international event.
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Yuki Kihara at the 59th Venice Biennale
Partnership
Small island ecologies, climate change, queer rights, Gauguin’s gaze, intersectionality and decolonization; these are just some of the topics explored by interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara in her project Paradise Camp, representing New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale in Italy. HUM is proud to be a media partner of this exciting project, open to the public from 23 April - 27 November 2022.