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The Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi is the purpose-built gallery of Victoria University of Wellington. It initiates, produces and presents a highly-regarded programme of exhibitions, events and publications; manages and develops the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, and provides a vital platform for critical thinking across media, disciplines, cultures and contexts. Using art and its presentation as a tool of analysis, it contributes to the production of new knowledge and creates opportunities for learning, for the benefit of staff, students and the wider community.
Beautiful Creatures brings together three artists: doyen of New American cinema Jack Smith (1932–1989); leading contemporary Australian photographer Bill Henson (b. 1955); and Jacqueline Fraser (b. 1956), who has prese[...]
May 3, 2013
Competition brief: Design a poster that responds to this statement: "Our children are important… they are the consumers of the future." This comment, by New Zealand's current Prime Minister John Key, has been used by W[...]
December 8, 2012
The Wellington Media Collective was established in 1978 as a confederation of graphic designers, printers, photographers, and associates. Underpinned by a belief in the power of media arts to intervene in social space,[...]
October 22, 2012
Curated by: Marcus Moore The Adam Art Gallery proudly presents Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960–2011, a major exhibition exploring the influence of Marcel Duchamp on New Zealand art from 1[...]
August 24, 2012
Dark Sky, the Adam Art Gallery's latest exhibition opening on 1 May, explores how photography has been deployed to capture the skies. Delving into the intersections between science, art, and commerce, the exhibition br[...]
May 1, 2012
Fiona Amundsen The First City in History John Lake The Campus Simon Starling Autoxylopyrocycloboros Kohei Yoshiyuki The Park Camera Work offers four different takes on photography. Loosely organised around the[...]
January 24, 2012
From June to December the Adam Art Gallery presents, Behind Closed Doors: New Zealand Art from Private Collections in Wellington, a major exhibition that sets out to canvass selective ‘moments’ in a history o[...]
June 3, 2011
The emergence of post-object work in New Zealand coincides with the emergence, not with the supercession, of formalist abstraction as in New York. That is to say, the local post-object moment was not notably mediated by [...]
March 18, 2011
Anthony McCall has carved a unique position in contemporary art, bridging the gaps between the cinematic, the sculptural and the pictorial by means of his 'solid light films' made by drawing in real space with projected [...]
February 23, 2010
This exhibition project doesn't really have much to do with imagining the future. Although time is being used as a medium to circumvent, re-think, and problematise historical structures and narratives, at base the exhibi[...]
July 10, 2009
