He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of SoilExploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions.
Huikaau | where currents meetHuikaau – where currents meet celebrates the past, present, and future of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection – Aotearoa’s first civic collection of art, which was established in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1884. This exhibition upholds the stories and ideas carried within the collection, welcomes new arrivals, and continues to work in partnership to bring Māori and indigenous perspectives to the fore.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Mataaho Collective Hautāmiro (2025) is an installation by Mataaho Collective, which is led by the ancestral narratives of Tokohurunuku, Tokohururangi, Tokohurumawake and Tokohuruatea, the four winds, or the pillars of the sky. The four were children of Huruteaarangi, an atua of the winds who sent her offspring to the edges of the sky to stand as pou that separated Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei, the adornments of customary kākahu, Hautāmiro weaves together materials and techniques in an installation that celebrates adaptation, experimentation and mātauranga Māori across generations.
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Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in AotearoaTaimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as a starting point, the exhibition navigates a sea of ideas, offering multiple perspectives on New Zealand art through a selection of works from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
2025 National Contemporary Art AwardThe National Contemporary Art Award was launched in 2000 by the Waikato Society of Arts and has been facilitated and hosted by Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery since 2006.
The prestigious competition’s blind-judging process keeps entrant identities confidential, enabling the guest judge to focus solely on the art.
Peter Robinson: Charcoal DrawingA roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
TOI KORU: Sandy AdsettExperience the bold brilliance of Toi Koru, the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera).
Spanning six decades, this remarkable exhibition traces the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the 1960s to today - including a striking new series painted especially for the exhibition.
'Pae o te Rangi'Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.
Voyager Voyager is an Australian exclusive survey exhibition celebrating the diversity of Reihana's internationally acclaimed art practice. The exhibition will include a major new site specific, outdoor installation that will see the artist adorn the entrance of the gallery with an artwork created with hu
Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral New South Wales 2576, Australia
Pohewa Pāhewa: Te RūmaPohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.
3D-printed lamp for Kereama Taepa's rūma kāinga
Robyn KahukiwaPhillida Reid 10 - 16 Grape Street, London, WC2H 8DY, is honoured to present Robyn Kahukiwa, a gathering of work by the revered Aotearoa New Zealand artist (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Konohi, Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare, 1938 – 2025). This exhibition has been put together in accordance with Kahukiwa’s wishes before her passing in April of this year, with the devoted support of her daughter, Reina Kahukiwa, and Season.
Spanning three decades of Kahukiwa’s career, from the 1990s to 2025, the exhibition comprises paintings and drawings from public and private collections, and the artist’s estate. Kahukiwa’s work was last shown outside of Aotearoa at Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023). This will be the first exhibition of her work in London since 1999’s Māori!, presented at Maud Sulter’s gallery Rich Women of Zurich.
Whāia te TaniwhaThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of taniwha. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the Aotearoa landscape.
Whāia te Taniwha also responds to the impact of colonisation on Māori knowledge systems by celebrating the deep and varied presence of taniwha within te ao Māori,” says Cull.
Waiora In this solo exhibition, Hemi Macgregor explores the spiritual elements that connect humans to the external worlds of te taiao, te taimoana, te taiwhenua and into tātai tuarangi (the cosmos). Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes found in raranga, tukutuku and taniko. Pūrākau are referenced throughout the exhibition to reflect our connection with the sky, water, earth, and seasons.
Paradise of ImaginationThe art, stories, and histories of the Middle Ages conjure imaginative medieval realms where fantasy fuses with memory and experience. This period covers approximately 1000 years from the decline of the Western Roman Empire in the sixth century to the early years of the sixteenth century (c.500-c.1500). Paradise of Imagination: Medieval & Modern Encounters invites us to consider the vibrant cultural legacies of the Middle Ages expressed and shaped through artists’ hands.
Paradise of Imagination: Medieval & Modern Encounters is curated by Anya Samarasinghe, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Ihupukutaka Kairaupī Curatorial Intern 2025, with support from Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
In Te Pō there are many beginningsThe exhibition title, In Te Pō there are many beginnings, is a mihi to an early painting by artist and educator Kura Te Waru Rewiri (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Rangi). As kaiako and mentor to Saffronn Te Ratana (Ngāi Tūhoe) and Ngataiharuru Taepa (Te Āti Awa, Te Arawa), the artists remain grateful and inspired by this mana wāhine and her practice.
The Tree Collectors"Reuben Paterson stages encounters meant to be felt. To look is to be looked at, to desire is to be unsettled, to touch is to risk breaking. The works exist in relation, insisting that we too are multiple, that we too hold contradictions. They remind us that beauty can overwhelm, that desire can be a form of thought. They ask us to project ourselves into the cosmos, to imagine what cannot yet be seen, to grant emotional interiority to stars and exoplanets as sites of possibility, places where life might exist or begin anew. In doing so, they open questions about Earth’s future, the continuation of our species, and the ways we imagine life beyond our world."
Living ArchivesDelving into art and archives from the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū collections, Living Archives charts personal stories about artists and history in Aotearoa. By drawing on the legacy of art historians Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Julie King and Karen Stevenson, the exhibition focuses on intergenerational relationships, artistic lineage and creative networks.
Image: Lonnie Hutchinson (Ngāti Kuri, Ngāi Tahu, Sāmoan, Māori, Pasifika, Scottish, English)
Comb (black), 2011, Paint on steel, Karen Stevenson Collection, presented 2022
WāMuaIn WāMua, Kereama Taepa (Te Āti Awa) extends his exploration of how Māori art and digital culture intersect and evolve. His practice rhythmically weaves together the language of Te ao Matihiko (the digital world) and ancestral carving traditions, creating something simultaneously familiar and new, a dialogue between inherited forms and futuristic expression.
Ahi Kaa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te Ahi Kaa with Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Friends, a celebration of clay, fire, and the enduring spirit of Barry Brickell at Driving Creek.1–9 November 2025 (opening showcase).
The exhibition continues through summer,November 2025 – February 2026
Does the flower hear the bee?: 15th Shanghai Biennale 15th Shanghai Biennale: Does the flower hear the bee? takes place from 8 November 2025 to 31 March 2026 at the Power Station of Art, 200 Hua Yuan Gang Lu, Huangpu Qu, Shanghai, China.
Titled Does the flower hear the bee?, the 15th Shanghai Biennale will explore new modes of sensorial communication between artwork, audience and environment. Inspired by recent scientific discoveries regarding interactions between honeybees and the flowers that “hear” the vibration of their wings, the exhibition operates at the intersection of differing models of intelligence, both human and nonhuman.
Featuring over 250 works by 67 individual artists and collectives, from China and around the world, the Biennale’s hopeful vision rests on art’s ability to orient us towards the unknown, the future. Conceived in collaboration with a global array of artists, curators, intellectuals, musicians, poets, scientists and writers, Does the flower hear the bee? recognizes that much depends on our ability to sense the world around us and attune ourselves to its diverse variety of intelligences.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of SoilExploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions.
Huikaau | where currents meetHuikaau – where currents meet celebrates the past, present, and future of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection – Aotearoa’s first civic collection of art, which was established in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1884. This exhibition upholds the stories and ideas carried within the collection, welcomes new arrivals, and continues to work in partnership to bring Māori and indigenous perspectives to the fore.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Mataaho Collective Hautāmiro (2025) is an installation by Mataaho Collective, which is led by the ancestral narratives of Tokohurunuku, Tokohururangi, Tokohurumawake and Tokohuruatea, the four winds, or the pillars of the sky. The four were children of Huruteaarangi, an atua of the winds who sent her offspring to the edges of the sky to stand as pou that separated Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei, the adornments of customary kākahu, Hautāmiro weaves together materials and techniques in an installation that celebrates adaptation, experimentation and mātauranga Māori across generations.
Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in AotearoaTaimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as a starting point, the exhibition navigates a sea of ideas, offering multiple perspectives on New Zealand art through a selection of works from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
2025 National Contemporary Art AwardThe National Contemporary Art Award was launched in 2000 by the Waikato Society of Arts and has been facilitated and hosted by Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery since 2006.
The prestigious competition’s blind-judging process keeps entrant identities confidential, enabling the guest judge to focus solely on the art.
Peter Robinson: Charcoal DrawingA roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
TOI KORU: Sandy AdsettExperience the bold brilliance of Toi Koru, the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera).
Spanning six decades, this remarkable exhibition traces the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the 1960s to today - including a striking new series painted especially for the exhibition.
'Pae o te Rangi'Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.
Voyager Voyager is an Australian exclusive survey exhibition celebrating the diversity of Reihana's internationally acclaimed art practice. The exhibition will include a major new site specific, outdoor installation that will see the artist adorn the entrance of the gallery with an artwork created with hu
Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral New South Wales 2576, Australia
Pohewa Pāhewa: Te RūmaPohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.
3D-printed lamp for Kereama Taepa's rūma kāinga
Robyn KahukiwaPhillida Reid 10 - 16 Grape Street, London, WC2H 8DY, is honoured to present Robyn Kahukiwa, a gathering of work by the revered Aotearoa New Zealand artist (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Konohi, Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare, 1938 – 2025). This exhibition has been put together in accordance with Kahukiwa’s wishes before her passing in April of this year, with the devoted support of her daughter, Reina Kahukiwa, and Season.
Spanning three decades of Kahukiwa’s career, from the 1990s to 2025, the exhibition comprises paintings and drawings from public and private collections, and the artist’s estate. Kahukiwa’s work was last shown outside of Aotearoa at Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023). This will be the first exhibition of her work in London since 1999’s Māori!, presented at Maud Sulter’s gallery Rich Women of Zurich.
Whāia te TaniwhaThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of taniwha. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the Aotearoa landscape.
Whāia te Taniwha also responds to the impact of colonisation on Māori knowledge systems by celebrating the deep and varied presence of taniwha within te ao Māori,” says Cull.
Waiora In this solo exhibition, Hemi Macgregor explores the spiritual elements that connect humans to the external worlds of te taiao, te taimoana, te taiwhenua and into tātai tuarangi (the cosmos). Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes found in raranga, tukutuku and taniko. Pūrākau are referenced throughout the exhibition to reflect our connection with the sky, water, earth, and seasons.
Paradise of ImaginationThe art, stories, and histories of the Middle Ages conjure imaginative medieval realms where fantasy fuses with memory and experience. This period covers approximately 1000 years from the decline of the Western Roman Empire in the sixth century to the early years of the sixteenth century (c.500-c.1500). Paradise of Imagination: Medieval & Modern Encounters invites us to consider the vibrant cultural legacies of the Middle Ages expressed and shaped through artists’ hands.
Paradise of Imagination: Medieval & Modern Encounters is curated by Anya Samarasinghe, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Ihupukutaka Kairaupī Curatorial Intern 2025, with support from Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
In Te Pō there are many beginningsThe exhibition title, In Te Pō there are many beginnings, is a mihi to an early painting by artist and educator Kura Te Waru Rewiri (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Rangi). As kaiako and mentor to Saffronn Te Ratana (Ngāi Tūhoe) and Ngataiharuru Taepa (Te Āti Awa, Te Arawa), the artists remain grateful and inspired by this mana wāhine and her practice.
The Tree Collectors"Reuben Paterson stages encounters meant to be felt. To look is to be looked at, to desire is to be unsettled, to touch is to risk breaking. The works exist in relation, insisting that we too are multiple, that we too hold contradictions. They remind us that beauty can overwhelm, that desire can be a form of thought. They ask us to project ourselves into the cosmos, to imagine what cannot yet be seen, to grant emotional interiority to stars and exoplanets as sites of possibility, places where life might exist or begin anew. In doing so, they open questions about Earth’s future, the continuation of our species, and the ways we imagine life beyond our world."
Living ArchivesDelving into art and archives from the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū collections, Living Archives charts personal stories about artists and history in Aotearoa. By drawing on the legacy of art historians Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Julie King and Karen Stevenson, the exhibition focuses on intergenerational relationships, artistic lineage and creative networks.
Image: Lonnie Hutchinson (Ngāti Kuri, Ngāi Tahu, Sāmoan, Māori, Pasifika, Scottish, English)
Comb (black), 2011, Paint on steel, Karen Stevenson Collection, presented 2022
WāMuaIn WāMua, Kereama Taepa (Te Āti Awa) extends his exploration of how Māori art and digital culture intersect and evolve. His practice rhythmically weaves together the language of Te ao Matihiko (the digital world) and ancestral carving traditions, creating something simultaneously familiar and new, a dialogue between inherited forms and futuristic expression.
Ahi Kaa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te Ahi Kaa with Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Friends, a celebration of clay, fire, and the enduring spirit of Barry Brickell at Driving Creek.1–9 November 2025 (opening showcase).
The exhibition continues through summer,November 2025 – February 2026
Does the flower hear the bee?: 15th Shanghai Biennale 15th Shanghai Biennale: Does the flower hear the bee? takes place from 8 November 2025 to 31 March 2026 at the Power Station of Art, 200 Hua Yuan Gang Lu, Huangpu Qu, Shanghai, China.
Titled Does the flower hear the bee?, the 15th Shanghai Biennale will explore new modes of sensorial communication between artwork, audience and environment. Inspired by recent scientific discoveries regarding interactions between honeybees and the flowers that “hear” the vibration of their wings, the exhibition operates at the intersection of differing models of intelligence, both human and nonhuman.
Featuring over 250 works by 67 individual artists and collectives, from China and around the world, the Biennale’s hopeful vision rests on art’s ability to orient us towards the unknown, the future. Conceived in collaboration with a global array of artists, curators, intellectuals, musicians, poets, scientists and writers, Does the flower hear the bee? recognizes that much depends on our ability to sense the world around us and attune ourselves to its diverse variety of intelligences.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of SoilExploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions.
Huikaau | where currents meetHuikaau – where currents meet celebrates the past, present, and future of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection – Aotearoa’s first civic collection of art, which was established in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1884. This exhibition upholds the stories and ideas carried within the collection, welcomes new arrivals, and continues to work in partnership to bring Māori and indigenous perspectives to the fore.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Mataaho Collective Hautāmiro (2025) is an installation by Mataaho Collective, which is led by the ancestral narratives of Tokohurunuku, Tokohururangi, Tokohurumawake and Tokohuruatea, the four winds, or the pillars of the sky. The four were children of Huruteaarangi, an atua of the winds who sent her offspring to the edges of the sky to stand as pou that separated Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei, the adornments of customary kākahu, Hautāmiro weaves together materials and techniques in an installation that celebrates adaptation, experimentation and mātauranga Māori across generations.
Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in AotearoaTaimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as a starting point, the exhibition navigates a sea of ideas, offering multiple perspectives on New Zealand art through a selection of works from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
2025 National Contemporary Art AwardThe National Contemporary Art Award was launched in 2000 by the Waikato Society of Arts and has been facilitated and hosted by Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery since 2006.
The prestigious competition’s blind-judging process keeps entrant identities confidential, enabling the guest judge to focus solely on the art.
Peter Robinson: Charcoal DrawingA roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
TOI KORU: Sandy AdsettExperience the bold brilliance of Toi Koru, the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera).
Spanning six decades, this remarkable exhibition traces the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the 1960s to today - including a striking new series painted especially for the exhibition.
'Pae o te Rangi'Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.
Voyager Voyager is an Australian exclusive survey exhibition celebrating the diversity of Reihana's internationally acclaimed art practice. The exhibition will include a major new site specific, outdoor installation that will see the artist adorn the entrance of the gallery with an artwork created with hu
Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral New South Wales 2576, Australia
Pohewa Pāhewa: Te RūmaPohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.
3D-printed lamp for Kereama Taepa's rūma kāinga
Robyn KahukiwaPhillida Reid 10 - 16 Grape Street, London, WC2H 8DY, is honoured to present Robyn Kahukiwa, a gathering of work by the revered Aotearoa New Zealand artist (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Konohi, Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare, 1938 – 2025). This exhibition has been put together in accordance with Kahukiwa’s wishes before her passing in April of this year, with the devoted support of her daughter, Reina Kahukiwa, and Season.
Spanning three decades of Kahukiwa’s career, from the 1990s to 2025, the exhibition comprises paintings and drawings from public and private collections, and the artist’s estate. Kahukiwa’s work was last shown outside of Aotearoa at Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023). This will be the first exhibition of her work in London since 1999’s Māori!, presented at Maud Sulter’s gallery Rich Women of Zurich.
Whāia te TaniwhaThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of taniwha. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the Aotearoa landscape.
Whāia te Taniwha also responds to the impact of colonisation on Māori knowledge systems by celebrating the deep and varied presence of taniwha within te ao Māori,” says Cull.
Waiora In this solo exhibition, Hemi Macgregor explores the spiritual elements that connect humans to the external worlds of te taiao, te taimoana, te taiwhenua and into tātai tuarangi (the cosmos). Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes found in raranga, tukutuku and taniko. Pūrākau are referenced throughout the exhibition to reflect our connection with the sky, water, earth, and seasons.
Paradise of ImaginationThe art, stories, and histories of the Middle Ages conjure imaginative medieval realms where fantasy fuses with memory and experience. This period covers approximately 1000 years from the decline of the Western Roman Empire in the sixth century to the early years of the sixteenth century (c.500-c.1500). Paradise of Imagination: Medieval & Modern Encounters invites us to consider the vibrant cultural legacies of the Middle Ages expressed and shaped through artists’ hands.
Paradise of Imagination: Medieval & Modern Encounters is curated by Anya Samarasinghe, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Ihupukutaka Kairaupī Curatorial Intern 2025, with support from Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
In Te Pō there are many beginningsThe exhibition title, In Te Pō there are many beginnings, is a mihi to an early painting by artist and educator Kura Te Waru Rewiri (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Rangi). As kaiako and mentor to Saffronn Te Ratana (Ngāi Tūhoe) and Ngataiharuru Taepa (Te Āti Awa, Te Arawa), the artists remain grateful and inspired by this mana wāhine and her practice.
The Tree Collectors"Reuben Paterson stages encounters meant to be felt. To look is to be looked at, to desire is to be unsettled, to touch is to risk breaking. The works exist in relation, insisting that we too are multiple, that we too hold contradictions. They remind us that beauty can overwhelm, that desire can be a form of thought. They ask us to project ourselves into the cosmos, to imagine what cannot yet be seen, to grant emotional interiority to stars and exoplanets as sites of possibility, places where life might exist or begin anew. In doing so, they open questions about Earth’s future, the continuation of our species, and the ways we imagine life beyond our world."
Living ArchivesDelving into art and archives from the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū collections, Living Archives charts personal stories about artists and history in Aotearoa. By drawing on the legacy of art historians Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Julie King and Karen Stevenson, the exhibition focuses on intergenerational relationships, artistic lineage and creative networks.
Image: Lonnie Hutchinson (Ngāti Kuri, Ngāi Tahu, Sāmoan, Māori, Pasifika, Scottish, English)
Comb (black), 2011, Paint on steel, Karen Stevenson Collection, presented 2022
WāMuaIn WāMua, Kereama Taepa (Te Āti Awa) extends his exploration of how Māori art and digital culture intersect and evolve. His practice rhythmically weaves together the language of Te ao Matihiko (the digital world) and ancestral carving traditions, creating something simultaneously familiar and new, a dialogue between inherited forms and futuristic expression.
Ahi Kaa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te Ahi Kaa with Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Friends, a celebration of clay, fire, and the enduring spirit of Barry Brickell at Driving Creek.1–9 November 2025 (opening showcase).
The exhibition continues through summer,November 2025 – February 2026
Does the flower hear the bee?: 15th Shanghai Biennale 15th Shanghai Biennale: Does the flower hear the bee? takes place from 8 November 2025 to 31 March 2026 at the Power Station of Art, 200 Hua Yuan Gang Lu, Huangpu Qu, Shanghai, China.
Titled Does the flower hear the bee?, the 15th Shanghai Biennale will explore new modes of sensorial communication between artwork, audience and environment. Inspired by recent scientific discoveries regarding interactions between honeybees and the flowers that “hear” the vibration of their wings, the exhibition operates at the intersection of differing models of intelligence, both human and nonhuman.
Featuring over 250 works by 67 individual artists and collectives, from China and around the world, the Biennale’s hopeful vision rests on art’s ability to orient us towards the unknown, the future. Conceived in collaboration with a global array of artists, curators, intellectuals, musicians, poets, scientists and writers, Does the flower hear the bee? recognizes that much depends on our ability to sense the world around us and attune ourselves to its diverse variety of intelligences.
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