Prompts will bring the artwork of senior artists, Michael Parekōwhai and Turner Prize-winning UK-based artist Lubaina Himid in contact for the first time. This exhibition will be the premiere showing of Lubaina Himid in Aotearoa, presenting painting and a large body of work on paper. Alongside Himid, Artspace Aotearoa will re-present the early and significant sculptural work, The Indefinite Article (1990) by Parekōwhai, 35 years on from its first showing in the seminal exhibition Choice! Prompts will explore the role language can play in shaping identity and agency and will also reflect on the significance of Artspace Aotearoa in local art history.
Open Late
First Thursdays Thursday 6 March 2025, 6-8pm
Free, no tickets
Artspace Aotearoa will be open late for First Thursdays with our current exhibition, Prompts. See artwork by senior artists, Michael Parekōwhai and Turner Prize-winning UK-based artist Lubaina Himid. This event is part of First Thursdays on Karangahape Road, which sees galleries including Artspace Aotearoa, open late alongside shops, street stalls, performances and live music.
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Portrait workshop with Māpura Studios
Saturday 15 March, 10am–3pm
Free, RSVP required
This workshop is inspired by the work of Lubaina Himid
included in the exhibition Prompts at Artspace Aotearoa.
Join Māpura Studios tutors in hands-on workshop where
participants will be guided to use a variety of processes
including drawing, collage, painting and printmaking to
create a version of portraiture. Through artmaking and
kōrero participants will explore the idea of depicting self in
relation to the world around them.
Booking is essential as space is limited.
Please contact
robbie@artspace.org.nz to express your interest.
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Inside Ngā Taonga Tūturu
Sunday 16 March, 11am– 12pm
Free
Location: Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium
This talk will explore the diverse approaches to portraiture
currently on show in Prompts at Artspace Aotearoa and Ngā
Taonga Tūturu: Treasured Māori Portraits at Auckland Art
Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Join Kaitohu Director of Artspace
Aotearoa Ruth Buchanan and curator Māori at Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland Art Gallery, Nathan Pohio as they consider the
works on display at Artspace Aotearoa, the paintings by
UK-based Lubaina Himid and sculptural work from Michael
Parekōwhai and the portraits by Gottfried Lindauer at
Auckland Art Gallery. This exchange will explore how
portraiture continues to evolve as a complex expression of
subjecthood in Te Ao Māori and in contemporary art.
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Additional event details to come: Audio Described Aotearoa tour (at Artspace Aotearoa) |
