Artspace Aotearoa

Artspace Aotearoa A public contemporary art gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Free Entry, Tues-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm

Artspace Aotearoa is a non-profit art institution located on Auckland's Karangahape Rd, dedicated to commissioning and presenting new ideas in contemporary art.

We are pleased to announce the opening of CRIT: Art learning since 1987. This exhibition explores how artists, educators...
13/07/2026

We are pleased to announce the opening of CRIT: Art learning since 1987. This exhibition explores how artists, educators, and communities have learned inside, beside, outside, around, and against institutions in Aotearoa and beyond since the late 1980s. Rather than presenting a single model for the future of art education, CRIT brings together many different ways of learning, making, and being together.

CRIT: Art learning since 1987 and its events programme has been made possible in cooperation with Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery and with the support of the Chartwell Trust, Goethe Institut, National Services, and Toi o Aotearoa Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau International Delegates. This kaupapa is also supported by Versare NZ, Tony Kerridge, and Micheal Do. Thanks to our hospitality sponsors Parrotdog, Everyday Wine and Karma Drinks.

Join us for the opening on Friday 17 July from 6–8pm, all welcome.

More information at the link in our bio and on our website.

CRIT: Art learning since 1987
Atarangi Anderson & Thies Vaihū, Margaret Aull, Elvis Booth-Claveria, Chris Bryant-Toi, Fiona Connor, Millie Dunstall, Jef Geys, Pākāriki Harrison, Abigail Aroha Jensen & Emil Scheffmann, Keciano, Georgia Larkins-Tareha, Lana Lopesi, Alex Martinis Roe, Andreas Müller, Liam Philp, Samoa House Library, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Sam Thorne, Nathan Wilson et al.
18 July – 26 September 2026




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Image: O-Tāwhao Marae in construction, 1984. Courtesy Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

We are pleased to announce the full lecture programme for AGENCY: A curatorial intensive in three questions: How do I le...
09/06/2026

We are pleased to announce the full lecture programme for AGENCY: A curatorial intensive in three questions: How do I learn? How do I act? How do I imagine?

This symposium will bring together curators Clémentine Deliss, Kimberley Moulton, and Megan Tamati-Quenell for three lectures in three questions: How do I learn? How do I act? How do I imagine?

Presented as part of CRIT: Art learning since 1987, Artspace Aotearoa 17 July – 26 September and the Hōtoke season of exhibitions at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery 4 July – 11 October, this symposium foregrounds the vital role that rigorous and imaginative curatorial practice plays within contemporary art ecologies. These lectures articulate current positions in curatorial thinking and practice.

This lecture programme is open and free to the public until maximum capacity is reached.
Read more and RSVP on the Artspace Aotearoa and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery websites or through the link in our bio.

AGENCY is presented by Artspace Aotearoa and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery and supported by Chartwell Trust, Goethe Institut, National Services Te Paerangi, and Toi o Aotearoa Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau International Delegates Programme.









Images in order: Kimberley Moulton, courtesy of the subject; Clémentine Deliss, courtesy of Alpimages; Megan Tamati-Quenell courtesy of the subject.

We are pleased to announce the opening of The Blue Dome, featuring new work by Iranian-born, Tāmaki Makaurau–based artis...
10/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the opening of The Blue Dome, featuring new work by Iranian-born, Tāmaki Makaurau–based artist and filmmaker Selina Ershadi.

Working with film, sound, and text developed during recent trips to Tehran and in Tāmaki Makaurau, she explores the politics of recording personal stories. By working with details often overlooked in official historical narratives, Ershadi questions whose stories are seen, remembered, and valued.

This exhibition is presented in association with Nottingham Contemporary and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of ModContemporary Modern Art. Thanks to our hospitality sponsors Everyday Wine and Karma Drinks.

Join us for the opening on Friday 24 April from 6–8pm, all welcome.

More information at the link in our bio and on our website.

The Blue Dome
Selina Ershadi
25 April – 4 July 2026





Rerekē. Different, unusual, abnormal, changed. Rerekē is the programme by Emily Lyall, the 2026 Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Ta...
27/03/2026

Rerekē. Different, unusual, abnormal, changed. Rerekē is the programme by Emily Lyall, the 2026 Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Taiwhenua curatorial intern. Encouraging artists working today to push themselves to ask: why do we do the things we do? Rerekē instigates a conversation between the artist and questions the constraints established by the way things are and have come to be accepted. Could the response be to be bold, be weird, be different?

Upcoming events and programmes to be announced soon.

Read more about the Rerekē programme on the website and at link in our bio.

13/02/2026

The volunteers exhibition Portal is now open in The Kit.

Portal brings together 17 artists who have volunteered at Artspace Aotearoa over the past two years. Through collective reflection, each artist has redeveloped an existing work in response to their shared experience, forming an interconnected circuit of renewed practices.

Volunteers exhibition: Portal
13–21 February
Tuesday–Friday 10am–6pm, Saturday 11am–4pm
The Kit, 8 East Street

Frankie Ayers, Kyung Baro, Stella Barry, Kerin Casey, Millie Dunstall, Sinag Fernadez, Inga Fillary, Neve Gresswell, Ziggy Humberstone, Zach Muir, Paige Nebbeling, Emma Savage, Rebekah Sohn, Jude Stevens, Emma Stretch, Laura Watson, Ivy Weir. Curated by Millie Dunstall.

More information on our website.

Video directed by Laura Watson and Ziggy Humberstone.


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We are pleased to announce the opening of After the undercurrents, an exhibition which brings together the artwork of Go...
19/01/2026

We are pleased to announce the opening of After the undercurrents, an exhibition which brings together the artwork of Gordon Bennett and Emily Karaka, two senior artists from Australia and Aotearoa.

Their artworks draw on narratives of place, colonisation, popular culture, and Indigenous world views to explore ideas of struggle and belonging. Through their unique painting styles these artists question our histories and invite us to imagine our futures.

After the undercurrents
Gordon Bennett, Emily Karaka
31 January – 11 April 2026

Join us for the opening on Friday 30 January from 6–8pm, all welcome.

This exhibition is presented in association with Te Ahurei Toi o Tamaki Auckland Arts Festival and with the support of Wesfarmers.

More information on our website.

Image: Gordon Bennett, Notes to Basquiat: Volcano II, 2001. Courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Bennett.

Join us in welcoming Matthew Hanson as our Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator.“Artspace was a crucial place for m...
11/12/2025

Join us in welcoming Matthew Hanson as our Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator.

“Artspace was a crucial place for me when I first started engaging with art—it gave me access to ideas that opened up my thinking about what art could be. I am honoured to now be part of its mission and to have joined an amazing team who have been so welcoming.”

Matthew is a curator and writer whose work examines artistic methodologies and the psychic life of the art institution. He has independently curated exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland including: Ludger Gerdes, Synkategoremata (2024), Kunsthalle Münster; Andrea Fraser, This meeting is being recorded (2022), LUMA Foundation Zürich and, Jacqueline Fraser, THE MAKING OF MARIA BY CALLAS (2020), Kunsthalle Zürich. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland and the Zurich University of the Arts.

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292 Karangahape Road
Auckland
1010

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm

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+6493034965

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