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Te Uru

Te Uru is a regional gallery, offering diverse exhibitions from an award-winning building. Parking available on the street or behind the gallery.
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Te Uru is a regional gallery locally rooted in West Auckland but globally minded. With our unique perspective, located in the forested outskirts of Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Uru is the region's leading contemporary gallery with an international programme that reflects our place in Aotearoa and the wider Moana region, connecting new ideas and different practices with local and global networks. Our vision

is to be the leading home for contemporary culture that is fresh, relevant, empowering, and essential to the wellbeing of our communities. As a destination gallery, Te Uru operates from an award-winning building in the recently redeveloped Lopdell Precinct that attracts local, regional, national and international visitors. We originally opened in 1986 as the Waitemata City Arts and Cultural Centre, later known as Lopdell House Gallery, sited in the historic Lopdell House building in the heart of scenic Titirangi, gateway to the Waitākere rain forest and en route to Auckland's famous west coast beaches. We reopened as Te Uru in November 2014 in new purpose-built facilities, offering extraordinary exhibitions, dramatic architecture and spectacular views of the surrounding area. Our name, Te Uru, makes reference to Te Hau a Uru, the wind that blows from the west, a powerful characteristic of the region and an important story for local iwi, Te Kawerau ā Maki, who have bestowed us with this new kaupapa. The west wind shares the messages and vision of the people that live in the west, brings change, sets direction and influences Auckland City from its mountainous perch atop Te Wao Nui o Tiriwa - the Waitākere Ranges. Te Uru will be a source of information and ideas that will project across the region - a fitting framework for a contemporary gallery. Public transport - buses and trains available from New Lynn transit station

Summer/Autumn hours: Monday-Sunday, 10am - 4.30pm
Winter/Spring hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10am - 4.30pm
420 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand
Phone:+649 817 8087
www.teuru.org.nz

01/06/2026

𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 2026
Entries Close Soon
CLOSING MIDNIGHT 8 JUN

Last chance to get your entry in for the 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 2026.

To apply visit our website to link to the online application portal where you will be prompted through the application process. Please read through the Terms and Conditions on our website before starting your application.

29/05/2026

Auction Live
𝘞𝘦𝘣𝘣’𝘴 x 𝘛𝘦 𝘜𝘳𝘶 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
2026 29 MAY - 5 JUN 2026

ONLINE AUCTION - https://shorturl.at/aOGc6
webbs.co.nz | 29 May—5 June
Bidding Closes | Thursday 5 June, from 8pm

Bidding is now open for the Te Uru fundraising auction, generously supported by Webb’s.
Check out the sale online, link in bio, to see the fantastic array of bespoke and locally made products on offer. This is a great way to buy a gift for yourself or someone you love while supporting Tāmaki Makaurau’s second largest public art gallery.

Get bidding to support the arts! Bidding closes Thursday 5 June from 8pm.

29/05/2026

Exhibition Opening this Weekend
SAT 30 MAY, 4PM

Join us this Saturday and help us celebrate the launch of three important exhibitions:

𝘊𝘖𝘚𝘔𝘖𝘓𝘖𝘎𝘐𝘌𝘚
Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White�31 MAY - 9 AUG 2026
In this exhibition, cosmology is not metaphor but method: a way of mapping relations across generations. Working with aute (barkcloth) and bark painting respectively, both artists translate lived astronomical knowledge into contemporary abstraction while remaining grounded in ancestral responsibility.

𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶
Jonathas de Andrade, Anetta Mona Chişa, Ayesha Green, Arapeta Hākura, Emily Karaka, Agnieszka Polska, Mathilde Rosier, Zheng Bo�31 MAY - 9 AUG 2026
𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 traces the entangled relationalities between the human and the more-than-human. It brings together artists whose practices connect to a place where land, water, air, and ancestral presence are not easily reduced to backdrop or resource but remain active participants in shared worlds.

𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦
Sione Faletau, Kauri Hawkins, Raymond Sagapolutele�16 MAY – 26 JUN 2026
Tāmaki Makaurau is often described as a meeting place — Tāmaki of a hundred lovers — a site of convergence and desire. But Tāmaki Makaurau is not a neutral ground of encounter. It is a city built through layered acts of binding — some forged in solidarity, others imposed through force, such as land confiscation and imposed assimilation. 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 brings together three artists who’s work looks at how we are bound together and to place through the histories of Tāmaki Makaurau.

19/05/2026

Last weekend’s skate party🍊

To close Kalisolaite ‘Uhila’s exhibition 𝘒𝘰𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘵𝘶 𝘱𝘦 𝘬𝘰𝘪𝘢, the gallery transformed into a temporary skate park for an afternoon of skating, music, coffee, pastries and celebration.

Skateboarder Daniel Jochems activated ‘Uhila’s sculptural ramps, marked and tagged by visitors throughout the exhibition, with a live soundtrack by Brazilian DJ Anabe.

Thanks to everyone who came through, shared an orange, watched the skating and celebrated with us.

14/05/2026

Coming Soon!
Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White
𝘊𝘖𝘚𝘔𝘖𝘓𝘖𝘎𝘐𝘌𝘚
31 MAY - 9 AUG 2026
OPENING EVENT - SAT 30 MAY, 4PM

Cosmologies brings together the work of Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White into an exhibition that generates dialogue shaped by the night sky. Across Indigenous knowledge systems celestial bodies are not distant matter but living presences, they are repositories of law, memory, navigation, spirit energy and ecological care. Stars orient seasonal cycles and kinship structures, binding people to land, sea, and sky. In this exhibition, cosmology is not metaphor but method: a way of mapping relations across generations and more-than-human worlds. A way to locate our own position in this world and in this life. Working with aute (barkcloth) and bark painting respectively, both artists translate lived astronomical knowledge into contemporary abstraction while remaining grounded in ancestral responsibility.

08/05/2026

Final Week to View
Ammon Ngakuru�𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦 (𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘨)
EXHIBITION ENDS - 17 MAY 2026

Don’t miss seeing this exhibition by 2027 Walters Prize finalist Ammon Ngakuru (Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Roroa and Ngāpuhi). In 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦 (𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘨) the artist creates a space of ambiguity, where clarity and selectivity are purposefully rescinded. The newly created series of paintings rests in the space in-between that can be defined by its indefinability and contradictions: interiors and exteriors, intimate and personal memories and feelings with outside observations, hidden clues and clear symbols, signs of comfort – such as a sleeping dog – next to markers of danger populate this works.

05/05/2026

Currently on View
Kahurangiariki Smith
𝘒𝘢𝘪 𝘢 𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘸𝘩𝘢
22 MAR - 7 JUN 2026

Throughout 𝘒𝘢𝘪 𝘢 𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘸𝘩𝘢, taniwha remain resistant to singular interpretation. They are neither purely protective nor purely destructive, but shaped by emotion, necessity and viewpoint. By pairing visceral imagery with softness, humour and iridescent abundance, Kahurangiariki creates a visual language in which glamour and brutality, fantasy and survival all coexist. Viewers are invited to sit with contradiction, recognising taniwha as emotional technologies, forms through which complex feelings, both individual & societal, are made visible.

Through this combination of material excess and emotional depth. Kahurangiariki’s practice insists on taniwha as living presences: responsive, contemporary and deeply entangled with the realities of feeling, embodiment and endurance.

04/05/2026

Baby-Friendly Art Tours
MON 11 MAY
(Second Monday of every Month)
10:30am

Join the experienced team at Te Uru for a guided tour of our current exhibitions on the second Monday of each month. These relaxed, monthly drop-in tours are designed especially for babies and their caregivers, with a warm understanding that there will be a few noises and interruptions.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a gallery outing alongside other caregivers and their babies, while discovering and learning more about contemporary art.

01/05/2026

Last Chance to Book! Hobart & Melbourne Art Tour
5 NOV – 11 NOV 2026

Join us on our next art adventure! Following the successful Art Tours to Sydney and Japan – Te Uru is running a tour to Hobart and Melbourne 5 November – 11 November 2026. Join Lynda Tyler, Art historian and writer and AD Schierning Te Uru’s Director to see art highlights including MONA, and all the major public galleries Melbourne has to offer. The itinerary boasts a smorgasbord of experiences, from public galleries to private collections, dealer galleries and artists studios.

Final places still available - bookings close 22 May.

To request the full details and itinerary please email [email protected]

Image Credit : Photo: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of the artists and Mona, Tasmania, Australia.

27/04/2026

Kalisolaite ‘Uhila
𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨
SAT 9 MAY, 1PM

You are warmly invited to join us for a reading by the artist within the exhibition 𝘒𝘰𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘵𝘶 𝘱𝘦 𝘬𝘰𝘪𝘢.

For this event, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila will read the hymn “Oku tau teu 'a e ngoue” (we are preparing the garden/field), within the exhibition setting. It is one of the most well-known and widely sung Christian hymns in Tonga, which relates to the broader themes in the exhibition, of community and resilience, and that we reap the seeds we sow.

The hymn speaks about the commitment to a path, to sacrifice, and to persevering through hardship. The imagery of ngoue (garden) is significant in Tongan culture: traditionally, tending gardens/fields is central to subsistence farming, community cooperation, and social obligation. In the hymn, this agricultural imagery is a metaphor for Christian service, spiritual labour and spiritual harvest, as well as community.

In Kalisolaite ‘Uhila’s exhibition, the hymn becomes a resonant bridge between past and present – between the orchard and the gallery space, between physical labour and artistic practice. Recited within the space, the hymn gathers the exhibition’s threads of memory, migration, kinship, growth and endurance into a shared moment of listening. As his voice fills the room, the garden is no longer only a field to be tended, but a space of collective reflection. A space where what has been sown through years of work, sacrifice, and resilience continues to bear fruit.

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Tuesday	10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 4:30pm
Thursday	10am - 4:30pm
Friday	10am - 4:30pm
Saturday	10am - 4:30pm
Sunday	10am - 4:30pm

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