Aupuni Space

Lost Mary HANDBAGS, 2024 Bradley Capello Opening: December 13, 6pm December 13 – January 18, 2024 and as part of Other Places Art Fair OPAF Tokyo / “他の場所”

📣We’re looking forward to #HawaiiTriennial2025 (HT25), and are proud to be one of 13 sites of exhibition and programming across O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island. Aupuni Space will feature one of 49 remarkable HT25 artists and art collectives from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and beyond, on view for 78 days. This is Hawai‘i’s largest contemporary art exhibition, offering a dynamic blend of local and global creativity. 🌺O‘ AHU Aupuni Space • Hō‘ikeākea Gallery • Bishop Museum • Foster Botanical Garden • Downtown Honolulu • HT25 HUB at Davies Pacific Center • Capitol Modern • Honolulu Hale • Honolulu Museum of Art • Fort DeRussy • Lē‘ahi | Diamond Head State Monument 🌺MAUI Programming to be announced 🌺HAWAI‘I ISLAND Donkey Mill Art Center • East Hawai‘i Cultural Center The theme ALOHA NŌ invites all of us—natives, settlers, immigrants, and visitors—to reflect on what it means to be in Hawai‘i. It’s a call for deeper understandings of love, solidarity, care, and transformation. This isn’t just an exhibition; it’s a cultural experience that challenges, inspires, and connects us all. 🗓Mark your calendars: February 15 - May 4, 2025. Join us for a transformative journey through the art, people, and stories of Hawai‘i!

Folder: MATERIAL RESEARCH> 08.charcoal Cody Anderson March 30 – April 28, 2024 Opening reception:  Saturday March 30, 6pm Aupuni Space is proud to present Folder: MATERIAL RESEARCH> 08.charcoal, a solo exhibition by Cody Anderson; his second with the gallery.  A statement from the artist: Folder: MATERIAL RESEARCH> 08.charcoal is a branch of a larger, ongoing project which attempts to learn about the materials in my environment and how to utilize them. The research specifically considers material/s in relation to drawing; this subfolder represents my process of learning how to make charcoal. Parts of the process include constructing homemade kilns from found materials, and making drawings of the small branches and twigs I picked up to become charcoal.  Undoubtedly, this attempt has been inspired by watching my artist peers engage deeply with their own materials, and my perspective being informed by living in Hawaiʻi for nearly seven years now. Charcoal, I view as a foundational material, both in drawing and my quest for great material understandings.

We’re feeling proud and humble to be one part of the many that made this idea into a beautiful reality. Kaikea, Ha’aheo, Kilikai, Summer, Aja, Nai’a, Puna, Alec and on and on and on… everyone involved in “Kaimana” tirelessly gave their time, input and collaborative energy to support Rocket’s vision and craft the runway presentation that went off so flawlessly this past Friday. On behalf of Aupuni Space (Maile, Logan and myself), mahalo piha to Puʻuhonua Society for their blessing and support in our making “Kaimana” happen; and mahalo piha to Rubasch ʻohana for their ‘ike and kōkua throughout. 📹 by @pineappleice

Rocket Ahuna “Kaimana” FW ‘24 Runway Presentation 3/22/2024 Presented in partnership with Kaimana Beach Hotel and @honolulupride, Aupuni Space, and TRADES A.i.R. are proud to provide production support for this project! More soon!

On this day, February 14, 2024, Aupuni Space is pleased to release 20 minute workout, a work-in-progress by maliewai productions, a nebulous group of family and friends committed to abundant and intersectional futures for the Hawaiian Islands. Structured around a 20 minute workout, maliewai’s parodic exercise video is a gift of love, a gesture of solidarity, and a reminder that joy is also a form of resistance—aloha nō. Over the past decade public statues, monuments, and memorials commemorating racist figures and whitewashed histories have been passionately debated on international scales. In spite of this long overdue reckoning, physical reminders of colonialism, imperialism, and empire still stand across Hawaiʻi. 20 minute workout is part of a larger project, Revisiting Kealakekua Bay, Reworking the Captain Cook Monument (2018 – 2025) which gathers together interventionist proposals by a motley crew of artists and practitioners. Since 2018, the underlying aims of this collaborative and slow moving endeavor have remained the same: to revisit an ancestral place and rework a historic monument; honor untold stories of intergenerational resistance in Hawaiʻi; address legacies of scientific colonialism in the Pacific; and activate pathways toward remediated futures already in the making. Mākaukau? ‘AE! Link in bio to watch 20 minute workout on vimeo