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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.

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

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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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.

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.

28/11/2025

Join Jingcheng Zhao our curatorial intern for 2025 as she reflects on her year at Artspace Aotearoa and her programme Parallax:

“To close this chapter, I would love to invite you to a cushion presentation recapping these moments of reflections, regrets, learnings, hopes and acknowledge the people that shaped it.” – Jing

Please join Jing this Saturday 29 November, 4-5pm, the Kit, 8 East Street (or please email [email protected] for Zoom link online), looking forward to seeing you soon.

Recap: Internship report
Saturday 29 November 4-5pm
Parallax: The Kit 8 East Street
Online email [email protected] for Zoom link
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26/11/2025

Celebrate the end of the year with the arts organisations and creative communities of East Street: Artspace Aotearoa, Tautai, Silo Theatre, Michael Lett Gallery and Coastal Signs.

Join us for beers, a BBQ and good company in the Artspace Aotearoa and Tautai Car park at 8 East Street. Artspace Aotearoa, Tautai, Coastal Signs and Michael Lett galleries will be open late until 6pm.

DJs ajhoneysuckle and IBSxcwill set the tone and there will be a pop up Parallax: artist market in the Kit.

This event is supported by and part of the Karangahape Road Business Association’s F.A.M. event, celebrating Food, Art, and Markets. Visit their website to see the full day’s programme.

Thanks to our hospitality sponsors Karma Drinks and Everyday Wine.

East Street Block Party
Saturday 6 December 4–8pm
Artspace Aoteraoa car park, 8 East Street
Free, all welcome

21/10/2025

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening of this year’s Chartwell Trust New Commissions exhibition, Echo. Congratulations to all of the artists Erika Holm, Ngaroma Riley, Tarika Sabherwal and their mentors Anoushka Akel, Nova Paul, and Judy Darragh for their work across the year towards these new artworks. Thank you to the Chartwell Trust for supporting this kaupapa.

As Kairauhī Curator Robbie Handcock notes, “One of the great things about our New Commissions exhibition is the surprising connections and contrasts that come out of the selection of artists and the works they produce. This year we see some vastly different reference points come together, from Kalighat painting, to karetao, to furniture making. What emerges is a shared interest in folk, craft, and design practices and their tensions within contemporary art.”

Echo
Erika Holm, Ngaroma Riley, Tarika Sabherwal
18 October – 20 December 2025

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Image one: courtesy of The Current Art Magazine. Photo by Felix Jackson; remaining images courtesy of Artspace Aotearoa.

28/09/2025

Our traveling exhibition Prompts enters its last weeks on show at Te Papa Tongarewa. Alongside the artworks by Lubaina Himid and Michael Parekōwhai, which were shown earlier this year at Artspace Aotearoa, Atarangi (1990) from Te Papa's collection has been added to the presentation. Prompts is on show in Toi Art at Te Papa until 5 October 2025.

Prompts is presented by Artspace Aotearoa in association with Te Papa and with the support of the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Read more about Prompts at Te Papa at the link in our bio and on our website.

Image: Prompts, an exhibition by Artspace Aotearoa presented at Te Papa, 2025. Image by Maarten Holl/Te Papa. Courtesy the artists.

29/07/2025

Tonight join visiting exhibiting artist Martha Atienza in a Deep dive conversation with artist Yee I-Lann, facilitated by Kairauhī Curator Robbie Handcock.

Martha Atienza lives and works in Bantayan Island, Philippines. Atienza is a Dutch-Filipino video artist exploring the format’s ability to document and question issues related to the environment, community, and development. Her video is rooted in both ecological and sociological concerns as she studies the intricate interplay between local traditions, human subjectivity, and the natural world.

Deep dive: Martha Atienza and Yee I-Lann in conversation
Wednesday 30 July, 6pm
Free

RSVP and more information on our website.

Images: Martha Atienza. Courtesy of the artist.

28/07/2025

The tongue to them is now open.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week to celebrate the opening and to the contributing artists Darcell Apelu, Martha Atienza, Heidi Brickell, Buck Nin and Yee I-Lann.

Also our thanks to Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa for supporting this kaupapa.

Artspace Aotearoa returns to our regular hours Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 11am–4pm.

26 July – 4 October 2025
The tongue to them
Darcell Apelu, Martha Atienza, Heidi Brickell, Buck Nin, Yee I-Lann

More information on our website.

Thanks to our hospitality sponsors Everyday Wine.

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292 Karangahape Road
Auckland
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Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm

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+6493034965

Website

http://www.artspace-aotearoa.nz/

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