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The Physics Room is a contemporary art space based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

22/09/2025

✨ Join us this Saturday morning at 11am for a kōrero with the artists in our current exhibition 09 07 25. and , with curator James Tapsell-Kururangi.

Their conversation will consider ideas of whakapapa, truth, and the process behind their photographs.

☕ All welcome, we'll have a hot pot of coffee or tea for you and a piece of loaf.

Image: Aidan Taira Geraghty, Anamata, 2024. Commissioned by .

18/09/2025

Kei te whakarongo mai koutou ki Plains Media i tēnei pō i te waru karaka. Te wāhanga te tekau mā toru o te Contemporary Toi Kōrero. Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence rauā ko Aidan Taira Geraghty.

090725 (installview), 2025. Photo by .spargo

02/09/2025

Tumeke, big shout out to everyone that came through to our spring opening for the current exhibition 09 07 25 with artists and .

Kia ora to our supporters and 🔥🔥🔥

26/08/2025

Opening this Thursday at 5.30pm
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Aidan Taira Geraghty and Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence
Exhibition period: August 29 – 19 October

09 07 25 is an exhibition with artists Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence and Aidan Taira Geraghty. An auspicious date on which the artists expressed a desire to get to know one another, prior to presenting their work. Their series of photographs stands in as documentation, of ground covered in their recent years, on truth, self-belief, and knowledge systems that are inseparable from their biography. The photographs identify particular strategies to unpack their genealogical connection to their family stories.

The āhua of the exhibition is a warm invitation to sit with their irreconcilable ideas about distance, accountability, inheritance, beauty and boredom.

03/08/2025

Thank you to Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau guest Billy Tang for visiting us in Ōtautahi last week, and for sharing so many insights about your approach to working with community, against and within structures, and ways of rerouting the resources we have access to. Thank you to for their support, and to .aotearoa who this kaupapa was presented in association with. Thanks also to everyone who attended Billy’s lecture and our roundtable discussion–hopefully these are ideas and conversations that might continue.

23/07/2025

Call for EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Critical Laundering: a roundtable discussion with Billy Tang
Friday 1 August, 10am-12pm

We are seeking expressions of interest for Critical Laundering, a roundtable discussion in response to our current exhibition Bootleg with visiting curator Billy Tang.

This discussion will draw on histories of counterfeiting, ideas of censorship and authorship, and parasitic or ad-hoc economics. Participants are invited to be in dialogue with Tang around these topics, thinking about how they might be useful tools for future or recent projects.

This opportunity is for curators, artists and other contemporary arts practitioners based in Ōtautahi. Please email [email protected] with an expression of interest and a brief background to your practice to join this discussion.

Image: Tamsen Hopkinson, Crimson and Clover, 2025. Photo by

18/07/2025

Tonight on The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero, we’re lucky to have artist Abigail Aroha Jensen speaking about her work in our current exhibition Bootleg. 👛

This episode is the first of a mini-series called Artist Documents, where we have a conversation with an artist from the programme about points of reference for their practice recently—a place, a song, a particular material, an object.

Tune in at 8pm on .media 96.9 to hear Abigail talk about hair dye, found toys, industrial muka, spiritual walks, and Instagram. 🎀✨🧸🍬

If you miss the live broadcast, you can find the episode on our website, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

17/07/2025

Join us in the gallery this Saturday 19 June at 11am for a talk with curator Jane Wallace on our current exhibition Bootleg, with work by Abigail Aroha Jensen and Tamsen Hopkinson 👛🔧 more details on this event can be found on our website, all welcome.
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image: Abigail Aroha Jensen, install view including Vanity Kit and Rachel Dolezal, both 2025. Photo by

14/07/2025

The gallery will be closed tomorrow Tuesday 15 July as we are away on our annual hui whakahauora.

Open as usual the rest of the week with our current exhibition Bootleg, with artists Tamsen Hopkinson and Abigail Aroha Jensen 🏹 and join us this Saturday 19 July at 11am for a talk with the exhibition’s curator Jane Wallace–details on our website.

07/07/2025

Ngā mihi nui to everyone who came out on a wintery July evening to celebrate the opening of Bootleg! Special thanks of course to our amazing sponsors 🖤🖤🖤

The exhibition is open now until 24 August.

01/07/2025

Bootleg, our upcoming exhibition with artists Abigail Aroha Jensen and Tamsen Hopkinson, opens this Friday at 5.30pm—all welcome, please join us!

Hugely grateful to Gary at the for all the assistance and generosity towards this exhibition. 🗞️🗞️

image: Tamsen Hopkinson, working image, 2025

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19/06/2025

OPEN CALL!

A forthcoming publication by The Physics Room.

We are inviting proposals for a new publication, thinking about the words, kupu, gestures and relationships involved in communication.

We welcome artists, writers, designers, researchers, and other practitioners who are interested in dialogue and language(s), [mis]translations, handwriting, emojis 👋, hand signals, subtitles, transcription, alphabets, and any and all other forms of communication.

🗓️ Deadline: 11:59pm, Sunday 6 July
✍️ Apply via the Google Form - [link in bio]

Contributors will receive editorial support and will be paid for their mahi. We encourage proposals from anyone, including first-time and early career writers.

Successful applicants will have six weeks to complete a draft before moving into the editing phase alongside Anna Welham and The Physics Room team.

If you have any questions or concerns about the application process or have accessibility requirements, please email [email protected].

Address

301 Montreal Street, The Arts Centre Registry Additions Building (access From The Market Square)
Christchurch
8011

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

Telephone

+6433795583

Website

http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/

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