Enjoy Contemporary Art Space

Enjoy Contemporary Art Space Est. 2000, Enjoy is a leading independent contemporary art space located in Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Enjoy Contemporary Art Space is the longest running artist-led gallery in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, established in June 2000. Run by artists for artists, Enjoy generates and facilitates artistic experimentation, supporting the creation of new work and challenging artists to take risks, while promoting critical discourse around contemporary practice in Aotearoa. Governed

by a board of trustees, in a Tia Tuarua Co-Chair model, Enjoy strives to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi through our strategic leadership and work with artists. We acknowledge Te Āti Awa/Taranaki ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and the neighbouring Ngāti Toa iwi as the mana whenua of this region and rightful custodians of the land upon which we stand. Enjoy delivers our programme with investment of our primary funders Creative New Zealand Arts Council Toi Aotearoa, and additional support from Wellington City Council, community funding and fundraising initiatives.

Thanks for joining us for last Friday's exhibition opening! If you couldn't make it, come see These are Addressed to You...
26/05/2026

Thanks for joining us for last Friday's exhibition opening! If you couldn't make it, come see These are Addressed to You, curated by Jess Clifford, from 11am-6pm Wednesday-Friday, and 11am-4pm on Saturday.



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and a special thank you to Niko Sim for your help with install and DJCS for lending us opening equipment

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We are excited to announce our next exhibition, These are Addressed to You, curated by Jess Clifford. Opening Friday 22 ...
15/05/2026

We are excited to announce our next exhibition, These are Addressed to You, curated by Jess Clifford.

Opening Friday 22 May, from 5:30pm.

This exhibition brings together the work of Bas Jan Ader, Christian Dimick, Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky-M’Baye, Abigail Aroha Jensen, Sharon Kivland and Sarah Rose—artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, sound, performance, writing and moving image.



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Design by Alice Clifford.

"In what is otherwise a stark white cube, Latamai Katoa presents her home, or at least her own version of it, in an inst...
09/05/2026

"In what is otherwise a stark white cube, Latamai Katoa presents her home, or at least her own version of it, in an installation comprising a series of photographs and objects. What happens if it’s broken? she asks rhetorically in her title, suggesting that something has gone awry in this re-arrangement of the whare."
—Ardit Hoxha

Talking home, an essay written by Ardit Hoxha in response to Latamai Katoa's exhibition What happens if it's broken? is now available to read online. Click the link in our bio.




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"First, a little mound of sand, gently patted, followed by a pair of eyes and a mouth that smiles ever so slightly. At t...
08/05/2026

"First, a little mound of sand, gently patted, followed by a pair of eyes and a mouth that smiles ever so slightly. At the edge of the frame, there are glimpses of the artist, Lily Worrall, who appears and disappears through a series of jump cuts. Suddenly, the rough outline of a face is given hair (clumps of seaweed), followed by a set of teeth (brown algae). Another quick cut, glasses—and voilà! A silly little portrait."
—Ardit Hoxha

Like portraits, an essay by Ardit Hoxha, was written in response to Lily Worrall's exhibition moon iron wings. Read the full text on Enjoy's website, via the link in our bio.




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Its the last week to view Latamai Katoa's exhibition What happens if it's broken?We are open til 6pm today and tomorrow....
07/05/2026

Its the last week to view Latamai Katoa's exhibition What happens if it's broken?

We are open til 6pm today and tomorrow.



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Its the last week to view Lily Worrall's exhibition moon iron wings.We are open 11am—6pm Wednesday—Friday and 11am—4pm S...
04/05/2026

Its the last week to view Lily Worrall's exhibition moon iron wings.

We are open 11am—6pm Wednesday—Friday and 11am—4pm Saturday.



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Jieying Cai 蔡杰盈 is a first-generation Chinese New Zealander with ancestry from Ganzhou 贛州. She is a curator and installa...
03/05/2026

Jieying Cai 蔡杰盈 is a first-generation Chinese New Zealander with ancestry from Ganzhou 贛州. She is a curator and installation artist currently completing her studies at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts Massey University Whiti o Rehua. Jieying’s curatorial practice creates space for migrant artists who occupy the in-betweenness of transnational identity. Her most recent project was Manifesto In The Bamboo Forest: Wānanga in Hokianga, exploring collective and individual identification as a non-native in Aotearoa, using bamboo and skill sharing to weave the familiar and the alien.

Jieying will be interning at Enjoy through Massey University over the next few months to curate an exhibition with Tāmaki Makaurau based artist Zed Xu 榛子瞬, to be shown later in the year.

In What happens if it's broken? Latamai Katoa presents a new series of photographs. These images, offering a view into t...
30/04/2026

In What happens if it's broken? Latamai Katoa presents a new series of photographs. These images, offering a view into their family whare, appear almost alien. Under the warmth of domestic lighting, janky DIY plastering jobs and chipped walls resemble decaying skin, a manifestation of how domestic spaces absorb traces of life.

The gallery is open 11am—6pm today and tomorrow, and 11am—4pm on Saturday.



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A poetic and personal meditation on the shifting nature of the self-image, moon iron wings collages place, sound and sub...
28/04/2026

A poetic and personal meditation on the shifting nature of the self-image, moon iron wings collages place, sound and subject to consider the traces that histories leave behind.

Set adrift from a clear start or end point, each narrative reference point orbits the shifting terrain of memory, both familial and historical. The near and distant past coalesce alongside the present, as slippages in time and place are brought together to an atmospheric and sensorial soundscape of rushing wind, chiming bells, and an uncanny composition for stringed instruments. In turn, Worrall’s own subjectivity is doubled, refracted and retold through the gaze and voices of those closest to her. Her self-portrait is examined only by proxy, made contingent on the perceptions of others and mediated by the camera.



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Latamai Katoa recontextualises objects made by whānau or gifted by friends, extending her consideration of memory beyond...
23/04/2026

Latamai Katoa recontextualises objects made by whānau or gifted by friends, extending her consideration of memory beyond the photographic image. Her 21st key, a birthday present from close friends and whānau at Wheke Fortress, is not merely symbolic of reaching a new era of adulthood, but also speaks to the bonds formed within Indigenous q***r spaces. An ornamental hoe, or paddle, was the first piece made by Katoa’s sister during her carving course, grounding the exhibition in familial lineage.

What happens if its broken? continues through 9 May.



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Wellington
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Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm

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