Coming up at City Gallery Wellington

Coming up at City Gallery Wellington

Events – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/events

City Talks: Gehry's Vertigo

Monday 24 August, 6pm| Free

City Talks is an ongoing series presented in partnership with the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch.

This month, architect Zac Athfield introduces a screening of Gehry’s Vertigo (2013).

Gallery Babes

Wednesday 26 August, 6pm| Free

Pop the baby in the buggy and join us for a mid-morning tour of our current exhibitions. The tours are pitched at parents and provide a baby-friendly environment for engaging with art.

Gallery Babes is best suited to babies aged 0–12 months. Followed by a morning-tea.

Bookings essential: citygalleryevents@wmt.org.nz

Weekend Exhibition Tours

Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 August, 12:15pm – 12:45pm

Get more out of your visit at the Gallery with our fun and informative 30 minute tours of selected works.

Stroma: Interiors

Sunday 30 August, 6pm

Contemporary classical-music ensemble, Stroma performs at City Gallery for the first time. Tickets available from dashtickets.co.nz

PLEASE NOTE there will be a dress rehearsal open to the public at 2:30pm that afternoon.

Next Tuatara Open Late

Thursday 3 September
Experience the new Fiona Pardington exhibition after dark. Music with DJ B.Lo, supper treats from Vietnamese favourite, Apache and a cash bar.

Current Exhibitions – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions

Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation
22 August – 22 November, 2015

Fiona Pardington is one of New Zealand’s most important, and celebrated, photographers. A Beautiful Hesitation is the largest exhibition of her work to date, with over 100 photographs, spanning 30 years. Its title comes from the artist’s description of photography as a “hesitation in time”.

Demented Architecture – Image attached
27 June – 8 November, 2015
Works from around the globe by contemporary artists that satirises the relationship between art and architecture, and the mythology of the architect.

Susan Te Kahurangi King | Shannon Te Ao: from the one I call my own

27 June – 8 November, 2015

This provocative pairing opens up points of convergence between two bodies of work that supposedly occupy different ends of the contemporary art spectrum. Susan Te Kahurangi King is a 64 year old self-taught artist who stopped speaking around the age of five. She draws, endlessly and inventively—in graphite, coloured pencils, pastels or inks on paper. Shannon Te Ao (Ngati Tuwharetoa) is a contemporary artist whose videos and performances often isolate and refigure aspects of spoken language drawn from Maori cultural forms such as whakatauki and waiata

Leon Narbey and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Light Studies

3 July– 18 October, 2015

Narbey’s film, A Film of Real Time: A Sound-Light Environment (1970) is shown with the Hungarian modernist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s film Light Play: Black White Grey (1930) which documents the effects of his kinetic light sculpture, the Light-Space Modulator.

A Film of Real Time: A Sound-Light Environment | 9 min 20 sec
Ein Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss grau | 6 min

Upcoming Exhibitions – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/demented-architecture

Unseen City

21 November, 2015 – 27 March, 2016

Unseen City offers a slice of 1960s Auckland through the eyes of then-young artists Gary Baigent, Rodney Charters and Robert Ellis.

ENDS

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