What's coming up at City Gallery

What's coming up at City Gallery - First Tuatara Open Late for 2016

2016 is now in full swing and the Gallery events and exhibitions calendar has lots on offer.

Our first Tuatara Open Late for the year is next Thursday, 4 February and we are delighted to have Auckland-based SJD perform a beautifully crafted mix of electronica, pop-rock, and soul. SJD is an award-winning songwriter who’s latest album Saint John Divine received rave reviews and featured in Grant Smithies’ 2015 top ten albums.

For the architecture crowd, NZIA City Talks return with partners from Danish architecture firm Spektrum Arkitekter speaking about their work.

Events

http://citygallery.org.nz/events

Weekend Exhibition Tours

Saturday and Sundays, 12.15-12.45pm | Free

Get more out of your visit to the Gallery with our free, fun and informative 30-minute tours of selected works in Julian Dashper & Friends. Meet in main foyer.

NZIA City Talks: Spektrum Arkitekter

Monday 1 February, 6pm | Free
Sofie Willems and Joan Raun Nielsen, partners in Spektrum Arkitekter of Denmark talk about their projects, approach and working methods.

City Talks is an initiative of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch and presented in partnership with City Gallery Wellington.

February Tuatara Open Late

Thursday 4 February, 5-10pm | Koha

Our first Tuatara Open Late for the year kicks off with a live performance from acclaimed New Zealand musician SJD. There will also be an exhibition tour, a screening of doco David Bowie Is, music with DJ B.Lo, cash bar, supper treats from Burger Liquor and all galleries open late.

Review on SJD – Grant Smithies’ Top Albums for 2015

Current Exhibitions – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions

Unseen City

Until 13 March, 2016

Unseen City offers a slice of 1960s Auckland through the eyes of then-young artists Gary Baigent, Rodney Charters and Robert Ellis. Includes screening of This Auckland (1967) in the auditorium.

Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue

Until 13 March, 2016
French artist Camille Henrot's encylopaedic video Grosse Fatigue (2013) takes on the history of the universe. Henrot mashes scientific history and creation stories, the rational and the mythic, computers and primitive mindsets.

Grayson Perry / Kushana Bush

Until 20 March, 2016

Turner Prize-winning artist, writer and broadcaster, Grayson Perry CBE is a British institution. His tapestry Map of Truths and Beliefs (2011) catalogues current pilgrimage destinations, religious and secular, including Mecca, Stonehenge, Auschwitz, Davos and Wembley. Woven on a computerised loom, it recalls the fanciful, allegorical maps of medieval times. Like Perry, Dunedin artist Kushana Bush's intricate and colourful tragi-comic paintings comment on modern life but are loaded with references to arts of other times and places—to Indo-Persian miniatures, and Japanese prints, illuminated manuscripts and early-Renaissance paintings

Julian Dashper & Friends

Until 26 April, 2016
A show which pays tribute to a figure in contemporary New Zealand art, Julian Dashper (1960-2009). The exhibition features more than 35 works from Dashper and artists that influenced him, his contemporaries and those who followed. The show includes work from Colin McCahon, Rita Angus and Billy Apple.

Upcoming Exhibitions – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/upcoming

Bullet Time

25 March – 10 July, 2016

Showcasing the work of two New Zealand video artists, Daniel Crooks and Steve Carr alongside two historical photographers—Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) and Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton (1903–90).

Francis Upritchard

14 May – 7 August

Spanning twenty years of work, this is the first major survey exhibition of New Zealand-born sculptor Francis Upritchard.

Sister Corita’s Summer of Love

23 July – 6 November

Summer of Love surveys the graphic art of Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986), an unsung figure in pop art. Kent is known for her work which re-appropriated pop-culture graphics and advertising images to spread the work of god, love and peace.

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