Future Exhibitions

7 May—11 July 2010
Play On
(Sound Check 1)

This is the first of a series of curated exhibitions designed to explore some of the intersections between sound and art. It will bring together four major works produced in the 1990s by leading New Zealand contemporary artists who each use aspects of popular music as a metaphor for thinking about art and art history, together with a newly commissioned work that engages this same conceptual territory from a perspective in the first decade of the 21st century. This will see Michael Parekowhai’s Ten Guitars, Julian Dashper’s Big Bang Theory, Michael Stephenson’s Slave Pianos and Terry Urbahn’s The Karaokes brought together for the first time, asking the question: why did artists use popular music in this way at this time? Auckland based photographer Ava Seymour is the fifth artist who will be invited to produce a new body of work based on her own research into the history of popular music.

23 July—3 October 2010
Sound Check 2

This is the second of a series of curated exhibitions designed to explore some of the intersections between sound and art. It will explore the work of visual artists in relation to the Flying Nun Record label and will be guest curated by Flying Nun founder, Roger Shepherd.

15 October-18 December 2010/19 January—6 February 2011
Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904-1984

Curated by Julia Gatley and Bill McKay, School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland. Surveying New Zealand’s extant modern buildings, this exhibition focuses on a smaller number of the published projects and brings together original drawings and period books, journals and photographs, as well as new architectural models and recent photographs. Increasingly, the modern buildings are being recognised for their heritage values. But many people remain unaccustomed to hearing ‘modern’ and ‘heritage’ in the same sentence. Long Live the Modern uses the word ‘modern’ in a very broad way, pursuing twentieth-century architectural initiatives concerned with the new – new technologies, new materials, new forms, new building types, new ways of living – initiatives embedded with the belief that the new would necessarily change lives in positive ways.

Mladen Bizumic, The Importance of Being Ernst
A new body of work by Vienna/New Zealand based artist Mladen Bizumic that draws on the architectural legacy of Ernst Plischke which will include a model of one of his great examples of domestic architecture, the Sutch House, which is located in Wellington, suspended in space and accompanied by other installational elements. This project will highlight the contradictions and reversals of Bizumic’s practice, in its relocation of European modernist principles to this Antipodean setting. This project will  also be presented at the Kunsthalle Vienna, and at CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lisa Crowley National Projects
An exhibition of new photographs by Auckland-based artist, Lisa Crowley that revisit the legacy of modern architecture in New Zealand.

These projects will be complemented by a one-day symposium dedicated to the work and legacy of Viennese architect Ernst Plischke organised by Robin Skinner at the School of Architecture and Design.