Press Room

This page contains press releases for Adam Art Gallery exhibitions. For additional information and images, please contact Kate Lepper, Public Programmes and Communications Coordinator kate.lepper@vuw.ac.nz


PRESS RELEASES

2022

Three women artists profiled in next Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery exhibitions, 11 July 2022
Energy Work: Kathy Barry/Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Barbara Tuck – Delirium Crossing
13 July – 25 September 2022

New exhibition at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery speaks to the charged history, fateful consequences, and future prospects of our bicultural nation, 6 April 2022
Tēnei Ao Tūroa – This Enduring World: Mark Adams, Natalie Robertson, Chris Corson-Scott
9 April – 26 June 2022


2021
‘New exhibitions at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery tap a creative vein in responses to our endangered planet’, 16 November 2021
Listening Stones Jumping Rocks
The Machine Stops:
 The Allegorical Architectural Project
20 November 2021 – 27 March 2022

Mass media targeted in new exhibition of moving-image works‘, 9 September 2021
Image Processors: Artists in the Medium – A Short History 1968–2020
14 September – 7 November 2021

‘Timely new thematic group exhibition opens at Adam Art Gallery’, 16 June 2021
Crossings (a show about intimacies and distances)
19 June – 22 August 2021

‘Artist reworks Adam Art Gallery building for new show’, 9 February 2021
Kate Newby YES TOMORROW
20 February – 30 May 2021


2020
‘Adam Art Gallery presents unique version of Frances Hodgkins survey show’, 1 September 2020
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys
19 Gallery
Imogen Taylor and Sue Hillery: Double Portrait
5 September – 13 December 2020

‘Suite of new exhibitions reopens Adam Art Gallery after lockdown’, 2 June 2020
Dane Mitchell: Letters and Documents
Ken Friedman: 92 Events
Fraser Crichton, Mariachiara Ficarelli, Lachlan Kermode, Bhaveeka Madagammana, Davide Mangano, Karamia Müller: Violent Legalities
Julia Morison: Head[case]
2 June – 16 August 2020


2019
‘Adam Art Gallery celebrates its 20th birthday’, 1 November 2019
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi at Twenty
Billy Apple, Fiona Clark, Mata Aho Collective, Colin McCahon, Christopher Perkins
6 November 2019 – 22 March 2020

‘Joint exhibitions explore ecological concerns and spiritual connections to the land’, 22 July 2019
On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell, Curated by John C. Welchman
Te Taniwha: The Manuscript of Ārikirangi, Ngā kupu whakamahuki nā Richard Niania, Photographs by Joyce Campbell
27 July – 20 October 2019

New photography exhibition a first for Edith Amituanai and Adam Art Gallery’, 16 May 2019
Edith Amituanai: Double Take
11 May – 14 July 2019

‘Three international artists explore the evolution of experimental music’, 12 February 2019
Passages: Luke Fowler, Florian Hecker, Susan Philipsz
16 February – 21 April 2019


2018
‘Unique photography exhibition illuminates the life of Peter McLeavey’, 28 September 2018
Still looking: Peter McLeavey and the last photograph,
Solid State: Works from the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection
6 October – 20 December 2018

‘Four artists explore connections to place’, 2 July 2018
The earth looks upon us / Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata
7 July – 23 September 2018

‘Two artists remake the world’, 23 April 2018
Marie Shannon: Rooms Found Only in the Home and Elizabeth Price: A RESTORATION
28 April – 24 June 2018

‘Luke Willis Thompson debuts new work in first major New Zealand solo exhibition’, 16 February 2018
Luke Willis Thompson
21 February – 15 April 2018


2017
‘Four exhibitions, one show for Adam Art Gallery’, 11 October 2017
What Remains, The Karori Commission: Anna Sanderson, Gavin Hipkins, Philip Kelly
From the College Collection
Future Islands: The New Zealand Exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Apparitions: the photograph and its image
14 October – 17 December 2017

‘The Tomorrow People showcases emerging artists’, 17 July 2017
The Tomorrow People
22 July – 1 October 2017

‘Rethinking the relation between art and the body’, 1 May 2017
Acting Out
6 May – 9 July, 2017

‘Out of Site exhibition of rarely seen New Zealand art’, 17 February 2017
Out of Site: Works from the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection
18 February – 23 April 2017


2016
‘Exhibition a “homecoming” for ambitious contemporary artist’, 20 September 2016
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS
2 October – 22 December 2016

‘Exhibition has wider angle on influential photographer’s work’, 25 July 2016
Walker Evans: The Magazine Work
Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans
Patrick Pound: Documentary Intersect
Sonya Lacey: Newspaper for Vignelli
29 July – 18 September 2016

‘Turning the tables in Adam Art Gallery’s latest exhibition’, 10 May 2016
Inhabiting Space
14 May – 17 July 2016

‘Exhibitions drawing new boundaries’, 29 February 2016
Linie Line Linea and Matthew Barney: DRAWING RESTRAINT
26 February – 24 April 2016


2015
‘Adam Art Gallery revisits art history in three new shows’, 28 September 2015
Fragments of a World: Artists Working in Film and Photography 1973–1987
Bruce Barber: Performance Scores
Traces of the Wake: The Etching Revival in Britain and Beyond
3 October – 18 December 2015

‘Can you see time? Four artists visualise an extended present at the Adam Art Gallery’, 30 June 2015
The Specious Present
11 July – 20 September 2015

‘Two new exhibitions open at Adam Art Gallery’, 21 April 2015
Drawing Is/Not Building
Living Cities 2011- 
25 April – 28 June 2015

‘New exhibition showcases works from Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection’, 30 January 2015 
Then and Now, Here and Nowhere: Gavin Hipkins, Peter Trevelyan, Shaun Waugh, Kate Woods, and Brent Wong
The Private World of Gordon H. Brown: Art Historian, Artist, Collector 
Give and Take/Hoki Whakamuri, Haere Whakamua: Dynamic Cultural Forms in Aotearoa New Zealand
3 February – 12 April 2015


 

2014
‘Simon Denny recreates Kim Dotcom’s personal effects at the Adam Art Gallery’, 23 September 2015
Simon Denny The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom
4 October – 19 December 2014

‘First exhibition to assemble full range of intriguing artist’s practice’, 19 May 2014
What is a Life?
27 May – 21 September 2014

‘Eddie Clemens reimagines the void in new installation’, 11 August 2014
A Collector’s Edition Glitch
15 August – 21 September 2014

‘New Adam Art Gallery show connects histories of cinema and painting’, 4 February 2014
Cinema & Painting
11 February – 11 May 2014


2013
‘Historical prints demonstrate artistry of printmaking’, 10 October 2013
State of the art: reproductive prints from the Renaissance to now 
12 October – 20 December 2013

‘Two Sculptors, Two Projects’, 9 October 2013
John Panting: Spatial Constructions
Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures
12 October – 20 December 2013

‘Life goes on – a poetic perspective on disaster’, 16 July 2013
All There is Left: Lieko Shinga, Paul Johns, Francis Alÿs
21 July – 21 September 2013

‘Plunged into the realm of the visual’, 1 May 2013
Beautiful Creatures: Jack Smith, Bill Henson, Jacqueline Fraser 
3 May – 7 July 2013

‘Victoria’s contemporary art collection to the fore’, 13 February 2013
21st-Century Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the VUW Art Collection
22 February – 21 April 2013


2012
‘From the Old World to the New’, 20 July 2012
Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960-2011
27 July – 7 October 2012

‘Looking to the sky’, 17 April 2012
Dark Sky
1 May – 8 July 2012

Festival photography exhibition explores documentary medium’, 20 January 2012
Fiona Amundsen: The First City in History
John Lake: The Campus
Simon Starling: Autoxylopyrocycloboros
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park

24 January – 15 May 2012


2011
‘Opening the door to Wellington’s private collections’, 3 June 2011
Behind Closed Doors: New Zealand Art from Private Collections in Wellington
4 June – 18 December 2011

‘Re-staging Points of Contact’, 15 March 2011
Points of Contact: Jim Allen, Len Lye, Hélio Oiticica
19 March – 22 May 2011


2010
‘Our new modern heritage’, 18 October 2010
Long Live the Modern New Zealand’s New Architecture 1904-1984
Mladen Bizumic: From Cube To Ball (Chapter 2)
Lisa Crowley: National Projects
Louise Menzies: Letters to Students of the Radiant Life
23 October – 17 December 2010/25 January – 6 March 2011

‘The impending tsunami of the digital download’, 22 July 2010
The Otolith Group: A Long Time Between Suns & Object Lessons: A Musical Edition 
7 August – 10 October 2010

‘Art plays on’, 4 May 2010
Play On 
8 May – 25 July 2010

‘Experience solid light’, 2 February 2010
Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light
24 February – 25 April


2009
‘In Conversation with the Past’, 2 October 2009
Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past
17 October – 18 December 2009/19 January – 7 February 2010

“Off the Wall—The Adam Art Gallery celebrates 10 years’, 1 September 2009
Wall Works 
8 September – 4 October 2009

‘Adam Art Gallery to showcase nine dynamic New Zealand artists and their thoughts on the future’, 3 July 2009
The Future is Unwritten 
11 July – 30 August 2009

‘Billy Apple New York 1969-1973’, 17 March 2009
Billy Apple New York 1969-1973
28 March – 7 June 2009