Join co-curators of Space to Dream, Santiago-based Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel and Auckland Art Gallery's Zara Stanhope for a tour of this landmark exhibition.
Join us for a special Space to Dream themed family drop-in inspired by the work of visiting Bolivian artist Joaquín Sánchez on the opening weekend of the exhibition.
As Auckland reluctantly relinquishes the quarter acre dream and transitions into higher density living, collaboration between designers of the built environment is increasingly important. But have they been succeeding? Can we do better?
Singapore-based artist Oh Soon Hwa discusses her photographic series Quiet Dream which was set around a small island in the Mekong Delta nicknamed 'Taiwanese Island' where many young women have married foreigners such as Taiwanese or Korean men and left their homeland to get a better life.
While working as Auckland Art Gallery, former Assistant Curator Mathew Norman identified a previously untraced painting by the leading Victorian artist Sir Frederic Leighton in the Gallery's Mackelvie Collection.
Filmed over five years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the US policies of the past half-century, laying bare the principles that have led to this worldwide, historically unprecedented concentration of private capital and political influence, favouring a financial aristocracy while relegating the world’s majorities to the margins.
This talk will consider how digital technology, Silicon Valley and venture capitalists such as Peter Thiel are transforming our everyday experience of time. It will include a discussion of art practices that engage technological accelerationism and futurism, but also environmentalism and deep time.
Mary-Jane O’Reilly’s condensed contemporary ballet is a high-intensity, 20-minute excerpt of a full-length work that draws its stylistic landscape from post-WW2 film noir.
Join Dr Kathryn Lehman, Senior Lecturer and co-founder, New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland for an illustrated and engaging insight into the socio-political situation in South America.
Mary-Jane O’Reilly’s condensed contemporary ballet is a high-intensity, 20-minute excerpt of a full-length work that draws its stylistic landscape from post-WW2 film noir.
Focussed on one of Israel’s most highly regarded writers, The Nature of Dreams covers two years of Amos Oz’s life as he meets readers and considers Jewish and Israel history through the lens of his acclaimed memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness.
As part of the 14th International Documentary Film Festival, Doc Edge in association with RNZ presents a series of documentary screenings at the Gallery.
Taking inspiration from Ignacio Gumucio’s large-scale painted mural created for Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will use various tape and painting techniques to create their own rules and structure then through the process of making disrupt that with on-the-spot decisions.
Taking inspiration from Ignacio Gumucio’s large-scale painted mural created for Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will use various tape and painting techniques to create their own rules and structure then through the process of making disrupt that with on-the-spot decisions.
Curator Stephen Cleland gives his insights into the works of the Chilean artist collective – Colectivo De Acciones De Arte (C.A.D.A.) as well as Lotty Rosenfeld’s Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento (4) (A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement [4]).
Taking inspiration from Maria Nepomuceno’s vibrant artwork Grande Boca (Big Mouth) 2013 in Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, participants will explore various materials and joining techniques to create ‘imaginary nature’.
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of a dictatorship, a fifty-year-old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago.
As part of the 14th International Documentary Film Festival, Doc Edge in association with RNZ presents a series of documentary screenings at the Gallery.
Auckland Art Gallery Principal Curator, Head of Programmes and co-curator of Space to Dream Dr Zara Stanhope discusses some of her favourite works in the exhibition.
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