New Zealand Sign Language tour of Louise Bourgeois: In Private View

Join us for a New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) tour for Deaf visitors of Louise Bourgeois: In Private View. This 90 minute tour will be led by Deaf artist Abbie Twiss, with supporting interpretation by Platform Interpreting NZ, offering an accessible introduction to this landmark exhibition.

Louise Bourgeois: In Private View is the first solo exhibition in Aotearoa New Zealand of acclaimed artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Bringing together works from an international private collection, the exhibition spans more than six decades of Bourgeois’s practice—from her early 1940s paintings to a fabric work created in the final year of her life.

Celebrated for her psychologically charged sculptures and evocative explorations of memory, the body, family, trauma and healing, Bourgeois traverses painting, fabric assemblage and powerful sculptural forms in her practice. Highlights include her early Personages, 1960s Lair works, and significant late sculptures such as The Couple and Spider VI (2002).

Bookings for the NZSL tour are essential and limited to 15 places. Please secure your tickets through the Book Now button below. Your booking also gives us a way to contact you in case of any changes to the tour date or time.

If this is your first time visiting the Gallery, please watch our NZSL Welcome video.

Louise Bourgeois: In Private View is proudly supported by the Contemporary Benefactors of Auckland Art

Image credit: Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2004, fabric, wool, steel, on loan from a private collection. © The Easton Foundation. VAGA at ARS/Copyright Agency, 2025