Artspace Aotearoa (previously known as Artspace NZ) is an art gallery in

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, New Zealand. It is located on

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in Newton. The gallery was founded in 1987, and focuses on contemporary New Zealand and overseas art. It should not be confused with Depot Artspace, an artists' community and working environment in Devonport.

Governance

Artspace is run by a charitable trust by a board of trustees. The trustees appoint a director for the gallery who has a tenure lasting up to three years, during which time they select the exhibition programme. The frequent change of directors by this system allows for a fresh approach to be taken to the gallery's programme on a regular basis.ARTSPACE
," ''The Arts Foundation''. Retrieved 16 February 2019. The inaugural director was

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. Subsequent directors have included Priscilla Pitts, Lara Bowen, Robert Leonard, Tobias Berger, Brian D. Butler, Emma Bugden, Caterina Riva and Misal Adnan Yildiz. , the director is Remco de Blaaij.Board and staff
" Artzone NZ official website. Retrieved 16 February 2019.

Programming

As a trust-run gallery, Artspace Aotearoa is able to commission conceptual work by emerging artists whose portfolios are not yet developed enough to command space is major public galleries. Despite this, their exhibitions include works by many major and upcoming New Zealand artists. The gallery includes a public reading room available for research, and runs and promotes numerous education programmes. For several years during the early 2000s, the gallery also hosted an annual festival of experimental music, "ARTSPACE/alt.music". Artists who have exhibited at Artspace Aotearoa include: *

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(1997, 2004, and 2015) * Yuki Kihara (2017) *

Justine Kurland Justine Kurland (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City. Early life and education Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York. She earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to study with Greg ...

(2002) *

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(1999) * Peter Robinson (1998 and 2006) *

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(1997) *

Saul Steinberg Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American artist, best known for his work for ''The New Yorker'', most notably '' View of the World from 9th Avenue''. He described himself as "a writer who draws". Biography S ...

(2012) *

Shannon Te Ao Shannon Te Ao (born in Sydney in 1978) is a New Zealand artist and writer of Ngāti Tūwharetoa descent. He won the 2016 Walters Prize. Education Te Ao completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and a Graduate Diploma of Teaching at the Uni ...

(2017) *

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(2005) *

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(1997) In 2021, Artspace Aotearoa hosted a fundraiser titled ''When The Dust Settles.'' According to curator Victoria McAdam:

This four-part exhibition series and fundraising auction sees 34 seminal artists return to the gallery, offering significant works for presentation and sale. The list of participating artists ricochets through the programming history of the organisation, calling on both foundational artists and more recent alumni, including Billy Apple®, Stella Brennan, Phil Dadson,
Brett Graham Brett Graham (born 1967) is a New Zealand sculptor who creates large scale artworks and installations that explore indigenous histories, politics and philosophies. ''Snitch'' from 2014, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, refer ...
, Nikau Hindin,
Claudia Kogachi Claudia Kogachi (born 1995) is a Japanese-born New Zealand artist. She was born in Awaji-shima, Japan, in 1995. Kogachi is an Auckland-based artist whose work renders domestic scenes, adolescence and inter-generational cultural learning through ...
,
Judy Millar Penelope Judith Millar (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist, who lives in Auckland, New Zealand and Berlin, Germany. Education Millar received a BFA in 1980 and an MFA from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983. As recipien ...
, Dane Mitchell,
Fiona Pardington Fiona Dorothy Pardington (born 1961) is a New Zealand artist, her principal medium being photography. Early life and education Pardington was born Fiona Dorothy Cameron in Devonport, and was brought up on Auckland's Hibiscus Coast, where she ...
, Peter Robinson, Yvonne Todd and others. Together, this cast articulates decades of shifting cultural dynamics, signalling who has championed, shaped and benefited from our contemporary art spaces, and those who will attend to their futures.

References

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Governance

Programming

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