Future Exhibitions

Laurence Aberhart
18 July - 12 October 2008
Touring Exhibition Galleries A & B
Over 200 key works by an artist described as 'the essential visual poet of New Zealand's past'. Includes his signature images of landscapes, facades, monuments and interiors from New Zealand, Australia and farther afield. Using a 100-year-old view camera, Aberhart produces images steeped in the history of his subjects and of his chosen medium.
A City Gallery Wellington touring exhibition.
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Daniel Crooks: everywhere instantly
18 July - 9 November 2008
Touring Gallery C & Borg Henry Gallery
'Once you've seen a Daniel Crooks DVD you're not likely to forget the experience,' writes art critic Edward Colless. Using his renowned 'time-slice' technique, New Zealand-born Crooks transforms everyday sights such as trains and city streets into wide-screen meditations on time and motion. Everywhere instantly brings these dizzying and beautiful digital worlds to New Zealand audiences for the first time.
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Aus Australien
9 August - 9 November 2008
Burdon Family Gallery
Experience outstanding examples of printmaking by eight leading contemporary Australian artists, working with a variety of techniques. Highlights include energised woodcuts by John Nixon and confrontational etchings by Mike Parr, two of Australia's foremost contemporary artists, and Jenny Watson's evocative Bottled Memories series.
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SCAPE 2008 Biennial of Art in Public Space
19 September - 2 November 2008
Internationally renowned Turkish curator Fulya Erdemci joins New Zealand's Danae Mossman to form the curatorial partnership for Art & Industry's 5th SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space.

Christchurch Art Gallery is once again the SCAPE 2008 hub and will host the Biennial's indoor exhibition, as well as symposia, discussion and lectures. Running for 6 weeks from 19 September - 2 November 2008, the programme will include site-specific interventions by artists from around the world, proposing a new 'culture of space' for the city. As well as visiting artists, SCAPE 2008 will attract speakers, arts professionals and new audiences to Christchurch, stimulating and questioning the way we experience and enjoy public space.
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