Featuring over 300 artworks by 120 Māori artists, Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art is free to the public. This is accompanied by a satellite exhibition hosted by Britomart, where one large-scale permanent work and three temporary installations by talented Māori artists are on display - find out more about the satellite exhibition, here.
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art considers new ways of approaching and engaging with the Māori art of the last 70 years. The Māori creation narrative provides the exhibition’s framework, highlighting its enduring resonance and the multiplicity of interpretation that artists have bought to bear on the narrative in making their art.
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art celebrate a vast range of contemporary Māori art, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, clay-making, jewellery and body adornment, photography, digital media, film and installation art. It also present a number of new site-specific commissions by: Mata Aho Collective collaborating with Maureen Lander; Shane Cotton; Emily Karaka; Reuben Paterson; Matekino Lawless and Christina Wirihana; Lisa Reihana; Reweti Arapere; Ngatai Taepa; Sandy Adsett; Areta Wilkinson.
The exhibition’s development has been supported by Haerewa, the Māori Art Advisory rōpu to the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Chair of Haerewa, Elizabeth Ellis, says: ‘An exhibition survey of this scale has been a long time coming in Aotearoa New Zealand and it fulfils our aspirations for the Gallery. Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art brings visibility to contemporary Māori art for Māori communities and all to celebrate and embrace.’
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki has also released a multi-sensory and immersive virtual tour of Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art enabling people everywhere to enjoy highlights of the groundbreaking exhibition. Using panoramic photography, 360-degree video and virtual reality software, the digital tour showcases the heart of one of the most significant exhibitions presented in Auckland Art Gallery’s history.
The digital experience is available in English, simplified Chinese and te reo Māori. Find the digital tour at virtual.aucklandartgallery.com.
Claudine Muru, Ko Ngā Hua o Rongomaraeroa, 2003, 2003. Courtesy of the artist.
Lisa Reihana, Ihi, 2020 (video still). Commissioned by Regional Facilities Auckland.
Aimee Ratana, Potiki Series, 2005. Private collection. Reproduced with the permission of the artist.
Robert Jahnke, Ripeka whero from the Te Ripeka series, 2015. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2018.
Ngatai Taepa, Tane Mahuta – Manos Nathan Legacy, 2015. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2016
Fiona Pardington, Davis Kea Wings (above), 2015. Courtesy of the Artist and Starkwhite, Auckland.
$2 per hour to a max of $12 on weekends and a $12 flat rate for weekday evenings at The Civic car park. Find out more.