
Toi Art
Fresh takes and new favourites. You’ll find them in Toi Art.
Toi Art opened again on Saturday 14 June, with more opening up at the end of June – see what’s coming up!
On now
Sat 14 Jun
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
The works of pioneering Māori artist Ralph Hotere, American minimalist artist Ad Reinhardt, and Māori minimalist sculptor Matt Pine are brought together in a surprising conversation.
31 Aug 2016 – 26 Feb 2017
Level 5
Free exhibition
All ages
The free-est and purest aesthetic statements of the twentieth century have been made in abstract painting.
Pioneering Māori artist Ralph Hotere inserted this quote, by American minimalist Ad Reinhardt, in one of his exhibition catalogues in London in the 1960s. Hotere was inspired by the purity of Reinhardt’s pared-back aesthetic.
Hotere’s work has often been discussed in relation to Reinhardt’s, but this exhibition shows their work together in conversation for the first time. It also includes interventions by Māori sculptor Matt Pine, who like Hotere, attended the Central School of Art and Design in London in the 1960s and whose work is similarly associated with American minimalism.
This exhibition focuses on minimalist art and explores both its influence and how it was absorbed and reimagined within Māori modernism.
Fresh takes and new favourites. You’ll find them in Toi Art.
Toi Art opened again on Saturday 14 June, with more opening up at the end of June – see what’s coming up!
On now
Sat 14 Jun
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Sculptor Matt Pine combines Māori and Pacific perspectives with American minimalism in a new version of his Placement Projects.
Closed
31 Aug 2016 – 26 Feb 2017
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga
Five New Zealand and five Australian artists respond to the history, legacy, and recent centenary of World War I.
Closed
16 Sep 2016 – 26 Feb 2017
Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga