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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has held, on average, 20 exhibitions every year since opening in 1970. They have ranged from exhibitions from the collection to leading international shows.

All exhibitions held at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery are listed below by year. Significant exhibitions from the Gallery's history are featured in detail.
 

FEATURED EXHIBITIONS:

Ngahina Hohaia Roimata Toroa 2006 (detail)

NGAHINA HOHAIA: ROIMATA TOROA

15 December  2007 - 2 March 2008
Terry Urbahn The Sacred Hart 2007 (video still)

TERRY URBAHN: THE SACRED HART

8 December 2007 - 2 March 2008
Patrick Tjungurrayi Untitled 2005. Copyright the artist licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency 2007

PAINTINGS FROM REMOTE COMMUNITIES:  INDIGENOUS  AUSTRALIAN  ART  FROM THE  LAVERTY  COLLECTION, SYDNEY

15 December  2007- 24 February 2008
Len Lye with Fountain c.1966 Image courtesy the Len Lye Foundation

LEN LYE: FIVE FOUNTAINS AND A FIREBUSH

7 December 2007 - 24  February 2008
Lisa Reihana Ramon 2007 (detail)

LISA REIHANA: DIGITAL MARAE

6 October  – 9  December 2007
Lim Minouk New town ghost 2005 (detail)

ACTIVATING KOREA: TIDES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

15 September - 25 November 2007
Jae Hoon Lee Chiang Mai Family 2006 (detail)

CUCKOO: OCCUPATION #21

9 September – 30 September 2007
Ann Shelton: a library to scale

ANN SHELTON: A LIBRARY TO SCALE

28 July - 9 September 2007
Yeondoo Jung Locations #10 2006

NEW  NATURE

26 May - 2 September 2007
David Hatcher Semantic Bliss 2007

SEMANTIC BLISS: DAVID HATCHER 2006 NEW ZEALAND ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

21 April - 22 July 2007
Tom Kreisler Rebirthed bat 2001

TOM KREISLER

3 March - 13 May 2007
Don Driver Produce 1982 (detail)

PATHFINDERS

31 March - 9 April 2007

DOUBLE HARMONIC: LEN LYE AND TONY NICHOLLS

9 December – 25 March 2007

BREAK: CONSTRUCT

16 December - 18 February 2007

GABRIEL KURI - AND THANKS IN ADVANCE

16 December - 18 February 2007

MICHAEL SMITHER: THE WONDER YEARS

7 October - 3 December 2006

EVE SUSSMAN AND THE RUFUS CORPORATION 89 SECONDS AT ALCÁZAR

30 September - 26 November 2006

Darcy Lange: Study of an artist at work

29 July – 24 September 2006

LEN LYE ~  BODY ENGLISH

19 August – 24  September 2006

MOSTLY HARMLESS:  PERFORMANCE SERIES

19 August – 24 September 2006
Old brain new media: Len Lye

Old brain new media: Len Lye

13 May – 9 July 2006
SCANZ exhibition

SCANZ exhibition

15 July - 13 August 2006

What sound does a color make?

20 May - 23 July 2006
David Clegg: archivedestruct New Plymouth

David Clegg archivedestruct: New Plymouth

13 May – 11 June 2006
Viewfinder

Viewfinder: four decades of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery collection

18 March - 7 May 2006

Len Lye: Trilogy (A flip and two twisters)

13 April – 7 May 2006

From mini-FM to hacktivists: a guide to art and activism

Curated by Mercedes Vicente 10 December – 5 March 2006

Linked: connectivity and exchange

Curated by Charlotte Huddleston 10 December – 5 March 2006

Len Lye: Individual Happiness Now!

Curated by Tyler Cann 3 December – 13 March 2006
Saskia Leek Bella Vista 2005

Drifters : Saskia Leek 2005 artist in residence

1 October - 4 December 2005
Tony Cragg Flotsam 1997

Artspace Germany

1 October - 27 November 2005
TSB Collection Show

TSB Collection Show

May 14 – June 13 2005
Handboek: Ans Westra photographs

Handboek: Ans Westra photographs

30 July - 25 September 2005

Lee Bul:2005 International Artist in Residence

25 June – 18 September 2005
Today series

On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the hills.

12 March - 8 May 2005
Gaueca Petronio 2002

Antirrealismos: Spanish photomedia now.

12 March - 1 May 2005

BREAK SHIFT: the 2004 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery biennial review of contemporary New Zealand art

18 December – 27 February 2005
Agus Suwage Holy beer and friends (detail) 2003

TRANSINDONESIA: SCOPING CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN ART

18 December 2004 - 27 February 2005

Gridlock: cities, spaces, structures

21 August – 17 October 2004

K Rd to Kingdom ComeJohn Reynolds: Painting projects

13 October – 2 December 2001

COME IN: interior design as a contemporary art medium in Germany

27 September - 30 November 2003

Fiji Biennale Pavilions

6 December 2003 - 29 December 2004

Feature: art, life and cinema

8 December 2001 - 28 January 2002

Bloom: mutation, toxicity and the sublime

6 December 2003 - 29 February 2004
Sam Durant image

Sam Durant: Entropy in reverse

26 July – 20 September 2003

COME IN: Australasian artist's projects

27 September - 30 November 2003

EXTENDED PLAY: Art remixing music

22 February – 27 April 2003

Fluxus: A long tale with many knots, Fluxus in Germany 1962 – 1994

14 October – 5 December 2000

Len Lye: gene pool, works from the collection

6 December 2003 - 29 February 2004

Mediarena: contemporary art from Japan

13 March - 7 June 2004

The Long Dream of Waking

30 June – 19 August 2001

ARCADIA: the other life of video games

10 May – 20 July 2003

GO GIRL: Fiona Clark

12 October - 8 December 2002

BREAK

14 December 2002 - 16 February 2003

et al. : abnormal mass delusions?

26 July - 14 September 2003
 
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Previous
Ngahina Hohaia Roimata Toroa
Terry Urbahn The Sacred Hart
Paintings from remote communities
Len Lye Five Fountains
Lisa Reihana Digital marae
Activating Korea
CuckooOccupation21
a library to scale
New Nature
David Hatcher: Semantic Bliss
TomKreisler
Pathfinders
Double harmonic: Len Lye and Tony Nicholls
Break: Construct
Gabriel Kuri - and thanks in advance
MICHAEL SMITHER
Eve Sussman
Darcy Lange
Len Lye Body English
Performance Series
Old brain new media: Len Lye
SCANZ exhibtion