Alberto Baraya  SilkFern III, Taranaki, New Zealand  2009 from the series Herbarium of Artificial Plants  (detail)

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:

OPEN WINDOW: THIS AND THIS, AND THIS, AND OTHER THINGS TOO

Leighton Upson 8 January – 9 February 2010

OPEN WINDOW: STUDIO – SMALL HAMMER, 2B FABER-CASTELL PENCIL

Justin Jade Morgan 5 December 2009 – 8 January 2010
Guo Fengyi 'Fengshui of Linfen Region 1995

CHINA IN FOUR SEASONS: GUO FENGYI

12 September - 29 November 2009
Judith Wright: Conversations

JUDITH WRIGHT: CONVERSATIONS

19 September - 29 November 2009
Nalini Malani: Mother India: Transactions in the Construction of Pain

NALINI MALANI

10 October - 29 November 2009
Mirror World XI , Nahagar Kund, Jaipur, India 2007

HOLIWATER:INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE

19 September - 4 October 2009
Jin Jiangbo Mass production workshop no.1 of a foreign capital television manufacturer 2008

CHINA IN FOUR SEASONS: JIN JIANGBO

4 July – 6 September 2009
Mieke Gerritzen: Beautiful World 2006

MIEKE GERRITZEN: BEAUTIFUL WORLD

4 July – 6 September 2009
Mark Adams  ‘Maorihaus’, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg,Germany. Carvings from the original gateway to Rauru at Whakarewarewa. Nga Tohunga: Anaha Te Rahui, Tene Waitere, Neke Kapua. 9.5.2002

PHOTO hiSTORIES: MARK ADAMS, BRUCE CONNEW AND JOHN MILLER

13 June – 13 September 2009

AM I SCARED, BOY (EH): COLLECTION WORKS FROM THEN AND NOW

4 April – 31 May 2009

JAVIER TĖLLEZ: LETTER ON THE BLIND FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO SEE (2009 INTERNATIONAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE )

24 March – 21 June 2009
Boris Dornbusch In All Applications, In All Departments 2009, The Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga

OPEN WINDOW: IDEO MOTOR

Boris Dornbusch  4 April – 10 May 2009
Fiona Hall

FIONA HALL: FORCE FIELD (SELECTED WORKS)

4 April – 1 June 2009  

ONE DAY SCULPTURE: JAVIER TELLEZ

22 March 2009
Lee Mingwei Nomad Equisite 2008

LEE MINGWEI: UNCOMMON SENSES

6 December - 16 March 2009
Len Lye Tusalava 1929 (film still)

LEN LYE: CHRONOSOME

6 December 2008 - 16 March 2009
Liz Allan The Arm-wrestlers 2008

LIZ ALLAN: HOW TO DRESS FOR LOCAL CONDITIONS

6 December 2008 - 16 March 2009
Dan Torop Ocean with Pale Moon 2007

SCANZ 2009

6 February – 29 March 2009

BREAK: TOWARDS A PUBLIC REALM

6 December 2008 - 1 February 2009
Peter Robinson Soft Rock Baroque 2007

PETER ROBINSON: SNOW BALL BLIND TIME

13 September – 23 November 2008
JOHN WARD KNOX: SIMPLE MATTERS

JOHN WARD KNOX: SIMPLE MATTERS

13 September - 21  October 2008
Don Driver Tooled Skin Pocket 1982

DON DRIVER: BANNERS

31 May - 31 August
Amar Kanwar The face 2007 (video still)

AMAR KANWAR

31 May - 31 August
Reuben Paterson When the sun rises and the shadows flee 2005

DATELINE RETURN

31 May - 24 August
Lisa Reihana Ramon 2007 (detail)

LISA REIHANA: DIGITAL MARAE

6 October  – 9  December 2007
William Hsu: Between Previous, Now and Coming Soon

WILLIAM HSU: BETWEEB PREVIOUS, NOW AND COMING SOON

31 May - 10 July 2008
germanvideoart

40YEARSOFVIDEOART.DE

24 May - 7 September
Francis Upritchard Amelia 2007

FRANCIS UPRITCHARD: rainwob i

1 March – 18 May 2008
Bill Culbert Flotsam 2007

BILL CULBERT:  GROUNDWORKS

8 March - 18 May 2008
Len Lye Self portrait with Night tree 1947

LEN LYE: A PORTRAIT GALLERY

8 March - 18 May 2008
Jayce Salloum Untitled part 1: everything and nothing  1999-2001  (video still)

JAYCE SALLOUM:  EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AND OTHER WORKS FROM THE ONGOING PROJECT, ‘UNTITLED’ AND RECENT FRAGMENTS/WORKS

8 March- 25 May 2008
clarenoonan

CLARE NOONAN: SEARCH FOR THE OTHER HALF

1 May - 28 May
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
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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Artists Residencies
Previous
Open Window Leighton Upson
Open Window: Justin Jade Morgan
China in four seasons: Guo Fengyi
'Judith Wright: Conversations'
Nalini Malani
Holiwater: Installation and performance
China in Four Seasons Jin Jiangbo
Mieke Gerritzen Beautiful World
Photo hiStories
Collection Show
Javier Tellez
Open Window Boris Dornbusch
Fiona Hall
ONE DAY SCULPTURE
Lee Mingwei
Len Lye Chronosome
Liz Allan
SCANZ 2009
Break towards a public realm
Peter Robinson Snow Ball Blind Time
Open Window John Ward Knox
Don Driver: Banners
Amar Kanwar
Dateline Return
Lisa Reihana Digital marae
Between Previous Now and Coming Soon
Historical survey of German video art
Francis Upritchard rainwob i
Bill Culbert Groundworks
Len Lye A portrait gallery
Jayce Salloum
Open Window opens out Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Ngahina Hohaia Roimata Toroa
Terry Urbahn The Sacred Hart
Paintings from remote communities
Len Lye Five Fountains
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
What sound does a color make?
David Clegg: archivedestruct New Plymouth
Viewfinder
Len Lye: Trilogy
From mini-FM to hacktivits
Linked: connectivity and exchange
Len Lye: Individual Happiness Now!
Drifters : Saskia Leek
Artspace Germany
TSB Collection Show
Handboek: Ans Westra photographs
Lee Bul: International artist in residence
On Kawara
Antirrealismos
BREAK SHIFT
Transindonesia: scoping culture in contemporary Indonesian art
GRIDLOCK: cities, structures, spaces
K Rd to Kingdom Come
Come in
Fiji Biennale Pavilions
Feature: art, life and cinema
Bloom: mutation, toxicity and the sublime
Sam Durant
Come In: Australasian artist's projects
Extended Play: art remixing music
Fluxus
Len Lye: gene pool, works from the collection
Mediarena: contemporary art from japan
Long Dream of Waking
Arcadia
Go Girl
Break
abnormal mass delusions?
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