Exhibitions curated by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery have toured to New Zealand and international art museums. Works from the Govett-Brewster permanent collection have also been loaned to other art and cultural institutions.
DARCY LANGE: STUDY OF AN ARTIST AT WORK
Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló
Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work
20 January - 29 April 2012
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This exhibition project, devoted to Darcy Lange’s work, examines the artistic trajectory of this New Zealander video pioneer. Lange (1946-2005) was born in Urenui, Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand and his practice encompassed video as well as sculpture, photography, film and flamenco music.
Curated by Mercedes Vicente, Curator Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Image: Darcy Lange Maori Land Project 1977-80
FIONA PARDINGTON: THE PRESSURE OF SUNLIGHT FALLING
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Fiona Pardington: The pressure of sunlight falling
10 September 2011 - 19 February 2012
Fiona Pardington’s The Pressure of Sunlight Falling is a series of photographs that depict life casts made by medical scientist and phrenologist Pierre Dumoutier during one of French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville’s South Pacific voyages from 1837-1840.
Curated by Rhana Devenport, Director Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
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Image: Fiona Pardington Portrait of a life cast of Koe (painted), Timor 2010. Courtesy the artist and Musée de l'Homee (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle), Paris
LEN LYE
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington
Shadowgraphs: Photographic Portraits by Len Lye
19 November - 18 December 2011
Drawn primarily from the Len Lye Foundation Collection at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, this exhibition presents almost all the photogram portraits made by Len Lye in 1947, a body of work that until recently was neither well known nor fully understood. Here Lye’s works are contextualised in relation to the tradition of the silhouette portrait and the camera-less photograph. This is the Adam Art Gallery’s biennial student-led project which enables students to research, write about and present an exhibition on a unique body of work.
Curated by Professor Geoffrey Batchen and his Art History Honours students.
http://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/future-exhibitions/
Image: Len Lye Baby Dodds 1947. Courtesy the Len Lye Foundation and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
LEN LYE
Calder & Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato
HANDMADE PIXELS: Exposing the Animation Process
1 – 30 October 2011
Handmade Pixels features works by Len Lye, Lisa Mitchell, Lisa Reihana and Campbell Farquhar
New Zealand animation has grown from a strong tradition of handmade innovation
that harks back to the iconic number- 8-wire approach. Len Lye was a pioneer of the method of direct animation and his handmade sensibility has influenced animators across the globe.
While Lye led the way for a distinctively handmade characteristic of animation in New Zealand,
he also laid the framework for recent experimentation with digital technologies. It is this dynamic space between handmade and digital processes that will be uncovered in Handmade Pixels, offering an insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of these labour intensive filmic wonders.
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/academy/gallery/handmade-pixels
Image: Len Lye Tusalava 1929. Still from animation. Courtesy the Len Lye Foundation, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and New Zealand Film Archive
DARCY LANGE: WORK STUDIES IN SCHOOLS
A selection of Darcy Lange’s Work Studies in Schools 1976-77 features at: 
Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK
Nothing in the World but Youth (17 Sept 2011 – 8 Jan 2012)
http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/nothing-in-the-world-but-youth
Gasworks, London, UK
All I Can See is the Management (7 October – 11 December 2011)
http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=695
Image: Darcy Lange Study of Three Birmingham Schools UK 1976, Mr Perks Animal Farm English Class, Ladywood Comprehensive School. Courtesy Darcy Lange Estate and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
LEN LYE: POLYNESIAN CONNECTION
City Gallery Wellington
Len Lye's Polynesian Connection
6 August - 6 November 2011
Len Lye's Polynesian Connection 1928-1929 is included in Oceania: Imagining the Pacific at the City Gallery Wellington from 6 August - 6 November 2011.
Image: Len Lye Polynesian Connection 1928 - 1929. Len Lye Foundation Collection
POINTS OF CONTACT: JIM ALLEN, LEN LYE, HELIO OITICICA
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington
18 March – 22 May 2011
Points of Contact traces connections between New Zealand artist Jim Allen, New Zealander Len Lye and Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica, one of the most innovative
Latin American artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition re-assembles Allen's seminal
1969 Small Worlds exhibition and re-stages one of Allen's three-part performance Contact.
Curated by Tyler Cann and Mercedes Vicente
Image: Jim Allen Space Plane, Environment No. 1 1969. (2010 reconstruction). Courtesy of
the artist and Michael Lett. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery installation view. Photo: Bryan James
JIM ALLEN: CONTACT 2011
Artspace, Auckland
Saturday, 5 March 2011 – Thursday, 21 April 2011
Contact Performances at Artspace for the Auckland Art Festival 2011
Computer Dance – Saturday, 5 March 2011
Parangole Capes – Saturday, 12 March 2011
Body Articulation / Imprint – Saturday, 19 March 2011
All performances 6.00 – 8.00pm
Image: Jim Allen Contact, Parangole Capes 1974. (Restaged at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 2010). Courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett. Photo: Trevor Read
LEN LYE
Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway
14 January – 13 March 2011
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Curated by artist HC Gilje and Director Anne Szefer Karlsen
Image: Len Lye Rainbow Dance (film still) 1936. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation
LEN LYE: THE BODY ELECTRIC
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IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
The Body Electric
24 November 2010 – 13 February 2011
Len Lye: The Body Electric is the first survey exhibition of Lye's work in the United Kingdom in over two decades. Bringing together his experimental films, kinetic sculpture and two-dimensional work, the exhibition follows Lye's artisitc enquiry into the experience of movement, energy and the body for the 1920s to the 1970s.
Curated by Tyler Cann and Jonathan Watkins
Image: Len Lye Trade Tattoo (film still) 1937. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation
DARCY LANGE
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University of Cork, Ireland
18 November 2010 – 20 March 2011
Darcy Lange’s videos feature in the exhibition:
School Days. The Look of Learning.
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Image: Darcy Lange Study of Three Birmingham Schools, UK, 1976. Ladywood Comprehensive School
DARCY LANGE: WORK STUDIES IN SCHOOLS
LiveInYourHead, University of Art & Design, Geneva, Switzerland
Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools
December 2010 – January 2011
The work of New Zealand film pioneer Darcy Lange travels to Switzerland this summer. Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools features a series of videos taken in the classrooms of three schools in Birmingham, each school selected specifically to represent the different social classes. The exhibition examines the processes of teaching and learning.
Curated by Mercedes Vicente
Image: Darcy Lange Study of Three Birmingham Schools, UK, 1976. Mr. Perks, 'Animal
Farm', English class. Ladywood Comprehensive School
LEN LYE'S FILMS
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Abstract Expressionist New York
3 October 2010 – 25 April 2011
Len Lye's films feature in the exhibition:
Abstract Expressionist New York
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Image: Len Lye Rainbow Dance (film still) 1936. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation