Join Mango Collective for a series of online panel discussions: Contemporary Art Institutions Around the Globe, Digital Collaborations, Street Art Producer-Curators, and Māori Wāhine in Public Arts.

Here & Out sees nine female street artists from five different countries present new work in response to the impacts of Covid-19. Artists include: Dreamgirls Collective (Wellington, NZ), Janine Williams (Aotearoa), Gleo (Colombia), and Caratoes (Hong Kong - Belgium).

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Stevei Houkāmau is the 2021 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence. Her uku (clay) practice is distinctive for its carved surface designs that draw upon the indigenous tattoo practices of tā moko and tātau. Ira Tangata Ira Atua springs from research into the artist’s whakapapa. By acknowledging and celebrating her whakapapa, Houkāmau unwraps narratives that will be retold through uku, projection and soundscape.

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Pack your bags for an exhibition of vlogs, photography and collage! Anna Brimer and Max Fleury go on holiday at top tourist destinations and Airbnbs, visiting the visited and photographing the photographed.

Three new video works riffing on weird tales, cinema of unease, and camp horror to draw out the moments before collapse into terror or laughter.

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TE MAURI O PŌHUTU is a new series of collaborative installation and time-based artworks by Bianca Hyslop, Rowan Pierce and Tūī Matira Ranapiri Ransfield.

The work responds to the loss of mātauranga Māori due to cultural interruption and assimilation. It is a sensual offering that addresses the fragility of memory, connection to whenua and reclamation of culture from within foreign frameworks.

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An exhibition of new work by the 2019-20 Toi Pōneke New Zealand School of Music Artist in Residence.Why is matter so intelligent, though? explores the acoustic relationships between reef fish, sea urchins, snapping shrimp and other marine life forms in the Hauraki Gulf, considering the symbiotic interdependencies of these organisms through sound.

An exhibition of new video works by Toi Pōneke’s 2019 Artist in Residence Chevron Hassett. Home is where my heart will rest connects back to the people and places - the essence - of his childhood.

On his 50th birthday, artist Bryce Galloway got his first tattoo and posted a bandmates wanted flyer. four songs, played twice revisits this mid-life crisis story and the nine bands Galloway started that year. 

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is proud to announce Chevron Hassett as the 2019 Visual Artist in Residence.

Rauropi [ I II III ] is an installation by Jason Wright, made up of a series of object integrated sound sculptures.

The Modern Alpha is a series of hyper-detailed illustrative works by Wellington artist Hannah Salmon, satirising dominant political and ideological systems that promote oppression, competition and financial gain.

Susanna Bauer’s exhibition The Quarry explores a 'fictional archaeology’ that reimagines the past in the present.

Johanna Mechen’s exhibition Sonorous Shadow the culmination of her 12 week Visual Arts residency at Toi Pōneke.

This group of dynamic emerging Wellington based artists question how we consider intimacy, relationships, gender and sexuality, and how we become possible and known to each other, and to ourselves.

Referencing the heralding of Matariki, the exhibition brings heaven and earth into closer conversation. Contemporary artworks by leading and emerging Māori artists are paired with virtual taonga from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, accessed via visitors’ mobile devices.