Current Exhibitions
Closing Dates
JOHN VEA
Two recent works
John Vea (b. 1985, Aotearoa/Tonga) is a Tämaki Makaurau-based contemporary artist whose work explores narratives surrounding Moana Nui a Kiwa (Pacific) migration, labour and employment. He draw... Read More
ends 22
October
October
CORA-ALLAN WICKLIFFE
Everything is Ka Pai
A REAR WINDOW PROJECT
A Pōwhiri is a Māori welcoming ceremony which involves different processes depending on the type of visitors. The colourful and distinctive manner in which Māor... Read More
ends 28
October
October
SPACE SUIT
Textiles, sculpture and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection
Textiles, sculpture and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection
Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s sculpture collection contains a 19th century marble sculpture of David; a copy after a w... Read More
ends 18
November
November
FOUR
Kim Pieters. Charlotte Parallel. Megan Brady. Aroha Novak
Since 2014, Dunedin Public Art Gallery has been running a biennial exhibition programme exploring aspects of contemporary art practice in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Four: New Art from Dunedin takes... Read More
ends 18
November
November
SUFFRAGE 125
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Guide
On the 19th of September New Zealand celebrates 125 years since women were granted the right to vote in general elections. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery marks this anniversary of women’s suff... Read More
ends 18
November
November
DOUGLAS GORDON & PHILIPPE PARRENO
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Celebrated as the breakthrough film of their careers, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) is a collaboration between Douglas Gordon (b.1966, Scotland) and Philippe Parreno (b.1964, Algeria). This... Read More
ends 25
November
November
HEAD SPACE
Portraits from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection
Historically, portraiture has often been positioned within Western art history as a means of recording or memorialising the wealthy or powerful. As time has passed, the portrait genre has come to re... Read More
ends 25
November
November
WORLD VIEW
Mapping the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection
World View takes a journey through the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection, mapping the geographical strengths that have come to shape it over time. From the Italian Renaissance, through Edo perio... Read More
ends 30
December
December
A CERTAIN VISUAL ARGOT
British Modernism from the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century
The flourishing of modernism in early twentieth century British visual art sought to revitalise painting and sculpture in that country. Numerous art societies, groups and movements arose as a respon... Read More
ends 30
December
December
JONATHAN JONES
UNTITLED (D21.281 GALARI BARGAN), 2018
In the 1920s the Australian Museum in Sydney exchanged a collection of Aboriginal and Papua New Guinean material with the Otago Museum in Dunedin, receiving two Māori amo (bargeboard supports)... Read More
ends 31
December
December
SHANNON NOVAK
The Expanded Gallery
In The Expanded Gallery, Shannon Novak explores the potential to extend his work beyond the physical boundaries of the gallery. Expanding from the gallery walls into a range of physical and digital re... Read More
ends 31
December
December
ANDREW BARBER
Folly (stone carpet)
In this site-specific floor painting, Andrew Barber reclaims the floor as a legitimate site for contemporary art. Folly (stone carpet) taps into an historic vein of decorative approaches to flooring a... Read More
ends 31
December
December
open 10am-5pm daily
30 the Octagon
Dunedin 9016
ph 03 474 3240 fax 03 474 3250
email dpagmail@dcc.govt.nz
