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For The Feral Splendour: Owen Connors, Laura Duffy, And Aliyah Winter

Friday, 21 January 2022, 11:11 am | The Physics Room

‘For the feral splendour’ suggests the motivation for doing something: making a sacrifice, stating an intention, offering a justification. It’s an incantation, or the response to a strange question. In this exhibition works by Owen Connors, ... More >>

The 2021 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser

Monday, 29 November 2021, 5:28 pm | The Physics Room

Online exclusives available from Monday 13 December Gallery launch: Wednesday 15 December, 5:30 – 9pm Sales continue: 16 – 19 December, 11am – 4pm The 2021 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser is a special exhibition of limited edition artworks ... More >>

Light Enough To Read By

Thursday, 27 May 2021, 10:32 am | The Physics Room

Light enough to read by emerged from discussions around the return of The Physics Room’s library into the gallery and to public access. For the last three years, since the shift to our current site in the Registry Additions Building, much of the ... More >>

Shelter House By Grace Crothall

Monday, 15 February 2021, 2:10 pm | The Physics Room

Exhibition preview: Friday 26 February, 5:30pm (pending Alert Level 1) Exhibition runs: 27 February – 4 April 2021 Exhibition talk with Jamie Hanton and Grace Crothall: Wednesday 3 March, 5:30pm Grace Crothall’s Shelter House draws on an atmosphere, ... More >>

Monitor 3.1 With New Commission By Qianye Lin And Qianhe 'AL' Lin

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 4:08 pm | The Physics Room

Qianye Lin and Qianhe ‘AL’ Lin, Thus the Blast Carried it, Into the World , (still), 2021. Monitor 3.1: Curated by Sean Kerr, Michelle Wang, and Jamie Hanton with a new commission by Qianye Lin and Qianhe ‘AL’ Lin. Exhibition ... More >>

The 2020 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser

Friday, 27 November 2020, 3:59 pm | The Physics Room

The 2020 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser presents limited edition objects by three artists who have exhibited with us this year. With most artworks priced between $50 and $500, this is a rare opportunity to acquire work by these three contemporary ... More >>

A Wandering Thing - Sophie Bannan and Joshua Harris-Harding

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 3:15 pm | The Physics Room

A Wandering Thing presents new work by Sophie Bannan and Josh Harris-Harding. The exhibition brings together two individual bodies of work that are tied together by shared research trajectories. The artists’ lines of inquiry and research interests ... More >>

The Freedom of the Migrant

Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 12:11 pm | The Physics Room

In 2016, it was reported that Sir John Key presented a startling economic forecast to members of the Auckland business community. He speculated that if an Isis operative posing as a refugee during the migrant crisis carried out a terrorist attack in the ... More >>

Savage in the Garden Exhibition

Friday, 29 March 2019, 11:26 am | The Physics Room

Image: Tanu Gago, SAVAGE IN THE GARDEN , 2019, with lighting assistance from Pati Solomona Tyrell, makeup & styling by Elyssia Wilson Heti, and model Tapuaki Helu. More >>

Hey māmā, come play with me Turumeke Harrington

Friday, 15 February 2019, 3:47 pm | The Physics Room

In Hey māmā, come play with me Turumeke Harrington has made an installation-come-playground in order to engage audiences in small moments of respite from daily life. In creating the exhibition, Harrington is also working towards understanding and validating her ... More >>

(Un)conditional V at the Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru

Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 10:22 am | The Physics Room

(Un)conditional V is a continuation of The Physics Room's itinerant 2018 programme where we are partnering with a number of public galleries across Te Waipounamu, the South Island to create collaborative exhibitions. This exhibition is a partnership ... More >>

Games and Politics: An interactive exhibition

Monday, 13 August 2018, 1:39 pm | The Physics Room

Games and Politics An interactive exhibition by the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media More >>

(Un)conditional IV: Eve Armstrong, John Vea, & Mike Hewson

Thursday, 2 August 2018, 1:49 pm | The Physics Room

In March, collection items from the Ashburton Art Gallery collection were exhibited alongside work created by Eve Armstrong, John Vea, and Mike Hewson in (Un)conditional I at The Physics Room in Christchurch. Now, in August, Armstrong, Vea, and Hewson ... More >>

(Un)conditional III: Ayesha Green & Cushla Donaldson

Thursday, 2 August 2018, 1:46 pm | The Physics Room

(Un)conditional III includes new work by Ayesha Green (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu) and Cushla Donaldson. This exhibition in the Melbourne Art Fair Project Rooms is part of The Physics Room’s itinerant operating model for 2018 and draws on the ... More >>

Prospecting: Wendelien Bakker

Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 10:34 am | The Physics Room

In March 2018, Wendelien Bakker travelled from her home in Auckland to Central Otago to pan for gold. She spent three weeks in and around the Arrow and Twelve Mile Delta rivers working eight-hour days over the pan in a personal quest for riches. More >>

Innocent Bystanders

Thursday, 3 May 2018, 3:58 pm | The Physics Room

Innocent Bystanders proposes a series of experimental encounters across Ōtautahi with The Physics Room as a central axis. Blurring the boundaries between contemporary art and dance, performers Julia Harvie, Josie Archer, Kosta Bogoievski & David Huggins ... More >>

'Gas' by Mark Harvey in collaboration with Shaun Hendy

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 11:59 am | The Physics Room

Gas is a state of matter that is never still, nor does it remain constant. Despite being low in viscosity and density compared to liquids and solids it can contract and expand easily depending on temperatures and atmospheric pressures, as well as ... More >>

'Property is Theft!' & 'Kaitani' at The Physics Room

Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 11:20 am | The Physics Room

Property is Theft! is the second exhibition by Portugal-based New Zealand artist Reuben Moss at The Physics Room in 2017. This exhibition is a continuation Moss’ interest in the contemporary urban environment as a space controlled by pulsing and ... More >>

Nova Paul: Surplus Reality

Thursday, 12 October 2017, 2:44 pm | The Physics Room

For Nova Paul’s second exhibition at The Physics Room in 2017 she has produced a new 16mm film, The Week Before Spring . Over the past 12 months, Paul has participated in The Physics Room’s residency programme where she has engaged in an overarching ... More >>

Share / Cheat / Unite

Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 3:32 pm | The Physics Room

Gemma Banks, Yu Cheng-Chou, ChimPom, Sasha Huber, Anibal Lopez (A-153167), Pilvi Takala, & Johnson Witehira More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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