He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of SoilExploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions.
Huikaau | where currents meetHuikaau – where currents meet celebrates the past, present, and future of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection – Aotearoa’s first civic collection of art, which was established in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1884. This exhibition upholds the stories and ideas carried within the collection, welcomes new arrivals, and continues to work in partnership to bring Māori and indigenous perspectives to the fore.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Mataaho Collective Hautāmiro (2025) is an installation by Mataaho Collective, which is led by the ancestral narratives of Tokohurunuku, Tokohururangi, Tokohurumawake and Tokohuruatea, the four winds, or the pillars of the sky. The four were children of Huruteaarangi, an atua of the winds who sent her offspring to the edges of the sky to stand as pou that separated Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei, the adornments of customary kākahu, Hautāmiro weaves together materials and techniques in an installation that celebrates adaptation, experimentation and mātauranga Māori across generations.
.jpg)
Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in AotearoaTaimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as a starting point, the exhibition navigates a sea of ideas, offering multiple perspectives on New Zealand art through a selection of works from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
Tū Ata, Tū MaiThe works in this exhibition experiment with langugae, it's expression, and its effects. In their decades-long practices, Himid and Parekōwhai have scrutinised their respective socio-political contexts to explore the possibilities of identification and misrecognition. In their wide-ranging work, both artists have grappled with identity and how the languages of visual art can play an essential role in enlarging societal conversation on participation and representation.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
naadohbii: to draw waterThe exhibition brings together contemporary Indigenous artwork from Turtle Island (Canada), Aotearoa (New Zealand), and many First Peoples nations of Australia. Featuring over 20 artists, including newly commissioned pieces, Naadohbii: To Draw Water illustrates an axis of solidarity between First Peoples nations across the globe around environmental, political and cultural connections to water.
Flaming StarFlaming Star is where cowboys kiss, saddles get ruffled, and bolo ties come undone. It’s where ‘the West’ gets wrangled into wild, unruly terrain. The exhibition borrows its title from Elvis Presley’s 1960 song (and Western film) Flaming Star—a crooning cowboy ballad about masculinity and fate. When the King of glam sang “when I ride, I feel that flaming star,” the lyrics practically begged to be reimagined as a queer anthem of rhinestone-studded fantasy.
2025 National Contemporary Art AwardThe National Contemporary Art Award was launched in 2000 by the Waikato Society of Arts and has been facilitated and hosted by Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery since 2006.
The prestigious competition’s blind-judging process keeps entrant identities confidential, enabling the guest judge to focus solely on the art.
Peter Robinson: Charcoal DrawingA roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
TOI KORU: Sandy AdsettExperience the bold brilliance of Toi Koru, the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera).
Spanning six decades, this remarkable exhibition traces the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the 1960s to today - including a striking new series painted especially for the exhibition.
'Pae o te Rangi'Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.
Voyager Voyager is an Australian exclusive survey exhibition celebrating the diversity of Reihana's internationally acclaimed art practice. The exhibition will include a major new site specific, outdoor installation that will see the artist adorn the entrance of the gallery with an artwork created with hu
Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral New South Wales 2576, Australia
Pohewa Pāhewa: Te RūmaPohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.
3D-printed lamp for Kereama Taepa's rūma kāinga
Whāia te TaniwhaThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of taniwha. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the Aotearoa landscape.
Whāia te Taniwha also responds to the impact of colonisation on Māori knowledge systems by celebrating the deep and varied presence of taniwha within te ao Māori,” says Cull.
Waiora In this solo exhibition, Hemi Macgregor explores the spiritual elements that connect humans to the external worlds of te taiao, te taimoana, te taiwhenua and into tātai tuarangi (the cosmos). Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes found in raranga, tukutuku and taniko. Pūrākau are referenced throughout the exhibition to reflect our connection with the sky, water, earth, and seasons.
Ahi Kaa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te Ahi Kaa with Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Friends, a celebration of clay, fire, and the enduring spirit of Barry Brickell at Driving Creek.1–9 November 2025 (opening showcase).
The exhibition continues through summer,November 2025 – February 2026
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of SoilExploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions.
Huikaau | where currents meetHuikaau – where currents meet celebrates the past, present, and future of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection – Aotearoa’s first civic collection of art, which was established in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1884. This exhibition upholds the stories and ideas carried within the collection, welcomes new arrivals, and continues to work in partnership to bring Māori and indigenous perspectives to the fore.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Mataaho Collective Hautāmiro (2025) is an installation by Mataaho Collective, which is led by the ancestral narratives of Tokohurunuku, Tokohururangi, Tokohurumawake and Tokohuruatea, the four winds, or the pillars of the sky. The four were children of Huruteaarangi, an atua of the winds who sent her offspring to the edges of the sky to stand as pou that separated Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei, the adornments of customary kākahu, Hautāmiro weaves together materials and techniques in an installation that celebrates adaptation, experimentation and mātauranga Māori across generations.
Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in AotearoaTaimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as a starting point, the exhibition navigates a sea of ideas, offering multiple perspectives on New Zealand art through a selection of works from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
Tū Ata, Tū MaiThe works in this exhibition experiment with langugae, it's expression, and its effects. In their decades-long practices, Himid and Parekōwhai have scrutinised their respective socio-political contexts to explore the possibilities of identification and misrecognition. In their wide-ranging work, both artists have grappled with identity and how the languages of visual art can play an essential role in enlarging societal conversation on participation and representation.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
naadohbii: to draw waterThe exhibition brings together contemporary Indigenous artwork from Turtle Island (Canada), Aotearoa (New Zealand), and many First Peoples nations of Australia. Featuring over 20 artists, including newly commissioned pieces, Naadohbii: To Draw Water illustrates an axis of solidarity between First Peoples nations across the globe around environmental, political and cultural connections to water.
Flaming StarFlaming Star is where cowboys kiss, saddles get ruffled, and bolo ties come undone. It’s where ‘the West’ gets wrangled into wild, unruly terrain. The exhibition borrows its title from Elvis Presley’s 1960 song (and Western film) Flaming Star—a crooning cowboy ballad about masculinity and fate. When the King of glam sang “when I ride, I feel that flaming star,” the lyrics practically begged to be reimagined as a queer anthem of rhinestone-studded fantasy.
2025 National Contemporary Art AwardThe National Contemporary Art Award was launched in 2000 by the Waikato Society of Arts and has been facilitated and hosted by Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery since 2006.
The prestigious competition’s blind-judging process keeps entrant identities confidential, enabling the guest judge to focus solely on the art.
Peter Robinson: Charcoal DrawingA roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
TOI KORU: Sandy AdsettExperience the bold brilliance of Toi Koru, the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera).
Spanning six decades, this remarkable exhibition traces the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the 1960s to today - including a striking new series painted especially for the exhibition.
'Pae o te Rangi'Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.
Voyager Voyager is an Australian exclusive survey exhibition celebrating the diversity of Reihana's internationally acclaimed art practice. The exhibition will include a major new site specific, outdoor installation that will see the artist adorn the entrance of the gallery with an artwork created with hu
Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral New South Wales 2576, Australia
Pohewa Pāhewa: Te RūmaPohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.
3D-printed lamp for Kereama Taepa's rūma kāinga
Whāia te TaniwhaThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of taniwha. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the Aotearoa landscape.
Whāia te Taniwha also responds to the impact of colonisation on Māori knowledge systems by celebrating the deep and varied presence of taniwha within te ao Māori,” says Cull.
Waiora In this solo exhibition, Hemi Macgregor explores the spiritual elements that connect humans to the external worlds of te taiao, te taimoana, te taiwhenua and into tātai tuarangi (the cosmos). Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes found in raranga, tukutuku and taniko. Pūrākau are referenced throughout the exhibition to reflect our connection with the sky, water, earth, and seasons.
Ahi Kaa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te Ahi Kaa with Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Friends, a celebration of clay, fire, and the enduring spirit of Barry Brickell at Driving Creek.1–9 November 2025 (opening showcase).
The exhibition continues through summer,November 2025 – February 2026
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of SoilExploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
This expansive and unmissable exhibition explores the fundamental role whenua plays in the visual language and identity of Aotearoa. Acknowledging Māori as takata whenua, the first peoples to call this land home, themes of kaitiakitaka, colonisation, environmentalism, land use, migration, identity and belonging are considered through collection works, new acquisitions and exciting commissions.
Huikaau | where currents meetHuikaau – where currents meet celebrates the past, present, and future of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection – Aotearoa’s first civic collection of art, which was established in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 1884. This exhibition upholds the stories and ideas carried within the collection, welcomes new arrivals, and continues to work in partnership to bring Māori and indigenous perspectives to the fore.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Mataaho Collective Hautāmiro (2025) is an installation by Mataaho Collective, which is led by the ancestral narratives of Tokohurunuku, Tokohururangi, Tokohurumawake and Tokohuruatea, the four winds, or the pillars of the sky. The four were children of Huruteaarangi, an atua of the winds who sent her offspring to the edges of the sky to stand as pou that separated Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei, the adornments of customary kākahu, Hautāmiro weaves together materials and techniques in an installation that celebrates adaptation, experimentation and mātauranga Māori across generations.
Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in AotearoaTaimoana | Coastlines explores the art of Aotearoa New Zealand, locating it within Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the wider Pacific region. Taking the concept of the coast, or shoreline, as a starting point, the exhibition navigates a sea of ideas, offering multiple perspectives on New Zealand art through a selection of works from the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
Tū Ata, Tū MaiThe works in this exhibition experiment with langugae, it's expression, and its effects. In their decades-long practices, Himid and Parekōwhai have scrutinised their respective socio-political contexts to explore the possibilities of identification and misrecognition. In their wide-ranging work, both artists have grappled with identity and how the languages of visual art can play an essential role in enlarging societal conversation on participation and representation.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
naadohbii: to draw waterThe exhibition brings together contemporary Indigenous artwork from Turtle Island (Canada), Aotearoa (New Zealand), and many First Peoples nations of Australia. Featuring over 20 artists, including newly commissioned pieces, Naadohbii: To Draw Water illustrates an axis of solidarity between First Peoples nations across the globe around environmental, political and cultural connections to water.
Flaming StarFlaming Star is where cowboys kiss, saddles get ruffled, and bolo ties come undone. It’s where ‘the West’ gets wrangled into wild, unruly terrain. The exhibition borrows its title from Elvis Presley’s 1960 song (and Western film) Flaming Star—a crooning cowboy ballad about masculinity and fate. When the King of glam sang “when I ride, I feel that flaming star,” the lyrics practically begged to be reimagined as a queer anthem of rhinestone-studded fantasy.
2025 National Contemporary Art AwardThe National Contemporary Art Award was launched in 2000 by the Waikato Society of Arts and has been facilitated and hosted by Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery since 2006.
The prestigious competition’s blind-judging process keeps entrant identities confidential, enabling the guest judge to focus solely on the art.
Peter Robinson: Charcoal DrawingA roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
TOI KORU: Sandy AdsettExperience the bold brilliance of Toi Koru, the first major survey exhibition of paintings by Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera).
Spanning six decades, this remarkable exhibition traces the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the 1960s to today - including a striking new series painted especially for the exhibition.
'Pae o te Rangi'Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.
Voyager Voyager is an Australian exclusive survey exhibition celebrating the diversity of Reihana's internationally acclaimed art practice. The exhibition will include a major new site specific, outdoor installation that will see the artist adorn the entrance of the gallery with an artwork created with hu
Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral New South Wales 2576, Australia
Pohewa Pāhewa: Te RūmaPohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.
3D-printed lamp for Kereama Taepa's rūma kāinga
Whāia te TaniwhaThis exhibition celebrates the diversity of taniwha. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the Aotearoa landscape.
Whāia te Taniwha also responds to the impact of colonisation on Māori knowledge systems by celebrating the deep and varied presence of taniwha within te ao Māori,” says Cull.
Waiora In this solo exhibition, Hemi Macgregor explores the spiritual elements that connect humans to the external worlds of te taiao, te taimoana, te taiwhenua and into tātai tuarangi (the cosmos). Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes found in raranga, tukutuku and taniko. Pūrākau are referenced throughout the exhibition to reflect our connection with the sky, water, earth, and seasons.
Ahi Kaa
Nau mai, haere mai ki te Ahi Kaa with Ngā Kaihanga Uku & Friends, a celebration of clay, fire, and the enduring spirit of Barry Brickell at Driving Creek.1–9 November 2025 (opening showcase).
The exhibition continues through summer,November 2025 – February 2026
Join Toi Iho, empowering creative Māori expression and fostering cultural resurgence.
TOI IHO and the TOI IHO logo are taonga and trade marks of Toi Iho Charitable Trust. Toi Iho Charitable Trust is the kaitiaki of the taonga and owner of the trade marks. All use of these taonga and trade marks must be consistent with rules, policies, and tikanga set by Toi Iho Charitable Trust.
