185 chairs, Memorial sculpture in Christchurch, New Zealand.

185 chairs was an installation of 185 white-painted chairs on the site of the demolished Oxford Terrace Baptist Church in Christchurch. The chairs, mostly upright dining-style seats with four legs and slatted or solid backs, some with armrests, stood in loose, staggered rows on grass, densely grouped and overlapping. A few were tipped or angled.

Local artist Peter Majendie installed 185 white-painted chairs on 22 February 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake, on the site of the demolished Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. In October 2012 the installation moved a few hundred metres south to the demolished St Paul's Church site, and in 2021 to the old St Luke's Anglican Church site at Kilmore and Manchester streets. It closed on 1 April 2023, when the artist invited people to take a chair home.

Each chair represents a person who died, with the different seat types showing their distinctiveness and individuality. This variety of seating, from dining chairs to baby seats, makes the personal importance of every single life visible.

The installation no longer exists: it was closed on 1 April 2023, when the artist invited people to take a chair home and scatter them around the city. Before that, it had moved three times, most recently in 2021 to the old St Luke's Anglican Church site at the corner of Kilmore and Manchester streets.

Artist Peter Majendie deliberately chose different chair types instead of traditional memorial symbols. This choice makes the memorial unusual because it expresses the diversity of those lost through everyday furniture pieces.