Artspace Aotearoa, Contemporary art gallery on Karangahape Road in Auckland, New Zealand.
Artspace Aotearoa is a contemporary art gallery at 292 Karangahape Road in Newton, Auckland, founded in 1987 by a group of artists. It is run by a charitable trust whose board appoints a director for up to three years; the director selects the exhibition programme. The gallery commissions conceptual work by emerging artists and includes a public reading room for research.
The project began in 1987 when a group of artists and arts workers founded the gallery. Since then it has established itself as a core institution within New Zealand's contemporary art scene.
The gallery serves as a platform for artists at all career stages and shapes the creative energy of Karangahape Road. Visitors encounter programming that brings together local and international perspectives through exhibitions and public discussions.
The gallery sits directly on Karangahape Road and is easy to find when walking through the neighborhood. Visiting on weekdays gives the best chance to explore the current exhibitions thoroughly.
For several years in the early 2000s the gallery hosted an annual festival of experimental music, "ARTSPACE/alt.music". Its 2021 fundraiser When The Dust Settles brought 34 artists back, among them Billy Apple, Judy Millar, Fiona Pardington and Yvonne Todd, spanning decades of its programme.
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