Gus Fisher Gallery, Contemporary art museum in Auckland CBD, New Zealand.
The Gus Fisher Gallery occupies the fourth floor of the Kenneth Myers Centre and displays art exhibitions in a building that blends neo-Romanesque and Art Deco elements. The space offers various display areas for contemporary art forms and video installations.
The gallery opened in 2001 in a restored 1934 building classified as a Grade I heritage site. The building previously housed radio and television broadcasting studios before it became an art space.
The exhibitions here showcase work from artists around the world and the region, focusing on contemporary forms like film and video installations that address current social issues. Visitors can see how this space brings together local and international perspectives.
The building sits on Shortland Street in central Auckland and is easy to reach on foot. It helps to check the opening hours beforehand since they differ between weekdays and weekends.
The gallery's name honours Gus Fisher (1920–2010), who helped fund the 2000 restoration of the Kenneth Myers Centre and whose Jewish forebears came from Ukraine; he was Christian Dior's New Zealand agent for over thirty years. The German poet Norman Franke set a bilingual poem, 'A South Pacific Sighting of Utopia', partly in the gallery.
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