PAST EXHIBITIONS
Rakau Matarau
Reweti Arapere
15 May – 8 Jun 2013
Rakau Matarau is an exhibition of works on paper and cardboard combining both 2D and 3D forms. The artist blends customary Māori art forms with tattoo and graffiti style influence, representing young Māori who identify with both Māori and metropolitan culture.
Tangential Structures
Yona Lee
17 Apr – 11 May 2013
Enjoy Public Art Gallery is very excited to announce a major installation by Yona Lee. Drawing from previous works where the artist utilized steel rods to explore formal ideas relating to line and space, Tangential Structures is a work that incorporates an impossible dichotomy. Steel rods cast in such a way as to evoke movement and fluidity hang from the ceiling at Enjoy, loosely flung over rafter beams and looping playfully through the space. The very temporary gestures – careless loops, waves, curls and hooks – are at odds with the cold, hard qualities of steel, creating contradictory material behavior that behaves improperly to the forces of gravity and logic.
Other Possibilities
Christina Read
13 Mar – 6 Apr 2013
"If worries were things, like worms for example, I expect they would burrow right into you; make convoluted routes through and within the digestive system; sometimes crossing and colliding with one another, sometimes not."
Resonance
Rose James
13 Feb – 9 Mar 2013
Resonance is a solo exhibition at Enjoy Gallery presented by sonic artist and composer, Rose James.
Te Whare Pora
Mata Aho Collective
17 Jan – 9 Feb 2013
Summer Residency
The concept of Te Whare Pora embodies the idea of a house of learning and is customarily a space for obtaining knowledge pertaining to fibre arts, primarily weaving. The atua of Te Whare Pora is Hineteiwaiwa who holds authority over the arts pursued by women. Over their residency, the artists are interested in engaging with Te Whare Pora from a contemporary perspective and will be using new media to signify its importance within the 21st Century, creating work by extracting and distilling signifiers of the wharenui experience.
Ménage à Trois
Charles O’Loughlin, COBRA, Lisa Radford, Ry Haskings, Taree MacKenzie, Yuko Kamei
15 Nov – 8 Dec 2012
Ménage à Trois is an exhibition exchange between three artist‐run gallery spaces in the Asia Pacific region: Enjoy Public Art Gallery (NZ), XYZ Collective (JP) and TCB artinc (AUS).
Sometime later
Alice Baxter
3 Oct – 3 Nov 2012
Sometime later explores an interest in how an art work can exist as myth or ritual. By delving into a very sited act, such as a pilgrimage to a monument, Baxter’s work investigates the function of our own investment into the notion of the ‘significant moment’.
What Would I Do Without You
Daniel Betham
5 Sep – 29 Sep 2012
For the exhibition What Would I Do Without You, Betham employs the medium of video to explore contemporary notions of spirituality and nihilism in a poetic and absurd fashion. The films rehearse contemporary rituals or ad hoc games performed in sporting arenas. These games are original attempts at spontaneous questing—for the moment of fulfillment—in a post-nihilist or neo-transcendental manner.
On The Count Of Three!
Candice Stock, Jeremy Leatinu'u, Tanya Ruka
8 Aug – 1 Sep 2012
Featuring three moving image practitioners, this exhibition at Enjoy brings the work of Manukau Institute of Technology graduates to Wellington. Here, each of the artists enact, articulate and sometimes question social and cultural protocols that are specific to their own perspectives and experiences.
Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?
Artemio, Daniela Edburg, Ihab Jadallah, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Louise Menzies, Mary-Louise Browne, Mike Heynes, Nathan Pohio, Nicholas Mangan, Ronnie van Hout
4 Jul – 4 Aug 2012
Featuring artists from New Zealand, Mexico, Palestine and Australia, Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding? is a collection of videos, photographs, sculptures and installations that explores the interplay between art and cinema.
CONCENTRATE ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING
Annsuli Marais, Lauren Redican
6 Jun – 30 Jun 2012
Everything is perfect and as it should be. If I could be more pleased, this would be a perfect increase in pleasure. It would result from further elements slotting into place, and the realisation that this now was as it had always been intended.
For James Hansen's Grandchildren
Lance Cash
9 May – 2 Jun 2012
Lance Cash's digital photographic works seek to explore ideas of dislocation, representation and mediation with strong ethical and environmental concerns framing the content. The exploration of these ideas and concerns seeks to raise questions about the ontology of photographic representation, practices of viewing and established relationships to the assumed real world.
Illuminated
Jude Robertson
24 Apr – 5 May 2012
Blending scientific enquiry, philosophic thought and everyday lived experience, Illuminated investigates the New Zealand terrain and landscape. Using recycled glass, the artist connects this work to the tangible matter of everyday life. Robertson's practice has long been involved with issues surrounding natural and imposed features in the landscape, Illuminated forms a response to the patterns that are formed by built structures of domestic life and the architectures of our day to day existence.
Ephemeral Traces
Alexa Wilson, Alex Papanastasiou, DeeDeeWitt, Erica Sklenars, Oscar Enberg, Samin Son, Sheilah Wilson
11 Apr – 21 Apr 2012
A Collaborative Performance Collage
Exploring the tensions between live performance and the documentation of the event that follows, Ephemeral Traces is a 2 week schedule of performances and recordings at Enjoy Public Art Gallery.
aaaGiLNrsty
Gary Peters, Lisa Martin, Natalie Ellen-Eliza
15 Mar – 7 Apr 2012
...sometimes the alphabet is ABJFHaaaGiLNrstyYCDETCF......and sometimes you get Nat, Lisa and Gary and mash them together (with a bit of cheap whiskey) in alphabetical order...linguistically speaking...
The Chinese Horoscope Show
Andrew Beck, Caroline Anderson, Chris Lundquist, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jordon Brethauer, Kate Woods, Liyen Chong, Murray Hewitt, Rachael Grandon, Ruth Thomas-Edmond, Sam Mitchell, Sheng Xiang Liao, Tiffany Singh
16 Feb – 10 Mar 2012
Featuring a dozen international and New Zealand-based artists the show is an exploration of the Chinese Zodiac. Guest curated by Erica van Zon, the twelve contributing artists have been asked to consider and respond to their zodiac sign. The result is an eclectic range of work in various media that is both engaging and playful.
Black Flora
Matt Whitwell
18 Jan – 11 Feb 2012
Summer Residency
Immerse your body and psyche in an upside down geological vista; a circus for your senses; an alchemical mishmash of sights, sounds, delights and a whole other gauntlet of wonderful sensations.
Force-Morph
James Bowen
10 Nov – 5 Dec 2011
In the exhibition Force-Morph, Bowen examines the schism between the real and the virtual.
They don't know where you want to go
Anton Berndt
13 Oct – 5 Nov 2011
The installation They don’t know where you want to go attempts to explore the sensation of mediation through the metonym of magnified vision.
Apocalypse Tent
Andy Irving, Keila Martin
15 Sep – 8 Oct 2011
The Apocalypse Tent is an installation exploring ideas of habitation in our current doomed-filled predicament.