Past
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Beyond The Veil Of Paradise
Kay George 7 - 30 Mar 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening 5pm, Thursday 7 March, all welcome. Kay George is a senior New Zealand and Pacific artist. Living between New Zealand and the Cook Islands for the past 35 years, George has observed and documented significant societal change within a Pacific context. Her extensive body of work generated over that... Read more -
The Immortal Tango of Love & War, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse & Diaspora's Children
Telly Tuita 8 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening 5pm, Thursday 8 February, all welcome. For the Auckland Pride Festival (Feb 1-29, 2024 ) Bergman Gallery returns 3 suites of Telly Tuita's epic photographs in a single presentation, marking the first time these images have been seen together as a collective body of work. Love and war are... Read more -
5 Painters
Group Exhibition 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Roy Good | Gavin Jones | Louie Bretaña | Rhea Maheshwari | Llenyd Price The exhibition 5 Painters features five diverse intergenerational local painters from Auckland, who each use a unique approach to their work. From Roy Good’s carefully applied sleek colour schematics to the mark making style of Gavin... Read more -
Horizon
Group Exhibition 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Fatu Feu’u | Luise Fong | Andy Leleisi’uao | Joan Gragg | Telly Tuita | Benjamin Work | Raymond Sagapolutele | Tanja McMillan (Misery) | Louie Bretaña | Stevei Houkāmau | Linda Va’aelua | Sefton Rani| Alison Leauanae Bergman Gallery Auckland proudly presents the group show Horizon. Comprising... Read more
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Kindred
Linda Va'aelua + Alison Leauanae 7 Sep - 7 Oct 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Kindred speaks to the familial relationships and connections to ancestral homelands for sisters Linda Va’aelua and Alison Leauanae. This body of work is an exploration of the artists’ mixed Samoan, Scottish and English heritage through abstracted motif, telling stories of migration and navigation from origins across oceans to promised lands... Read more -
Tukufakaholo
Group Exhibition 10 Aug - 2 Sep 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speaker: Benjamin Work, Artist Telly Tuita | Benjamin Work | Sione Monū | Semisi Fetokai Potauaine | Terje Koloamatangi | Hulita Koloi | ‘Uhila Nai | Harrison Freeth In the Tongan dictionary Tukufakaholo translated in a Pālangi context, is defined as inheritance or hereditary but in a Tongan world... Read more -
Te Vaerua O Te Vaine, Our Mother's Hands
Group Exhibition 13 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Tungane Broadbent | Nina Oberg Humphries | Serene Hodgman | Stevei Houkāmau | Sylvia Marsters Te Vaerua O Te Vaine, Our Mother's Hands speaks to matriarchal intergenerational learning, celebrating women's creativity and skills and passing down wisdom and knowledge from one generation to another. This exhibition brings together five women... Read more -
A Place to call Home
Group Exhibition 15 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Luise Fong | Louie Bretaña | Tanja McMillan - Misery | Bev Moon | Rhea Maheshwari | Naomi Azoulay | Cindy Huang | Abhi Chinniah | Yeonjae Choi A Place to call Home, the first group exhibition of contemporary New Zealand Asian art developed by Bergman Gallery, will open on... Read more
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Tabatha Forbes
The Printed Hibiscus 19 Apr - 13 May 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland The Printed Hibiscus is an exploration into botanical study and floral fabric history, focusing on the stylised hibiscus as it has come to represent / misrepresent the South Pacific. The project research has taken several different turns - beginning with the flower as a botanical specimen, connecting to... Read more -
Pride & Prejudice, Part 1
Group Exhibition 22 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Heather Straka | Oliver Cain | Raymond Sagapolutete | Lucas Grogan | Luke Thurgate | Sione Monū | Louie Bretaña 'Prejudice, wrote a song about it, like to hear it? Here it goes….free your mind' such is the opening lyric to US pop/soul group En Vogue's third single from their... Read more -
Sylvia Marsters
E Moemoe'a Naku - A Dream of Mine 29 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Marilyn Kohlhase, Pacific Arts Patron Sylvia Marsters, Artist Sylvia Marsters - E Moemoea Naku, A Dream of Mine, brings the artist's practice full circle as lush tropical Hibiscus paintings are presented alongside her iconic Gardenia canvases. For much of her youth, the artist was thrilled with tales of... Read more -
Raymond Sagapolutele
Aua E Te Fefe - Don't Be Afraid 24 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Fatu Feu’u, Artist, Patron/Founder – Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust Raymond Sagapolutele, Artist 'When I was a lot younger I was struck by an image in a book of a person using a skull as a pillow. The use of the skull in such a utilitarian way stayed... Read more
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Benjamin Work
To'a Motu 27 Aug - 17 Sep 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Hūfanga-He-Ako-Moe-Lotu, Professor 'Okusitino Māhina Benjamin Work, Artist Throughout history Tongan warriors were the vanguard of many conflicts across Moana Oceania, for centuries warriors were often hired by chiefs of other islands with blood ties to Tonga, for their wars and internal conflicts. TO'A MOTU - or Island Warrior,... Read more -
Telly Tuita
Tongpop Cornucopia 23 Jul - 20 Aug 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Jeremy Hansen, Marketing Project Manager, Britomart Telly Tuita, Artist Tuita's Tongpop universe is a compelling narrative, interconnecting and mashing different cultural myths and histories. Legends of foreign cultures intrigue him, they reflect stories of extreme human behaviour. His staged tableaux vivants are alive with allegorical hints.'Dora the Explorer'... Read more -
Te Atuitanga - Between our Cloak of Stars
Group Exhibition 25 Jun - 16 Jul 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Mahiriki Tangaroa | Telly Tuita | Sylvia Marsters | Andy Leleisi'uao | Benjamin Work | Kulimoe'anga Stone Maka | Michel Tuffery | Raymond Sagapolutele | Nina Oberg Humphries Bergman Gallery Opening Exhibition Opening Speakers: Caren Rangi, Chair, Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Ben Bergman, Gallery Director Hon. George... Read more