Past
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amor fabrica
Rhea Maheshwari 5 - 21 Dec 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland In exploring the aesthetic language of Mughal miniature painting through the intimate lens of self-portraiture, Rhea Maheshwari's new exhibition seeks to bridge temporal, cultural and stylistic divides. Mughal miniature painting, known for its precision, layered symbolism, and devotion to delicate detail, provides a vivid framework for romantic expression, transforming the... Read more -
Someone To Watch Over Me
Louie Bretaña 5 - 21 Dec 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland In his new solo xhibition Someone to Watch Over Me, Louie Bretaña delves into the intricate relationship between ancestral spirits, anito, and the natural world—a connection deeply embedded in indigenous Filipino culture. Through his work, Bretaña bridges past and present, invoking the spirits of his ancestors and the deities of... Read more -
Nexus
Luise Fong 12 - 30 Nov 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Guest speaker: Dr Linda Tyler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Auckland. Bergman Gallery proudly presents Nexus, a solo exhibition by renowned New Zealand-Asian artist Luise Fong. Known for her mastery over organic forms and material texture, Fong’s work is steeped in both microscopic and macroscopic symbolism. Since the... Read more -
The Tēvolo Made Me Do it
Telly Tuita 3 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Tuita's Tēvolo series is an intricate fusion of cultural symbolism, personal narrative and dramatic inspiration drawn from historical and contemporary opera divas and the Tongan Goddess Hikule'o. Four new characters are introduced to the audience: Carmen, Lucia, Norma and the Tormented Victim, played by a golden bodied Hikule’o. The series... Read more
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Horizon 2
Group Exhibition 3 - 28 Sep 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Bergman Gallery Auckland proudly presents the group exhibition Horizon 2, featuring new and selected works from Fatu Feu'u, Andy Leleisi'uao, Rozana Lee, Roy Good, Alison Leauanae, Raymond Sagapolutele, Stevei Houkāmau, Siah Fina'i, Monica Paterson, Iokapeta Magele-Suamasi & Brent Holley. Read more -
Belonging: Stories of Contemporary New Zealand Asian Artists
Group Exhibition 1 - 31 Aug 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speaker, Benny Chan, exhibition curator. In an ongoing series of exhibitions exploring diasporic New Zealand/Asian identity, exhibition curator Benny Chan unites 10 artists from the Auckland and Waikato region for the new exhibition Belonging: Stories of Contemporary New Zealand Asian Artists. The story for New Zealand/Asian immigration is a... Read more -
Where The Wild Roses Grow
Sione Monū 4 - 27 Jul 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Where the Wild Roses Grow meets artist Sione Monū in the latest iterations of their cloud making practice. An extension of a series of experimental works based in nimamea'a tuikakala (the Tongan fine art of flower designing using the form of kahoa, or Tongan garlands), Monū's clouds tie traditional practice... Read more -
Heralds
Lucas Grogan + Luke Thurgate 6 - 28 Jun 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Heralds reunites Australian artists Lucas Grogan and Luke Thurgate for their first dedicated exhibition at Bergman Gallery Auckland. Grogan’s ongoing shelf series of works that have previously included libraries and ornaments, has moved on to address the home medicine cabinet. Normally enclosed behind a mirrored door, these collections of unique... Read more
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Fa'aaliga, Beneath the Surface
Group Exhibition 2 May - 1 Jun 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Fa'aaliga is a Samoan word to reveal something, the quality of having a ready insight into things. Through painting, sculpture and photography, this exhibition featuring seven diverse contemporary Pacific artists, challenges the audience to develop a greater understanding of their practice and stories within each work. Read more -
Beyond The Veil Of Paradise
Kay George 7 - 30 Mar 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Pa Ariki, Paramount Cheif, Takitumu, Rarotonga Kay George, Exhibiting Artist Ben Bergman, Gallery Director 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... 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 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 two extremes of the human experience where... Read more -
5 Painters
Group Exhibition 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland 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 Jones, the Indian dreamscapes of Rhea Maheshwari to Filipino celestial deities covered in glitter... Read more
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Horizon
Group Exhibition 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Bergman Gallery Auckland proudly presents the group show Horizon. Comprising senior, mid-career and emergent Pacific artists, the exhibition is a compelling snapshot of Pacific Modern art expression. Horizon is presented in partnership with our exhibition sponsors Palm Grove, Bank South Pacific (BSP), Zeman & Co | Photo + Film and... Read more -
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 In the Tongan dictionary Tukufakaholo translated in a Pālangi context, is defined as inheritance or hereditary but in a Tongan world view the definition is much broader than that. Tukufakaholo could be translated as to pass knowledge/wisdom on, where to pass does not just mean... Read more -
Te Vaerua O Te Vaine, Our Mother's Hands
Group Exhibition 13 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland 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 from diverse practises. Tungane Broadbent is a Cook Islands Tivaivai artist of international acclaim. Sylvia... Read more
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A Place to call Home
Group Exhibition 15 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Home. It is a small word with significant meaning. It is a word that conveys powerful emotion. It means safety, belonging, acceptance, love and security, the tenets that we crave above all else. A Place to call Home speaks to the generational presence of Asian New Zealanders and reveals the... Read more -
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 its global... Read more -
Pride & Prejudice, Part 1
Group Exhibition 22 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland '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 sophomore album Funky Diva's. The 1992 anti-prejudice anthem was a worldwide hit, striking a deep chord with a new... 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 Moemoe'a 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
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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 -
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... Read more -
Te Atuitanga - Between our Cloak of Stars
Group Exhibition 25 Jun - 16 Jul 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Bergman Gallery Auckland, Opening Exhibition Opening Speakers: Caren Rangi, Chair, Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Ben Bergman, Gallery Director Hon. George Maggie Angene, Minister, Cook Islands Cultural Development Anthony Turua, Secretary, Cook Islands Cultural Development Connection is a powerful sensation, how we relate to each other, and our... Read more
