Forthcoming
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Sa'ili - Seek 2
Alison Leauanae 5 - 26 Apr 2025 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Saturday 5 April, 12-4pm. All welcome. Samoa/New Zealand artist Alison Leauanae explores ancestral and personal migration in Sa’ili – Seek 2 , the latest evolution of her debut solo exhibition. Through contemporary hand-stitched and hand-woven works on paper, she develops a visual language that reflects both her cultural heritage... Read more -
Collision
Nina Oberg Humphries 5 - 26 Apr 2025 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Saturday 5 April, 12-4pm. All welcome. Collision is an exploration of Pacific identity in flux—where tradition intersects with contemporary material culture, and ancestral narratives are reassembled through unexpected forms. In this body of work, Nina Oberg Humphries examines the impact of colonialism, tourism, and globalisation on Cook Islands cultural... Read more
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 Someone to Watch Over Me , Louie Bretaña explores the profound relationship between ancestral spirits (anito ) and the natural world, a connection central to indigenous Filipino cosmology. Through this body of work, Bretaña navigates the intersection of historical reverence and contemporary artistic expression, invoking ancestral and nature deities... 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 presents Nexus , a solo exhibition by renowned New Zealand-Asian artist Luise Fong, whose work has played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary abstraction in Aotearoa since the 1990s. Known for her deft manipulation of... Read more -
The Tēvolo Made Me Do it
Telly Tuita 3 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Telly Tuita’s Tēvolo series is an elaborate convergence of personal memory, cultural mythology, and operatic grandeur. Infused with historical and contemporary references, the series introduces four striking new characters: Carmen, Lucia, Norma , and The Tormented Victim , the latter played by a golden-bodied Hikule’o, the Tongan goddess of the... Read more
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Horizon 2
Group Exhibition 3 - 28 Sep 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Horizon 2 at Bergman Gallery Auckland is a compelling group exhibition that explores the concept of the horizon as both a literal and metaphorical space-an ever-present yet unreachable boundary between sky and earth, known and unknown. Featuring a dynamic lineup of artists, including Fatu Feu'u, Andy Leleisi'uao, Rozana Lee, Roy... 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. Belonging brings together ten artists from Auckland and Waikato in an exhibition that reflects on the multifaceted experience of New Zealand’s Asian diaspora. Curated by Benny Chan, this exhibition continues an ongoing exploration of identity, migration, and cultural integration, situating contemporary artistic voices within... Read more -
Where The Wild Roses Grow
Sione Monū 4 - 27 Jul 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland In Where the Wild Roses Grow , artist Sione Monū presents the latest evolution of their ongoing cloud-making practice, an extension of experimental works that explore the intersections of traditional Tongan adornment and contemporary diasporic identity. Drawing from nimamea‘a tuikakala —the Tongan fine art of flower design—Monū reimagines the kahoa... Read more -
Heralds
Lucas Grogan + Luke Thurgate 6 - 28 Jun 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Heralds marks the first dedicated exhibition of Australian artists Lucas Grogan and Luke Thurgate at Bergman Gallery, Auckland. Through their distinct yet complementary practices, both artists engage in a profound exploration of contemporary anxieties, personal histories, and the complexities of human identity. Drawing from art historical traditions, cultural symbolism, and... Read more
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Fa'aaliga, Beneath the Surface
Group Exhibition 2 May - 1 Jun 2024 Bergman Gallery, Auckland The Samoan word Fa‘aaliga signifies revelation—an unveiling of insight, perspective, and truth. This exhibition brings together seven contemporary Pacific artists—Iokapeta Magele-Suamasi, Sean Hill, Raymond Sagapolutele, Siliga David Setoga, Sefton Rani, Telly Tuita, and Benjamin Work—each of whom, through painting, sculpture, and photography, engages in the act of revealing. Their works... 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 Kay George is a senior New Zealand and Pacific artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans four decades, shaped by her lived experience between New Zealand and the Cook Islands. Embedded within a Pacific context, her work critically engages with... 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 5 Painters brings together five intergenerational Auckland-based artists, each offering a distinct visual language that reflects their personal histories, cultural narratives, and artistic methodologies. This exhibition explores the dynamic interplay of color, form, and memory through the diverse practices of these painters. Roy Good employs a precise and structured approach,... Read more
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Horizon
Group Exhibition 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Bergman Gallery Auckland is proud to present Horizon , a progressive group exhibition showcasing the evolving dialogue of Pacific art in Aotearoa. Featuring established, mid-career, and emerging artists—Fatu Feu’u, Louie Bretaña, Raymond Sagapolutele, Tanja McMillan, Telly Tuita, Benjamin Work, Andy Leleisi’uao, Luise Fong, Sefton Rani, Joan Gragg, Alison Leauanae, Linda... Read more -
Kindred
Linda Va'aelua + Alison Leauanae 7 Sep - 7 Oct 2023 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Kindred is an exhibition that delves into the intertwined familial bonds and ancestral connections of sisters Linda Va’aelua and Alison Leauanae, reflecting their mixed Samoan, Scottish, and English heritage. Through abstract motifs, the artists narrate stories of migration and navigation, tracing journeys across oceans to lands of opportunity and prosperity.... 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 celebrates matriarchal intergenerational learning, honoring the transmission of knowledge, creativity, and skill between women across generations. This exhibition brings together five women artists whose diverse practices engage with concepts of lineage, identity, and the evolving role of tradition in contemporary art. Through... 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... Read more -
The Printed Hibiscus
Tabatha Forbes 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 -
E Moemoe'a Naku - A Dream of Mine
Sylvia Marsters 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 marks a pivotal moment in her artistic trajectory, bringing her practice full circle as she presents a substantial body of work in her hometown of Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) for the... Read more
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Aua E Te Fefe - Don't Be Afraid
Raymond Sagapolutele 24 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Fatu Feu’u, Artist, Patron/Founder – Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust Raymond Sagapolutele, Artist Raymond Sagapolutele’s Aua e te Fefe – Don’t Be Afraid is an intimate and deeply personal interrogation of ancestral presence, cultural inheritance, and the role of memory in shaping diasporic Samoan identity. At the core... Read more -
To'a Motu
Benjamin Work 27 Aug - 17 Sep 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Hūfanga-He-Ako-Moe-Lotu, Professor 'Okusitino Māhina Benjamin Work, Artist In TO‘A MOTU – Island Warrior , artist Benjamin Work engages with the enduring legacy of Tongan warriors—figures who, for centuries, played a crucial role in the conflicts and power dynamics of Moana Oceania. Historically, Tongan warriors were sought after by... Read more -
Tongpop Cornucopia
Telly Tuita 23 Jul - 20 Aug 2022 Bergman Gallery, Auckland Opening Speakers: Jeremy Hansen, Marketing Project Manager, Britomart Telly Tuita, Artist Telly Tuita’s self created Tongpop universe is a rich and layered visual cosmos, where the boundaries between mythology, history, and contemporary culture dissolve into a dynamic, ever-expanding narrative. Tuita’s work operates as a collision site, interweaving traditional Tongan cosmology... 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
