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Kō atu I Te Ikaroa / Beyond the Milky Way
Dina Jezdi September 30, 2024 Since the late 1990s, Reuben Paterson has emerged as an artist of remarkable curiosity and depth, using glitter to illuminate... Read more -
This Dream of Mine - Chaos, Serenity and Belonging – the Art of Sylvia Marsters.
Ben Bergman October 17, 2023 In 1946, artist Georgia O’Keefe stated in a New York Post Interview, 'When you take a flower in your hand... Read more -
Finding Home
Paris Blanchfield July 27, 2023 Bergman’s Newest Exhibition and The Representation of Asian Artists Anyone with experience in the art world knows that it’s a... Read more -
Of People and Plants: The Printed Hibiscus
Rachel Smith May 24, 2023 We live in a time where the connection between humans and the rest of the natural world, the plants, animals... Read more
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The Printed Hibiscus
Dr. Tabatha Forbes April 30, 2023 Bergman Gallery Auckland 19 April - 13 May 2023 Artist notes / Everlasting emptiness The Printed Hibiscus is an exploration... Read more -
Reuben Paterson, All These Precious Things
Rachel Smith April 4, 2023 Thirty years of creating; it is a lifetime of work for artist Reuben Paterson. “I think about my practice as... Read more -
It's a Tongpop World
Rachel Smith March 16, 2023 Telly Tuita is centre stage. To his left, The Immortal Tango of Love & War - Mars, the Roman God... Read more -
Aotearoa Art Fair, a celebration of Pacific Art
Rachel Smith November 25, 2022 There’s a particular moment when a decision is made to purchase a piece of art. It can begin with a... Read more
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Aua e te fefe: Art exhibition challenges audience 'Don't be afraid'.
Mabel Muller October 12, 2022 A new art exhibition by a Samoan visual artist hopes to challenge people's perception around skulls and what it normally... Read more -
Navigating between worlds: Mahiriki Tangaroa’s Kaveinga - Angels of the Ocean
Francis McWhannell April 22, 2022 Oceania denotes a sea of islands with their inhabitants. The world of our ancestors was a large sea full of... Read more -
What was written in the Stars
Ben Bergman April 22, 2022 For thousands of years, in great patterns of migratory movement, the ancestors of the Polynesians peopled the islands of Oceania.... Read more -
Auckland Art Fair in a time of COVID
Rachel Smith March 1, 2021 Wednesday 17 February, exactly a week before the opening of the Auckland Art Fair, and all eyes were on the... Read more
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A Journey of Modern Pacific Art
Rachel Smith February 24, 2021 The logistics of taking part in an international art fair when you are an art gallery based on a small... Read more -
Contemporary Art In The South Pacific, Bergman Gallery & The New Frontier
Rachel Smith January 15, 2020 For two centuries, European anthropological mischaracterizations have dominated perceptions of the broader Pacific region. Of more recent times, there has... Read more -
Andy Leleisi’uao’s Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience, A Puzzling Visionary Tale
Arthur Buerms. December 9, 2019 An essay, written by a Papa’a (European) who knows neither Aoteroa nor Pacific art nor Samoan Va, must be treated... Read more -
Mahiriki Tangaroa - Deforms Our Senses And Informs Our Mind
Arthur Buerms December 2, 2019 ' If we look at the myths, legends and oral traditions and at the cosmologies of the people of Oceania,... Read more
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A Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience
Francis McWhannell November 4, 2019 Kia Orana. Welcome everyone to Andy Leleisiʻuao’s A Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience, his twentieth show with Ben Bergman.... Read more -
Of Faith and Patience
Rachel Smith October 31, 2019 Five days before the exhibition opens, the 12 works which make up A Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience are... Read more -
Contemporary Art In The South Pacific, Bergman Gallery & The New Frontier
Rachel Smith October 7, 2019 For two centuries, European anthropological mischaracterizations have dominated perceptions of the broader Pacific region. Of more recent times, there has... Read more -
KAMOAN MINE
Rachel Smith May 20, 2019 Andy Leleisi’uao KAMOAN MINE Survey exhibition curated by Ben Bergman May 2 – July 14 TSB | Wallace Arts Centre... Read more
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MPA – What’s In A Name?
Rachel Smith November 1, 2018 What is modern Pacific art? It’s the past and the future, a collective of people, ideas and approaches. It is... Read more -
Fabric and Glitter
Rachel Smith July 17, 2017 There are definite challenges to working with glitter. Artist Reuben Paterson has long since accepted that the minute shiny particles... Read more -
Kaleidoscope Culture: The Glitter-amas of Reuben Patterson
Ben Bergman December 13, 2010 In 2003, the outrageous nature of Reuben Paterson’s untitled Gow Langsford exhibition leapt off the wall and smacked me in... Read more -
Old Gods, New Lives - Exhibiting Traditional Cook Islands Art
Jacqui Durant July 26, 2010 10th Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. In late 2008, the National Gallery of Australia established its... Read more
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The Danger of a Single Story
Yazmany Arboleda April 28, 2010 I borrow this title from Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, who insightfully asserted that hearing only one story about a people... Read more -
Waiting for the Clouds to Clear, the art of Mahiriki Tangaroa
Jacqui Durrant March 2, 2009 On the surface, Mahiriki Tangaroa’s paintings Waiting for the Clouds to clear and Language of Another suggest the vibrancy of... Read more -
Scriptures from the West
Ben Bergman August 30, 2007 Scriptures from the West, an exhibition by Mahiriki Tangaroa and Andy Leleisi’uao, BCA Gallery, Rarotonga, 2007. Introduction: I reckon that... Read more -
The Development of Contemporary Oceanic Arts
Epeli Hau'ofa June 7, 2004 Over the last three hundred years Westerners have deliberately degraded traditional standards of evaluation Pacific Cultures, imposing alien standards of... Read more
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Institutionalising Culture
Ron Brownson June 23, 2003 VII Pacific Arts Association Conference 2003, Christchurch New Zealand, a presentation by Curator Ron Brownson. Institutionalising culture is... Read more -
Hyper-Decentralisation and the Dissolution of Art Frameworks in the Pacific
Mark Cross June 19, 2002 The only way that art can be exorcised from the constraints of the frame is to reduce the importance of... Read more -
Our Sea of Islands
Epeli Hau'ofa July 5, 1993 THIS ESSAY RAISES SOME ISSUES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE to our region, and offers a view of Oceania that is new... Read more
