Tom Dale, Terminal Blue. 2015. Commissioned by John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

Coverage of Te Whare Hēra events

Garland Magazine - Yuka Oyama: Helpers – Changing homes

Oyama just recently completed her PhD study The Stubborn Life of Objects, which included a series of performances in which important objects become full body costumes. She has extended this in Aotearoa New Zealand for a project about the objects that migrants retain to keep a connection to ...

GOETHE ON AIR - session 29 featuring Yuka Oyama

Frohes neues Jahr! This New Year’s Day, German-Japanese contemporary jewellery, sculpture and performance artist Yuka Oyama visits the studio for ‘Goethe on Air’… You can listen to Goethe on Air session 29 here
  • 18 December 2017

Annoucing Chloé Quenum - French artist in residence for 2018

The French Embassy in New Zealand and Te Whare Hēra Wellington International Artist Residency are delighted to annouce Chloé Quenum has been selected as our French artist in residence for 2018. Watch this space and our Facebook page for further updates regarding Chloés residency. In the meantime ple...
  • 25 November 2017

RadioActive.FM - Yuka Oyama Te Whare Hēra Artist in Residence

A contemporary Japanese-born Berlin-based artist, has arrived in Wellington as a Te Whare Hēra international artist in residence. Yuka Oyama has travelled to Wellington to develop a new project Helpers – Changing Homes which asks us to consider how certain objects we own might help us define a sen...

Lucy Jackson - A New Dimension

It is obvious from the first moment that ‘Rough Rough’ is not about individual pieces, but about the whole space, the material, visual and mental links made between artworks. Rhofir speaks about how galleries can be likened to hospitals, each artwork/patient waiting to be deemed good/bad ...