Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
News

Congratulations to artist Matthew Galloway on being selected as one of the 2025 McCahon House Parehuia artists in residence alongside Rowan Panther and Sefton Rani! Check out some of Matthew's work as displayed earlier this year in our exhibition Infrastructure: power, politics and imagination.

New acquisition! We're thrilled to be welcoming Ella Sutherland's Symposium I & 2 2022 to Nga Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection.

Don't miss Dr Kirsty Baker’s recent publication Sight Lines: Women and Art in AotearoaWe're proud to note this substantial publication features many of works from our own collection! Baker, currently a curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, is an alumni of Te Herenga Waka having completed her PhD in art history here in 2020.

Check out our latest collection exhibition at Rutherford House, Pipitea campus, Watershed: Selections from Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka. This exhibition is a collaboration with the students from FHSS406 Topics in the Environmental Humanities.

December
10

Gordon H Brown Lecture 2024 - Dr Nina Tonga Moonwalking: Making Radical Art Histories in the Pacific

11

Group discussion - Roundtable talanoa

15

Last day of Vaiei Tupuna

15

Last day gallery is open for 2024

16

Gallery closed for exhibition changeover

January
31

Summer exhibitions opening reception - A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa and Leap To the Place of Two Pools

February
01

First day of exhibitions for 2025 - A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa and Leap To the Place of Two Pools

06

Gallery closed for Waitangi Day