GUEST

Friday, 6 June 2025 10:00 am 10:00
Friday, 4 July 2025 8:00 pm 20:00

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre 61 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington Wellington New Zealand (map)

Google Calendar ICS

Kieran Monaghan

6 June - 4 July

  
    <a href="https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/album/guest">GUEST by vegetable.machine.animal</a>

Sonic artist Kieran Monaghan presents GUEST, an interdisciplinary exhibition of sound, image and organic matter, which offers up a sonic practice for the Anthropocene.

This body of work explores a practice that places the ‘human’ not at the centre, but as an ongoing active collaborator. Working as a member of the non-human/tech/human trio, vegetable.machine.animal, Monaghan makes space where the voice of the ‘Other’ is amplified and essential to the voice of the ‘Whole’. By decentering the human, Monaghan has set in motion a horizontal, interactive, and interspecies framework that remains a fertile and tumbling place of play.

GUEST is a sound installation, an audible representation of a silent world made available to hear. GUEST is a CD, recorded during the residency, this album contains 13 tracks with 15 incredibly adventurous musicians and sound artists. GUEST is a collection of words, offering both prompt and pause in fluid proportions. GUEST is about making space for the other.

GUEST was developed during the 2024 Sonic Artist residency supported by Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand School of Music and Toi Pōneke Arts Centre.

At the exhibition opening on Friday 6th of June at 6:15pm there will be a 20min performance by vegetable.machine.animal (Kieran Monaghan)

Programme:

Friday 30 May - GUEST Album Launch - Pyramid Club

Friday June 6, 5:30pm - Exhibition Opening – Toi Pōneke Arts Centre

Saturday June 7, 1pm - Lunch time concert

Saturday June 14, 1pm - Lunch time panel discussion

Saturday June 21, 1pm - Lunch time concert

Saturday June 28, 1pm - Lunch time concert

Friday July 4 – GUEST closes

  
    <a href="https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/track/the-floor-holds">The Floor Holds by vegetable.machine.animal with Andrew Faleatua</a>

other exhibitions

Summary Block

This block has no content yet. Items you add to the page connected to this block will display here.

Now & next

Past

Apr 24

Shadow Signals

Daniel Beban and Tim Barlow's immersive, interactive sound installation fills the environment of Toi Pōneke gallery for the final exhibition at the Able-Smith Street space.

Mar 21

Tartan meets Koru

Toi Pōneke is excited to present Koru meets Tartan by Toi Pōneke Art Centre’s 2024 Visual Arts Residency recipient Mitchell Manual, opening on Saturday 21st March 2026.

Feb 14

Under, Over and Across

Exploring the potential of woven structures through textile making, the exhibition by Angela Kilford and Lisa Munnelly titled Under, Over and Across creates a dialogue between painting, raranga and hand-woven works.

Jan 17

voices notations distortion

voices notations distortion is the debut solo show by artist and musician Gemma Thompson at Toi Pōneke Gallery 17 Jan - 6 Feb 2026. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations, the exhibition explores her soundwalking practice through graphic scores, realised as drawings, paintings, prints, and sonic compositions. Each mark resonates with its own energy – echoing, layering, and unfolding across the surface.

Dec 3

Toi Takeaway 2025

Toi Takeaway 2025 - Pay and Take it away!

Oct 25

In Each Other's Pockets

In Each Other’s Pockets opens Friday 24 October 2025 at Toi Pōneke Gallery, Te Aro, Wellington.

Through her playful installation, contemporary jeweller Louise Hill interrogates the politics of pockets; the private spaces that shape how we move through the world, investigating what it means for some to be equipped with the tools they need, while others are not.

Oct 25

20 Years at Abel Smith

20 years at Abel Smith looks back on the tapestry of Toi Pōneke at Abel Smith Street and invites artists, friends, family and guest on a small stroll down memory lane in hopes to build an even stronger step forward into the future. Opens Friday 5:30 24 Oct and is on in the back gallery until Friday 21 Nov 2025.

Sept 20

He Whare Mahana - A Takatāpui Exhibition

He Whare Mahana - a warm house, a full house, a cosy kainga to nurture your dreams and the infi nite queer possibilities. Tātou āhuru mōwai, nau mai, haere mai.

Aug 16

Taputeranga: Above and Below

Artists Katy Cottrell and Rick Allender explore the connection between land and sea through intricate works crafted from natural wood veneers.

Jul 12

Azúcar / Sugar

What is the connection between sugar, colonisation, global trade and climate change?

Azucar/Sugar is an explorative gallery experience that uses sugar sculptures, videos and digital art to trace how European and US conquest terraformed the environment from a living entity that encompassed the living spirits of the land, water, plants, animals and humans into an inert repository of resources to be harvested and harnessed for profit. Azucar/Sugar is the latest installation from With Lime, the long-standing collaboration between William Franco and Miki Seifert.

Jun 6

GUEST

Sonic artist Kieran Monaghan presents GUEST, an interdisciplinary exhibition of sound, image and organic matter, which offers up a sonic practice for the Anthropocene. This body of work explores a practice that places the ‘human’ not at the centre, but as an ongoing active collaborator. Working as a member of the non-human/tech/human trio, vegetable.machine.animal, Monaghan makes space where the voice of the ‘Other’ is amplified and essential to the voice of the ‘Whole’.

May 8

The Female Gaze and How It Shapes Our World

This May, Toi Pōneke Gallery presents a compelling mother-son exhibition that reclaims vision and voice through the powerful mediums of painting and photography. Featuring the evocative work of Ashraf Pirnia and Pedram Pirnia, this showcase dives into deep introspection and feminist resistance, amplifying silenced voices and uncovering layers of identity, truth, and transformation.

Posted in exhibition
Tagged next, 2025

GUEST

Kieran Monaghan

6 June - 4 July

Programme:

other exhibitions

see other past exhibitions in the gallery archive

Toi Aro Arts Centre

accessibility

subscribe

SOCIAL