An exhibition of new work by the 2019-20 Toi Pōneke New Zealand School of Music Artist in Residence.Why is matter so intelligent, though? explores the acoustic relationships between reef fish, sea urchins, snapping shrimp and other marine life forms in the Hauraki Gulf, considering the symbiotic interdependencies of these organisms through sound.

An exhibition of new video works by Toi Pōneke’s 2019 Artist in Residence Chevron Hassett. Home is where my heart will rest connects back to the people and places - the essence - of his childhood.

On his 50th birthday, artist Bryce Galloway got his first tattoo and posted a bandmates wanted flyer. four songs, played twice revisits this mid-life crisis story and the nine bands Galloway started that year. 

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is proud to announce Chevron Hassett as the 2019 Visual Artist in Residence.

Rauropi [ I II III ] is an installation by Jason Wright, made up of a series of object integrated sound sculptures.

The Modern Alpha is a series of hyper-detailed illustrative works by Wellington artist Hannah Salmon, satirising dominant political and ideological systems that promote oppression, competition and financial gain.

Susanna Bauer’s exhibition The Quarry explores a 'fictional archaeology’ that reimagines the past in the present.

Johanna Mechen’s exhibition Sonorous Shadow the culmination of her 12 week Visual Arts residency at Toi Pōneke.

This group of dynamic emerging Wellington based artists question how we consider intimacy, relationships, gender and sexuality, and how we become possible and known to each other, and to ourselves.

Referencing the heralding of Matariki, the exhibition brings heaven and earth into closer conversation. Contemporary artworks by leading and emerging Māori artists are paired with virtual taonga from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, accessed via visitors’ mobile devices.