Curated Exhibitions (HS alumni)
The CURATION programme of the HANDSHAKE project connects current and ex Handshakers with new challenges and network opportunities.
This programme is additional to the 2-year HS mentorship, and/or the curated 1-year international exhibition focus.
These curated exhibitions are single-focussed. They evolve primarily from requests or opportunities of galleries and curators in partnership with the organisers. This can be both an artist’s call for elaborate curatorial themes, collaborations, or new challenges, or that the artwork developed from past and current practices get other opportunities to be exhibited at a different location and circumstance.
Each curated HS exhibition is different with a different mix of artists, curatorial focus, exhibition setup, and other local circumstances. The HS organisers aim to collaborate with each of the (co-) curators, and/or gallery owners and negotiate its curation and the works for selection. This additional programme provides extended opportunities, continuation, focus, and stimulus to grow in the creative field. And with that artistic excellence, creative strength, resilience, development, and networking can thrive.
HS alumni
The CURATION programme of the HANDSHAKE project connects current and ex Handshakers with new challenges and network opportunities.
This programme is additional to the 2-year HS mentorship, and/or the curated 1-year international exhibition focus.
These curated exhibitions are single-focussed. They evolve primarily from requests or opportunities of galleries and curators in partnership with the organisers. This can be both an artist’s call for elaborate curatorial themes, collaborations, or new challenges, or that the artwork developed from past and current practices get other opportunities to be exhibited at a different location and circumstance.
Each curated HS exhibition is different with a different mix of artists, curatorial focus, exhibition setup, and other local circumstances. The HS organisers aim to collaborate with each of the (co-) curators, and/or gallery owners and negotiate its curation and the works for selection. This additional programme provides extended opportunities, continuation, focus, and stimulus to grow in the creative field. And with that artistic excellence, creative strength, resilience, development, and networking can thrive.
Coming Up (tbc):
HANDSHAKE alumni exhibition co-curated by Grace Lei, mid- Oct to 10 Dec 2024 (subject to funding, tbc)
TE ATAMIRA art gallery, Tāhuna | Queenstown
Past:
HS alumni at the National, Christchurch, 27 October – 19 November 2022.
with Neke Moa, Sam Kelly, Raewyn Walsh, Nina van Duijnhoven, Renee Bevan, Nadene Carr, Jennifer Laracy, Jack Hadley, Simon Swale and Aphra Cheesman.
Curated by Caroline Billing
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CHAINreaction (10-year anniversary))
March – April 2021
MAKERS of Traditional CHANGE: The Conventional Reformed
HS alumni EXHIBITION at Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, 30 September – 24 October, 2020
Selected NZ jewellery artists from the HANDSHAKE project exhibited artworks connected to the context of traditional jewellery.
These artists respond to widely known jewellery traditions, e.g. reformatted versions of how and why jewellery exists or is worn.
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TE AO HURIHURI – EVER CHANGING WORLD
Journeys through jewellery from New Zealand and the UK. The Crypt gallery, London 23 – 27 October 2018
curated by Mark Hutchins-Pond and Peter Deckers
Pātaka Art + Museum, Toi Gallery, Porirua, 14 September – 14 October 2018
at the Residenz Palaz, Munich, Germany, 25–27 February 2016 (Munich Jewellery Week)
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DOWNLOAD Munich SPECIALS catalogue PDF
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