✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Curator and writer Emma O’Neill looks at the work of 12 Aotearoa artists in the exhibition ‘The Polyphonic Sea’, at @bundanon in the Dharawal Country of south eastern Australia. Read it here in full: contemporaryhum.com/writing/…

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✧ TORONTO ✧ Running from 07—17 September, this year's @TIFF_NET includes the world premiere of two films from Aotearoa talent: 'The Convert' by #LeeTamahori & 'Uproar', directed by Paul Middleditch & Hamish Bennett & co-written by Sonia Whiteman. contemporaryhum.com/calendar…

✧ NEW on HUM ✧ poet & musician daniel ward writes a letter to artist Ella Sutherland about her @CreativeNZ Berlin Visual Arts Residency at #KünstlerhausBethanien, continuing the commitment to queer storytelling deep within Sutherland’s practice. tinyurl.com/hum-dear-ella

✧ LILLESTRØM, NORWAY ✧ From 19 Aug—24 Sept 2023, #NitjaCentreforContemporaryArt presents ‘Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space’, a series of bold quilts by artist Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa (Ngāti Porou). 'Te Whare Pora' will open at #SámiDáiddaguovddáš from Oct 2023—Jan 2024.

✧ OPPORTUNITY IN MUNICH ✧ Applications are open for the 2024 #Schmuck and #Talente jewellery exhibitions, as part of the International Trade Fair in Germany! Submissions close on 1 October 2023. More info: hwk-expo.de/#/expoOverview

CONGRATULATIONS to Denise Batchelor (Hokianga-based) and Nick Paulsen (Whakatū Nelson-based), who received honourable mentions for their images at the @iphoto_awards

✧ NEWS ✧ Aotearoa will not have a dedicated pavilion at the 2024 #VeniceBiennale, although @CreativeNZ has stated that a national pavilion is planned for 2026, 2028 & 2030. Caitlin Devoy & Areez Katki will be participating in the 2024 collateral event Personal Structures.

✧ GIFU ✧ Japan's Gallery Crossing presents ‘I’m at the river, I’ll meet you by the sea', the first solo exhibition by Ōtepoti Dunedin-born artist Grace Mirams. On from 06 - 20 August , with an artist's talk on Sunday 06 August. More info on HUM: tinyurl.com/Gracemirams

Spend time this #Matariki weekend getting to know Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole's artwork 'Wharenui Harikoa'. View the digital version of their crochet Marae through the app: isparx.group/work/wharenui-h… Mānawatia a Matariki!

✧ CLEVELAND / NEW YORK ✧ Pelenakeke Brown presents work in two group shows on Turtle Island this month: ‘Don’t mind if I do' at #MoCACleveland, 07 July 2023 - 07 July 2024 ‘Downbeat: Denniston Hill’ at #MarianGoodmanGallery, 13 July - 18 August 2023.

✧ BERLIN ✧ Ella Sutherland’s exhibition ‘Argot’ at #KünstlerhausBethanien looks at the possibilities & vulnerabilities of communication, referencing histories of type and graphic forms incl. early lesbian-feminist publications held by the #SchwulesMuseum. 07 - 30 July 2023.

✧ OPPORTUNITY IN VENICE FOR ARTISTS UNDER 30 ✧ A five-week international call is now underway seeking applicants for the 2nd Biennale College Arte, a workshop program sponsored by #LaBiennalediVenezia. Applications close 24 July 2023. More info: labiennale.org/en/art/2024/b…

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Congratulations to Nandita Kumar who received the honorary mention in the 'AI and Live Arts Section' at Ars Electronica in Linz Austria! Read more about Kumar's practice in this HUM publication: contemporaryhum.com/writing/…