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Education Programmes and Workshops

Te Uru offers engaging learning opportunities for every art enthusiast. With scenic views of the surrounding landscape, our purpose built pokapū akoranga learning centre is an inspiring setting for learning how to make and think about art.

Learning Centre

On show 16 MAY – 26 JUN 2026

Tāmaki Makaurau is often described as a meeting place — Tāmaki of a hundred lovers — a site of convergence and desire. It is also highly contested land, a site of seizure, and of control. The city’s history is not only one of movement and exchange, but one of stolen land and enforced belonging. The cords that bind Tāmaki Makaurau together have also been used to dispossess or shackle the people here.

Kauri Hawkins, Sione Faletau, Raymond Sagapolutele:

Herehere

On show 22 Mar to 7 June 2026

Taniwha are among the most profound figures in te ao Māori as guardians, ancestors, warnings, and guides. Kahurangiariki Smith (Te Arawa, Tainui, Takitimu, Horouta and Mataatua) illustrates these ancestral beings not as mythical curiosities but as living presences inhabiting the gallery space. Through digital animation, bedazzled velvet, sparkles and stars, Smith, in her nostalgic y2k aesthetic, pays close attention to the multiplicity of taniwha and their role in our daily lives.

Kahurangiariki Smith:

Kai a te Taniwha

On show 31 MAY - 9 AUG 2026

all the forest stands with you traces the entangled relationalities between the human and the more-than-human world. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices connect to a place where whenua, water, air, and ancestral presence are not easily reduced to backdrop or resource, but remain active participants in shared worlds. Taking this condition not as an illustration, but as a proposition: to revisit, reevaluate, and reimagine the status quo of our being in a world that is never solely human.

Jonathas de Andrade, Anetta Mona Chişa, Ayesha Green, Arapeta Hākura, Emily Karaka, Agnieszka Polska, Mathilde Rosier, Zheng Bo:

all the forest stands with you

On show 31 MAY - 9 AUG 2026

Cosmologies brings together the work of Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White into an exhibition that generates dialogue shaped by the night sky. Across Indigenous knowledge systems celestial bodies are not distant matter but living presences, they are repositories of law, memory, navigation, spirit energy and ecological care.

Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White

COSMOLOGIES