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‘My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
28 March – 17 August 2014
Drawn from the exhibition presented at GOMA in 2013, nearly
100 works by over 40 artists from the Gallery’s Collection
toured to New Zealand representing the largest and most
significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian
art ever shown in that country. The exhibition showcased the
breadth of recent work by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
artists, and the connections the artists have with their land and
nation, and was accompanied by the QAGOMA Children's Art
Centre exhibition ‘Gordon Hookey: Kangaroo Crew’.
Children’s Art Centre exhibitions and projects
Gordon Hookey: Kangaroo Crew
1 June 2013 – 27 January 2014 | GOMA
‘Kangaroo Crew’ was an interactive artist project created
especially for children and families by Indigenous Australian
artist Gordon Hookey (Waanyi people), based on the artist’s
original story and paintings,
The Sacred Hill
. The project
involved hands-on and multimedia interactives and a storybook
illustrated with the artist’s paintings.
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Cai Guo-Qiang Kids: Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy
Named Cai
23 November 2013 – 11 May 2014 | GOMA
An interactive artist project produced to coincide with
‘Cai Guo Qiang: Falling Back to Earth’, ‘Let’s Create an Exhibition
with a Boy Named Cai’
invited children to engage with the
artist’s ideas and artworks through hands-on and multimedia
activities. Young visitors learned about the artist’s working
methods to create their own exhibition by making and displaying
objects in miniature gallery spaces, and creating multimedia
gunpowder drawings and simulated explosion events.
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Drawn from the exhibition at QAG in 2013, ‘Ever Present’
presented a broadly chronological history of photography from
1850 to 1975. Refecting the somewhat arbitrary nature of
photography’s beginnings, the exhibition presented pictorial,
documentary, modernist and street photography by unknown
nineteenth-century practitioners alongside iconic images by
renowned photographers of the twentieth century.
Exhibitions presented internationally
Yayoi Kusama
The obliteration room
2002 to present
As part of the exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession’:
MALBA (Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires),
Buenos Aires, Argentina
13 June – 30 September 2013
Attendance: over 206 000
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
12 October 2013 – 26 January 2014
Attendance: over 75 000
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Brasil
17 February – 27 April 2014
Attendance: 470 230
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brasil
21 May – 27 July 2014
Attendance: 522 136
As part of the exhibition ‘A Dream I Dreamed’:
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
15 July 2013 – 3 November 2013
Attendance: 329 181
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Shanghai, China
15 December 2013 – 30 March 2014
Attendance: 330 000
Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
4 May – 15 July 2014
Attendance: 144 896
As part of the exhibition ‘Play Objects – The Art of Possibilities’:
Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
18 February – 18 May 2014
Attendance: 34 261
Developed by senior Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in
collaboration with the Queensland Art Gallery for ‘APT 2002:
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’,
The obliteration
room
invites visitors to plaster a completely white room
with a plethora of multicoloured dots. Restaged in 2011 for
the artist’s solo exhibition at GOMA, this immensely popular
installation has continued to tour since, as part of a number
of international exhibitions.