Anita Tótha

See everyday objects, landscapes and people transformed through the lenses of four artists – Roberta Thornley, Harry Culy, Greta Anderson and Diane Arbus – showing now.

Yuka O’Shannessy has expanded her vision with her new store and showroom – now open a few doors away from her previous space – stocking an array of Japanese and Aotearoa-made homewares, artworks and wardrobe additions.

This month, discover gilded ceramics that mix imperfection and beauty, sea-faring kinship with our Pacific neighbours through mixed media, five decades of Māori art, and more.

A bright lilac room featuring a fantastical forest of distorted ceramic flowers. An exploration of hair’s significance in Pacific culture. A celebration of ingenious Māori design principles, and a collection of complex, layered digital paintings. Here’s what to catch this month.

Jewellery set with diamond replicas displayed in a green-lit, vault-like space. Glowing geometric forms that explore concepts of time and space. Joyfully tactile quilts in celebration of Matariki, and a harmonious collection of clay sculptures and paintings that explores lineage and the natural world. Here are the art shows to catch this month.

Freudian abstractions that explore the human condition, a special group show themed around Matariki, short films that question the concept of legacy, and wartime paintings by one of our most well-known artists. Here’s what to catch this month.

Survey exhibitions for a celebrated Māori artist and master of colour, and a renowned Pakistani artist showing here for the first time. Plus, a site-specific installation artist sets up her stainless-steel sculptures in Christchurch, and an international typography showcase returns to Auckland.

A travelling collection of Rita Angus’s paintings comes to Auckland, six exceptional Māori artists are showing in Whangārei, Te Papa's groundbreaking installations of staggering scale by a wāhine Māori collective, and more. Add these exhibitions to your calendar this month.

Ornate satin objects crafted as a Cinderella-inspired commentary on capitalism and Māori sovereignty. An installation of ceramics and glass that is submerged into the gallery’s walls and floor, turning the whole building into an artwork. And must-see group shows spanning world-famous and first-time artists.

There’s a playful, colourful collection of embroidered and beaded works; a meditative exhibition featuring meticulously marked incense burns; an important group show by Wāhine Māori artists; and a collection of curious, misshapen sculptures.

Mesmerising kinetic snake-like sculptures twirling in the dark. The first posthumous retrospective of an underrated yet hugely important ceramicist. And your last chance to catch Frida Kahlo’s works in person in Auckland.