'Cold Listening' is an exhibition by Jonathan Kay that contemplates the fragility of our landscapes through the surveying of Haupapa ...

CoCA is excited to announce two new exhibitions opening late May and mid-June, outcomes of our newly established Emerging Curators ...

MAP Resides is an exhibition of Movement Art Practice archives, curated by Janaína Moraes and Kat Stefanova. 

In 'The streets are paved with water' Olivia Chamberlain and Sam Towse explore the surface of the city as their ...

Ehara a 'Kia ora' i te mihi noa iho. Kei tōna iho ko te whakanuitanga o te oranga o te ...

Tangata Whenua is Robyn Kahukiwa’s first solo exhibition in Te Waipounamu in two decades.

Postgraduate creative practice alumni from Ara

The prefix whaka means ‘to action’, and when added to whanaunga forms the verb whakawhanaunga - to get to know one ...

The Canterbury Potters Association is celebrating its 50th annual exhibition of ceramic works by their members.

Kitea ai te pounamu i ō tātau wai. He rokoā te wai, waihoki, he mea tuku iho; ahakoa te nui ...

Nicola Farquhar is interested in the construction of interior and exterior worlds, approaching painting as a tool for imagining regeneration ...

Turumeke Harrington with Tini Whetū

'Last swim of the summer' is a new video installation by Ali Nightingale developed for CoCA’s Ō Papa Ground Floor ...

Curated by Richard Fahey

Curated by Heather Galbraith

'More than this' is a new sculpture project by Liam Krijgsman developed for CoCA’s Ō Papa Ground Floor Gallery.

Informed by recent research on the relationship between modernist architecture and social and cultural histories, 'House Painting I + II'  ...

At CoCA: ĀKAU, Edith Amituanai, Kirsty Lillico, Sione Faletau and Wayne Youle.

At Objectspace: HOOPLA, Isobel Thom, Lindsay Yee, Ngahuia ...

Fading to the Sky is a collaborative installation that Steve Carr and Christian Lamont developed and first exhibited in Te Uru ...

Drawing on a decade of photographic work and research, 'The Near Future' considers the psychological landscape of the Buller region ...

Raukura Turei, Julian Hooper & Krystina Kaza, Areta Wilkinson, Warwick Freeman, Hannah Beehre

 

'The Mist and the Horizon' brings together new work from two Ōtautahi-based practitioners, Nathan Pōhio and Luke Shaw, united by ...

Individually Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere are widely regarded as among New Zealand’s most singular and significant contemporary artists from ...

For six days and nights, the Matariki stars go to a place under the sea called Hīnātore. A phosphorescent world ...

Curator and researcher Luke Wood explores the intersection between music and design in the radical margins of New Zealand culture.

Drawing Room, by Aaron Paterson, Sarosh Mulla and Marian Macken, presents an alternative kind of architectural drawing.

Telly Tuita explores his cultural identity through the feeling of nostalgia, informed by his migration from Tonga at age nine.

SIDEWAYS reflects Malcolm Terry's last six months of working, including paintings which were created during the nation-wide lockdown.

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CoCA is delighted to present WestFarbe, curated by Christoph Dahlhausen in our Mair and North Galleries.

CoCA is proud to present a solo exhibition by artist Rachael Rakena (Ngāi Tahu, Ngā Puhi).

In an immersive conversation between images, Emma Wallbanks' Heteroglossia is a multi-streamed projected film installation that interweaves along our Ground ...

CoCA, in partnership with City Gallery Wellington, is delighted to present 'Gone Home', curated by Robert Leonard and Gavin Hipkins ...

The Pompoms, by designers Julieanne Eason and Carl Pavletich of Shades Arcade, is an immersive installation made up of ten ...

Showing in our Lux Gallery, In My Hands showcases the delicate sculptures of Rachel McMillan.

CoCA is excited to present a body of work from Tyne Gordon that responds to her own experience of natural ...

In partnership with Salt Lane Studio's, CoCA is proud to present a solo exhibition by Jessie Rawcliffe in our ...

Kate Scardfield's large-scale installation, 'The lighter a thought the more it rises', is a provocation for material exploration

CoCA, in partnership with SCAPE, is excited to present Conor Clarke's dual screen video work Unchained Melody in our ...

CoCA is proud to present a solo exhibition by Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Nathan Pohio (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Kāi Tahu).

CoCA is proud to present, one of our very own volunteers, Evangelyn Edilson in our Lux Gallery.

CoCA is excited to present the first New Zealand iteration of the Mid Century Project.

CoCA in collaboration with Salt Lane Studios, is proud to present Nicholas Keyse's Overshadow in our Lux Gallery.

KP&WM: The makers behind the artists explores the work of two Christchurch printmakers, and friends, Peter Vangioni of Kowhai Press ...

For the first time in Christchurch for over twenty years, Archibalds and CoCA proudly present the 27th Annual Wallace Art ...

Aro ki te Hā is the next installment in the Crux*Te Punga project, proudly presented at CoCA.

Working predominantly in painting or with the found image, Alice Bray’s practice is concerned with organic, yet other-worldly, imagery.

CoCA is excited to present a new body of work from painter Reece King.

As our community comes to terms with the loss of 50 innocent lives, we open our gallery walls for people to write ...

CoCA is proud to present About Face by Julia Holden in our North Galleries.

MEDIA RELEASE: CHANGE OF EXHIBITION

Extraviado interweaves digital grattage with home movies filmed in the early and middle decades of the last century. 

Parallel Universe: The Art and Design of Roy Good celebrates the 50-year parallel careers of Roy Good as both a ...

As part of the Moving Image Programme, CoCA presents new work from Emma Wallbanks.

The works in this exhibition are landscapes and fluid abstractions, dealing thematically with identity, human connection, and memory.

CoCA is proud to present an exhibition of Mitchell Bright's photography in our Ground Floor Gallery.

In association with the Corner Store, CoCA is proud to present Clint Park's Applesauce in the Lux Gallery.

CoCA is proud to present two works by Tom Dale as part of SCAPE's 2018 season.

Created as part of Crux★Te Punga in response to the demolition of the Hereford Street Police building, Wayne Youle’s ...

Taking inspiration from the ebb and flow of everyday life, Queries is comprised of photo-zines that begin to search through ...

With a special focus on Italian, American & Scandinavian design from the 1950s- 1980s, this exhibition is the result of ...

The Bloggs considers what it is that makes us human.

The CHCH/Ōtautahi Zine Library is a new permanent collection of local, national and international self published materials, residing in Christchurch ...

The exhibition features a selection of key paintings by Denys Watkins - one of New Zealand’s outstanding visual artists.

James’s presentation at CoCA is an exploration of the sonic poetics of the disassembling and implosion of the Christchurch Police ...

Resurrected from post-quake storage, Energetic Forms is a monumental sculptural wall-work by the late artist, Ria Bancroft, exhibited at CoCA ...

CoCA presents a solo exhibition by Auckland-based artist Tiffany Singh featuring two recent large-scale installations.

CoCA presents a solo exhibition by Christchurch photographer Tim Veling.

Fall was filmed during the decaying moments of summer 2010 on the Antarctic Peninsula at Esperanza Bay. 

Anne Noble has a long relationship with Antarctica.

CoCA is proud to present the first group exhibition by its Associates Programme, Associated.

CoCA is proud to present a major exhibition by prominent Ōtautahi Christchurch artist Pauline Rhodes.

The inaugural CoCA X The Corner Store collab will see Christchurch-based visual artist and illustrator Uncle Harold return to exhibiting ...

CoCA is proud to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Peter Robinson, now open another two weeks.

In collaboration with Jonathan Smart Gallery, CoCA presents Mures, et Terram by Christchurch-based artist Hannah Beehre.

CoCA presents Geophagy, the first major Ōtautahi Christchurch exhibition by Canterbury born Auckland-based artist Ruth Watson.

 

Ngāi Tahu Artists in Residence

 

FAFSWAG seeks to decolonise their minds and lived experiences through creativity, expression, and the ownership of their own narratives.

Fresh and Fruity is a sexy new look designed to slowly smash the neocolonial heteropatriarchy one sarcastic hashtag at a ...

FIKA are a collective of Pasifika writers based in Ōtautahi, who have been meeting together regularly to write since 2004 ...

Erena Baker, Sarah Hudson, 
Bridget Reweti, Terri Te Tau

During MAKING SPACE, The Social are facilitating: Gallery in a Gallery, The Social Street Residency, TinyMURL.Project, Nomad Thinking Residency ...

OutTASpace: jess holly bates, Julian Chote, Numa Mackenzie, Siliga Setoga, Reina Sutton, Jaimie Waititi

MAKING SPACE celebrates collaborative creative practice taking place in Aotearoa New Zealand today.

David Shrigley is a master of scathing one liners, crudely composed drawings and a creator of strange and amusing objects.

Featuring performances by Nina Oberg Humphries, Vaimaila Urale, Faith Wilson and Leafa Wilson 

An exhibition that responds to and interrogates how humans are affecting an increasingly fragile global ecosystem. 

A programme of events alongside Contemporary Christchurch, showcasing the incredible talent of creative practitioners in Ōtautahi.

A celebration of the range of innovative arts being practised and created in Ōtautahi today.

A group exhibition of work by New Zealand and international contemporary artists. CoCA is a space for new art and ...