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Bobby Campbell Luke: Ngakau Mahaki - Walking my mothers Footsteps

Tues 11 August 2020

*Due to popular demand, we now have more tickets available for this event.

In this first talk of the Monica Brewster Evenings for 2020, fashion designer Bobby Campbell Luke (Ngāti Ruanui, Taranaki descent) will speak about his design and art processes that explore Māori identity, culture and history as well as share the deeply personal narratives behind his work.

There will also be a chance to mix and mingle before the talk begins, and view a few of Bobby's designs under Sky Snakes.

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Exhibition Opening

Sat 8 Aug 2020. 6—8PM

Join the Govett-Brewster team and supporters in officially opening and celebrating the new exhibition suite.

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Bait

Sat 8 Aug 2020. 4—5:50PM

A struggling Cornish fisherman's resentment of change and rich Londoners reaches boiling point in Mark Jenkin's BAFTA-winning debut feature.

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Curator’s Tour: Candice Lin's Pigs and Poison

Sat 8 Aug 2020

Join us for a walk and talk on the opening day of Candice Lin's debut exhibition in New Zealand.

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God of the Piano

Sat 8 Aug 2020. 2—3:30PM

Composed as a moral parable with a touch of thriller, God of the Piano tells the story of a mother whose obsessive behaviour and mile-high expectations threaten to crush her child

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He Kōrero: Taranaki Conversations

Fri 7 Aug - 1.00 - 2.30pm

A Celebration of International Indigenous Peoples Day, held in collaboration with Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki

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Shirley

Thu 6 Aug 2020. 11AM—1PM

A young couple moves in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson, and her Bennington College professor husband, Stanley Hyman, in the hope of starting a new life but instead find themselves fodder for a psycho-drama that inspires Shirley's next novel.

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Len Lye’s Experimental Cinema

5 Aug - 4 Dec 2020

Screened in association with our latest Len Lye exhibition, The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid, the Len Lye Centre Cinema presents a short survey of the artist’s most well-known films.

A thirty minute-long showing of short films will be shown daily.

Screenings will alternate between two different programmes; one of works produced in the United Kingdom during the 1930s and another of films made in the United States during the 1950s.

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Waiata in the Gallery

Wed 5 Aug 2020. 12:30—1PM

Join us for an uplifting, mid-week waiata session.

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Rosie

Wed 5 Aug 2020. 11AM—12:40PM

Equal parts empathy and outrage, Rosie offers a heartbreaking glimpse of economic insecurity that will hit many viewers uncomfortably close to home.

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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

Mon 3 Aug 2020. 5—6:50PM

The saga of The Band, whose iconic farewell concert was immortalised in The Last Waltz, continues to captivate in this new documentary shaped from the perspective of guitarist-songwriter Robbie Robertson, only one of two surviving members.

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The County

Mon 3 Aug 2020. 2—3:40PM

We close the Festival with this quintessentially Icelandic comedy about one woman’s fight against a monopolistic co-op stifling the livelihoods of farmers in a remote valley near Reykjavik. Adroitly blending humour and injustice together with the lightest of touches, it’s a worthy successor to NZIFF18 audience favourite Woman at War.

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The Last Wave

Sun 2 Aug 2020. 8—10PM

An ancient doomsday prophecy haunts Australian lawyer Richard Chamberlain while freakish weather plagues Sydney in Peter Weir’s murder mystery-turned-apocalyptic chiller from 1977.

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The Perfect Candidate

Sun 2 Aug 2020. 5—6:55PM

Saudi superstar director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s latest is a winning homecoming; a seriocomic look at the daily struggles of a doctor running for council – and her fellow women and outsiders – within an Islamic society undergoing dramatic change.

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Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts 2020

Sun 2 Aug 2020. 2—3:35PM

A collection of Māori and Pasifika short films curated by Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, with guest co-curator Craig Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood Film Festival. Curators’ comments on each film appear in italics.

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Before Everest

Sun 2 Aug 2020. 11AM—12:45PM

“I’d never share a rope with him” is about as damning a comment as anyone can make about a fellow mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary’s words about Earle Riddiford in his last autobiography set the uneasy tone of this nuanced documentary by Earle’s son Richard Riddiford.

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Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt)

Fri 31 Jul 2020. 5—6:35PM

In this bright, affirmative lesbian teen rom-com, a girl awkwardly angles for the attention of her high school crush with a little help from the ghost of her aunt, a queer activist with a poignant history in the fight for LGBTQI+ rights.

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Ema

Thu 30 Jul 2020. 8—9:55PM

Pure, unadulterated cinema, the latest from Chilean maestro Pablo Larraín is straight fire: a scorching character study of one woman’s pursuit of sexual and political liberation, lit up by Mariana Di Girolamo’s sensational lead performance.

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Wendy

Thu 30 Jul 2020. 5—7:05PM

This swirling, kaleidoscopic take on the adventures of Peter Pan and Wendy in Neverland is uniquely for both mature kids and wide-eyed adults.

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Corpus Christi

Thu 30 Jul 2020. 11AM—1:10PM

An ex-con masquerading as a priest works to heal the wounds of a grieving congregation with his unorthodox brand of faith and forgiveness in this darkly compelling Oscar-nominated Polish drama.

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LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears

Mon 27 Jul 2020. 5—6:45PM

Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa in search of healing, and her family’s reckoning with systemic abuse, are powerfully documented.

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Sense Art

Mon 27 Jul 2020. 2—3PM

Join us for a touch and audio described tour of our current exhibitions.

This event is especially for our visually impaired visitors.

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While at War

Sun 26 Jul 2020. 11AM—1PM

The acclaimed director of The Sea Inside returns with his most handsomely mounted film yet, an expansive yet deep-focus drama detailing events around the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Franco’s fascist dictatorship.

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If Only

Sat 25 Jul 2020. 11AM—12:55PM

Ginevra Elkann’s lovely directorial debut, set in the early 90s and based on her own childhood, finds three siblings arriving in Rome from Paris on a visit to their unreliable father, where family tensions and spontaneous fun mix.

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Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival 2020

Fri 24 Jul - Tue 4 Aug 2020

The Len Lye Cinema is proud to present the Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival.

22 films will be screened over two weeks, from 24 July to 4 August 2020.

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The Last Waltz

Thu 23 Jul 2020. 7—9:10PM

Among one of, if not the best rock movie ever made, The Last Waltz is a revealing, electrifying view of the classic band at the height of their collective powers. Screened in anticipation of the documentary 'Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band' playing in the cinema on Mon 3 Aug.

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Young Visionaries 2020: Ages 9-12 Term 3

Thursdays: 23 Jul – 24 Sep

Weekly after school art classes where kids are inspired by great art.

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Calm With Horses

Thu 23 Jul 2020. 2—3:50PM

A grimly effective portrait of one man's struggle with divided loyalties, elevated by standout performances from a stellar cast.

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Young Visionaries 2020: Ages 6-8 Term 3

Wednesdays: 22 Jul – 23 Sep

Weekly after school art classes where kids are inspired by great art.

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July School Holiday Art 2020

Wed, Thu, Fri - Both Weeks of School Holidays

Drop in with your kids to make art that surprises and inspires.

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Water Lillies of Monet: The Magic of Water and Light

Thu 2 Jul 2020. 11AM—12:40PM

A journey through the masterpieces and obsessions of the genius Impressionist.

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HERMITAGE: The Power of Art

Tue 23 Jun 2020. 11AM—12:40PM

A visually stunning journey through the daily life of the magnificent Hermitage museum, retracing two and a half centuries of legendary art and history.

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Top Art 2020

Mon 22 - Fri 26 Jun 12PM-12PM

Drop in and see the amazing talent of New Zealand's next generation of emerging artists.

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Art of Dance II - in the Gallery

Mon 22 June - Wed 15th July

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre launches the next phase of its Art of Dance project, with an open call for dance performances to be created and filmed within the Gallery spaces, inspired by the current exhibitions.

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Exhibition Insight

Sat & Sun 11—11.30AM

Ask any questions you have and learn more about our exhibitions with our friendly and helpful staff.

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April School Holiday Art 2020

Postponed until further notice.

Drop in with your kids to make art that surprises and inspires.

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Toi Kōpurapura

Postponed until further notice.

Experience, inspire, create. Have fun with our educators seeing and making art, with tips for caregivers engaging little people in art.
He hōtaka reo Māori hoki.

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Gundermann

Postponed until further notice.

He wants to be a good worker, a great husband, a caring father, an artist, a clown, a politician - he is everything at the same time. Gerhard Gundermann is hero and anti-hero, a constant contradiction, a glittering figure typical of the former East-Germany.

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Dale Copeland: Artwork from the Collection

Postponed until further notice.

Hear from guest artist Dale Copeland and get creative in a hands-on, assemblage art workshop using your own personal belongings.

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Len Lye on the Road

Tue 17 Mar 6 - 8 PM

Join Len Lye curator Paul Brobbel for a talk about recent Len Lye Foundation activities overseas, including insights on the new exhibition of Lye's work at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland.