CURATED BY —
LUCY KENNEDY
Turua Gallery
Kindred
Alicia Beech and Helen Dean
12 – 24 June
Bringing together two distinct yet intuitively connected artistic practices, Kindred explores the unexpected parallels between artists’ creative journeys and shared sensibilities. The exhibition pairs Dean’s expressive, gestural abstraction with Beech’s intricate, nature-inspired floral works – a dynamic contrast that delivers both harmony and tension. Together, their work offers a rich interplay of movement and precision, colour and form, capturing a sense of joy and light during the winter months.
10A Turua Street
turuagallery.co.nz
Sanderson Gallery
Sacrosanct
Mickey Smith
27 May – 21 June
Mickey Smith is deeply attentive to the fragility of knowledge systems, their inevitable decay and their survival. For more than two decades the American-born, Aotearoa-based artist has closely examined libraries in the US, New Zealand and the Pacific. Sacrosanct is an expansion on her decades-long inquiry into the physical and social significance of texts and archives, she turns her gaze to libraries cloistered in monasteries. This exhibition is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography.
Osborne Lane, 2-4 Kent Street, Newmarket
sanderson.co.nz
Studio One Toi Tū
He Taonga Ānō te Hau: Treasures That Still Breathe
Siniva Mokaraka
25 June – 23 July
He Taonga Ānō te Hau: Treasures That Still Breathe weaves together new and earlier works by multidisciplinary artist Siniva Mokaraka. Each fine art digital print is composed from taonga of personal significance, printed on archival Hahnemühle paper, and framed in handcarved rimu. Created for Matariki, the works speak to remembrance, renewal, and ancestral connection, encouraging reflection on the taonga, stories, and relationships that continue to shape whānau and whakapapa.
1 Ponsonby Road
studioone.org.nz
Orexart in conjunction with Auckland Festival of Photography
Viky Garden
29 May – 20 June
In conjunction with the 2026 Auckland Festival of Photography, Orexart is showing the extraordinary pinhole photographs of Viky Garden. In 2018, Garden entered two photographic images into the international Julia Margaret Cameron 12th annual Photographic Award in Barcelona. Out of over 6,000 entries worldwide, both images won the Alternative Processes Award. Garden states that the results of her pinhole photography technique are “…light and time crafted”.
This will be Garden’s first solo exhibition in Auckland of pinhole photographs.
221 Ponsonby Road
orexart.co.nz
Melanie Roger Gallery
Emerald Pools
Emma Fitts
10 June – 27 June
Emma Fitts’ upcoming solo exhibition with Melanie Roger Gallery revisits and reconfigures previously presented bodies of work. This exhibition traces an ongoing process of adjustment and translation, where materials, forms, and decisions are continually tested against changing conditions of site and display. In its original outdoor context, the work was subject to exposure – shifting sunlight, rain marking and softening edges, wind subtly displacing elements over time. Tāmaki Makaurau’s conditions remain embedded within the materials, even as they are encountered anew.
444 Karangahape Road
melanierogergallery.com
Gow Langsford Gallery
Claudia Kogachi
27 June – 25 July
Born in Japan in 1995, Claudia Kogachi is an emerging contemporary artist now based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. This is her first solo exhibition with Gow Langsford, having had representation announced in 2025.
4 Princes Street, Onehunga
gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz
