Current exhibitions

Jasmine Togo-Brisby, It is Not a Place, 2024_01
Jasmine Togo-Brisby:
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26 July–9 November 2025
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour
Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Children’s Interactive Gallery Space
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Transplant
Heather Kremen
12 Sept–9 Nov 2025
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Not One More Acre:
Remembering the 1975 Land March
16 August – 19 October 2025 Bottle Creek Gallery
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Not One More Acre:
Remembering the 1975 Land March
16 August – 19 October 2025 Bottle Creek Gallery
Jasmine Togo-Brisby, It is Not a Place, 2024_01
Jasmine Togo-Brisby:
ungeographic
26 July–9 November 2025
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour
Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Children’s Interactive Gallery Space
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Transplant
Heather Kremen
12 Sept–9 Nov 2025

Upcoming exhibitions

Events

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A hāngi to remember


11 October at 1pm - 2pm

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Fun activities and events to celebrate and practice te reo
Sunday 14 – Saturday 21 September

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Spring School Holiday Programme 2025

A selection of activities for ages 6yrs+
20 Sept – 5 Oct

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Tui Hobson-Vairaka pou unveiling

Pacific Aniva Arts Resident
19 September | 6pm

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Mayors For Peace Art Competition

Entries due 15 September

Curator Talks-Centre Flower no. 74

Guided tours of exhibition: ungeographic


1st Wednesday of every month | 11am

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Events on Facebook

Book or register your interest in workshops, openings and other events at Pātaka

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Creative Communities Scheme

Do you need arts funding?
Wednesday 8 October 2025 (Applications are open)

Artist portrait. Photo_ Sam Roberts

Toi korero: An artist talk with Jasmine Togo-Brisby

A special experience to explore the exhibition: ungeographic
Date: 27 September 11am

Pātaka Brochure

Download our Current exhibitions brochure here

Previous exhibitions

■ December 2021 – February 2022 ■ March – June 2022 ■ July – October 2022 ■ November 2022 – February 2023 ■ March – June 2023 ■ July – October 2023 ■ November 2023 – February 2024 ■ March – June 2024 ■ June – October 2024

Recent exhibitions

Winter Warmth_Jo Reeve

Woven: Tantalising Textiles

Port Nicholson Handweavers
1st August – 7 September 2025 Toi Gallery

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Festival of Wood 2025

The Wellington Guild of Woodworkers
28 June–10 August 2025 Bottle Creek Gallery

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The 70s Dames

Anneke Borren, Jenny Shearer, Pamella Annsouth
21 June–27 July 2025 Toi Gallery

Leafiness web

Leafiness – living shapes us all

Rhona Orr
9 May—15 June Toi Gallery

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Kei runga, kei raro: As above, so below

Mitchell Manuel
28 March–4 May 2025

Imagination Engine-web

Arca Arcade“Round One”

Preston Khan McNeil
12 April–22 June 2025

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Transient encounters & transformational shifts

Janet Mazenier & Sarah Treadwell
14 February–23 March Toi Gallery

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Lovers &Castaways


29 March–6 July 2025 Front Gallery, West Gallery

Matarau 44, Photo Cheska Brown

Waiora

Hemi Macgregor
29 March–6 July 2025 Daylight Gallery

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Toloa Tales

Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai
29 March–6 July 2025

Kim Ireland and Java Bentley

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Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
1 February – 6 April Bottle Creek

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Toi Rama

Inspiring Tamariki Through Art
15 November 2024 – 9 February 2025 Toi Gallery

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Points of No Return– Liana Leiataua


9 November 2024 – 26 January 2025 Bottle Creek

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Jack Kirifi

Tokelau tā tatau – Tokelau tattoo: A re-connection to Tokelau cultural identity
27 September – 10 November

E sab amma log ke sapna hai hum - Seema Singh

Katha:

Stories of the Girmit Women of Fiji
20 September – 3 November 2024 Bottle Creek

Child’s boro noragi-Ca1920s -1930s

Boro – Timeworn Textiles of Japan


14 December 2024–9 March 2025

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Rangirua


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Taku Hoe


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Diane Prince: Activist Artist


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Birgit Moffatt: Reimagining Geometry


9 August – 22 September 2024

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The Friends of Pātaka Art Awards


26 July-15 September 2024

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Mauri Oho

Ka mua ka muri: Reflecting on our past to inform our futures
31 May – Sunday 21 July 2024

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Matt Overend: Views from my Chair


3 May–16 June 2024

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Anton Forde: Papare Eighty.one


22 JUNE–13 OCTOBER 2024

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Sanap Wantaim – Stand Together


21 JUNE–4 AUGUST 2024

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The Ulumate Project

Na Tolu: Joana Monolagi, Ole Maiava, Daren Kamali
22 JUNE–13 OCTOBER 2024

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Red Wave, Blue Wave

Artist Collectives from the Oceania Centre, Suva, Fiji
22 June–13 October 2024

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Te Ara o Raukawa Moana

Bottle Creek Gallery
6 APRIL – 26 MAY 2024

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Maioha Kara: In Good Relation


2 MARCH – 3 JUNE 2024

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Ahilapalapa Rands: Across the Sea


2 MARCH – 3 JUNE 2024

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Paraikete Threads

Jeanine Clarkin, Noa Blanket Co and Mataaho Collective.
2 MARCH – 3 JUNE 2024

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Hono Aho—Connecting Lines

Tiki Coverny, Yon Yi Sohn, Moonhee Han, and Eun Jung Jang
15 MAR–28 APR 2024

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She Held a River

Rebecca Stewart
26 JAN –10 MAR 2024 Toi Gallery

Two-Herons

Te Awarua o Porirua-Our Harbour


2 FEB – 31 MARCH 2024

Blue Paper

Frances Jill Studd: Touches of Silence

TOI GALLERY
8 DEC 2023 – 22 JAN 2024

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Ngā Pari Tai Rua

Shannon Te Rangihaeata Clamp
27 OCT – 3 DEC 2023

La mafana warm sun Joy sipeli 2023

Foaki Noa:

The Art of Ie Pili Niue
18 NOV 2023 – 21 JAN 2024

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Ka mua, ka muri

25 Exhibitions
22 SEPT – 23 OCT 2023

Kaetaeta Watson and Louis Humphry

Tibuta – Kinaakiia Ainen Kiribati

Tibuta – Identifies Kiribati Women
7 OCT – 11 NOV 2023

Falepipi he Mafola Niuean Handicraft Group Inc, 2022

Fenoga Tāoga Niue I Aotearoa

Niue Heritage Journey In Aotearoa
18 Nov 2023 - 11 Feb 2024

Susanne Kerr, Tributary, 2019, gouache, pencil on Hahnemühle paper.

Susanne Kerr: Remnants


18 NOV 2023 – 11 FEB 2024

Tau‘atāina, 2023

Manu Vaea

Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī | The Freedom / Emancipation of the Leitī
18 NOV 2023 – 11 FEB 2024

Noise Pekere Fruean

Pēkere Fruean & Darcy Nicholas

Contemporary Māori Artists
28 JUL – 17 SEPT 2023

Detail of Ponga by Agnes Hauptli

Ngahere – The Bush of Aotearoa

Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand
18 AUG - 1 OCT 2023

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Toiora: Ki te Pō ki te Ao

The Art of Wellbeing: Through Light and Shadow
1 JUL – 13 AUG 2023

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Tim Li

Te Tini a Tangaroa - The multitudes of Tangaroa
16 JUN – 23 JUL 2023

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1 JUL – 29 OCT 2023

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Here and Beyond

Photographs and Interviews by Ehsan Hazaveh
12-25 June 2023

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Peter Mitchell

Past & Present Exhibition
5 MAY to 11 JUN 2023

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Creative Fibre

National Exhibition 2023
24 MAR – 7 MAY

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Lines of Sight

Elisabeth Vullings
31 MAR – 30 APR 2023

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Vicki Fanning

Passenger
18 MAR – 11 JUN 2023

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Kura Pounamu

Tō tātou kōhatu | Our Treasured Stone
18 MAR – 11 JUN 2023

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Hā!

Group Exhibition
3 FEB 2023 - 19 MAR 2023.

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Huia!

Group Exhibition
3 February 2023 - 26 March 2023.

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Student Cyanotype Exhibition


16 Dec 2022 – 30 Jan 2023 Bottle Creek

CPotY10

Capital Photographer of the year


28 October2022 – 11 December2022 Toi Gallery

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Tesserae Tales of Aotearoa

Rowena Rooney, Michelle Arnold nee Black and Rachel Silver
9 DEC 2022 – 29 JAN 2023

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The Festival of Wood

The Wellington Guild of Woodworkers
5 NOV – 4 DEC 2022

Glen Wolfgram - A'eva Tokotaha he Pasifiki-Solo across the Pacific

Glen Wolfgramm: A‛eva Tokotaha He Pasifiki

25 Year Survey Exhibition
20 NOV 2022 – 26 FEB 2023

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Tūrama

Lighting the Collection
20 NOV 2022 – 26 FEB 2023

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Gerda Leenards:

Regeneration - a story of trees
16 SEPT – 23 OCT 2022

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Apato

Anna Hayes
5 AUG – 11 SEPT 2022

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Kanohi ki te kanohi

Faces from the Collection
24 JUL – 30 OCT 2022

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Kohai Grace – Matariki 2022

Ringatoi - Pouako
23 JUN – 16 JUL

Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

The Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022


26 AUG – 30 OCT

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Star Gossage

Kia tau te Rangimārie – Let Peace be Among Us
24 JUL – 30 OCT 2022

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Porirua Harbour Connections

Mana Arts Society
1 JUL – 21 AUG 2022

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Phthalo + Quinacridone + Azo

Helen Reynolds
24 JUN – 31 JUL 2022

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Jack Trolove: Thresholding


24 JUL – 30 OCT 2022

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Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

26 August – 30 October 2022
Bottle Creek Gallery

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Purely Pastel

Pastel Artists of New Zealand PANZ
1 April – 15 May 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Pleiades: A Woven Narrative

Patricia Armour
13 May – 19 June 2022 Toi Gallery

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Woven Tapestry: Ancient Art in a Modern World

Tapestry Network
20 May – 26 June 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Brian

27 February – 27 March 2022
Brian Gunson, 1941-2019, Artist Remembered.

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