Aotearoa Art Fair 26: Viaduct Events Centre
Curatorial Statement
Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is thrilled to return to Aotearoa Art Fair with two solo presentations by major female forces in the arts, Marion Borgelt and Lisa Reihana.
Recognised as one of Australia’s most significant and enduring contemporary artists, Borgelt is renowned for her innovative and multidisciplinary practice, exploring cosmology, optics, time, and nature across scale, form, and medium. Borgelt is delighted to exhibit for the first time in New Zealand, presenting new works from her prominent Lunar, Liquid Light, and Strobe Series.
Lisa Reihana has earned an outstanding international reputation as an artist, producer and cultural interlocutor; exploring the complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages, how identity and history are represented, and their intersection with place and community. Reihana is thrilled to share new images from Māramatanga and Nomads of the Sea. The last remaining images from Reihana’s iconic film, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], will be presented alongside the film at the fair.
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Artist Highlights
Marion Borgelt
Recognised as one of Australia's most significant and enduring contemporary artists, Borgelt's works are represented in all major Australian museum collections and important private collections internationally. In 1996, Borgelt was the first Australian recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. She was also awarded a two-year Australia Council Fellowship and the Muswellbrook Art Award.
Renowned for her innovative and multidisciplinary practice across scale, form, and medium, Borgelt’s work transforms public spaces. Major commissions include: Musical Spheres (2020), 123 Pitt Street, Sydney; Lift Lobbies Morpheus (2019) Macau, China; Cascadence (2018), Tower One, Barangaroo, Sydney; Candescent Moon (2011), 101 Collins Street, Melbourne; Time and Tide (wait for no man) (2004), J P Morgan, Sydney.
Lisa Reihana
In 2017, Reihana represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale with her large-scale video installation in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (2015-17), a seminal work in Aotearoa New Zealand's art history canon, which has since been shown around the world and garnered widespread critical acclaim. Reihana’s ambitious video work, GROUNDLOOP (2022), was commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the launch of the much-anticipated Sydney Modern. More recently, Reihana unveiled DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL (2024), commissioned by Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, and Māramatanga, a six-metre-tall video installation and the first major digital work to be commissioned by the University of Auckland Art Collection.
In 2014, Reihana was awarded an Arts Laureate Award by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. She was subsequently awarded the Te Tohu Toi Ke Te Waka Toi Maori Arts Innovation Award from Creative New Zealand and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
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About Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert
Established in 2019, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is the first of its kind in Australia, representing local and international artists and designers to deliver an intergenerational programme of rigorous contemporary art and collectible design. Represented artists/designers regularly exhibit in exhibitions in notable institutions globally, and are collected in important public and private collections worldwide.
