Aotearoa Art Fair 26: Viaduct Events Centre
Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is pleased to present solo exhibitions by two significant women artists, Marion Borgelt from Australia and Lisa Reihana from New Zealand.
Both artists will show work across series that demonstrate the depth of their practices in their respective mediums and areas of research. This will mark Marion Borgelt’s first solo presentation in New Zealand, a significant occasion given her work is already held in collections across the country. The gallery’s presentation will also include two major installations by Lisa Reihana: a new iteration of ANZAC debuting as a large-scale outdoor installation framing the fair entrance, and the Auckland debut of in Pursuit of Venus [infected], first presented at the Venice Biennale in 2017, to be screened adjacent to our booth. A new photograph from each series will also be presented within our booth.
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.
