RM is an artist-run space, project office and archive.

Based in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand, RM is a gallery that places the work of local emerging artists alongside more seasoned practitioners. RM seeks to engage with the practices, discourses and modes of presentation that aren’t well-supported or easily accessible in Auckland.

Though we might look like a white cube, we are more interested in the potentials of an empty room – a space to gather, to think, to talk, to make, to share…

Established in 1997, RM is the country’s longest running artist-run-space. The current members of the cooperative are Samantha Cheng, Nina Dyer, Wesley John Fourie, Ardit Hoxha, Rakavi Jeyakumar, Alena Kavka, Guilio Laura, Si-Rong Li, Sally McMath, Rose Meyer, Karen Rubado, Mark Schroder, Taarn Scott, Rebecca Steedman and Sophie Sutherland. Previous incarnations of the rm project have included rm3, rm212, rm401 and rm103.

Click here for a PDF compilation of some of the readings that helped shape RM after its shift to Karangahape Road in 2009. The readings discuss other galleries and initiatives including Mess Hall, Casco and the Insa Archive.