The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata was founded in 1990 as a charitable trust. We have been in our permanent home in Shed 11 on Wellington’s waterfront since 2012.
We enable audiences to encounter portraits of New Zealanders who, in all their diversity, have shaped our country’s development or influenced the way we think about ourselves. Through portraiture, we offer perspectives on ourselves, our history, our creativity, and our place in the world.
Te wahi e kitea ai nga mea ataahua – The place where beautiful things are to be found
The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts is a self-funding incorporated society dedicated to fostering the visual arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. We aim to benefit the community of New Zealand through the promotion, creation, understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts. Regular exhibitions featuring new work from established and emerging artists throughout New Zealand are held in the Academy's architectural award-winning galleries.
Page Galleries is a contemporary art dealership in the heart of Pōneke Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Alongside exhibitions from our represented artists, we run a parallel programme to promote the practice of emerging and mid-career artists as well as other special projects across our multiple exhibition spaces.
Marcia Page opened the doors of her first Wellington art gallery in 1987. Initially focused on historical artworks, the gallery quickly established itself as an authority in fine arts.
City Gallery Wellington is a dynamic cultural presence in the capital city of Aotearoa New Zealand, showcasing contemporary art from New Zealand and around the world. It is a venue for the research, display and debate about modern and contemporary visual art.
City Gallery works collaboratively with artists, galleries, collectors, and an extensive range of organisations and business partners to present exhibitions and events that are relevant to our lives today, test art’s boundaries, and challenge us.
Please note that City Gallery Wellington have made changes to their weekday opening hours.
Established in July 2018, Jhana Millers Gallery is independently owned and operated by Jhana Millers.
The gallery represents and shows early career through to senior arts practitioners from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. It has a strong additional focus on talented early career artists working in a range of media.
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is Aotearoa New Zealand's national museum, located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa, it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery.
Te Papa is renowned for being bicultural, scholarly, innovative, and fun. Our success is built on our relationships with and our ability to represent our community.
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing contemporary art practice—and the audiences and discussion around contemporary art—through exhibitions, events, publishing, artist residencies and other activities.
Enjoy create opportunities for learning and exchange around contemporary art in Aotearoa New Zealand, and advocate for its role in our society. Enjoy’s artistic programme prioritises artists, writers and curators who are early-career or interested in growing their practices in a supportive and challenging environment.
Peter McLeavey started dealing contemporary New Zealand art in 1966, from his flat on The Terrace, Wellington.
“I thought I’d ring Toss and Colin and get them to send down a few paintings and see what happened” Peter said, recounting how he started out as an art dealer. He placed an ad to this effect in the Evening Post and started to sell paintings.
In 1968 he moved operations to 147 Cuba Street, where it remains to this day. Now run by daughter Olivia McLeavey, the gallery remains committed to the “what we do here” ethos of art that tells New Zealand stories.
Our greatest concern is to effect sales of our artists' works, to meet their needs as professional artists, to represent them to public galleries, to assist with their publications, to act as a base for them and to help create international opportunities for them.
For 40 years Bowen Galleries has been assisting clients put together collections of significant value by New Zealand and Australian artists.
{Suite} was established in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2007 by Director and owner David Alsop. {Suite} has two gallery spaces; the first is a heritage building on Wellington’s Cuba Street that houses a permanent display for photographer Ans Westra, dedicated to celebrating the artist’s lifetime of work and images. Our second location, which opened in June 2020, is a character building in the heart of Auckland’s Ponsonby Road.
{Suite} represents a number of New Zealand and international artists on the contemporary art scene, and acts as agent for Ans Westra, managing her archive and copyright. Our aim is to support both local and international contemporary art and artists by mounting diverse and unique exhibitions across a range of media by emerging and established artists.
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi is the purpose-built gallery of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. It initiates, produces and presents a highly regarded programme of exhibitions, events and publications; manages and develops the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, and provides a vital platform for critical thinking across media, disciplines, cultures and contexts. Using art and its presentation as a tool of analysis, it contributes to the production of new knowledge and creates opportunities for learning, for the benefit of staff, students and the wider community.