Dane Mitchell Announced as New Zealand’s 58th Venice Biennale Artist
By Chloe Chu
DANE MITCHELL will represent New Zealand in the 2019 Venice Biennale. Courtesy Creative New Zealand.
Lead curator for New Zealand’s Venice presentation, Zara Stanhope, is the curatorial manager of Asian and Pacific art at Australia’s Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and was principal curator and head of programs at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki from 2013 to 2017. She will be supported by Chris Sharp, a writer and independent curator based in Mexico City.
In addition to Michael Moynahan, the selection advisory panel included Dame Jenny Gibbs, commissioner for New Zealand’s 2019 Venice Biennale presentation; Karl Johnstone, former director of the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute; Christina Barton, director of Adam Art Gallery, Wellington; Tobias Berger, head of art at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; Nigel Borell, curator of Maori art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Charlotte Davy, head of art at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; artist Simon Denny; Jenny Harper, director of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu; Leigh Melville, chair of New Zealand’s Venice Patrons; and Caroline Vercoe, senior lecturer of art history at Auckland University.
The exhibition will be financially supported by Creative New Zealand, which has committed NZD 700,000 (USD 479,000) over two financial years.
Chloe Chu is the associate editor of ArtAsiaPacific.
