City Gallery Wellington

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City Art Gallery Te Whare Toi
A trapeze outside the City Gallery
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Former names	Wellington Public Library
General information
Type	Art Gallery
Architectural style	Art Deco
Location	8 Mercer Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Coordinates	41°17′19″S 174°46′38″E / 41.288518°S 174.777270°E / -41.288518; 174.777270
Current tenants	City Gallery
Construction started	1935
Completed	1940
Technical details
Structural system	reinforced concrete frame
Floor count	2
Floor area	3,900 square metres
Design and construction
Architect	Gummer and Ford
Other designers	Stuart Gardyne (refurbishment architect)
Awards and prizes	NZIA National Award 1994

The City Gallery Wellington (Māori: Te Whare Toi) is an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. The gallery was first opened in 1980 in a different building.

History[]

In 1993 the Gallery moved to its present location on the north-eastern side of Civic Square, into the old Wellington Public Library building, after the latter was refurbished. Built in 1940 in an Art Deco style, the gallery's current building originally housed the Wellington Public Library - replacing the original red brick City Library building of 1893. In 1991 the Library moved into a new building next door.

Since the 1993 opening at its current location, the City Gallery has hosted monographic exhibitions of major international artists such as Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, Rosalie Gascoigne, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tracey Moffatt, Sidney Nolan, Patricia Piccinini, Pierre et Gilles, Bridget Riley, Sam Taylor Wood, Salla Tykkä, Stanley Spencer, Wim Wenders plus New Zealand's own Laurence Aberhart, Rita Angus, Shane Cotton, Tony Fomison, Bill Hammond, Ralph Hotere, Ronnie van Hout, Melvin Day, Martin Thompson, and Boyd Webb.

References[]

• Wellington's Old Buildings, David Kernohoran, Victoria University Press 1994, ISBN 0-86473-267-8, page 184

External links[]

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• City Gallery Wellington
• Wellington Museums Trust