Matthew Hanson appointed as Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator

We are pleased to announce Matthew Hanson as our Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator.

“Artspace was a crucial place for me when I first started engaging with art—it gave me access to ideas that opened up my thinking about what art could be. I am honoured to now be part of its mission and to have joined an amazing team who have been so welcoming.”

Matthew is a curator and writer whose work examines artistic methodologies and the psychic life of the art institution. He has independently curated exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland including: Ludger Gerdes, Synkategoremata (2024), Kunsthalle Münster; Andrea Fraser, This meeting is being recorded (2022), LUMA Foundation Zürich and, Jacqueline Fraser, THE MAKING OF MARIA BY CALLAS (2020), Kunsthalle Zürich. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland and the Zurich University of the Arts.