New Zealand 2013 Museum Awards laureate for Art exhibition Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu: Outer Spaces, Christchurch, New Zealand Presentation is taking place on September 27th, 17.35 - 18.00 The Art Gallery building went from being Civil Defence Headquarters for ten days in September 2010 to hosting an amazingly popular art exhibition Ron Mueck, to setting up and opening three new exhibitions in February 2011 prior to enduring a further major earthquake on 22 February 2011. This time, the Gallery became Emergency Operations Centre for seven months. Despite being closed, however, Art Gallery staff have turned to ensuring art’s presence in the city in a series of projects beyond the Gallery’s walls, ‘Outer Spaces’ for which the Gallery won the national award for art exhibition excellence in 2013. Jenny Harper has been Director of Christchurch Art Gallery since 2006. Before this she worked at Victoria University of Wellington, developing the Art History programme and establishing the Adam Art Gallery and, from 2000, as head of a new school of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies. In 2003, she was appointed Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Academic). She was Director of the former National Art Gallery in Wellington, becoming also Director of Art & History at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Jenny was Commissioner for New Zealands presentation at the Venice Biennale from 2009-2013.
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