SHIFT X FIKSATE

Opening 5:00pm Friday 24 February

 

Fiksate Gallery has teamed up with Canterbury Museum to bring you SHIFT X FIKSATE GALLERY. You can find us in the beautiful foyer area of Canterbury Museum.

We are showcasing New Zealand's largest range of urban contemporary artworks by a huge variety of artists, including new originals and exclusive collaborative print editions dropping weekly. Not to mention books, stickers, tee shirts, sculptures and more to choose from.

Over the past 5 years Fiksate Gallery has showcased Aotearoa's leading uban artists through over 19 exhibitions and artist talks. Collaborating with Canterbury Museum is an honour and testiment to the high calibre of local, national and internationl artists we represnt.

SHIFT - Urban Art Takeover has quickly become one of the county's most ground breaking and historical urban art exhibions of all time!

Don't miss your chance to own a piece ofNew Zealand urban art history!

Explore the Museum you've never seen.

Redevelopment looms and the Museum is empty. Empty, that is, except for the urban artists: hardy souls who have braved the cracks, the leaks, the ghosts of long-dead taxidermists to paint, project, paste-up, to shift this venerable institution into something colourful, something new.

Visit the Museum to explore the winding path they have created – a journey through five floors of urban art with surprises around every corner. Art on the walls, art on the ceilings, art in the galleries, the corridors, the offices, the storerooms. Art that engages with the Museum and the taonga it cares for, art that showcases urban art’s evolution and challenges our ideas of what a Museum can be.

Art that will soon disappear as suddenly as it appeared, never to be seen again. Do not miss it.

For more info visit Canterbury Museum's website