News
October 2011 / Gregor Kregar at WORLDman
Following the success of the winter 2011 exhibition by Reuben Paterson, WORLDman collaborates again with Gow Langsford Gallery. Gregor Kregar's installation of Nuclear Clouds, Sputnik Fossils and Matthew 12:12 Cup sheep, create the spirit of the WORLD summer season. Visit their high street store to see the works and the new WORLD collection.
October 2011 / Gow Langsford Gallery pop up gallery at North Wharf, Wynyard Quarter showing
Gregor Kregar's Matthew 12:12 Cup 2011.
For one week only Kregar's new sculpture project will take over the space in Auckland's hottest new precinct. 200 porcelain sheep in high coloured national rugby jerseys ooze kitsch as they celebrate the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. But is Kregar making a mockery of our national icon, or paying them homage? Are we celebrating the Cup or denigrating its supporters as a mindless herd? Kregar the trickster evades a simple answer, leaving us to make sense of his flock.
Join us at North Wharf this week or at the launch on Tuesday 18 October, 5 - 8pm. Contact us for more information or to purchase your own sheep (from $600).
Gregor Kregar
Matthew 12:12 Cup 2011
Gow Langsford Gallery at North Wharf, Wynyard Quarter
Exhibition on 13 - 19 October 2011
open weekdays 11am - 4 pm, weekends 11am - 6pm
Launch night: Tuesday 18 October 2011, 5 - 8pm
Location: North Wharf, Wynyard Quarter (next to Pescado Resturant). More location information here
September 2011 / Gregor Kregar in The 29th Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana and SCULPTURE TODAY at Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje
Curated by Beti erovc, the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana presents the energy and vitality of the medium of the art event in contemporary art and includes a new work by Gregor Kregar. A selection of art events will be presented in four different groups based on topics that are typical for contemporary art: violence, generosity, emptiness, and the search for the sacred and ritualistic. (source: 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts website).
Kregar's work Promotion and consists out of 600 mini self portraits that sit on plinths made out of 600 bags of washing powder. On conclusion of the show the figures will be packed in the boxes and distributed with washing powder to shopping centres as free gifts. When somebody buys the washing powder they get part of the project to take home. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23 September - 20 November 2011.
Kregar is also included in SCULPTURE TODAY a retrospective study of sculpture in Slovenia at Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje.
21 participating artists change the gallery space into a space inhabited by "the people": a multitude of statues, figures and bodies mainly three-dimensional human figures in life size bearing reference to different personal, social and political contexts. Co-curator Toma Brejc explains: the exhibitions concept with the following words: Imagine an exhibition of merely bodies, statues, figures, phantasms, fragments, fictions. No matter what room I enter, they stare from everywhere or ignore me figures, more or less similar to human beings. (source: SCULPTURE TODAY press release 15.09.11)
JANUARY 2011 / GREGOR KREGAR at Cairo Biennale
A new work by Gregor Kregar is included in the 12th Cairo Biennale. The Cairo Biennale is a major event on the international art calendar and this year included a list of significant contemporary artists including: Winner of silver lion at Venice Biennale 2009, Nthalie Djuberg, Shaun Gladwell, Mounir Fatimi and Hector Zamara. The calibre of artists was further reflected in the number of exhibiting artists who represented their countries at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 including Gareth Brown (Ireland) and Goce Nanevski (Macedonia) and guest artist Yoshitomo Nara. The jury committee was a stellar line up including Rosa Martinez, Fumio Nanjo, Gerardo Mosquera, Fulya Erdemci.
Kregar's work Liquid Geometry 2 is a suspended aluminium and light work installed in the entrance of the Palace of The Arts, the main venue for the 12th Cairo Biennale.
Gregor Kregar is a finalist in the 2010 McClelland Sculpture Survey, one of Australias most significant outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Displayed throughout 16 hectares of bush and landscaped gardens, the McClelland Sculpture Survey is intended to provide sculptors the opportunity to present their works in an outdoor exhibition context. The exhibition is accompanied by a major comprehensive catalogue and the finalists are eligible for a $100,000 acquisitive award.
His Reflective Simulations is also on show at the McClelland Sculpture Survey Award until 20 February. (image: Kregar, Reflective Simulations, 2010)
May 2010 / Gregor Kregar sculpture in Abu Dhabi International Sculpture Symposium 2010
Gregor Kregar has recently returned from Abu Dhabi where he was installing Twisting the Void 2, a major work as part of the Abu Dhabi International Sculpture Symposium 2010 (ADISS). ASISS is a cultural event showcasing public art and sculpture in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. More information on the event and works included can be seen on their website.
December 2009 / Congratulations to Gregor Kregar
Gregor Kregar was recently announced as the Summer 2009 winner of the ANZ Private Bank and Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award.
October 2009 I Gregor Kregar: Guest Artist at National survey exhibition on Slovenian Sculpture, Ljubljana.
Gregor Kregar has recently installed Dweling for Nordung. As invited guest artist for a national survey exhibition on Slovenian Sculpture Kregar created a temporary public project for the main square in the centre of Ljubljana. The sculptural installation Dweling for Nordung incorporates a reflective geometric construction with a four channel sound component (Composition for sculptural tools and viola) the sound reverberated the shapes and forms of the sculpture throughout the square activating the entire environment.
October 2009 I Gregor Kregar Twisting the Void, 2009
Twisting the Void is now permanently installed at the NZI Centre, Viduct Basin in Auckland.
Designed by Jazzmax Architects the feature glass building uses state-of-the-art features to create an environmentally friendly structure. Kregars two large hanging structures (each 5.5 x 5 x 4 metres) are created from mirror polished stainless steeel that reflects and fragments the environment they inhabit as well as echoing invisible molecular structures. Commissioned especially for the new building the works can be seen in the main foyer at the NZI Centre, corner Fanshawe St and Market Place.
October 2009 I Gregor Kregar Mathew 12/12
Previously exhibited at Prospect 2007, City Gallery, 2007, Wellington; A&P Show, The Christchurch Art Gallery, 2007 and Sculpture on the Gulf, 2005, Matthew 12/12 is included in a new publication Hair'em Scare'em by cutting-edge visual publishing house Gestalten. Twelve sheep are presented in colourful woollen jumpers inside a picket fence enclosure. The work questions our relationship to this often overlooked animal that is still so important to the New Zealand psyche and economy.
More information on Hair'em Scare'em is available from the Gestalten website.
May 2009 I Gregor Kregar now represented by Gow Langsford
Gow Langsford Gallery is delighted to now represent Gregor Kregar. Kregar is a visionary sculptor who gained his BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and his MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. He has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows and has engaged in many public commissions since the early 1990s.