Te Wai Ngutu Kākā

Established in 2004, Te Wai Ngutu Kākā is a not-for-profit contemporary art and design gallery based at Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau. It operates three gallery spaces on the City Campus within the School of Art and Design and an additional outdoor projection space which operates nightly on St Paul St.

The Gallery is dedicated to the development of contemporary art and design through a curated programme of exhibitions, events, symposia, and publications focused both locally and internationally. Te Wai Ngutu Kākā embraces one of the primary instructions for universities in the New Zealand Education Act (1989), that they ‘accept a role as critic and conscience of society.’ Through our programmes, we also interrogate the proposition that the arts have a particular capacity to speak critically about society.