The Wall Real Estate House Party
The Wall Real Estate House Party brings together beautifully crafted objects, ceramics, design, and small-scale works that blur the line between art and everyday living. With a focus on materiality, craftsmanship, and contemporary design, the sector highlights tactile, playful, and thoughtfully made works.
Artor Contemporary
Artor Contemporary pulses with creativity and innovation, offering a vibrant platform for both established and emerging artists in Aotearoa New Zealand. The gallery presents a diverse programme that ranges from installations to intricate mixed-media works, each challenging the boundaries of traditional art forms.
For the 2026 Aotearoa Art Fair, Artor presents a joint exhibition of Aotearoa artists exploring object-based practice, design, and craftsmanship. Rooted in a strong local mentality, the presentation reflects values of humanism, connection, and respect for the natural world.
Centred on material understanding and the act of making, the exhibition reinterprets the legacy of traditional craft through a contemporary lens. Sculptural objects and design works engage in dialogue, reflecting relationships between tangata, whenua, and whakapapa. The presentation creates a space of quiet strength and reflection, embodying the wairua of Aotearoa through its commitment to community, nature, and enduring craftsmanship.
Kurutai Collective
Kurutai presents contemporary ceramics by Māori artists from Ngā Kaihanga Uku, Hineukurangi Collective, Te Atinga Contemporary Māori Visual Arts of Toi Māori Aotearoa, and Toi Ngāpuhi. These works will be exhibited across both the Art Fair and UKU Gallery, Victoria Park Market.
In Te Reo Māori, kurutai refers to brackish water — where fresh water meets the sea. The concept reflects these collectives coming together through different currents to strengthen tides and move forward as a unified force within contemporary Māori visual arts.
Through ceramics and object-based practices, the presentation highlights the depth, diversity, and vitality of contemporary Māori makers working today.
Image Credit: Ashleigh Zimmerman, Hue, 2025.
Masterworks Gallery
This year, Masterworks Gallery celebrates 40 years of representing fine craft in Aotearoa in all its variety. Their presentation at Aotearoa Art Fair 2026 takes as its theme the enrichment that comes from living with objects – through material, form, and narrative – and our connections to the artists who create the objects we share our homes with.
This story is told through a display of works by five extraordinary women artists, each with long-standing relationships to Masterworks. They are proud to present a stunning group of sculptural pieces by Emma Camden, Wendy Fairclough, Shelley Norton, Louise Purvis, and Christine Thacker ranging across cast and blown glass, contemporary jewellery, bronze, and ceramics.
This idea of living with objects is supported by a digital campaign under the hashtag #livingwithobjects
Image Credit: Louise Purvis, Large paper bag with natives, 2023.
Season
Founded in 2022, Season is a gallery partnership between artist-curator Jade Townsend (Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi) and writer-curator Francis McWhannell (Pākehā). Based in Grey Lynn, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, the gallery places strong emphasis on curatorial rigour and public engagement.
Season embraces interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary practices, presenting a wide range of art forms including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, moving image, object-based art, and adornment.
The gallery platforms both emerging and established artists whose work pushes boundaries conceptually, formally, and politically, with particular focus on Māori, queer, and other historically marginalised voices.
Image Credit: Neke Moa, QUEEN!, 2025. Photograph by Samuel Hartnett.
Aotearoa Art Fair 2026 takes place from 30 April – 3 May at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland. First Release tickets are on sale now – buy online.