Day 1: Create & Challenge

Start your camp with creativity and team building at Capital E! First up, it’s exploring Virtual Reality in MediaLab. Next up, City Gallery WellingtonJoin the gallery educators for a Mural Tour and Screenprinting Workshop. Create a screenprint inspired by what you have seen incorporating kupu Māori.  

Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate

Start your day at Wellington Museum, which gives students the chance to connect the past, present, and future. In our Protest and Action programmestudents reflect on the driving factors behind social changeand contemporary issues. After lunch, it’s on to Capital E’s OnTV where your class will create their own TV show!

Day 3: Tour & Explore

Take the Cable Car up to Space Place, where your students will discover the collection of telescopes in a Telescope Tour. Eat a packed lunch in always beautiful Botanic Gardens.  Next up, Nairn Street CottageThe cottage is a 30 minute walk from Space Place. Here your students can explore Waves of Migrationwith a guided visit of the Wallis family home
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The Ten Largest, 1907. Photograph courtesy of Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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Discover The Secret Paintings of Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint whose groundbreaking work has changed the course of art history. 

Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings

City Gallery Wellington, 4 December 2021–⁠27 March 2022

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Immerse yourself in The Secret Paintings. Book Hilma af Klint inspired tours, events, panel discussions, late-night experiences, and much more.

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Be amongst the select few in Aotearoa to explore privately the extraordinary works of Hilma af Klint. Make an evening of The Secret Paintings at City Gallery Wellington.

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Students and teachers can experience Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings and notebooks, delving into a world of rich symbolism in The Secret Paintings.

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Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings is made possible by the generous and extensive support of our local, national and international family of partners.

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Installation view Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future; on view October 12, 2018-April 23, 2019; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by: David Heald.

See 128 pieces that changed art history forever.

Meet the woman changing art history.

See what af Klint said the world wasn’t ready for.

Altarpiece, No.1, Altarpieces, Group X, 1915, HAK No. 187
By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation.
Photo: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hilma af Klint at her studio at Hamngatan 5, Stockholm C1895.  Photograph courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm.

The Ten Largest, No. 1, Childhood, Group IV, 1907, HAK No. 102
By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation.
Photo: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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About Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings and City Gallery Wellington

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Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings

Before her more famous male contemporaries - Kasimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian – there was Hilma af Klint. The recent rediscovery of af Klint’s paintings has changed the course of art history.

City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi

City Gallery Wellington is a contemporary art gallery with a dynamic programme of exhibitions and events, and an international reputation.  

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SUPPORTED BY

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

PRINCIPAL EXHIBITION PARTNER

FASHION PARTNER

ACCOMMODATION PARTNER

MEDIA PARTNER

In association with
Heide Museum of Modern Art,
Melbourne

Indemnified by the New Zealand Government

Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings and Pages of Mercury 

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Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings

Before her more famous male contemporaries - Kasimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian – there was Hilma af Klint. The recent rediscovery of af Klint’s paintings has changed the course of art history.

Installation view Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future; on view October 12, 2018-April 23, 2019; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by: David Heald.

City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi

City Gallery Wellington is a contemporary art gallery with a dynamic programme of exhibitions and events, and an international reputation.  

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Pages of Mercury

City Gallery provides ground-breaking exhibitions and learning programmes that make the best of contemporary art accessible to all. The Gallery simply cannot achieve this without the support of generous individuals like you.

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Installation view Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2021. Photo by: Cheska Brown.

Installation view The Dove, The UW Series, Group IX. Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2021. Photo by: Cheska Brown.

Installation view The Swan, The SUW Series, Group IX. Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2021. Photo by: Cheska Brown.

Installation view The Five. Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2021. Photo by: Cheska Brown.

The Ten Largest, No. 1, Childhood, Group IV, 1907, HAK No. 102
By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation.
Photo: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Hilma af Klint at her studio at Hamngatan 5, Stockholm C1895.
Photograph courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm.

Altarpiece, No.1, Altarpieces, Group X, 1915, HAK No. 187
By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation.
Photo: The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings and Pages of Mercury at City Gallery

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Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings

Before her more famous male contemporaries - Kasimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian – there was Hilma af Klint. The recent rediscovery of af Klint’s paintings has changed the course of art history.

Installation view Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future; on view October 12, 2018-April 23, 2019; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by: David Heald.

City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi

City Gallery Wellington is a contemporary art gallery with a dynamic programme of exhibitions and events, and an international reputation.  

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Pages of Mercury: Rita Angus, Andrew Beck, Séraphine Pick

A companion exhibition to Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, this exhibition features work from New Zealand artists Rita Angus, Séraphine Pick and Andrew Beck.

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City Gallery provides ground-breaking exhibitions and learning programmes that make the best of contemporary art accessible to all. The Gallery simply cannot achieve this without the support of generous individuals like you.

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AUDIO GUIDE

Our audio guide will enhance your journey through Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings. Hear about af Klint’s life, spiritualism, work, and vision.

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Installation view Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future; on view October 12, 2018-April 23, 2019; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by: David Heald.

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