What's on

In Bloom TV is an online surf competition inviting surfers from across New Zealand to submit their best highlight reels. In the lead-up to the In Bloom Music Festival in Tauranga, they're hosting a premiere the night before the festival. There’s $1,000 up for grabs for the best surfing clip, plus ice-cold cans and live sets from local artists to keep the vibes high. It’s shaping up to be an epic celebration of surf and sound.

Curated by CoCA Toi Moroki’s 2025 Emerging Curator Dr Ereni Pūtere. This special exhibition celebrates the living practice of traditional Māori weaving founded in ancestral connection and cultural continuity.The exhibition brings together a wānaka of Kāi Tahu arts practitioners: Paula Rigby, Fayne Robinson, Isaac Te Awa and Ereni Pūtere.

Whether you’ve never been to a FAT FRIDAY before, or it’s been a while, here is your invitation to come back to what it’s all about: movement, connection, and a whole lot of fun.

A 45 minute fun fast-paced HIIT workout hydrated by Almighty and Coffee Supreme.

A contemporary photography exhibition celebrating Matts large scale black and grey tattoo work. More than 2,000 hours painstakingly designing, composing and tattooing, over the past 7 years. Presented through a series of medium format photographs, printed on photo rag, over 7 feet tall, displayed in a gallery for the world to see.

Get to know a featured artist and what’s on their radar – from the art on their walls, to favourite local hangs, to beats on repeat in the studio. Our first guest: Claudia Jowitt! Expect good vibes, great conversation, and a drink in hand. Whether you’re deep in the arts scene or just curious, you’ll leave with a handful of new things to explore and a spark of inspiration to follow.

Grave Runners is hosting a film screening in Auckland, of their experience completing the Speed Project. An unsanctioned relay race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. A team of six runners and five support crew filled an RV and Jeep to cover a 550 km journey on foot. Reaching the finish line in 51.30 hours.

Twentysix is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Lewis Vivian Cosgrave (Ngāti Pūkenga, b.1997) whose work is primarily focused on experiences of the quotidian. It is the everyday—a frame caught while falling. Cropped into a leg mid step, a backyard blurred behind—a moment that becomes a memory. Intimate and undefined.

Pohewa Pāhewa is a series of exhibitions and events considering design within te ao Māori. Grounded in whakapapa, the kaupapa explores the fundamental differences in how design practice is approached by Māori creatives as a balance of vital mātauranga and radical innovation for the benefit of whānau, hapū and iwi.

BGI is thrilled to host Edge of Eternity, a monumental triptych by Manawatū-born artist Matt Hunt. Stretching six metres wide, this extraordinary painting blends history, scripture, and science fiction into a single, breathtaking vision. Part altarpiece, part contemporary epic, the work is a bold exploration of belief, power, and the human search for meaning.

Pae o Te Rangi presents four celebrated Māori artists, whose work allows us to view the world through a visual language that speaks across generations and traditional practices.

We are excited to be hydrating Studio Box community but in a fun way.
Running every Friday night, 5:30pm-6:15pm class, a cold can of Almighty will be on offer post class. Encouraging you to get your sweat on, stay for a sip and enjoy some socialising.