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Film Screening + Artist Talk » » FUTOSHI MIYAGI

🌟 Join us for a special film screening and talk with Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 visiting artist Futoshi Miyagi. We'll screen the five-chapter film Flower Names (2015), which intertwines love stories from Greek mythology with contemporary romances in Okinawa. The film is part of Miyagi’s ongoing project American Boyfriend (2012–), which queries the “possibility of an Okinawan man and an American man falling in love in Okinawa.” Narratives center around themes of race, sexuality, and nationality, traversing tensions inherent in Okinawa’s history under American military occupation and reflecting Miyagi’s own identity as a q***r artist in a hetero-normative patriarchal social order in Okinawa. After the screening, Miyagi will talk about how he incorporates writing and artist book culture in his practice, and will share some of his zines, editions, and ephemera.

SAT | 12 OCT | 6PM
BoxJelly
at Ward Centre
1200 Ala Moana Blvd • 2nd Floor
Free parking, entrance off of Auahi Street

Free and open to the public.

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Futoshi Miyagi is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for his participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Mahalo nui, BoxJelly, for co-hosting this presentation with us. Special thanks to our exclusive airline partner, , and for their support. 📸 Portrait of Futoshi Miyagi. Photo: Mie Morimoto. Futoshi Miyagi, Flower Names (still), 2015, video, color, sound, 20 mins, 59 secs.

ART IN CONVERSATION » »
wendelien van oldenborgh x Sung Hwan Kim

🌟 Join us for a special film screening of Hier. (2021) by visiting HT25 artist wendelien van oldenborgh, followed by a conversation between the artist and fellow HT25 artist Sung Hwan Kim, who lives in Honolulu and has known van oldenborgh for more than a decade. van oldenborgh, from the Netherlands and currently living in Berlin, instigates situations such as film shoots in which non-actors of diverse subjectivities come together in the polyphonic exchanges of their verbal and nonverbal expressions. Situated in [post]colonial conditions — the politics of identity, migration, and transnationalism — these film shoots often take place in architectural environments of significance.

Hier. is set in a museum during a renovation, where we meet a cast of young women who express themselves through music, poetry, and dialogue. They explore themes such as hybridity, transnationality, and diasporic sensitivities facing the political instrumentalization of identity and cultural renewal in the midst of persistent reverberations of colonial history in contemporary society.

SAT | 28 SEPT | 6PM
BoxJelly
at Ward Centre
1200 Ala Moana Blvd • 2nd Floor
Free parking, entrance off of Auahi Street

Free and open to the public.


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wendelien van oldenborgh is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for her participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Mahalo nui, BoxJelly, for co-hosting this talk with us. 📸 wendelien van oldenborgh, Hier., 2021, 27 mins, Dutch with English subtitles. Production still by Jakub Danilewicz. // Portrait of wendelien van oldenborgh. Photo: Jakub Danilewicz. // Portrait of Sung Hwan Kim. Photo: Jordan Weitzman.

📣 We’re excited to be participating in Give Aloha, Foodland’s Annual Community Matching Gifts Program. Through the month of September, visit any Foodland, Foodland Farms, and Sack N Save throughout Hawai‘i, and Give Aloha at checkout to support Hawai‘i Contemporary. Let your cashier know that you’d like to round up your receipt, donate any amount, or donate Maika'i points to Hawai‘i Contemporary.

— » Enter your Maika‘i Rewards #.
— » Tell your cashier you’d like to donate to Hawai‘i Contemporary.
— » Mention us by name or by code: 79126
— » Foodland will match a portion of each donation.
— » Your donation will appear on your receipt.

💫 Give Aloha starts this Sunday! Your donation — in any amount and in any — goes a long way toward supporting the work we do in the contemporary visual arts community. Mahalo nui loa!


Learn more about Give Aloha: givealoha.foodland.com

Sketching Session » » HAYV KAHRAMAN
🌟 Join us for a morning sketching session at Foster Botanical Garden with HT25 visiting artist Hayv Kahraman. Meet the artist and talk story with fellow sketchers (all skill levels welcome). Kahraman’s work addresses radicalized gender and body politics, migrant consciousness, and the marginal spaces of diasporic life, drawing from her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe and then the United States. Her canvases often feature female figures, which she views as embodiments of a collective experience, juxtaposed with various botanicals. This sketch session is not instructional but, rather, an opportunity to gather and share space.

SAT | 03 AUG | 10AM–11:30AM
Sketch with HT25 Artist Hayv Kahraman
at Foster Botanical Garden
50 N Vineyard Blvd • Honolulu

RSVP | Space is limited, registration required.
REGISTER | https://forms.gle/jtaJiqTzE8dE5z3d9
MEET | Daibutsu Area - near Orchid Conservatory
BRING | Sketchpad, drawing implements, water, blankets (to sit on), and bug repellant.

Light snacks and refreshments provided.
Open to the public, free with Garden entrance: $5/person; $3 (Hawai'i residents).

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Hayv Kahraman is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for her participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Mahalo nui to Foster Botanical Garden for co-hosting this sketch session with us. 📸 Hayv Kahraman portrait. Photo: Daniel Gurton. Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London. // Foster Botanical Garden, Honolulu.

Artist Talk » » STEPHANIE SYJUCO
🌟 Join us for a special talk with visiting HT25 artist Stephanie Syjuco. Leveraging photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations, Syjuco investigates issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. In this program, the artist will present a behind-the-scenes look at her research practice and methodology of working with archives.

FRI | 26 JULY | 7PM–8PM [time change]
Box Jelly
at Ward Centre
1200 Ala Moana Blvd • 2nd Floor
Free parking, entrance off of Aupuni Street

Free and open to the public.

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Stephanie Syjuco is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for her participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Mahalo nui to Box Jelly for co-hosting this talk with us. 📸 Portrait of Stephanie Syjuco. Photo: Kija Lucas. // Stephanie Syjuco, "Pileup (Herbaria)," (detail) 2021. Hand-assembled pigmented inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle Baryta Edition of 3 + 2AP; edition 2/3, 48 x 36 inches framed. Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, RYAN LEE, New York, and Silverlens, Manila/New York.

Artist Talk » » SALOTE TAWALE

🌟 Join us for a special talk with visiting HT25 artist Salote Tawale. The artist’s practice-led research — which spans performance, moving image, painting, photography, and installation — explores individual identity within collective systems from the perspective of her Indigenous Fijian and Anglo-Australian heritage. Through self-performance, collaboration, and community engagement projects, Tawale’s work draws upon personal experiences of race, class, ethnicity, and gender formed by growing up in suburban Australia.

SAT | 06 JULY | 6PM–7PM
Arts & Letters Nuʻuanu
1164 Nuuanu Ave • Honolulu

No registration, but space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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Salote Tawale is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for her participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Tawale’s project for HT25 is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

🌟 Join us for Art Summit 2024, a free, multi-day event that brings together Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 ( ) artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and around the world. A thematic precursor to the Triennial, Art Summit 2024 will consider the HT25 theme, ALOHA NŌ, through a keynote by Kanaka ‘Ōiwi philosopher Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, a series of insightful panel discussions, artist spotlights, film screenings, curator-led exhibition tours, and workshops.

⇢ Open to the public and free with registration. See a list of participants, a program schedule, and registration info: https://hawaiicontemporary.org/art-summit-2024-schedule

Art Summit 2024
13–15 June
Honolulu

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🙏🏼 A​rt Summit 2024 is made possible with support from AC Hotel by Marriott Honolulu, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Atherton Family Foundation​, Creative New Zealand, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and State of Hawai‘i.

🗓️ Save the Date!
Join us this summer for Art Summit 2024, a free, multi-day event that brings together Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 ( ) artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and around the world. A thematic precursor to HT25, Art Summit 2024 will consider the HT25 theme, ALOHA NŌ, through a series of insightful and compelling talks, film screenings, tours, and workshops that situates Hawai‘i at the center of high-caliber, global discourse around contemporary art and ideas. Stay tuned for further details and a complete schedule.

Art Summit 2024
13–15 June
Honolulu

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🙏🏼 A​rt Summit 2024 is made possible, in part, by support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Atherton Family Foundation​, Creative New Zealand, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and State of Hawai‘i.

📣 We're excited to announce the artists participating in Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25)! Featuring 49 artists and artist collectives from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and beyond, HT25 will be held at exhibition sites across O‘ahu and, for the first time, on Hawai‘i Island and Maui. Entitled ✨ALOHA NŌ✨, HT25 will challenge commonly held notions of aloha and reframe it as a way of life, an action that embodies profound love and truth-telling, and a beloved practice that has been kept and cared for by the people of Hawai‘i for generations. Artists will consider the kaona (layered meanings) of ALOHA NŌ, including a deep connectivity to ‘āina (land), mo‘okū‘auhau (genealogy to people and place), mo‘olelo (storied traditions), ho‘opono (healing through speaking truth and mutual emergence), and sovereignty in the face of colonial occupation and capitalist violence.

“ALOHA NŌ emphasizes inclusivity and invites artists to engage deeply with the values of this place,” said Josh Tengan, Hawai‘i Contemporary associate director. “Through HT25 and the exhibition’s participating artists, we affirm our commitment to presenting a wide range of experiences from across Moananuiākea and beyond.”

🗓️ Save the Date: 15 Feb – 04 May 2025
📍 O‘ahu | Maui | Hawai‘i Island
💫 Curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu
🌟 Learn more about the HT25 artists: https://hawaiicontemporary.org/ht25-artists

📌 Art Summit 2024, 13 – 15 June, Honolulu | A thematic precursor to HT25, exploring ALOHA NŌ through discussions, workshops, and screenings with artists, curators, and culture bearers from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and beyond

Excited to share the title and theme this Friday for Hawai‘i Triennial 2025. Join us in celebrating at First Friday Capitol Modern

FRI • 02 FEB
6pm–9pm
Capitol Modern
250 South Hotel St • Honolulu
Free and open to the public

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Join us next week for a special First Friday at Capitol Modern (formerly Hawai‘i State Art Museum). We’re excited to share the title and theme for Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25), and we’re celebrating with music and lei-making.

FRI • 02 FEB
6pm–9pm
Capitol Modern
250 South Hotel St • Honolulu
Free and open to the public

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