Author Archive

  • Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara

    Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara and curated by Natalie King, comprises a suite of twelve tableau photographs in saturated colour, situated against a vast wallpaper of a landscape decimated by the 2009 tsunami.

  • Arts Tuesday – 10:30am 14th Mar 2023

    Gaz and Di have been presenting Arts Tuesday – Sydney radio’s liveliest and most informative arts show – for XX years.

  • Yuki Kihara brings her acclaimed Paradise Camp to Sydney

    The artist’s hyperreal photographic series is a wry take on a giant of the past.

  • Kaylene Whiskey From Comic to Canvas

    Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to present From Comic to Canvas, an exhibition of new works by Kaylene Whiskey.

  • Paradise Camp By Yuki Kihara, Curated By Natalie King

    At the close of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Art + Australia reflects on Aotearoa New Zealand’s presentation at the Venice Biennale with the first Fa’afafine, Asian and Indigenous artist.

  • VCA Director’s Dialogues: Future Forward: Emerging artists now

    What are the pathways of learning, research and practice for emerging artists? How can the VCA remain globally relevant and recognise its context, locality and history of traditional owners?

  • Convergence #2 – Book Review

    Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara is the catalog of an exhibition presented by Aotearoa/New Zealand at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and much more. A dense artistic, scientific, and political volume…

  • Online Talanoa Forum | Firsts Solidarity Network

    ‘Talanoa Forum: Swimming Against the Tide’ is an online and in person gathering organised by artist Yuki Kihara on the occasion of her exhibition ‘Paradise Camp,’ curated by Natalie King

  • Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenburg’s creative and romantic partnership

    My Art Crush: Natalie King. When curator Prof Natalie King discovered an early Renaissance masterpiece wandering the halls of the Uffizi, it changed her life.

  • Talanoa Forum, Venice – DAY 2

  • e-Flux Reader compiled by Natalie King

    How can care be an interdependent modality? What is the role of ongoing care in these times of crises? Can we orchestrate a collective closeness through systems of care? The etymology of care is derived from the Latin word curare meaning to cure, heal, and curate. 

  • Online Talanoa Forum | Writers of Paradise Camp

    ‘Talanoa Forum: Swimming Against the Tide’ is an online and in person gathering organized by artist Yuki Kihara on the occasion of her exhibition ‘Paradise Camp’…

  • Domain Review – Women of Influence

    Melbourne is home to many talented, smart and inspiring women. Some we know about through their work in the media, their accomplishments in business and their presence online.

  • Curating During A Pandemic | Natalie King & Su Baker

    Natalie King (NK): Working from Melbourne, the most lock-downed city in the world, has meant that our viewpoint is from fixed coordinates or one place.

  • Future forward: emerging artists now

    What are the pathways of learning, research and practice for emerging artists? How can the VCA remain globally relevant and recognise its context, locality and history of traditional owners?

  • Natalie King | VCA Art Forum

    Natalie King is a curator, writer and senior researcher based in Naarm, Melbourne. Current projects include Curator of Yuki Kihara Paradise Camp, Aotearoa New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 and Series Editor of Mini Monographs with Thames & Hudson.

  • Art Forum: Natalie King

    Natalie King is a curator, writer and senior researcher based in Naarm, Melbourne. Current projects include Curator of Yuki Kihara Paradise Camp, Aotearoa New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 and Series Editor of Mini Monographs with Thames & Hudson.

  • Yuki Kihara – Paradise Camp

    The categories of genders and gender-related behaviors and preferences are not as binary as some would have us believe. According to Western psychology, we all have both male and female sides; either side can predominate or be more pronounced at times in individuals.

  • Save The Date

    As an extension of the critically acclaimed exhibition Paradise Camp presented at the New Zealand Pavilion curated by Natalie King as part of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, artist Yuki Kihara has organized the Talanoa Forum in her role as artistic director in close partnership…

  • Flipping the script at the Venice Biennale

    Recently returned from launching her second Venice Biennale exhibition, for Sāmoan-based artist Yuki Kihara who is representing Aotearoa New Zealand, curator Professor Natalie King OAM reflects on being part of the most diverse Biennale yet.

  • Book Review: Paradise Camp

    In Sāmoa, it is often said that “the most beautiful women are men.” (Paul Miles, Transgender in the Pacific – Fa’afafine, fakaleiti and mahu.)

  • GAX 2022: Visiting Paradise Camp: Indigenous and Asian Art agency from Gauguin to Climate Crisis

    Join us for a mini tour with curator Natalie King of artist Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp presented in the New Zealand Pavilion at this year’s 59th Venice Biennale…

  • New Zealand, Paradise Camp

    Yuki Kihara’s ensemble exhibition Paradise Camp reflects on pertinent local and global issues from the unique perspective of Fa‘afafine –
    “in the manner of a woman” or third gender in Sāmoa.

  • TWIST Paradise Lost?

    Europa befindet sich im Krieg. Die Idee eines kriegsfreien Kontinents, auf die europäische Demokratien nach 1945 so stark gesetzt hatten, ist am 24.

  • Paradise Camp

    Internationally renowned artist Yuki Kihara – the first Samoan and the first transgender artist to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale – flips the script on an iconic moment in the Western canon

  • An interview with Yuki Kihara

    Traversing the topics of small island ecologies, queer rights and decolonisation, Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp at La Biennale di Venezia 2022 marks a number of firsts for Aotearoa New Zealand’s national pavilion…

  • Culture Summit – Abu Dhabi

    Culture Summit convenes leaders from the field of arts, heritage, media, museums, public policy and technology, to identify ways in which culture can transform societies and communities worldwide…

  • Natalie King – Venice Biennale

    Natalie King is the only Australian curator to have ever curated two national pavilions at Venice Biennales, New Zealand 2022 and Australia 2017.

  • Paradise Camp – NZ at Venice

    Kihara’s work seeks to challenge dominant and singular historical narratives through visual arts, dance, and curatorial practice, engaging with postcolonial history…

  • Enterprise Professor Natalie King on curating ‘Paradise Camp’ for the Venice Biennale

    The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia recently opened with artist Yuki Kihara’s ensemble exhibition, Paradise Camp…