Sutton Gallery are pleased to present works by Karen Black and Peter Robinson in this year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary. Marking the 10th anniversary of the fair, the presentation brings together two forerunning practitioners who are interested in complicating traditional modes of representation. Reworking surfaces through energetic gestures, both artists question the neutrality of their medium while conveying the intense and frenetic nature of the human experience.
Sutton Gallery | Booth B08 Sydney Contemporary 2–6 September 2026 Carriageworks Sydney, NSW
Peter Robinson in Serakai Studio’s exhibition ‘CERTAINLY TOKYO’ at Path Omotesando, Tokyo
Drawing from the exhibition at GOLD in Hong Kong earlier this year, Serakai Studio curatorial director Tobias Berger is presenting the second iteration of the group show CERTAINLY at Path Omotesando in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Works from Peter Robinson’s recent sculptural series Charcoal Drawings will be exhibited alongside textured, gestural works on paper.
CERTAINLY TOKYO 5 July – 30 September 2026 Serakai Studios at Path Omotesando Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Peter Robinson has been interviewed in an article on the launch of Gold, the new art space by Serakai Studios in Hong Kong. On the occasion of the exhibition Certainly (curated by Tobias Berger), Robinson was interviewed on his inclusion in the show.
Speaking on his work featured in the show, Robinson states, “So much of my practice is about setting up a system or a structure — a set of rules, if you like — and then seeing what happens when I introduce an element of chaos, or when the material itself starts to push back.”
Dean Napolitano “A New Space Built to Replicate an Old-Fashioned Art Salon” 23 March 2026 The New York Times
Peter Robinson in Certainly at Serakai Studio’s GOLD, Hong Kong
We are pleased to announce the exhibition of new sculptural and wall-based works by Peter Robinson at Serakai Studio’s recently opened arts hub GOLD. Located in Hong Kong’s contemporary art hub Wong Chuk Hang, the exhibition Certainly brings together eleven international artists whose practices lean into ideas of uncertainty.
Curated by Tobias Berger, the exhibition explores the tension between process and outcome, fostering a dialogue of artworks that treat deviation not as error but as generative force. Three free-standing aluminium sculptures from the artist’s acclaimed Charcoal Drawings series feature prominently, alongside both wall-based and sculptural works on paper, each honing a spirit of uncertainty through experimental methodologies of un-knowing and revision.
Certainly 20 March – 3 May 2026 GOLD, Serakai Studio, Hong Kong
Peter Robinson: Charcoal Drawing, at ChristChurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Presenting Peter Robinson in ‘Charcoal Drawing’ at Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand; a roomful of industrial-scale beams folded into unexpected and compelling new forms.
In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Powder-coated aluminium beams are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives way to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) plays with line, form and shadow to construct a spectacular, supersized installation that visitors can walk past, around and through.
Peter Robinson and Giorgio Griffa at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery
The second in a series of dialogue exhibitions made at Te Uru since 2024 in which artists from Aotearoa are paired with international artists, Differences in kind and rhythm presents new work by Robinson (Ngāi Tahu, b.1966, Hakatere) alongside Italian abstract painter Giorgio Griffa (b.1936, Turin).
Despite being artists of different generations, backgrounds, and contexts, Griffa and Robinson both use repeat forms and processes in their work. Marking the first time Griffa’s work will be exhibited in the Southern Hemisphere, the exhibition addresses the related concepts of repetition and difference, emergence and continuum.
The exhibition will be accompanied by richly illustrated publication, launching 26 July at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery.
Giorgio Griffa, Peter Robinson Differences in kind and rhythm 8 June – 24 August 2025 Te Uru Contemporary Gallery Titirangi, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Peter Robinson’s solo exhibition Charcoal Drawing has recently opened at the Whangārei Art Museum in Whangārei, Aoetearoa New Zealand.
Stretching across two spaces of the museum, the exhibition features an assembly of congruent quasi-sculptures. Posited here as line drawings conducted in space, Robinson’s liberal and malleable handling of the material gestures toward rudimentary or reduced forms such as spirals, ships or waves. Composed of a burnt-wood-veneer aluminium, Robinson’s installation makes reference to the longstanding Minimalist interest in a phenomenological experience of sculpture in the museum space with each outstretching yet recoiling sculpture indiscriminately plotting various lengths of the gallery.
Peter Robinson Charcoal Drawing Whangārei Art Museum 8 September – 8 December 2024
Peter Robinson and Sara Hughes at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand
Peter Robinson’s sculpture Universe (2001) and and Sara Hughes painting RAM (2004) are included in the forthcoming landmark exhibition Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection. Organised by the City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi, the exhibition will be presented at Te Papa as a part of the Chartwell 50th Anniversary special programming.
Described as a “big noisy group show featuring contemporary art made by Gen X artists”, the exhibition draws from one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant contemporary art collections, the Chartwell Collection, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Featuring a diverse range of national and international artworks, made during the 90s and early 2000s, the exhibition spans painting, sculpture, installation, sound and video. The artists included address concerns ranging from globalisation, capitalism and the culture wars to identity politics, third-wave feminism, and the commodification of art schools.
Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection Te Papa Tongarewa | Museum of New Zealand 27 July – 20 October 2024
Peter Robinson participating in the symposium ‘The in and the out of it’ at Artspace Aotearoa
On the occasion of the two-person exhibition Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson at Artspace Aotearoa, the institution will host a symposium entitled ‘The in and the out of it’ on Saturday 9th March.
The symposium aims to explore the zones of the artworld(s) by presenting a variety of positions from across the motu spanning artistic practice; collection politics; and the productions of art history. During the symposium, Peter Robinson will be in conversation with artist Ngahuia Harrison to discuss the exciting yet ambivalent process of moving work from a studio, community, or whānau context, into the public realm. They will address questions such as ‘What types of supportive protocols do artists establish to navigate this?’ and ‘What is the in and the out of the studio?’ throughout the talk, which will be followed by a Q&A.
This symposium is a Chartwell 50th Anniversary 2024 Project. Space is limited and booking is essential.
The in and the out of it (Symposium) Artspace Aotearoa Saturday, 9 March 2024 10:00 – 15:30 NZDT
Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson at Artspace Aotearoa
Artspace Aotearoa will present a two-person exhibition showcasing the work of seminal German artist Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985) and leading Aotearoa artist Peter Robinson. Coupled together here to examine how each artist establishes grammars of expression by testing out systems of assembly, seriality, and repetition, Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson will showcase each artist’s proficiency to push at the intrinsic nature of space and its undeniably social potential.
Presented in dialogue here, the presentation at Artspace Aotearoa examines the process through which their respective work asks fundamental questions of us as an audience: what are the rules of engagement here? How do we relate to one another? Do we want to participate in this? What happens next? Expanding on this, both artists have necessarily wrestled with the legitimacy of art and the artworld as a territory where change can happen. Spanning sculpture, painting, film, and archival documentation, in this exhibition we encounter an arc of contemporary sculptural practice that calls up its very emergence as a Western construct in mid 20th-century Europe to our present-day Aotearoa.
In this artworld-in-the-world we are invited to consider our bodies in relation to edges, where one thing ends and another begins. This activates the spatio-political quality of time with both artists tapping into this ambiguity: time as a monetizable measure, as an expressive singularity, as a language. This exhibition dives into form: waka, or tongues, or chimneys, or motorways, as well as the labour that it takes to produce all of this—our world in which we live together.
Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson Artspace Aotearoa 10 February – 6 April 2024
Peter Robinson ‘Kā Kaihōpara’ at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Peter Robinson’s major new exhibition ‘Kā Kaihōpara’ is open at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Kā Kaihōpara is a journey of discovery – exploring concepts, materials, and ways of making and seeing. Taking the material language of modern building and construction, Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) creates a speculative and open-ended installation that navigates audiences through ideas that have been occupying him over a recent period of research.
