The World Over: Art in the Age of Globalisation

8 June - 11 August 1996 in the Entire Gallery
The World Over is a joint venture between City Gallery Wellington and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.  The project presents simultaneous exhibitions held at the North/South antipodes of Amsterdam, Holland and Wellington, New Zealand. Curated by independent curator Wystan Curnow and Dorine Mignot of the Stedelijk, the exhibitions draw together work by contemporary artists who are concerned with the recent major political events and rapid advances in technology that have re-shaped the world and globalised the globe.

All the works in the exhibition relate to three ways of figuring the world as a whole: as panorama; as sphere or globe; and as nexus of global information. They bring to the theme images to do with landscape, tourism, cartography, cultural difference and electronic information exchange and distribution.

Exhibiting Artists: Lothar Baumgarten, Stanley Brown, James Lee Byars, Phil Dadson, Wim Delvoye, Jan Dibbets, Johan Grimonprez, Suchan Kinoshita, Colin McCahon, Matt Mullican, Nam June Paik, Michael Parekowhai, Rob Scholte, Gerry Schum, Jeffrey Shaw, Gary Simmons, Robert Smithson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, David Tremlett, Imants Tillers, Ger van Elk, Gerald van der Kaap, Bill Viola, Ruth Watson,  Laurie Anderson, Paul Garrin, John Hurrell, Giovanni Intra, Richard Killeen, Jouke Klerenbezem, Merel Mirage, Netband, Han Schuil, Janet Shanks and Peter Struycken.