The Kit

The Kit pilot programme ran from September 2023-August 2024, details of this programme can be found below. Watch this space for updates on the future of The Kit programme.

The Kit is currently available as a multi-purpose space hire, see below for more details.

The Kit is a subscription-based resource facility located on the basement level of Artspace Aotearoa in the former sorting room of the Tāmaki Makaurau central post office. Like the sorting room, The Kit seeks to sift and connect, making sure skills, support, and cohort are enabled post-art school, or as practitioners seek to deepen their professional capabilities.

The Kit offers two key services to subscribers who pay a one-off annual subscription fee:

  • access to professional skills labs offered monthly
  • 1:1 consultation with the technical team to problem-solve production processes

In addition, as a subscriber you can rent the large multi-purpose space for rehearsal, production tests, documenting work etc for an additional fee on a single-day basis.

Individual 75 NZD, September 2023-August 2024
Organisations 300 NZD September 2023-August 2024

*we welcome payment in instalments. For more information email thekit@artspace.org.nz

Large multi purpose space with capacity for up to 50 seated guests, or 20 free-floating guests

1:1 CONSULTATION

Sessions with our technicians are available to Kit subscribers.

For all enquiries please contact thekit@artspace.org.nz

Workshop area suitable for up to five skills lab participants

Multi-purpose Space Hire

The multi-purpose space on Artspace Aotearoa’s basement level is available to rent daily. Single-day hire is available at the scales of:

Individual $400
Organisation $1200
Corporate $2000

More information here: hire-outline.pdf

SKILLS LABS LIST

30 September - Digital Media for exhibition with Zixuan Guo
14 October - Caring for Contemporary art with Claire Olsen
11 November - Canvas Fabrication with Rea Burton
25 November - Health and Safety in the gallery space with Luke Boyle
9 and 10 December - Introduction to woodwork with Luke Boyle
10 February - An Introduction to Colour Management with Sanji Karu from Skar Image Lab
24 February - Dialogues on exhibition making with Ema Tavola and Ruth Buchanan
31 August - Introduction to tax and precedents for artists with Harry Cundy and Ruth Buchanan
16 and 17 March - Introduction to casting with Susu
6 April - Language tools for the arts with Liam Jacobson and Robbie Handcock