Dark Sky

On 6 June, 2012, the second and last Transit of Venus of this century will occur. Departing from this extraordinary event, the Adam Art Gallery exhibition, Dark Sky, delves into the relationship between photography and astronomy, asking how and why we seek to capture the skies.

Dark Sky is an exhibition conceived by Geoffrey Batchen, leading photographic historian and theorist and Professor of Art History, and curated with Christina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. On Tuesday 1st May at 6pm, Hon Christopher Finlayson Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage will open the exhibition.

The Dark Sky exhibition has received major support from the Australian High Commission; the Goethe Institut; IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen); the MacDiarmid Institute and the Contact Research Cluster at Victoria University of Wellington.