Coca Gallery
Art en Christchurch
www.coca.org.nz
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We’ve been showcasing contemporary art since 1880 to provoke new thinking and conversations in a rapidly changing world. Visiting History News Opportunities Supporters Volunteer Associates Venue Hire. Formed in 1880 as the Canterbury Society of Arts CSA , we were the first organisation in Christchurch to exhibit and collect works of art. Since 1880, we have played a significant role in supporting and advocating the arts in Canterbury, exhibiting the early work of generations of leading New Zealand artists, including Petrus van der Velden, Raymond McIntyre, Margaret Stoddart, Rhona Haszard, Frances Hodgkins, W. From the beginning, our objective was to nurture people's relationship with, and love for, art. The Annual Report for emphasised this, stating that the CSA had the express purpose of spreading a love of artistic work through the community. Over 135 years we have reflected and nurtured both change in the arts as well as social and cultural change. In an effort to meet the needs and desires of both the artistic community and the wider public, we performed the roles of a public gallery, dealer gallery and a traditional art society, more often playing all three roles at one time. Over the twentieth century the kind of work exhibited expanded as definitions and practice of art broadened, including not only sketches, drawings and sculpture but print making, textile art, pottery, photography, architecture, graphic design, performance, post object and conceptual art. The diversity of our exhibitions have been a mix of enthusiastic amateurism and avant garde practice, gaining us a reputation in 1968 as being a very swinging place . In 1996 we changed our name, focus and legal structure, with the CSA transforming to become the Centre of Contemporary Art CoCA , a place where the 'diversity of cultural production' was embraced. Collecting New Zealand art and in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europrean art was one of the original, stated purposes of th
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