Pūmanawa Community Exhibition Space

art gallery — Christchurch CBD · Christchurch

About Pūmanawa Community Exhibition Space

The community exhibition space at The Arts Centre in central Christchurch, on Worcester Boulevard. Pūmanawa hosts shows by a broad range of artists, photographers, designers and creative groups, and anyone can ask to hold an exhibition there. Admission to the Arts Centre is free, though some organisations charge an entry fee. Customers describe intimate, independent and unusual shows, including a retrospective of two artists that mixed cultural traditions with quilt art, and an exhibition of more than 860 knitted beanies made by members of the brain cancer community, many of them for sale. The Arts Centre is open from 10am to 5pm daily, except Christmas Day and Good Friday, and on Anzac Day from 1pm to 5pm. There are accessible bathrooms, lifts and two mobility parks each in Market Square and Hereford Street, though access is limited in some buildings.