We’re guessing you’ve seen snippets of Van Gogh Alive on your Insta feed. An immersive exhibition where Gogh’s seminal swirls, stars, sunflowers, snowflakes, and moonshine drift and dance across walls, just as you imagine the painter would have seen them in his own day.
The super-hyped exhibition has been shown in 50 different cities around the world to some six million people (that’s a lot of Insta feeds). And this year a mini version opened to sell out crowds in Wellington with a world-first outdoor exhibition called ‘Digital Nights Wellington’.
Now you'll be able to have your own Emily In Paris moment as the full-scale, indoor exhibition which has toured stadium-sized venues in Wellington and Christchurch this year has just opened in Auckland. Yep, get ready to snap up those tickets, because Auckland has just announced an extended season due to overwhelming demand.
Van Gogh Alive is so much more than what you’ve seen on Instagram too. The multi-sensory exhibition features some 3,000 images beamed across walls, floors, ceilings, and more. The projections move in time to music and specifically designed scents fill each space—it's an experience of timeless artwork akin to diving into Van Gogh’s paint perhaps (Moonlight In Paris-style, if you like).
You'll experience the colours, brush strokes and emotion of Van Gogh's oeuvre at scale—and be drawn into fragments of colour within some of his most seminal work, like The Starry Night, Almond Blossoms and The Red Vineyard—as they are spread across multiple towering screens.
Van Gogh Alive is on at Auckland's Spark Arena until Sunday 23 May 2021.
Tickets for Auckland are on sale here, snap them up before they sell out.
The Details
What: Van Gogh Alive Auckland
When: Daily until 23 May, 2021.
Where: Spark Arena.
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Image credit: Rebecca McMillan Photography, Grande Exhibitions
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