Mathias Kauage
Exhibitions
Recent & Posthumous Exhibitions
- 2024–2026Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA
- 2022Kin, Gallery of Modern Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia
- 2016–2017No. 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966–2016, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
- 2005–2006Imagining Papua New Guinea: Prints from the National Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2000Mathias Kauage: A Retrospective, London, UK
- 1994Kresslesmühle, Augsburg, Germany
- 1992Iwalewa Haus and Town Hall, Bayreuth; Kunstverein, Kronach, Germany
- 1991Forum der Völker, Ethnographic Museum, Werl, Germany; Ethnographic Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 1990Matias Kauage: Malerei aus Papua-Neuguinea, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth; Völkerkundliches Museum, Witzenhausen, Germany
- 1978National Art School, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- 1977National Art School, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- 1976National Art School, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- 1974Queensland Festival of the Arts, Australia
- 1970University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
- 1969University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1999–2000National Maritime Museum, London, UK
- 1996Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
- 1994Painted Pillars, Bayreuth Centenary, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
- 1988Commonwealth Institute, London, UK; Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
- 1986Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
- 1982Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
- 1977University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea
- 1976Murdoch University, Western Australia; Print Council of Australia; Cairns Centenary Festival Exhibition, Australia
- 1975Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Port Moresby; Australian National University, Canberra; University of Western Australia, Perth; Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane; University of New South Wales, Australia
- 1972University of Adelaide; University of Melbourne; University of Sydney; Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- 1971Náprstek Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia; Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, USA; Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji; Traverse Theatre Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
- 1970University of Sussex, UK; University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji; 3rd Festival of the Arts, University of Ife, Nigeria
- 1969Woodcuts by Mathias Kauage and screenprints by Taita Aihi and Georgina Beier, Centre for New Guinea Cultures, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
2024-2026 - Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family
2022 - Kin
2016-2017 - No. 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966–2016
2005-2006 - Imagining Papua New Guinea: Prints from the National Collection
1969 - Woodcuts by Mathias Kauage and screenprints by Taita Aihi and Georgina Beier
Eva Heinemeyer, ed., Matias Kauage: Malerei aus Papua-Neuguinea, Künstler der Welt 3. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1990, pp. 62–63. ISBN 9783893223022.
Mathias Kauage: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, 2000. Chronology, collections and murals.