See Hawai‘i Triennial 2025’s Featured Artists at Capitol Modern
Hawai‘i Triennial starts on Saturday, Feb. 15, with Capitol Modern one of the venues hosting art exhibitions and free public events.
Jane Jin Kaisen, Guardians (still), 2024, single-channel film, 4, color, stereo sound, 12 mins. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Get excited for the largest contemporary art exhibition in Hawai‘i. We are extremely fortunate to have nonprofit art organization Hawai‘i Contemporary bring together artists and art collectives from Hawai‘i, across the Pacific and beyond to create Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25).
Curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, the triennial’s official theme is Aloha Nō—“a call to know Hawai‘i as a place of resilience, radical love, and deep connectivity.” In the HT25 guidebook, the curators state that Aloha Nō “invites all of us—natives, settlers, immigrants and visitors—to know aloha and embody new understandings of love as acts of care, resistance, solidarity, and transformation.”
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A special launch event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 15, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Capitol Modern, followed by an opening celebration bash at the HT25 Hub at Pacific Davies Center from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
Capitol Modern will feature HT25 artists Rebecca Belmore, Kahi Ching, Rocky Ka‘iouliokahihikolo‘Ehu Jensen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Sung Hwan Kim, Lehuauakea, Jumana Manna, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Sancia Miala Shiba Nash, Carl F.K. Pao, Russell Sunabe, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Warraba Weatherall. The works by these 14 artists will represent and emphasize “a focus on healing, sovereignty and transnational solidarity.”
Lehuauakea, Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai, 2018. Photo: Courtesy of Mario Gallucci, Collection of National Gallery of Victoria.
Take your time in the galleries with their dynamic and thought-provoking sculptures, paintings, films and more. Pick up a free HT25 guidebook to get more in-depth information about the artists and artwork as well as where you can find more exhibition locations and public events.
On Monday, Feb. 17, from 7 to 9 p.m., Capitol Modern will host a screening of Homegrown, a fascinating video portrait of Honolulu-based HT25 artist Russell Sunabe. Stick around afterward for a discussion moderated by its creators Kekahi Wahi.
For more info on HT25’s free public programs, visit hawaiicontemporary.org.
Hawai‘i Triennial on view through May 4, free admission, Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Capitol Modern, 250 S. Hotel St., capitolmodern.org, @capitolmodern
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Lisa Shiroma is a correspondent for Capitol Modern and an artist. She is the former owner of the Capitol Modern Museum Gallery Shop, which she ran with partners Aly Ishikuni and Travis Sasaki from Mori by Art + Flea.
