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Luit Bieringa
Luit Bieringa (born 1942) is a New Zealand art historian, museum consultant and documentary maker.
Bieringa held the position of Director at the Manawatu Art Gallery from 1971 until 1979, when he was appointed as Director of the National Art Gallery of New Zealand. He held this position until 1989. He is a champion of photography in New Zealand, promoting it on a national level with major exhibitions at the National Art Gallery during his directorship, including NZ surveys and retrospectives of the photography of Peter Black
Jacqueline Fraser and Robyn Kahukiwa but several withdraw after concerns about material included in the book which they felt to breach tapu.
Shona Rapira Davies and Robyn Kahukiwa collaborate on the exhibition "Whakamaemae" ('To feel pain') at City Gallery Wellington; the exhibition includes Rapira Davies' major sculptural work "Nga Morehu".
1989
Following on from the exhibition of Kruger's work, National Art Gallery director Luit Bieringa curates an exhibition of work by photographer Cindy Sherman, also staged at Shed 11.
1990s