Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania

Aotearoa New Zealand has won one of the world’s most prestigious art prizes.  Mataaho collective have been awarded the Golden Lion by a jury at the 60th Venice Biennale for their large scale work in the main curated exhibition.  Held every two years, the Biennale is dubbed the Olympics of the art world and Mataaho collective’s achievement, as Creative New Zealand’s Amanda Hereaka describes, is “the equivalent of winning a gold medal.”