New Vision Gallery
| Established | 1957 |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | October 1986 |
| Location | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Type | Art gallery |
| Founder | Kees Hos and Tina Hos |
New Vision Gallery was a contemporary craft and art gallery operating in Auckland, New Zealand in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
The Gallery was established in 1957 by Dutch artists Kees (Cornelis) Hos (born 1916, The Hague, Netherlands - died 3 December 2015), a printmaker and painter, and his wife, weaver Tina (Albertine) Hos (died 1976), who emigrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1956. Kees and Tina Hos originally opened the New Vision Craft Centre in Takapuna with the aim of making high quality work by New Zealand craftspeople available to the public. The gallery was named after Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy's influential book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture. It became one of a small number of retail spaces and dealer galleries, including Helen Hitchings Gallery in Wellington (opened 1949) and Brenner Associates in Auckland, that showed contemporary craft alongside fine art and design.
In early 1959 the Hoses moved New Vision to His Majesty's Arcade in central Auckland (36°50′52″S 174°45′55″E / 36.847667°S 174.765204°ECoordinates: 36°50′52″S 174°45′55″E / 36.847667°S 174.765204°E), and it became the city's first retail outlet focused on New Zealand potters, jewellers, weaver, and other craftspeople. New Vision became the first retail outlet in Auckland city to concentrate exclusively on the work of New Zealand potters and other craftspeople. In the following years the Hoses became New Zealand's leading dealers for the applied arts. In 1965 the Hoses secured space above the craft gallery to open another gallery, devoted to contemporary art. The decision to open the second gallery was prompted by the closure of the Ikon Gallery, one of the few dealer galleries in Auckland at the time.
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