Other Place
November 7, 2026 —
January 9, 2027

Kainoa Gruspe
Amber Khan
Marques Hanalei Marzan
Nainoa Rosehill
studio m忠

Other Place; Another Place / Otros Lados / 저기 —
a group exhibition in collaboration with TRADES A.i.R.—conceived as an experiment for bringing Hawaiʻi artists to an international marketplace.

Aupuni Space’s lineage demonstrates that “space” has been improvised in response to actual conditions in community rather than designed according to an established commercial model. This exhibition asks how artists can enter international markets without reproducing the extractive conditions through which place, identity, and cultural difference are often rendered marketable. What becomes possible “in market” when potentiality is organized around artists and the nourishment of their practices, rather than around the needs of the market? Is there a form of productive friction? How does bringing artists to market change the equation?

As a working prototype building on artist-led, reciprocal relationships beyond Hawaiʻi, Other Place tests what changes when market access follows the needs, pace, and cultural grounding of artists’ practices. Aupuni Space emerges from a contradiction, incubated outside the structures that conventionally define the contemporary art market, yet directly affected by their absence. The local ecology asks artists and spaces to mobilize—to create support, audiences, resources, and pathways where they did not previously exist.

Featuring Marques Hanalei Marzan, Amber Khan, Kainoa Gruspe, Nainoa Rosehill, and studio m忠, Other Place experiments with how a group of artists might circulate internationally while remaining rooted in the relationships, histories, and material realities that shape their work. This exhibition is a first iteration of a longer proposition: a thesis to be tested, revised, and carried forward into future international presentations in 2027 and 2028. The aim is not simply “visibility” abroad. It is to develop durable forms of exchange, representation, and care—ones that create openings for Kānaka ʻŌiwi and Hawaiʻi-based artists to enter international conversations on terms they help define.