The Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery celebrates painter, architect, ecologist and visionary Friedensreich Hundertwasser and contemporary Māori artists. The Austrian New Zealand artist Hundertwasser, who lived in New Zealand from 1973 to 2000, was first and foremost a painter but became involved in architecture and environmental activism because of his concerns about the exploitation of natural resources and ruthless urbanisation. The design of the Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery was based on initial sketches by Hundertwasser himself thirty years ago. In this presentation, Dr Joost de Bruin, Director of the Hundertwasser Art Centre, will reflect on Hundertwasser’s legacy and how it is represented in the Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery. He will discuss Hundertwasser’s vision of the ‘Five Skins’ that articulates how we are all defined by our bodies, our clothes, our homes, our identity and the earth on which we live.