Spotlight: Taika Waititi’s Images Exhibition for Zeekr Opens to the  Public in Auckland

AUCKLAND, August 2026 – Premium electrical car model Zeekr has  collaborated with filmmaker, author and actor Taika Waititi to create Spotlight, set  to open to the general public from 17–20 September 2026.  

The exhibition is a brand new photographic undertaking by Waititi, bringing the identical eye  that has formed his celebrated movie and tv work to a brand new physique of nonetheless  photographs. Free and open to the general public, Spotlight provides Aucklanders the possibility to  see the work firsthand in an intimate gallery setting.  

Waititi, whose work has carried a distinctly native, unmistakably Aotearoa  sensibility onto the world stage, brings that very same sensibility to Spotlight. Each of  the seven photographs portrays a particular scene, lit by the headlights of the Zeekr  7X.  

Spotlight explores the notion that concepts hardly ever announce themselves, however as a substitute  typically emerge uninvited and sudden, and a second the place the unusual can  develop into extraordinary.  

Through seven distinctive creations, Zeekr invitations viewers into Taika Waititi’s  creativeness, with every world showing as an concept may first seem to its  creator; rising from the darkish and instantly vivid.  

“This process and creating each scene has had lots of parallels to filmmaking.  The Zeekr team let me run with this idea, which gave this collaboration the  appeal for me”, says Waititi.  

Frank Li, Managing Director, Zeekr Australia and New Zealand, mentioned: “Zeekr is a  brand built on challenging convention, which is why this collaboration with Taika  felt like such a natural fit. ‘Spotlight’ transforms the Zeekr 7X from a means of  transport into a creative tool, helping bring bold ideas to life. We’re excited to  share this experience and celebrate a uniquely creative voice.”  

Dane Fisher, Group General Manager of NordEast, Zeekr’s New Zealand  distributor, says the model wished to interact a New Zealand viewers in a approach  that speaks to tradition, past an automotive dialog.  

“We describe our Zeekr community as being in a ‘Lane of One’, Kiwi who define  their own path, and we chose to collaborate with Taika to create Spotlight because he absolutely epitomizes this ethos. The perspective he’s brought to this  project is unmistakably his,” says Fisher.  

Spotlight by Zeekr in collaboration with Taika Waititi runs from 17-20 September  2026 at Studio 230 in Ponsonby, Auckland, with free entry.