Useful Objects, Melbourne 18.07.2025 – 06.9.2025 Marcus Piper returns to Useful Objects with an exhibition of new and recent works which explore the expanded field of drawing and mark-making…
Useful Objects, Melbourne 15.05.2025 – 05.07.2025 Trent Jansen: Two Decades of Design Anthropology is a survey exhibition that celebrates Trent Jansen’s first 20 years of design practice, highlighting his evolution…
Useful Objects, Melbourne 20.02.2025 – 12.04.2025 Death and Life marks designer Dean Toepfer’s debut solo exhibition, an evocative exploration of transformation, renewal, and the dualities of human experience. Specialising…
Useful Objects, Melbourne 22.11.2024 – 21.12.2024 & 15.01.2025 – 01.02.2025 Diego Faivre is a French designer and artist based in The Netherlands, known for his playful and conceptual approach to design….
Useful Objects, Melbourne 01.08.2024 – 14.09.2024 Marlo Lyda returns to Melbourne with her first solo exhibition at Useful Objects, bringing together recent bodies of work with a new collaboration…
Useful Objects, Melbourne 15.05.2024 – 13.07.2024 Desire is the subject of the first thematic exhibition at Useful Objects, curated by Simon Maidment. The drive to attain and consume is itself…
Australia Post will move their Melbourne Support Centre to a new Charter Hall building in Burnley, 480 Swan Street, designed by COX Architects. As part of the development,…
Through Broached Consulting, a Public Art Commission for Lowe Living resulted in artist Lisa Young, and her collaborators Kerry Kounnapis and Huw Smith, being engaged to create a…
Conceived a Cultural Strategy for Mirvac, for the commissioning of public artwork at Green Square, which will complement a wonderful building designed by Furtado Sullivan. The site is…
Positioned in the exclusive end of St Kilda Road’s northern precinct, 332 St Kilda Road is the boulevard’s newest A Grade commercial tenancy offering. Architecturally designed by Gray…
Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne 9 DEC 2022 – 16 APR 2023 The first major retrospective exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential artists, Peter Tyndall. Maintaining…
Irish artist Richard Mosse’s moving image work, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Filmed in remote parts…
With a diverse creative practice combining film, drawing and sculpture, and taking inspiration from subjects as varied as literature, mythology, cinema, anthropology, evolutionary biology, religion and the banality…
During my tenure at the National Gallery of Victoria, I hosted and programmed many fundraising events. The most successful and involved of these was an annual tour to…
Matter and motion are all that the cosmos is, and so it is for a painting. In the paintings by Lee Ufan the micro and macro, the singular…
Explore the implications of human extinction and the possibilities of AI with guest speakers and a video provocation by Triennial artist Tabor Robak who examines the relationship between…
NGV INTERNATIONAL 19 DEC 2020 – 18 APR 2021 The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of…
This five-volume publication features contributions by over ninety authors from around the globe and casts a wide gaze across themes that are drawn from the works in the…
Located permanently on the western median strip on St Kilda Road – Melbourne’s most celebrated boulevard – Australian birds. is Julian Opie’s largest LED based public artwork to date….
In Polish artist Alicja Kwade’s large-scale installation WeltenLinie, 2020, nothing is quite what it seems. Using double-sided mirrors and carefully placed, paired objects, Alicja Kwade achieves the illusion of sudden…
With a stated intention to ‘communicate with the masses’, Jeff Koons is one of the most influential and popular artists of his generation. Venus 2016–20 is part of Koons’ ongoing Porcelain series…
Daniel Arsham’s Hidden figures 2020, comprises four human-scale figures drawn from two famed paintings in the State Collection: Giambattista Tiepolo’s The Banquet of Cleopatra 1743–44 and Nicolas Régnier’s Hero and Leander c. 1625–26….
Join Simon Maidment on the @ngvmelbourne Instagram account for a live virtual studio visit with artist Mel O’Callaghan, Wed 21 Oct, 6pm AEST. Maidment and O’Callaghan be talking…
Wednesday 9 Sept 2020, 6pm AEST join Simon Maidment for a virtual studio visit with Nikos Pantazopoulos via the @ngvmelbourne instagram account. Dr Nikos Pantazopoulos explores LGBTIQ+ politics through an…
KAWS is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of his generation. Working across art, fashion and design, he creates colour-filled paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, street and…
The towering work GONE by American artist KAWS is the largest bronze sculpture by the artist to date, standing 7m tall and weighing over 14 tonnes. The work…
NGV International 14 Nov 19 – 19 Apr 20 Shirin Neshat (1957– ) is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Since the early 1990s, her…
A multi-stop curator’s tour of KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness at the National Gallery of Victoria by Simon Maidment. KAWS: THE EARLY DAYS KAWS: THE INFLUENCE…
NGV International, Melbourne 20 SEP 2019 – 13 APR 2020 Brian Donnelly (born 1974), aka KAWS, is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of his generation….
The past forty years in China have seen a significant amount of social, political and cultural change, and we are now living in what has come to be…