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…
DIEGO SUPER BONZA STORE at 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…
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 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 consuming,…
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 December 2022 – 16 April 2023 The first major retrospective exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential artists, Peter Tyndall. Maintaining…
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…
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 19/12/2020 – 18/04/2021 The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this…
This five-volume publication features contributions by over eighty authors from around the globe and casts a wide gaze across themes that are drawn from the works in the…
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…
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 20/09/2019 – 13/04/2020 Brian Donnelly (born 1974), aka KAWS, is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of his generation. His body of work straddles…
It is without question that China is today synonymous with change. The past forty years in China – whether in terms of its geopolitical influence and economic position,…
Tue 28 May, 6pm–7pm Clemenger BBDO Auditorium NGV International Taryn Simon is widely recognised as one of the most exciting and renowned conceptual artists of her time, working…
Free public talk, 3:30pm Saturday 16 March 2019, NGV International, Melbourne Art Book Fair. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has emerged as a significant and leading voice in…
This catalogue results from nine conversations between Lee Mingwei and nine curators or institutional directors—Adeline Lépine, Christine Macel, Limor Tomer, Suhanya Raffel, Kathryn Weir, Eugenie Tsai, Stephanie Rosenthal,…
Published to accompany the exhibition Julian Opie at the National Gallery of Victoria, and edited by Dr Simon Maidment, this 264-page title features a wide range of works, each distilling…
NGV INTERNATIONAL9 NOV 18 – 17 FEB 19 The NGV presents the work of Julian Opie, one of Britain’s most influential living artists. Since graduating art school in…
In conversation with Dr Simon Maidment (NGV) and Dr Simone Slee (VCA), Berlin based artist Alicja Kwade provides insights into her artistic practice and recent international projects, including her participation in the 57th…
I have contributed some thoughts on reading the practice of iconic Australian artist Stelarc to an episode of the FIELD WORK podcast, also featuring the artist and the…
The inaugural NGV Triennial was a wild ride, an exhibition of over 100 artists and designers from 32 countries that attracted 1.23 million visitors to the National Gallery…
PhD thesis now available online via the University of Melbourne repository. Undertaken at the Centre for Ideas, Faculty of the Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne….