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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…
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 INTERNATIONAL 9 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 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…
Featuring more than 100 artists and designers from thirty-two countries, NGV Triennial 2017 surveys the world’s best art and design. Their cutting-edge work represents a diversity of cultures,…
NGV INTERNATIONAL 15 DEC 2017 – 15 APR 2018 Featuring the work of over 100 artists and designers from 32 countries, the inaugural NGV Triennial surveys the world of art and…
Gareth Sansom: Transformer, edited by Simon Maidment, accompanies the solo exhibition at NGV Australia of Gareth Sansom. It includes 130 works from the artist’s sixty-year career, as well…
NGV AUSTRALIA 15 SEPT 2017 – 28 JAN 2018 Victorian artist Gareth Sansom is one of Australia’s most highly regarded painters. A pre-eminent figure of the Australian avant-garde for…
For Simon Maidment, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, artist Brook Andrew’s Vox Beyond Tasmania has an inexhaustible power similar to that of many…
David Hockney: Current is a new landmark publication exploring the artist’s oeuvre and works over the past decade, edited by Simon Maidment. This major and illustrated volume includes…