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Marlo Lyda

Useful Objects01.08.2024 – 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 with Melbourne’s…

DESIRE x DESIGN

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,…

480 Swan Street, Burnley

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,…

Emerald Place

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…

Green Square

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…

332 St Kilda Road

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…

Peter Tyndall

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…

NGV Triennial 2020

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…

Shirin Neshat: Dreamers

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…

KAWS exhibition tour

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…

KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness

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…

Julian Opie

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…

Awards for NGV Triennial

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…

Agency and affect: curating political change

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….

NGV Triennial 2017-18

NGV INTERNATIONAL15 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 design,…

Gareth Sansom: Transformer

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…

David Hockney: Current

NGV INTERNATIONAL11 NOV 2016 – 13 MAR 2017 The NGV presents a major solo exhibition of one of the most influential living artists, David Hockney: Current. The exhibition,…

Lee Mingwei: The Moving Garden

NGV INTERNATIONAL 15 OCT 2016 – 29 JAN 2017 Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei is internationally recognised as one of the leading creators of art which invites audience participation….

Shut up and paint

NGV INTERNATIONAL 17 SEP 2016 – 12 FEB 2017 Shut Up and Paint is an exhibition that celebrates and examines contemporary painting in the NGV Collection, coinciding with…

Subodh Gupta: Everyday Divine

NGV INTERNATIONAL 13 MAY – 23 OCT 2016 Subodh Gupta: Everyday Divine is a solo exhibition of one of India’s pre-eminent contemporary artists, Subodh Gupta, curated by Simon…

Richard Mosse: The Enclave

NGV INTERNATIONAL 10 OCT 2015 – 28 FEB 2016 Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and recently acquired by the National Gallery…

Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism And Its Echoes

NGV Australia 9 October 2015 to 31 January 2016 Lurid Beauty presents over 200 paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, fashion, films and photographs as well as considering theatre and…

Ryan Trecartin: Re’Search Wait’S

NGV INTERNATIONAL 15 MAY – 13 SEP 2015 Ryan Trecartin is recognised as one of the most inventive and exciting young artists working today, described by New Yorker…

Carsten Höller with Simon Maidment & Louise Neri

Speaking in the NGV Great Hall, in view of his magnificent participatory sculpture Golden Mirror Carousel 2014, Carsten Hӧller shares insights into his unique approach to art making,…

Carsten Höller: Golden Mirror Carousel

NGV INTERNATIONAL 10 OCT 2014 – 5 MAR 2015 Artist Carsten Höller works to turn reality on its head, creating situations through which we can reimagine how we…

SITUATION exhibition and symposium

RMIT Design Hub is hosting SITUATION from 23 July to 3 August 2014, an exhibition and platform for the 7th IDEA international symposium on Interior Design. http://www.situation14.com/

David McDiarmid: When This You See Remember Me

NGV AUSTRALIA, FEDERATION SQUARE 9 MAY – 31 AUG 2014 I never saw art as being a safe thing. I know that exists but that’s not something that…

Satellite Art Projects

I’ve never really documented the projects I developed and curated as Director of Satellite Art Projects on this site (which I’ve always seen as a sort of incidental…

Melbourne Now

National Gallery of Victoria NGV International & NGV Australia 22 November 2013 – 23 March 2014 As one of my first projects with the NGV, I contributed as…

The Telepathy Project [en]counters

The Telepathy Project, artists Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples, presented Dreaming the Arabian Sea as part of the [en]counters program, a performance on Juhu Beach, North Mumbai, Sunday…