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--> 43 Hosier Lane Melbourne
Discover the secret stories behind Melbourne's colourful laneways in a thrilling outdoor exploration game. You're a runaway teen in search of a lost connection, and the city's street art begins...
--> Melbourne
Acknowledge the past, present and future of Treaty with Victoria's First Peoples. 'The technical term for treaty is two parties to come together and strike an understanding, a contract of sorts,...
--> Geelong
Drawing from the Colin Holden Print Collection and the Geelong Gallery Collection, this exhibition brings together works that explore architectural subject matter through the print medium. The...
--> Melbourne
ACMI presents Making Memoir of a Snail Free 8th August 2024 - 1st November 2026 @ Australian Centre for the Moving Image | ACMI Discover the magic behind Adam Elliot's remarkable...
--> 470 Station Street Box Hill
The Alcove Art Shop at Box Hill Community Arts Centre Special pre Mother's day exhibition it will be Raining Cats and Dogs. Opening Night: Monday 27 April 6.30pm - 8.30pm will feature a...
--> Langwarrin
For over fifty years, Aleks Danko has shown an unwavering interest in the ways people interact with art. Now in his mid-seventies, Danko's observations of the absurdities of the art world and...
--> Bulleen
Drawing on artefacts from John and Sunday Reed's Personal Effects Collection. The exhibition places everyday belongings and the tangible traces of life at Heide in dialogue with contemporary...
--> Bulleen
In the early decades of Heide, art and life came together in radical and intimate ways. Alongside the museum's founders John and Sunday Reed, the artists who gathered here challenged societal...
--> 180 Holmes Road Moonee Ponds
Tending the Invasion is a photographic installation by artist Angus Scott, who addresses blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) as a site of ecological, colonial, and personal entanglement. Introduced by...
--> Windsor
Archer Davies was born in the town of Maleny, Queensland. He graduated from the QLD College of Art in 2010. Since then he has traveled and painted consistently. His paintings have been...
--> 111 Sturt St Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Main exhibition gallery Free Artists Callum McGrath Kayla Mattes Kelly Yu Lucy Liu Martine Syms Melissa Nguyen Natasha Matila-Smith Nick...
--> Benalla
Pop-Up Benalla Art Gallery - 75 Bridge Street East HA-HA: Street Art Bushranger Anna Dehm: Cabbage Salad Mervyn Beamish: Shifting Ground Stephanie Cartledge: Shared Waters Karen...
--> 157 St Georges Road Fitzroy North
Red Gallery is pleased to announce new exhibitions 22 April - 3 May 2026 G1 Savaad Felich G2 Interior/Exterior G3 Cocoon - group exhibition G4 Cesar Sanchez Huertas Opening...
--> Newham
Following on from five hugely successful Art in the Vines sculpture exhibitions, Hanging Rock Winery is pleased to present a new exhibition for the 2025/26 season. Annual Sculpture Exhibition Est....
--> NGV International 180 St Kilda Rd Melbourne
NGV International Level 2 This display brings together works by artists and designers from across the Pacific Region (including the Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait islands) and its diasporas....
--> Collingwood
Showing 11,034+ artworks Artbank helps tell the story of contemporary Australian art. Artbank are now one of the largest collections of contemporary Australian art in the world and include...
--> 26 Star Crescent Level 1 Harbour Town Docklands
Become part of the artwork at ArtVo Melbourne. The interactive trick art gallery is your chance to touch the art and strike a pose in front of the mind boggling themed zones. The venue is a fun...
--> Melbourne
Level 2 - The Ian Potter Centre - NGV Australia Fed Square Free entry Explore the history and many styles and stories of Australian art through paintings sculpture decorative arts photography...
--> 27-37 Davey St Frankston
Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits introduces us to Alan Adler (1932 - 2024). Adler, while little known, was likely the most photographed man in Australia and is also the oldest and longest serving...
--> Bulleen
Guest curated by Shell Odgers, Badra Aji's semi-narrative Get the Boy a Dog and Call it a Day seeks to locate a missing half-sister to disprove a hereditary love curse, while exploring...
--> Bulleen
This exhibition will present the most comprehensive survey of the work of the eminent Hungarian-born, French photographer Brassaï yet to be seen in Australia. With a focus on the artist's iconic...
--> Wheelers Hill
In 2026 the Museum of Australian Photography presents a major commission by Brook Andrew, one of Australia's most influential and internationally recognised artists. Working across visual art,...
--> 7-27 Snake Gully Drive Bundoora
Wed- Fri: 11am-4pm | Saturday: 10am-4pm* free admission CAFE Relax in our glorious heritage building where you can admire the magnificent architecture and contemporary art with a coffee,...
--> Windsor
Rooms with a View examines the relationship between interior spaces and the landscapes beyond them. Painted from locations across Paris, Arles, Milan, and New York, the works focus on rooms,...
--> Windsor
Continuum brings together a selection of works that reimagine the bridal laments of Hong Kong's Weitou women, to whom Chan has deep ancestral ties. Through silk paintings, experimental calligraphy...
--> Geelong
Geelong Gallery Saturday 22 November 2025 to Friday 19 November 2027 Free entry In 1890, Monet purchased his home at Giverny, where he began the celebrated Haystacks series. These stacks of...
--> Wheelers Hill
Robert Mapplethorpe from the National Gallery of Australia with new commissions by: Pat Brassington Del Kathryn Barton Jake Preval Meng-Yu Yan Flowers have long stood in for the things we...
--> Melbourne
Step inside the unseen inner worlds of artists to discover the intense, sometimes otherworldly forces that drive creation in Creative Acts. This bold exhibition at State Library Victoria features...
--> Bulleen
This exhibition explores the connections between the work of Richard Crichton, Albert Tucker, and Brett Whiteley during their shared years living at New York's Chelsea Hotel from 1967 and 1969....
--> 322-324 Lennox Street Richmond
Lennox St. Gallery is thrilled to announce 'Etre', an exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture by the internationally renowned artist Dagmar Cyrulla. "My paintings are about what it is like to...
--> St Kilda
Tuesday - Friday + Sundays @ Jewish Museum of Australia The Eva and Marc Besen Contemporary Artist Commission I could have danced all night is a deeply personal exhibition inspired by Danielle...
--> Bulleen
For this exhibition David Jolly delves back through his thirty-year practice to showcase long forgotten paintings from unexpected collections. This exploration of the archive will be complemented...
--> 111 Sturt St Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Main exhibition gallery Free Dhambit Munungurr: Finding blue is a gallery-wide exhibition of more than one hundred works that trace the evolution of...
--> Royal Exhibition Building Carlton Gardens
Draw inspiration from Melbourne's iconic Royal Exhibition Building in this immersive drawing workshop with Richard Payne. Richard Payne was born in Melbourne Australia. Initially Payne trained in...
--> 322-324 Lennox Street Richmond
Developed for Melbourne Design Week, this collaboration between Lennox St. Gallery and ESCULTURA challenges the traditional "white cube" convention where the pedestal is treated as a neutral,...
--> Melbourne
Presented in partnership with Public Transport Victoria, Yarra Trams and Creative Victoria First Peoples Melbourne Art Trams June 2025 - June 2026 On the tracks for 12 months Free A new...
--> Deakin Library Exhibition Space, Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway Burwood
Flapper Said: Exploring the Future of Conversational AI is a multidisciplinary exhibition that investigates how machines speak and how we respond. At its centre is Flapper, a conversational AI...
--> Geelong
Form and Function presents a selection of works by artists recognised for their significant contributions to the development of Australian studio ceramics. Among these are Merric Boyd and his son...
--> Melbourne
First Nations Commissions 2026 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Level 3, First Nations Art 20 Mar - 13 Sep 26, free entry The Country Road + NGV First Nations...
--> 21 Graham Street Albert Park
Go behind the scenes and meet our talented artists and craftspeople that makes Gasworks Arts Park the premier arts precinct in the City of Port Phillip. Take a tour of our heritage multi-arts...
--> 21 Graham Street Albert Park
There are a number of public art pieces within the park as well as the Gasworks Theatre and artists studios. You can immerse yourself in art and history on the Gasworks Arts Tour, stroll through...
--> Geelong
Minimal art emerged in the 1960s alongside other experimental artforms - including conceptual, performance and land art - that challenged traditional forms of Western artistic expression and the...
--> PASCOE VALE NEIGHBOURHOOD FACILITY, 7 Prospect Street Pascoe Vale
GLENROY ART GROUP Inc. AUTUMN ART SHOW AND SALE OF WORKS Our 60th Anniversary Autumn art show 2nd & 3rd May 2026 10 am - 4 pm Friday 1st May Opening night by invitation only. If you...
--> Parkville
@ Ian Potter Museum of Art Participating artists include: Adrian Mauriks, Agnieszka Polska, Alan Craiger-Smith, Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Alexandra Copeland, Angela Goh, Ann Lislegaard,...
--> Bulleen
Artists: Aboubakar Fofana (Mali/France); Siri Hayes (Naarm/Melbourne); Aunty Kim Wandin (Wurundjeri); Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri); Uncle Badger Bates (Barkandji); Zena Cumpston (Barkandji); Margaret...
--> Southbank
Until October 2024 | Free entry NGV International | Level 2 The NGV recently acquired twenty-four sculptures by German-French artist Hans Arp as part of a donation of over two hundred works...
--> Alexandra Ave South Yarra
Weekends: Saturday 2nd January 2027 - Monday 29th March 2027 @ Herring Island - TBC Gallery Open 11am to 4:30pm Weekends + Australia Day + Labour Day + Good Friday + Monday after Easter Proudly...
--> 111 Sturt St Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Main exhibition gallery Free ACCA is thrilled to present Inma Ungu by Zaachariaha Fielding. Inma Ungu is a major new commission by Fielding that...
--> 10 Norma Barnett lane Port Melbourne
From the 'Sailing ' series of Melbourne paintings of Jennifer Webb, this artwork is executed in layers of acrylics and varnishes on linen. It can be purchased online or in person at Port Art...
--> Southbank
John Gollings has been a leading Australian photographer for over fifty years. This collection of his architectural photography bridges modernism and the present day, celebrating Australian...
--> 16 Davies Street Port Melbourne
Recent Abstracts from Melbourne Artist, John Louis Lloyd Melbourne abstract artist, John Louis Lloyd, utilises a range of mixed media and substrates while creating his abstract painting series ....
--> Bulleen
This exhibition surveys three decades of the remarkable achievements of the maverick Australian artist John Perceval, a central figure in the creative circle associated with John and Sunday Reed at...
--> Geelong
Geelong Gallery Free Geelong Gallery's rear facade overlooking Johnstone Park has been transformed with a newly commissioned artwork by contemporary artist Jon Campbell. With his use of...
--> Geelong
Geelong Gallery Free entry With his use of words and phrases as imagery, Jon Campbell captures aspects of popular culture that are both lived and observed, that are local, national and...
--> 111 Sturt St Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Main exhibition gallery Free ACCA is pleased to present This is not the storm, the first Australian solo exhibition by German artist Julius von...
--> Eltham
PERMANENT EXHIBITION Tuesday to Sunday @ The Great Hall - Montsalvat JUSTUS JORGENSEN - RETROSPECTIVE IN THE GALLERY OF THE GREAT HALL Curated by Sigmund Jorgensen "The paintings in this...
--> Bulleen
A chance meeting in 1984 between the Italian-based Australian modernist Ken Whisson (1927-2022) and the regional South Australian artist John Foubister (1954-) led to a lifelong friendship....
--> 111 Sturt St Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Main exhibition gallery Free ACCA is delighted to present Kent Monkman: Miss Chief's picture show, the first Australian solo exhibition by celebrated...
--> 180 Holmes Road Moonee Ponds
Alas-alasan is an exhibition of new textiles and sculptures by Naarm-based artist Leo Bagus Purnomo, featuring traditional batik motifs of animals and plants, where the forest symbolises a liminal...
--> Southbank
Free entry The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Level 3 - Artist Room Thursday 18th September 2025 - Wednesday 26th August 2026 Open daily 10am-5pm Made to move presents from...
--> The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Federation Square Melbourne
The art of Margaret Preston has shaped the cultural and aesthetic landscape of Australia. Born in Adelaide in 1875, Preston (nee McPherson) studied in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, before...
--> Langwarrin
McClelland's permanent collection consists of over 2,000 works of art encompassing sculpture, paintings, photography, works-on-paper and more. When McClelland opened in 1971, its collection...
--> Langwarrin
McClelland is situated at 390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin, approximately 50 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, at the gateway to the Mornington Peninsula. Take the Skye Road exit onto...
--> Melbourne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Level 3 27 Mar - 12 Jul 2026, free entry The depiction of mother and child is one of the oldest and most enduring themes in art history....
--> 111 Sturt St Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Main exhibition gallery Free ACCA is pleased to announce the return of the much-loved NEW exhibition series, celebrating the most compelling emerging...
--> Parkville
@ Ian Potter Museum of Art Tracing its influence through Australian art history and contemporary practice, Ngarn Wa'ngal: Art of the gum tree explores the eucalypt as a source of creative...
--> NNGV International 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia's oldest and most distinguished public art museum. The NGV Collection is spread over two magnificent buildings - NGV International on St Kilda...
--> Melbourne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Fed Square | Ground Level Daily | Free entry With over 150 works Bark Salon is the largest-ever staging of the NGV's dynamic and expansive holdings of...
--> 180 Holmes Road Moonee Ponds
we/us/theirs/all is a major solo exhibition of new works by Murri artist Norton Fredericks that confronts our current epoch of catastrophe. We are living through a liminal timeline between mass...
--> Geelong
National Wool Museum On the Land: Our Story Retold is about the past present and future of Australian wool. It is about people and places and the history of the land. Experience stories...
--> 602 Little Bourke Street Melbourne
On the street where I live: Viva Gibb's portrait of North and West Melbourne Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, Viva Gibb documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived....
--> Langwarrin
This fabulous kinetic work by Phil Price, which was on the Cranbourne Road site adjacent to the Peninsula Link, is now at its new home at McClelland. Come and see the Tree of Life here, along...
--> Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street Melbourne
Old Treasury Building Open 10am - 4pm Sunday to Friday (closed Saturdays) Admission is free. Protest Melbourne is a wonderful exhibition at the Old Treasury Building. The right to protest...
--> NGV International 180 St Kilda Rd Melbourne
NGV International Ground Level Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976 Reykjavik) is heralded as one of the most distinctive contemporary artists working today. Drawing on Western...
--> 322-324 Lennox Street Richmond
Robert Jacks is often defined by the grid, but his relationship with it was a restless, lifelong dialogue. This exhibition, The City Rising, traces that evolution from the late 1960s to his...
--> 3649 Frankston-Flinders Road Merricks
The Sculpture Park is an outdoor gallery within 330 acres of landscaped grounds that offers a gentle promenade around a network of winding paths, leading visitors past over 70 large-scale...
--> 253 Flinders Lane (cnr Degraves St) Melbourne
Free Art @ Gallery at City Library Level 1 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 3000 The exhibition has been inspired by research into biology and microscopy through psychology and neuroscience....
--> St Kilda
Enter a space where colour, sound and recollection come together. Emerging from a rural homestay and a casual invitation to gather from a friend's spring garden, Thank Your Mother For The Chickens...
--> Bulleen
Simone Slee's Light Time comprises new glass and rock sculptures, photography and video works in an installation that unfolds throughout the Heide Modern building, drawing on the architectural and...
--> 322-324 Lennox Street Richmond
The debut exhbition of artist duo Brameld & Staples at Lennox St. Gallery 'We're pleased to announce 'bbq', an exhibition of new works by the multidisciplinary artists Stephen Brameld and Jay...
--> 311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road Healesville
A bold new exhibition exploring creative approaches to precarious times. 2026 marks the return of TarraWarra Museum of Art's TarraWarra International series, paused during and after the pandemic,...
--> 311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road Healesville
Art exhibits in the Grounds and Surrounds of TarraWarra Museum of Art. With its lush lawns and avenue planting, visitors can experience this inspiring setting and the seasonal displays of the...
--> Windsor
Telly Tuita's vibrant practice has been celebrated for his bold exploration of diasporic identity and neo-Pacific expression. Working across video, photography, painting, sculpture and...
--> Southbank
Melbourne's newest gallery, National Gallery for Contemporary Art and Design will open in 2028. NGV Contemporary will be a landmark, new purpose-built gallery dedicated to displaying local,...
--> Cnr Jika Street and Park Lane Heidelberg
Exhibition Now Open. When the men and women who came to be known as the 'Heidelberg Artists' travelled by train to the end of line, what was Heidelberg like? The exhibition is open on Sundays...
--> The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Federation Square Melbourne
Now showing | Free entry Open 10am-5pm daily Level 2 - The Ian Potter Centre The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is home to the Australian art collection including works by the Aboriginal...
--> The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Federation Square Melbourne
See Australia's greatest artists and art, free at the Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia. In May 2004 Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE donated the major part of his incomparable collection of Australian art...
--> 121 King Street Melbourne
The Shape of Thoughts is a free, interactive exhibition exploring what we carry inside - thoughts, emotions and experiences we rarely share. Blending art, psychology and data visualisation, it...
--> Linden New Art, 26 Acland Street St Kilda
Marking four decades of cultural significance, this landmark exhibition celebrates Linden's extraordinary journey from domestic residence to contemporary art institution. The exhibition excavates...
--> Melbourne
@ Melbourne Museum Welcome to Te Vainui O Pasifika | the great waters of the Pacific peoples. This exhibition was made with the Pacific Island Advisory Group and community members as one of...
--> Building 150 The University of Melbourne Parkville
Realised through Monash Art Projects, Melbourne; Geoffrey Wallace Stained Glass, Melbourne; and courtesy of Milani Gallery, Brisbane Towards a glass monument comprises two stained glass screens at...
--> Australia
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Ground Level, NGV Design Studio 13 Mar – 19 Jul 26, free entry The annual Top Arts exhibition provides a platform for emerging artists from...
--> Wheelers Hill
TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries. 2026 marks the 18th anniversary of this award and exhibition, which showcases exceptional...
--> Southbank
NGV International Free entry Featuring more than eighty ambitious and thought-provoking projects, including major new commissions, the 2026 NGV Triennial offers a global journey through...
--> NGV International 180 St Kilda Road Melbourne
A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards, photobooks and magazines, the...
--> Woodend Railway Station Woodend
Permanent Exhibition In 2026, the Woodend Art Walk turns 20.. WAG members have paintings hanging at the Holgate Brewhouse and the Victoria Hotel in High Street. If you haven't already done...
--> Melbourne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Ground Level, First Nations Art Ongoing, free entry Open daily 10am–5pm Wurrdha Marra - meaning 'Many Mobs' in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung...
--> 15-85 Gladstone Street South Melbourne
Romulus Folio Gallery presents Inside Wonder, an exhibition anchored in the work of Xinzhi Li, marking the gallery's one-year anniversary at The Gladstone in South Melbourne. Romulus Folio Gallery...
--> Windsor
Ozawa's work is informed by a lifelong interest in natural phenomena - including seasonal transitions, fog, breeze, rain, light and shadow. Through the past study of Japanese painting, Ozawa...
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