Exhibition | Visual Art

Exhibition | Visual Art Events


When: Saturday 2nd May 2026:

Catgeory: Exhibition | Visual Art on Saturday 2nd May 2026:

How many: 64

Calendar: Exhibition | Visual Art


A New Universe - Architecture in Print
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..
Melbourne

Alcove Art Shop: Raining Cats and Dogs
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..
Melbourne

Aleks Danko: A(GAP)E
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 ar..
Melbourne

Always Modern: Radical Nurture
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 chal..
Melbourne

Angus Scott: Tending the Invasion
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...
Melbourne

Art @ Pop-Up Benalla Art Gallery
Pop-Up Benalla Art Gallery - 75 Bridge Street East CURRENT EXHIBITIONS POP-UP BENALLA ART GALLERY - GALLERY SHOP Anna Dehm: Cabbage Salad 2 Mar - 31 May 2026 BENALL..
Melbourne

Art Exhibitions @ red gallery
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 ..
Melbourne

Art of the Pacific | From the NGV Collection
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 d..
Melbourne

ArtVo | Trick Art - Open Hours & Tickets
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. T..
Melbourne

Australian Art @ NGV Australia
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 decorativ..
Melbourne

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits
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 an..
Melbourne

Badra Aji: Get the Boy a Dog and Call it a Day
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 explo..
Melbourne

Bundoora Homestead | Open
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 a..
Melbourne

Claude Monet: Haystacks, midday
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..
Melbourne

CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent
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 i..
Melbourne

Creative Acts: Artists and Their Inspirations
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..
Melbourne

Crichton, Tucker, Whiteley: The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967-69
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 1..
Melbourne

Escultura X Bettina Willner, Claudia Terstappen, and Christopher Jewitt: Pas de Deux
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..
Melbourne

First Peoples Melbourne Art Trams 2025-6
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 mont..
Melbourne

Flapper Said: Exploring the Future of Conversational AI
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 c..
Melbourne

Form and Function - Australian Studio Ceramics
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 Merr..
Melbourne

FUTURE COUNTRY | Country Road + NGV
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..
Melbourne

Gasworks Public Sculptures
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 Tou..
Melbourne

Geelong Gallery Collection: Minimal
Minimal art emerged in the 1960s alongside other experimental artforms - including conceptual, performance and land art - that challenged traditional forms of Western artistic expr..
Melbourne

Glenroy Art Group Inc Art & Craft Show
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 invita..
Melbourne

Group Exhibition: A velvet ant, a flower, and a bird
@ Ian Potter Museum of Art Participating artists include: Adrian Mauriks, Agnieszka Polska, Alan Craiger-Smith, Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Alexandra Copeland, Angela Go..
Melbourne

Hans Arp
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 tw..
Melbourne

Jennifer Webb: Sailing on Albert Park Lake
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 perso..
Melbourne

John Gollings
John Gollings has been a leading Australian photographer for over fifty years. This collection of his architectural photography bridges modernism and the present day, celebrati..
Melbourne

John Louis Lloyd: Recent Abstracts
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..
Melbourne

John Perceval: All That We Are
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 a..
Melbourne

Jon Campbell - DUNNO
Geelong Gallery Free Geelong Gallery's rear facade overlooking Johnstone Park has been transformed with a newly commissioned artwork by contemporary artist Jon Campbell. ..
Melbourne

Jon Campbell - yEAH / dUNNO
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, ..
Melbourne

Julius von Bismarck: This is not the storm
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..
Melbourne

Justus Jorgensen And Matcham Skipper Retrospective
PERMANENT EXHIBITION Tuesday to Sunday @ The Great Hall - Montsalvat JUSTUS JORGENSEN - RETROSPECTIVE IN THE GALLERY OF THE GREAT HALL Curated by Sigmund Jorgensen "The p..
Melbourne

Leo Bagus Purnomo: Alas-alasan
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 symb..
Melbourne

Lisa Waup: TRACE
MARS is delighted to announce renowned artist Lisa Waup's solo exhibition TRACE. As shown in Tarrawarra Biennial 2025, TRACE is to follow what is no longer fully visible. It i..
Melbourne

Made to Move | Australian Jewellery 1960-2020
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..
Melbourne

McClelland Collection
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, i..
Melbourne

McClelland Gallery | Open Hours & Admission
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 ..
Melbourne

Metartworld - Open Hours & Tickets
Opening Hours Weekdays: 10am–6pm Weekends: 10am–7pm @ Boundary Street, Port Melbourne A One-of-a-kind Art Space ART that you can touch and interact with Metal..
Melbourne

MOTHER | Stories from the NGV Collection
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..
Melbourne

NGV International: Art Collection
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 Interna..
Melbourne

NGV: Bark Salon - Bark Paintings Exhibition
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 expans..
Melbourne

Norton Fredericks: we/us/theirs/all
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 timel..
Melbourne

On The Land: Our Story Retold
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. Experi..
Melbourne

Robert Jacks: The City Rising
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..
Melbourne

Sean McDowell: Infusion; Diffuse
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..
Melbourne

Shani Alexander - Thank Your Mother For The Chickens
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 Moth..
Melbourne

Simone Slee: Light Time
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 a..
Melbourne

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release
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 a..
Melbourne

TarraWarra Museum of Art | Grounds and Surrounds
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 ..
Melbourne

Telly Tuita: A Tongpop Tale - Memoirs Of A Professional Brown Man
Telly Tuita's vibrant practice has been celebrated for his bold exploration of diasporic identity and neo-Pacific expression. Working across video, photography, painting, sculp..
Melbourne

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia: Australian Art Collection
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 b..
Melbourne

The Joseph Brown Collection - Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia
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 collectio..
Melbourne

The Shape of Thoughts
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 vi..
Melbourne

Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 years of Linden New Art
Marking four decades of cultural significance, this landmark exhibition celebrates Linden's extraordinary journey from domestic residence to contemporary art institution. The e..
Melbourne

Top Arts 2026 | VCE Young Artists
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 em..
Melbourne

TOPshots 2026
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 sho..
Melbourne

Treaty - Understand the past, present and future
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 c..
Melbourne

Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light
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 a..
Melbourne

Woodend Art Walk
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 ha..
Melbourne

Wurrdha Marra: First Nations Art
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 Wurund..
Melbourne

Xinzhi Li: Inside Wonder
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. Ro..
Melbourne



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