The Future & Other Fictions Exhibition is coming to ACMI this Summer!
From cyberpunk megacities and first knowledges to rewilded landscapes and sci fi renegades, The Future & Other Fictions showcases the people, artworks and ideas that shape tomorrow.
Through more than 180 works, this immersive exhibition invites you to step into the imaginations of 19 creative visionaries from around the globe. Experience how futures are imagined and made onscreen, with artworks, sets, props, scripts, clips, costumes and original design materials on display.
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The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art is coming to GOMA this month!
Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries will feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Bringing compelling new art to Brisbane, the Triennial is a gateway to the rapidly evolving artistic expression of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Alongside artists and makers whose work has not been previously seen in Australia are a raft of ...
Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema is celebrating Tsai Ming-liang!
A major figure of the second wave of Taiwan New Cinema, Tsai's films transcend formal boundaries, increasingly drawing on his concurrent practice as an acclaimed video artist to devise new ways of conceiving cinema. His films are known for their long takes, meditative pacing and engrossing depictions of lonely figures living on the edges of urban metropolises. Key to his practice is his long-standing partnership with his collaborator and muse Lee Kang-sheng, an enigmatic screen presence who ...
Adolescent Wonderland – Solo Exhibition by Naomi Hobson is coming to JWAC!
Flying Arts Alliance is thrilled to announce Adolescent Wonderland, a solo exhibition by acclaimed Indigenous artist Naomi Hobson, will run 4 - 18 November at Judith Wright Arts Centre. This deeply personal and vibrant exhibition offers a window into Hobson’s unique artistic vision and her connection to community, culture, and country.
Naomi Hobson, a multi-disciplinary artist, engages audiences with her work in painting, photography, and ceramics. A winner of The Mervyn Moriarty Landscape ...
Yvonne Rainer – Everything is a Performance is coming to the Australian Cinémathèque!
This program brings together the seven feature films that Rainer directed between 1972 and 1996. Her films blend archival footage, reconstructions, still photography and innovative audiovisual approaches to explore the personal and the political. They are spirited and vital works, brimming with droll humour and literary sophistication. Screening alongside these films is the impressionistic documentary Rainer Variations 2002, which explores Rainer’s life and work while playfully adopting ...
Colina Wymarra unveils two solo exhibitions this month!
Bloodlines at Judith Wright Art Centre from 6th to 20th September, offers a profound exploration of Wymarra's cultural identity, delving into her rich heritage as both a Gudang/Yadhaykenu Woman from Cape York and a Dauareb/Komet Woman from Mer Island in the Torres Strait, while Seasonal Bloodlines, at The Atrium, University of Queensland, from 9th to 16th September offers a unique perspective through the lens of seasonal changes in her cultural heritage.
Wymarra's work is a powerful ...
The Cracked Actor – Bowie on Screen is now screening at GOMA!
Spanning early on-stage performances to major feature film appearances, this collection of David Bowie’s on-screen roles honours the star’s eclectic career in cinema. The films in the program offer a rare opportunity to see the many facets of Bowie’s on-screen persona, including an enigmatic vampire in Tony Scott’s The Hunger 1983, the mysterious inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige 2006 and the infamous alter-ego that started it all, Ziggy Stardust, explosi...
Lightscape returns to illuminate Brisbane with a Dazzling all new experience!
Reimagined for 2024, the globally renowned Lightscape phenomenon of light, colour and sound returns during Brisbane Festival to dazzle visitors with all-new lightworks and installations by local and international artists.
Direct from New York, Chicago and London, tickets are now on sale for internationally renowned Lightscape in Brisbane.
Two exclusive sculptural installations created by Queensland First Nations artists Paul Bong (aka Bindur Bullin) and Michelle Yeatman will take ...
World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 has returned to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
World Press Photo was founded in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized a contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to an international audience. Since then, the World Press Photo Contest has grown into one of the world’s most prestigious competitions, rewarding the best in photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world. Through a successful worldwide exhibition program, the World Press Photo Foundation presents to millions of people the stories ...
Necessary Images The Films of Robert Bresson is coming to GOMA!
This program presents a rare comprehensive retrospective of Bresson’s films, from his early comedy short Public Affairs 1934 to his haunting final treatise L’Argent 1983. It features the first Australian screening of the new digital restoration of the long-unavailable Four Nights of a Dreamer 1971, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Bresson eschewed many of the medium’s traditional emotional signifiers. Early in his career, he began working exclusively with non-pro...
