Imagine the delight of receiving birthday wishes inside a handmade card, crafted by someone who shares your birthday, but whom you’ve never met. That’s the magic behind Hong Kong–based Japanese artist and architect Hikoko Ito’s joyous installation, Happy Birthday 2U2. She has constructed 366 mailboxes – one for every birthday of the year. Each box contains… Read More »Hikoko Ito: Happy Birthday 2U2
Artists in Focus is a changing presentation of works from the MCA Collection. Each room in the exhibition is dedicated to a different artist or community, showcasing Collection highlights alongside major works from private collections and artists' estates. A number of the works have not previously been displayed. The MCA is the only public museum… Read More »MCA Collection: Artists in Focus
Created in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, Tails from the Coasts: Nature Stories of Singapore debuts at the Australian Museum, sharing a glimpse of this precious and prestigious national collection which showcases natural history, biodiversity and conservation from the Malay Peninsula and Australia. This exhibition explores the common bonds of biodiversity between Australia… Read More »Tails From The Coasts
The first solo museum exhibition by Warraba Weatherall. Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall (b. 1987, Toowoomba, Queensland) considers how knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture is collected and conveyed by institutions. Throughout the 19th and into the 20th centuries, Aboriginal peoples were subjected to widespread and systematic colonial policies of surveillance and… Read More »Warraba Weatherall: Shadow and Substance
"Dreams don't discriminate - they are borderless, ageless and endless. They can be personal or public. When shared, our dreams can become a movement. They can inspire, motivate, spark excitement and connection. The whole world dreams, it is something we have in common, something that unites us. Our human story is embedded ind reams, they… Read More »2025 Vivid Sydney – “Dream”
This year Vivid Sydney invites you to dream—to step beyond the everyday and into a city transformed by light, imagination, technology and creativity. Dive into the 2025 festival program as we transform the city into a vibrant canvas from 23 May to 14 June, with events spanning Light, Music, Ideas and Food. This year's Vivid… Read More »Vivid Sydney
Cerith Wyn Evans creates epic contemporary environments of light and sound in our major winter exhibition. Conceived as if the audience were strolling through a garden, the exhibition will invite visitors to meditate and contemplate their own passage through space and time. Monumental light sculptures will occupy the MCA’s double-height exhibition galleries, including F=O=U=N=T=A=I=N (2020),… Read More »Cerith Wyn Evans …. in light of the visible
Now in its 32nd year, Future Fashion showcases the next generation of Australian designers emerging from tertiary fashion and textiles courses at four Sydney-based institutions: TAFE NSW, Torrens University Australia, University of Technology Sydney and Whitehouse Institute of Design. This year’s exhibition features outfits from the final-year collections of graduates, highlighting creativity, critical thinking and… Read More »Future Fashion
Discover intricate LEGO® civilisations thriving inside treasured objects from our past. A vintage refrigerator becomes a cryogenic health resort, a typewriter transforms into a newspaper headquarters, and a Volkswagen Beetle houses an energy revolution—each with hundreds of hidden stories waiting to be uncovered. Exhibition Highlights: 14 immersive displays combining vintage objects with intricate LEGO® worlds… Read More »RELICS: A New World Rises
For the 38th Kaldor Public Art Project, John Kaldor has invited German artist Thomas Demand to create an extraordinary exhibition space in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Naala Badu building, specifically designed to display the John Kaldor Family Collection in a whole new light. Demand has developed a remarkable spatial design and exhibition… Read More »Kaldor Public Art Project – Thomas Demand
Raquel Caballero is a Sydney artist who celebrates craft as a skilled art. Using papier-mâché, textiles and recycled materials, Caballero creates imagined worlds in the form of handmade installations and maximalist sets. Inspired by folk art and outsider cultures, her making is of the kind used in serious play. In a new commission made especially… Read More »Raquel Caballero
Australia’s most dramatic exhibition space is completely transformed, as artist Mike Hewson brings his unique and boundary-testing brand of social sculpture to the Nelson Packer Tank. Renowned for award-winning public projects that are at once artworks, play areas, and places to be, Hewson is reimagining the Tank as a combined park, playground, construction site, and… Read More »Mike Hewson: The Key’s Under the Mat
A love song to the open road The Australian epic The Shiralee comes to the stage for the first time, adapted by Kate Mulvany, in a ranging and poetic story of life and love on the margins. Macauley is a rugged swagman who roams the highways and byways of mid-century Australia, while Macauley’s young daughter… Read More »The Shiralee
With a name taken from Maya Angelou’s famous book of poems, this timely exhibition focuses on a culturally diverse group of women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home. A celebration of women’s art practice, the exhibition foregrounds materiality through a wide variety of media, including textiles,… Read More »And Still I Rise