The Art of Banksy: "Without Limits" is a stunning street art exhibition of museum quality featuring over 150 artworks, such as certified art, prints on different kinds of materials, photos, sculptures, installations, digital installations, murals, mapping shows, and more.
Ten Thousand Suns departs from an acknowledgement of a multiplicity of perspectives, cosmologies, and ways of life that have always woven together the world under the sun. This central life-giving body, like the world it shines light upon, has otherwise been known under thousands of different words in as many languages. But many of these… Read More »24th Biennale of Sydney – Ten Thousand Suns
The Shape exhibition features a selection of students’ exemplary 2023 HSC major projects from Design and Technology, Industrial Technology and Textiles and Design.
Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia. In this exhibition, Hunt presents six handmade marionettes, which incorporate sculpture, ceramics, costume, woodwork, silk painting and printing on fabric. Each is modelled on an esoteric individual whose spiritual convictions defied social conventions, including artist Rosaleen Norton… Read More »Emily Hunt
Primavera: Young Australian Artists is the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual exhibition showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. The exhibition was initiated in 1992 by the MCA in collaboration with Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, in memory of their talented and creative daughter Belinda. Since… Read More »Primavera: Young Australian Artists
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is the largest exhibition to date of the internationally renowned artist’s work. Featuring key works from all of the artist’s major photographic series, this survey highlights Sugimoto’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory, and photography’s ability to both document and invent. Employing a large-format camera and… Read More »Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) is presenting new works by Kate Newby in September 2024 as part of the Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission series.
A rich visual and sonic experience, Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When is a large-scale video and sound installation that reimagines collective and communal rituals in relation to seasonal cycles, at a time of environmental uncertainty and flux. Mesiti adapts choreography, vocal choruses, instrumentation and collective sound-making to re-examine activities familiar to communities who have… Read More »Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When
Sculpture by the Sea will return to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition in 2024. The spectacular coastal walk was once again transformed into a 2km long sculpture park over three weeks featuring more than 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the… Read More »Sculpture by the Sea
Experience the surreal humour and cyber futurism of Cao Fei’s art. In the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia, Cao Fei (pronounced tsow fay) 曹 斐 brings the energy of the contemporary metropolis into the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a retrospective that includes two new commissions. Cao was recently… Read More »Cao Fei: My City is Yours
Once upon a time … You know the fairy tale, now feel the magic of Laurent Pelly’s whimsical production of the classic opera. Massenet’s classic opera is full of sumptuous music, and this production adds humour with playful choreography and extravagant costumes. Barbara de Limburg’s extraordinary set is inspired by an original illustrated edition of… Read More »Cinderella
An opera classic with a fresh perspective Violetta is a coveted courtesan, the toast of Paris, desired by many. When she meets the ardent Alfredo, her life changes forever and she longs to break free of her past. But can she? Who is this woman beyond the sparkling salon? This fresh production of a classic… Read More »La Traviata
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
