Inspired by computing pioneer Charles Babbage’s proposal that the air is a ‘vast library’ storing every word ever spoken, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s breathtaking immersive art environment invites audiences to celebrate the turbulence and tumult of the atmosphere: invisible but precious, filled with voices and history. If we could 'rewind' air molecules to recreate all voices of… Read More »Atmospheric Memory
1001 Remarkable Objects presents an unexpected juxtaposition of objects in 25 rooms that lead us on a journey across time and memory. The selection includes objects that have never been exhibited until now alongside much loved Powerhouse Collection icons.
The 27th Sydney Design Week (2023) offers a platform to the critical research, industries, infrastructure and technologies that underpin design practice in our city, inviting plural perspectives from our local communities. The program enlists six fields of enquiry; Eco Systems, Material Cultures, Communal Cities, Micro Cycles, Connected Threads and Photofields, to explore the complex and… Read More »Sydney Design Week – Amodern
The Shape exhibition features a selection of students’ exemplary 2023 HSC major projects from Design and Technology, Industrial Technology and Textiles and Design.
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
Experience Frankenstein, an extraordinary tale of creation and humanity, retold in a large-scale theatrical event. Victor Frankenstein, a grieving but brilliantly ambitious young scientist, pushes the boundaries of theory and morality to create a living being from the remains of the dead. But playing God has its consequences… Shunned by society and plagued by an… Read More »Frankenstein
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
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
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
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