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  • Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    Al río / To the River is a large-scale photographic project that depicts the river, Río Bravo/Rio Grande, which is used to demarcate the international boundary between Mexico and the United States. Since 2016, Leonard has photographed along the 2,000-km stretch of river that acts as the border between the two countries, mapping the river’s… Read More »Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River

  • 1001 Remarkable Objects

    Powerhouse Museum

    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.

  • Sydney Design Week – Amodern

    Powerhouse Museum

    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

  • Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    A sonic landscape and performances based on the hidden sounds of port cities. Waters’ Witness is based on Atoui’s ongoing project documenting the acoustic identities of port cities that are deeply connected to their harbours. Recording sounds close to the sea and under the water, Atoui produces a unique score for each city which becomes… Read More »Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness

  • Sculpture by the Sea

    Sydney’s iconic Sculpture by the Sea exhibition is set to make a triumphant return this spring. Now in its 25th year, the popular event will feature over 100 remarkable artworks dotted along the spectacular 2km Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk.

  • Kandinsky

    Art Gallery of NSW

    Kandinsky, an exhibition from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, will showcase the life and work of Vasily Kandinsky.  First presented as Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle at the Guggenheim Museum New York in 2021–22, this comprehensive exhibition draws from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s rich holdings to reveal in depth the work of one of the most experimental, influential and best-loved European modernists. 

  • Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?

    Art Gallery of NSW

    One of the most extensive exhibitions dedicated to a woman artist ever presented in Australia, Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? will be the first monographic exhibition to be presented in the Art Gallery’s new building.

    Bourgeois – who was born in Paris in 1911 and died in New York in 2010 – was one of the most influential artists of the past century. Spanning seven decades and featuring more than 150 works, this unprecedented presentation of her work – the largest survey of Bourgeois ever presented in Australia

  • Tacita Dean

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    Tacita Dean is one of the most important living artists of our times. The exhibition presents compelling film installations, monumental drawings and photographs that convey Dean’s poetic investigations into chance, memory, entropy, history and the passing of time.

  • The Art of Banksy: “Without Limits”

    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.

  • ARTEXPRESS 2024

    Art Gallery of NSW

    Featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the art-making component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts in 2023, ARTEXPRESS 2024 provides insight into students’ creativity and the issues important to them.

  • 24th Biennale of Sydney – Ten Thousand Suns

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    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

  • Henry IV (Part 1)

    Seymour Centre

    Redemption? Disgrace? Honour? Legitimacy? Love? Glory? What sort of world do the young inherit from the old, and what should we fight for? What makes a truly great leader? Henry IV (Part 1) is a play made for our time. Shakespeare looks back at history to imagine his nation’s future and turns an immense and… Read More »Henry IV (Part 1)

  • HSC – SHAPE

    Walsh Bay

    The Shape exhibition features a selection of students’ exemplary 2023 HSC major projects from Design and Technology, Industrial Technology and Textiles and Design.

  • Wendy Sharpe – Spellbound

    Art Gallery of NSW

    Wendy Sharpe is celebrated for her expressive works that observe and celebrate the human condition. Her career catapulted when, in 1996, she won the Archibald Prize – the first time a self-portrait by a woman took out the award. Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity. Composed of drawings,… Read More »Wendy Sharpe – Spellbound