Working with a mirrored stage and an assortment of exotic objects, create your own kaleidoscopic worlds inspired by works from the William and Winifred Bowness Prize 2023. Bring a camera to capture your creations and add them to our shared gallery.
Thursday 21 September 2023 to Thursday 21 September 2023.
Art program in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
Anne Zahalka is one of Australia’s most highly regarded photo-media artists who has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas for over 40 years. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension, interrogating them with humour and a critical perspective.
Saturday 10 June 2023 to Sunday 10 September 2023.
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
We're seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from First Nations artists to design and implement a First Nations themed mural on an existing wall of the Atkinson Street multi-level car park (129-133 Atkinson Street, Oakleigh).
Friday 28 July 2023 to Friday 01 September 2023.
Art opportunity in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
Join us at MAPh to discover new ways of engaging with art.
Thursday 31 August 2023 to Thursday 31 August 2023.
Art special event in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
Jahkarli Romanis is a proud Pitta Pitta woman, an emerging artist, researcher and curator based on Kulin Land. After completing an Honours in Photography degree in 2020, she commenced a PhD at Monash University in 2021 through the Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab.
Sunday 02 July 2023 to Monday 28 August 2023. Opening: Sunday 02 July 2023.
Join MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea in conversation with Anne Zahalka as they discuss the artist’s career, the survey exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive and the accompanying publication. The artist will be available for book signing after the event. Free event, all welcome.
Sunday 27 August 2023 to Sunday 27 August 2023.
Art talk in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
Peonies, Still Life and a Duck explores ideas of play, identity, and new ways of working together within an institutional art gallery space.
Saturday 15 July 2023 to Sunday 27 August 2023. Opening: Saturday 15 July 2023.
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia. Published by Counihan Gallery.
Join artist Anne Zahalka for a masterclass in studio photography to learn how to get the most from models, props, lighting and backdrops. In this practical workshop Zahalka will share her working methods, ideas and processes as she guides you through a photoshoot in which you'll create your own narrative in response to the backdrop Mullet Creek, Illawarra,1853 by Conrad Martens.
Saturday 26 August 2023 to Saturday 26 August 2023.
Art masterclass in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
Our Small Terrain explores Kato's ongoing interest in the question: What is waste?
Saturday 15 July 2023 to Saturday 26 August 2023. Opening: Saturday 15 July 2023.
LOOK! is MAPh’s annual photographic award and exhibition that celebrates work produced by MAPh Members.
Sunday 02 July 2023 to Sunday 13 August 2023.
This is a special opportunity to speak with the artist directly and find out more about her work. Zahalka will join the sessions remotely from her studio in Newtown, Sydney and visitors will be able to connect with her from her ZAHALKAWORLD studio at MAPh. Come prepared with interview questions!
Saturday 01 July 2023 to Tuesday 01 August 2023.
Brian McKinnon presents paintings that draw on his own life in response to the bushfires of 2019.
Saturday 06 May 2023 to Sunday 30 July 2023.
YOU ARE INVITED TO OPENING RECEPTION EXHIBITION DATES: WED 12 JULY - SUN 23 JULY, 2023 OPENING NIGHT : THURSDAY 13 JULY, 6:00-8:30 PM
Wednesday 12 July 2023 to Sunday 23 July 2023. Opening: Thursday 13 July 2023.
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia. Published by Sol Gallery .
See things in a new way with some art based challenges at MAPh.
Friday 21 July 2023 to Friday 21 July 2023.
Opening Event: Thursday 22 June, 6-8pm
Wednesday 21 June 2023 to Saturday 15 July 2023. Opening: Thursday 22 June 2023.
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia. Published by anonymous.
Opening event: Thursday 22 June, 6-8pm Free Public Program Webbing - Field Notes: Saturday July 15th, 2-3pm (registrations required)
Wednesday 21 June 2023 to Saturday 15 July 2023.
Fever'Dreams explores the fertile and shifting borderlands between abstraction and figuration.
Saturday 27 May 2023 to Sunday 09 July 2023. Opening: Saturday 27 May 2023.
Join Jahkarli Romanis and artist Peta Clancy in conversation as they discuss the exhibition (Dis)connected to Country.
Sunday 02 July 2023 to Sunday 02 July 2023.
This is an exciting part-time opportunity to work with the MAPh Director to lead the implementation of a re-branding strategy as the museum establishes its new identity as the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh).
Friday 09 June 2023 to Sunday 02 July 2023.
Join us in our artist’s studio for some creative collage.
Tuesday 27 June 2023 to Tuesday 27 June 2023.
Art class in Victoria, Australia. Published by Museum of Australian Photography.
Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. This year we have updated the online entry form so that submitting an application has never been easier, plus your entry can be updated right up to the closing date.
Sunday 01 January 2023 to Wednesday 14 June 2023.
Fassih Keiso presents a video installation documenting the destruction of Palmyra.
Saturday 01 April 2023 to Sunday 21 May 2023. Opening: Saturday 01 April 2023.
This exhibition asserts creative practice is real work and interrogates how this labour is valued.
Building the Palace will assemble characters, objects, architecture and atmosphere for a new cross-cultural palace that references and critiques our current relationship with real estate, culture and memory. The artist's distinct practices will come together to reclaim the home through a fictional narrative that delves into fantasy, form, and nostalgia. Opening Thursday 27 April 6-8pm
Wednesday 26 April 2023 to Saturday 20 May 2023.
Paris Will Survive looks at the Ozploitation film, The Cars that Ate Paris, and memories of peaking through floorboards, roadkill, rust in cuts and homesickness that the film conjures up - I hope it reminds my mother of our farm. Opening Thursday 27 April 6-8pm
This solo show is a testament to female artists, photographers and videographers who documented Myanmar’s coup d’etat, which began in February 2021. This exhibition has been supported by Canson, Kayell Australia and Final Grade.
Saturday 04 February 2023 to Sunday 30 April 2023.
An exhibition of works by recent graduates from Melbourne.
Wednesday 29 March 2023 to Saturday 22 April 2023. Opening: Wednesday 29 March 2023.
This solo show explores the artist’s complex relationship to her home city, Tehran.
Saturday 04 February 2023 to Sunday 26 March 2023.
The Elysian Fields is a multi-medium installation presenting contemporary interpretations of ‘Paradise’ in relation to the politics of place.
Register for the workshop via the weblink.
Saturday 25 February 2023 to Saturday 25 February 2023.
Emotional Marble Memory is a poetry performance and video artwork which studies the history of classical marble sculpture, and the body as kinetic sculpture — a living, breathing subject rather than an object.
Wednesday 01 February 2023 to Saturday 25 February 2023. Opening: Thursday 02 February 2023.
When you realise your pain is not special at all, it is only the kind of pain mass-produced by Chineseness, the pain has just begun.
Mitchel Cumming is an artist and poet living and working on unceded Gadigal and Bidjigal land. His work frequently involves the establishment and/or manipulation of exhibition contexts: a process in which elements generally considered supplementary to artistic production become instead a primary material.
Thursday 12 January 2023 to Saturday 28 January 2023. Opening: Thursday 12 January 2023.
EXHIBITION DATES: 30 NOV - DEC 11, 2022 OPENING NIGHT : THURSDAY 1st DEC, 6:00-8:30 PM
Wednesday 30 November 2022 to Sunday 11 December 2022. Opening: Thursday 01 December 2022.
Anima Locus is an online, research-based creative work that explores memory and place in Bayu Village, Banyuwangi, Indonesia. An intermingling of the memory of the locals’ history, myth and spiritual belief is explored in architectural imprints. Artworks use a surrealist point of view to capture the intangible quality of place.
Wednesday 16 November 2022 to Saturday 03 December 2022.
This project is a multi-layered examination of the intersections of Judaism and queerness.
Wednesday 16 November 2022 to Saturday 03 December 2022. Opening: Thursday 17 November 2022.
EXHIBITION DATES: 16-27 NOV 2022 OPENING NIGHT : THURSDAY 17 NOV, 6:00-8:30 PM
Wednesday 16 November 2022 to Sunday 27 November 2022. Opening: Thursday 17 November 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO OPENING RECEPTION EXHIBITION DATES: 2-13 NOV 2022 OPENING NIGHT : THURSDAY 3 NOV, 6:00-8:30 PM
Wednesday 02 November 2022 to Sunday 13 November 2022. Opening: Thursday 03 November 2022.
EXHIBITION DATES: 19 - 30 OCT 2022 OPENING NIGHT : Thursday 20 Oct at 6:00-8:30 pm
Wednesday 19 October 2022 to Sunday 30 October 2022. Opening: Thursday 20 October 2022.
Wednesday 19 October 2022 to Sunday 30 October 2022.
The popular definition of a weed is ‘a plant in the wrong place’. This exhibition questions and complicates our relationship with invasive plants. Viewers are invited to explore the resilience and usefulness of weeds, as well as to consider how we can better care for the environment. Weeds are also used as an analogy to probe ideas of identity and displacement.
Saturday 17 September 2022 to Sunday 30 October 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO OPENING RECEPTION EXHIBITION DATES: 5-16 OCT OPENING NIGHT : Thursday 6 Oct at 6:00-8:30 pm
Wednesday 05 October 2022 to Sunday 16 October 2022. Opening: Thursday 06 October 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO OPENING RECEPTION EXHIBITION DATES: 21 Sep - 2 Oct OPENING NIGHT : Thursday 22 Sep at 6:00-8:30 pm
Wednesday 21 September 2022 to Sunday 02 October 2022. Opening: Thursday 22 September 2022.
In 'Leftovers of a Ghost', artists Emme Orbach and Noah Spivak collaborate on a new experiment-based installation. They explore one central question: what happens when you allow a chemical reaction to dictate the outcome of an artwork?
Saturday 30 July 2022 to Sunday 11 September 2022.
Mark Smith’s works navigate the complexities of living with a disability. His early work deals with the physicality of the body and how it relates to the human condition. For Smith, the body becomes a non-negotiable starting point for existence.
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 25 Aug 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm EXHIBITION : 24 Aug - 4 Sept 2022
Wednesday 24 August 2022 to Sunday 04 September 2022. Opening: Thursday 25 August 2022.
The Counihan Gallery has acquired significant works by Noel Counihan (1913-1986) since opening in 1999. For the first time, the Gallery will present the entire holding of artworks by its namesake.
Saturday 23 July 2022 to Sunday 04 September 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 11 Aug 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm EXHIBITION : 10 - 21 Aug 2022
Wednesday 10 August 2022 to Sunday 21 August 2022. Opening: Thursday 11 August 2022.
Multi award-winning playwright, Fleur Kilpatrick’s Rebel tells the story of senior activists from around Australia who are fighting for a future they may never see. Rebel will take to the stage at the Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts on Wednesday 3 August, proudly presented by one of Australia’s most trusted and exciting independent theatre companies, Lab Kelpie.
Wednesday 03 August 2022 to Wednesday 03 August 2022.
Art performance in Victoria, Australia. Published by anonymous.
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 14 July 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm EXHIBITION : 13 - 24 July 2022
Wednesday 13 July 2022 to Sunday 24 July 2022. Opening: Thursday 14 July 2022.
Death is not the end but a new beginning. Death is not a result of life's frustrations, but a transition from this life into the next. From mortality into immortality.
Saturday 04 June 2022 to Sunday 24 July 2022.
'Means Without End' offers a unique opportunity to view two recent projects by artist Hoda Afshar side by side.
Saturday 28 May 2022 to Sunday 17 July 2022. Opening: Saturday 01 January 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 30 June 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm EXHIBITION: 29 June - 10 July 2022
Wednesday 29 June 2022 to Sunday 10 July 2022. Opening: Thursday 30 June 2022.
Blame the Shadows Collective is made of interdisciplinary artists from across the globe. By collaborating with each other, they tell captivating stories about raw human experiences. As part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival 2022, Blame the Shadows Collective will present ‘The Sky After Rain’ at the Counihan Gallery.
Saturday 02 April 2022 to Sunday 29 May 2022.
'Yeki Bood, Yeki Nabood' means 'one was there, one was absent’ in Farsi. It’s a phrase used to begin a story, similar to ‘once upon a time’.
William Kelly’s work explores issues of human rights, social justice, violence against women and children, and peace. The exhibition includes works such as 'The Prison of History or the Poetry of Possibilities', which was the precursor to the monumental work that features in the film ‘Can Art Stop a Bullet? William Kelly’s Big Picture’.
Saturday 09 April 2022 to Sunday 22 May 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT(ticketed event): FRIDAY 6 May 2022 8pm EXHIBITION and PERFORMANCE : 4 - 15 May, 2022
Wednesday 04 May 2022 to Sunday 15 May 2022. Opening: Thursday 05 May 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 5 May 2022 EXHIBITION : 4 - 15 May, 2022
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 21 April 2022 EXHIBITION : 20 April - 1st May, 2022 ===================
Wednesday 20 April 2022 to Sunday 01 May 2022. Opening: Thursday 21 April 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED TO EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 31 March 2022 EXHIBITION : 30 March - April 10, 2022 ===================
Sunday 30 January 2022 to Sunday 10 April 2022. Opening: Thursday 03 March 2022.
