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He An: Do You Think That You Can Help Her Brother?

Inspired by the city lights and tenebrous urban narratives of Beijing, He An’s installation Do You Think You Can Help Her Brother?, creates a form of urban poetry from retrieved heritage signage which is swiftly disappearing from the skyline due to the rapid transformation of Beijing’s urban environment.

He An

Saturday 11 February 2017 to Sunday 23 April 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Sovereignty

The sovereignty of First Nations peoples is embodied culturally, historically and politically, and has never been ceded. The exhibition Sovereignty focuses upon contemporary art of First Nations peoples of South East Australia, and keynote historical works, to explore culturally and linguistically diverse narratives of self-determination, identity, sovereignty and resistance.

Brook Andrew Reko Rennie Reko Rennie Steaphan Paton William Barak Gary Foley Steven Rhall Lisa Bellear Jim Berg Maree Clark Vicky Couzens Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser Marlene Gilson Kent Morris Bill Onus Bronwyn Razem Lucy Williams Connelly

Saturday 17 December 2016 to Sunday 26 March 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future

The first major survey of the artist’s work in Australia, Irish artist Gerard Byrne: A late evening in the future presented by ACCA in association with Melbourne Festival.

Gerard Byrne

Saturday 08 October 2016 to Sunday 27 November 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Art Club at ACCA

Enrolments are now open for ACCA’s new Art Club for 2016. Designed for people with a passion for contemporary art, this regular meeting group will take ACCA’s exhibitions as a starting point to share ideas, explore the wide-ranging subjects that inspire artists, and tackle some history and theory.

Thursday 18 February 2016 to Thursday 24 November 2016
Art workshop in Victoria, Australia.

The City Speaks

The City Speaks brings art into the laneways, parks and public spaces of Melbourne’s city streets. Through performance, installation and spoken word, participating artists and writers evoke encounter, curiosity and provocation – probing a wide, and at times unsuspecting, audience to rethink the definition of art and consider how it might reflect, enrich, and even alter, urban space and society.

Raquel Ormella Alex Selenitsch Danae Valenza Jacqui Shelton Hossein Valamanesh Jordan Marani Steven Rhall Marnie Edmiston Sophie Cunningham Christos Tsiolkas Alia Gabres Romy Ash

Monday 07 November 2016 to Sunday 20 November 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Grand Tour: Cities Shaped By Art

All aboard. The Grand Tour returns in 2016 with a new itinerary of international art destinations.

Monday 15 February 2016 to Monday 24 October 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ACCA's Family Art Day

ACCA’s Family Art Day is a great way for young people – and the young at heart – to participate in making art in the company of leading contemporary artists.

Tully Moore

Sunday 25 September 2016 to Sunday 25 September 2016
Art special_event in Victoria, Australia.

Painting, More Painting

Presented in two chapters across ACCA’s four exhibition galleries, Painting. More Painting is a big-picture focus on contemporary Australian painting, featuring the work of over seventy living Australian artists.

Lisa Radford Helen Johnson David Jolly Abdul Abdullah Karl Wiebke Matthys Gerber Vivienne Binns Angela Brennan Diena Georgetti Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Stephen Bram Mitch Cairns Ry David Bradley Teresa Baker

Saturday 30 July 2016 to Sunday 25 September 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Grand Tour: Cities Shaped By Art, Sao Paulo With Rebecca Coates

Start Your Journey At The Acca Drinks Cabin With A Complimentary Cocktail Inspired By Sao Paulo And Created By The Melbourne Gin Company.

Rebecca Coates

Monday 15 August 2016 to Monday 15 August 2016
Art class in Victoria, Australia.

The Grand Tour: Cities Shaped By Art, New York With Chris Mcauliffe

Start Your Journey At The Acca Drinks Cabin With A Complimentary Cocktail Inspired By New York And Created By The Melbourne Gin Company.

Chris Mcauliffe

Monday 25 July 2016 to Monday 25 July 2016
Art class in Victoria, Australia.

Ulla von Brandenburg: IT HAS A GOLDEN YELLOW SUN AND AN ELDERLY GREY MOON

Ulla von Brandenburg’s distinct visual language draws on the traditions and tropes of theatre, film and storytelling.

Saturday 21 May 2016 to Sunday 17 July 2016
Opening: Friday 20 May 2016
Art benefit in Australia.

The Grand Tour: Cities Shaped By Art, Melbourne With Rob Adams

Enjoy A Complimentary Cocktail Inspired By Melbourne And Created By The Melbourne Gin Company From 5pm. Talk From 6pm.

Monday 20 June 2016 to Monday 20 June 2016
Art class in Victoria, Australia.

Backstage Pass: Art Industry Contexts

Come Behind The Scenes And Explore Melbourne’s Leading Centre For Contemporary Art And Ideas. Hear Directly From Acca’s New Artistic Director, Max Delany, As He Discusses Acca’s Exciting New Narratives And Future Exhibition Programs.

Ulla Von Brandenburg Max Delany

Monday 06 June 2016 to Monday 06 June 2016
Art talk in Victoria, Australia.

NEW16

NEW16 brings together eight newly commissioned projects from emerging artists around Australia.

Saturday 05 March 2016 to Sunday 08 May 2016
Opening: Friday 04 March 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Feeling Fashion

Who are we when we wear clothes? How are our feelings fashioned? Feeling Fashion is a participatory performance created by Melbourne artist Adele Varcoe that encourages audience members to experience the emotional affects of fashion first hand.

Adele Varcoe

Friday 11 March 2016 to Friday 11 March 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Biography of Things

Artists use objects, archives and collections to trace the labyrinthine stories that live behind things. The Biography of Things reveals narratives of loss, intrigue, histories and people, from the objective to the subjective. Working as if detectives, the artists in this exhibition bring a lively approach to object encounters, revealing much about what time has concealed or forgotten.

Brook Andrew Narelle Jubelin Walid Raad Nicholas Mangan Camille Henrot Ilit Azoulay Aurelien Froment Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer Kirsten Pieroth

Saturday 05 December 2015 to Sunday 21 February 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Secret Garden by Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg

Surreal and ultra–sensory, ACCA’s exhibition The Secret Garden by Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg opens up a netherworld of strange delights and encounters.

Nathalie Djurberg Hans Berg

Saturday 10 October 2015 to Sunday 22 November 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ACCA Startups

This year new video, sculpture, and multi-media works are a feature, and artists explore a range of themes and ideas about the modern world - contemporary modes of communication, modern standards of beauty, how constant stimulation and heightened levels of stress affect an organism’s development and how digital technology has changed the way we see the world.

Jacqui Shelton Dalton Stewart Jacqueline Stojanovic Lucinda Florence Jesse Dyer

Saturday 10 October 2015 to Saturday 14 November 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ACCA in the City

ACCA in the City is a series of performances, situations and uncanny moments designed by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art to bring attention to the characteristics of the city of Melbourne.

Eglė Budvytytė Kate Daw Public Movement

Monday 21 September 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015
Art performance in Victoria, Australia.

TV Moore: With Love & Squalor

Part of ACCA’s annual Influential Australian Artist program, With Love & Squalor brings together recent and new works by this celebrated New York based artist, using animation and sound as a central theme.

Tv Moore

Saturday 15 August 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Ryan Gander: Read Only

One of Britain’s most prolific artists, Gander is known for creating playful, engaging works in a range of mediums, from installation, sculptures and photographs to performative lectures, publications, inventions and interventions.

Ryan Gander

Thursday 04 June 2015 to Sunday 02 August 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

NEW15ACCA's annual commissions exhibition

ACCA's annual commissions exhibition for rising Australian contemporary artists.

George Egerton Warburton Alex Vivian Richard Frater Jessie Bullivant Ash Kilmartin Kate Newby Paul Bai Adelle Mills

Saturday 14 March 2015 to Sunday 17 May 2015
Opening: Saturday 14 March 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Menagerie

Menagerie explores the human tendency to anthropomorphise through animals and their behaviours as a process of metaphoric discovery of the self.

Deborah Kelly Patricia Piccinini David Noonan William Strutt Ricky Swallow Paul Wood Loretta Lux Anastasia Klose Michael Parekowhai Fischli & Weiss Abdul Rahman Abdullah Eija Liisa Ahtila Joseph Beuys Thomas Binks Rosa Bonheur Basil Bradley Mircea Cantor Maurizio Cattelan Henry Coombes Herbert Thomas Dicksee Annika Eriksson Elliott Erwitt James Giles H. Hall Benjamin Herring Jnr Robert Gligorov Lucy Gunning John Nost Sartorius Sinibaldo Scorza Shannon Te Ao Caroline Tisdall Peter Wächtler Amelie Von Wulffen

Saturday 13 December 2014 to Sunday 01 March 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Farnsworth's Republic for Dogs

ACCA’s north facing forecourt will be a doggy free-for-all during SummerSalt as Melbourne artist Anastasia Klose creates an off-leash world for Melbourne’s much-loved four-legged friends.

Monday 16 February 2015 to Saturday 28 February 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Framed Movements

Framed Movements investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between dance and art.

Parachutes For Ladies Hayley Forward Jess Olivieri Lee Serle Joachim Koester Nathan Gray Lane Cormick Alicia Frankovich Agatha Gothe Snape Sandra Selig Brian Fuata Gwenneth Boelens Ann Carlson Mary Ellen Strom Helen Grogan Maria Hassabi Paulina Olowska Emily Roysdon

Friday 10 October 2014 to Sunday 23 November 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Helen Grogan, Specific In-between (the Choreographic Negotiated In Six Parts)

Developed and realised in conversation with other artists, choreographers and makers, this six-part curatorial and research project is sited within the gallery context and considers choreography in the expanded field.

Wednesday 15 October 2014 to Wednesday 19 November 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

UPSTARTS

A shipping container on the ACCA forecourt will house a series of weekly exhibitions from ACCA’s talented pool of artist volunteers and gallery staff, from October through November.

Hana Vasak Inez De Vega Lucie Mc Intosh Lorilee Yang Bianca Tainsh

Tuesday 14 October 2014 to Saturday 15 November 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Pat Brassington: Á Rebours, On Tour At The Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania

A major survey of one of Australia’s most important and influential photo-based artists. This is the first extensive tour of Brassington’s 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography.

Pat Brassington

Friday 03 October 2014 to Sunday 02 November 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Alicia Frankovich, Defending Plural Experiences

An ambitious new commission for the Framed Movements exhibition, Frankovich's Defending Plural Experiences uses a large-scale durational choreography, set within the gallery, to celebrate the transformative potential of the body and mediated platforms of viewing.

Saturday 11 October 2014 to Saturday 11 October 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Lane Cormick, Kalasaki Rose

Lane Cormick’s intense new performance work addresses the discipline of trained bodies and questions of spectatorship.

Lane Cormick

Thursday 09 October 2014 to Thursday 09 October 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.