ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Christian Capurro: Slave

Phone-videos capturing monumental works by American minimalist Dan Flavin, refashioned into large-scale filmic ‘captures’ by Australian artist Christian Capurro, feature in SLAVE, part of ACCA’s Influential Australian Artists program.

Christian Capurro

Saturday 16 August 2014 to Sunday 28 September 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Optical Mix

Optical Mix brings together a series of works that use light, kinetics and visual oscillations.

Nike Savvas Callum Morton Ken Jacobs Joseph Kosuth Daniel Von Sturmer Martin Creed Bridget Riley Stanislaus Ostoja Kotowski Ugo Rondinone Cake Industries

Saturday 16 August 2014 to Sunday 28 September 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ICONS - Lecture Series

Sit back, enjoy a glass of wine and be entertained and inspired. From Umberto Boccioni's, ‘Unique Forms of Continuity in Space’ to Cindy Sherman's, ‘Untitled Film Stills’. You'll find the full program, guest presenters, and individual lecture details on the ACCA website.

Monday 28 July 2014 to Monday 22 September 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ACCA MEGA QUIZ

It’s BACK!! Bigger and better than ever! The challenge is on! Reserve your table for what is set to be the biggest night in the social calendar for artistic and cultural trivia, from the genuinely important stuff to the fun and absurd.

Wednesday 06 August 2014 to Wednesday 06 August 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Only Way Out Is The Only Way In: Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon appropriates images from popular culture and other sources to create his signature videos and photographic installations. He first came to prominence in 1993 with the work 24 Hour Psycho, a slowed down version of Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film, and since then he has been at the forefront of contemporary practice worldwide.

Douglas Gordon

Saturday 31 May 2014 to Sunday 03 August 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Douglas Gordon Lecture

A special presentation by Douglas Gordon at Federation Hall, Grant Street, Victorian College of the Arts.

Douglas Gordon

Wednesday 28 May 2014 to Wednesday 28 May 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

New 14

For twelve years now, ACCA has selected a group of rising Australian artists and invited them to make a new work for the annual commissions exhibition, NEW. This year guest curator Kyla McFarlane has invited artists Kenny Pittock, Danae Valenza, Taree Mackenzie, Charles Dennington, Daniel McKewen, Andrew Hazewinkel and Jelena Telecki to rise to the challenge.

Danae Valenza Daniel Mc Kewen Andrew Hazewinkel Taree Mackenzie Kenny Pittock Charles Dennington Jelena Teleck

Friday 14 March 2014 to Sunday 18 May 2014
Opening: Friday 14 March 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

CRESCENDO

ACCA brings the spirit of the gestamkunstwerk into the New Year with the exhibition Crescendo, featuring seven projects where artists have used film and music to create enclosed worlds, each exploring myth, history and human pageantry as metaphors for life.

Julian Rosefeldt Rodney Graham Dorothy Cross Markus Kahre Hans Op De Beeck Ana Torfs Guido Van Der Werve

Friday 20 December 2013 to Sunday 02 March 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Patricia Piccinini's Skywhale

Patricia Piccinini’s flight of fancy, SKYWHALE sets sail from the forecourt of ACCA during the week commencing 2nd December. Come see this fabulous creature before it lifts off on Monday 2 December between 7-9am - FREE.*

Patricia Piccinini

Monday 02 December 2013 to Monday 09 December 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

In the Cut

In The Cut is an exhibition that brings together a selection of 16 international and Australian artists who work with and between a broad range of contemporary collage techniques.

Matthew Griffin Lillian O’Neil Amanda Ross Ho Henrik Olesen Elizabeth Newman Ellen Gallagher Tom Burr Richard Larter Linder David Maljkovic Henning Bohl Nikolas Gambaroff Mathew Hale Ry Haskings Lia Perjovschi Kelley Walker

Thursday 10 October 2013 to Sunday 24 November 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Tacita Dean FILM

The first showing since its highly acclaimed debut in London as the Tate Turbine Hall Commission in 2012, Tacita Dean’s, FILM, is an epic, episodic homage to the analogue processes of celluloid cinema.

Thursday 10 October 2013 to Sunday 24 November 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Monika Sosnowska: Regional Modernities

The first major Southern Hemisphere showing of internationally acclaimed Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, following her recent site specific commission for Central Park, New York.

Saturday 10 August 2013 to Sunday 29 September 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Mikala Dwyer: Goldene Bend'er

Three works, including a major sculpture series and performance project, comprise this new exhibition from one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists. Dwyer's approach to installation marked a turning point in Australian art practice in the 1990s, moving away from the discreet object to the all inclusive environmental play of new conceptualism.

Mikala Dwyer

Saturday 25 May 2013 to Sunday 28 July 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

One of the Things That Makes Me Doubt

Enter the sensorium of Daria Martin's magical, mystical, mythical film worlds in this first ever survey of works presented in Australia. American, British based artist Daria Martin creates hypnotic works in 16 mm film that beguile and fascinate. Working between theatre, design and art and activating the spaces of dream and unconscious, Martin's works are unique and unmissable.

Daria Martin

Saturday 25 May 2013 to Sunday 28 July 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

NEW13Presented by The Balnaves Foundation

NEW, ACCA’s annual commissions exhibition, offers rising Australian artists the chance to make a bold, brave new work for ACCA’s large exhibition spaces.

Jess Mac Neil Sanne Mestrom Alex Martinis Roe Benjamin Forster Joshua Petherick Charlotte Day Scott Mitchell Linda Tegg

Saturday 16 March 2013 to Sunday 12 May 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

DESIRE LINES

Artists take us off the beaten path and along the road less traveled in Desire Lines, a major survey exhibition – opening on December 15 at ACCA - that investigates the physical, conceptual and psychological tracks created by artists.

Saturday 15 December 2012 to Sunday 03 March 2013
Opening: Friday 14 December 2012
Art exhibition in Australia.

2 collections

OURSELVESPresented by Melbourne Festival and ACCA

A major international exhibition to coincide with the Melbourne Festival. OURSELVES is an investigation of the inter-subjective strategies of mutual exchanges, para-egos, stand-ins and masquerades. OURSELVES pursues empathy, exchange and mirroring; it studies the existential 'us' present in 'them' who are reflected back to ourselves.

Thursday 11 October 2012 to Sunday 25 November 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Berlinde De Bruyckere: We are all Flesh

Berlinde De Bruyckere uses wax, wood, wool, horse skin and hair to make haunting sculptures of humans, animals and trees in metamorphosis. Based in her home town of Ghent, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s studio is an old neo-Gothic Catholic school house.

Berlinde De Bruyckere

Saturday 02 June 2012 to Sunday 29 July 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

NEW 12

Bold, brave new art from the art stars of tomorrow. NEW is the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s prestigious annual commissions exhibition. Once again generously supported and presented by the Balnaves Foundation, the 2012 installment has been selected by guest curator Jeff Khan, co-Director of Sydney’s Performance Space.

Katie Lee Kate Mitchell Bennett Miller Angelica Mesiti Charlie Sofo Ross Manning

Saturday 17 March 2012 to Sunday 20 May 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Pipilotti RistI Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase

Lush and Edenic, sexy but sinless, the hedonistic pleasure worlds created by Pipilotti will delight, refresh and chillax you. Pipilotti’s vivid video environments take you into a dream state of elements. Earth, wind, fire and water are alchemically activated in her mesmerizing loops of trippy experience. This major exhibition, will be the first major survey of her works to be shown in Australia.

Wednesday 21 December 2011 to Sunday 04 March 2012
Opening: Tuesday 20 December 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

THE BIG WALL PROJECT - Nick Mangan

At Crown Metropol Hotel, 24 HOURS A DAY

Tuesday 30 August 2011 to Sunday 01 January 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

8 collections

New11Presented by the Balnaves Foundation

NEW11, ACCA’s annual commissions exhibition, offers more artists from more places around Australia the opportunity to make something new and have it shown in 2011. For the past eight years, ACCA has offered six or seven promising Australian artists the chance to create a work for its popular NEW exhibition series. In 2011, the exhibition will be expanded to include new works from ten artists.

Justene Williams Fiona Abicare Rebecca Baumann Tim Coster Greatest Hits Shane Haseman Mark Hilton Dan Moynihan Brendan Van Hek Annie Wu

Saturday 12 March 2011 to Sunday 15 May 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

JOSEPH KOSUTH '(Waiting for—) Texts for Nothing' Samuel Beckett, in play

On this occasion Kosuth will present a new body of work titled '(Waiting for—) Texts for Nothing,' Samuel Beckett, in play based on a play on Samuel Beckett writings, with particular focus on ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘Texts for Nothing’. The installation works runs throughout the perimeter of the main gallery space and is fabricated in blacked out warm white neon installed in a matte blac

Tuesday 21 December 2010 to Sunday 27 February 2011
Art exhibition in Australia.

The Dwelling

The Dwelling, curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews for MIAF 2009, brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.

David Noonan David Haines Joyce Hinterding Callum Morton Janet Cardiff George Bures Miller Eija Liisa Ahtila Chantal Akerman Michaela Melián Simon Tevaks Sofia Hultén Calum Stirling

Friday 09 October 2009 to Sunday 29 November 2009
Art exhibition in Australia.

Tacita DeanSolo show

Fourteen recent projects by celebrated British contemporary artist Tacita Dean will feature in this major survey exhibition.

Saturday 06 June 2009 to Sunday 02 August 2009
Opening: Friday 05 June 2009
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

NEW09 Presented by The Balnaves Foundation

ACCA’s annual commissions exhibition - this year curated by Charlotte Day with new works from eight contemporary Australian artists including Justine Khamara, Brodie Ellis, Marco Fusinato, Simon Yates, Matthew Griffin, Benjamin Armstrong and Pat Foster and Jen Berean. NEW09 offers selected artists the means and support to create a new work and have it shown in ACCA’s exhibition hall.

Tuesday 17 March 2009 to Sunday 17 May 2009
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.