Heide Museum of Modern Art

3 collections

Denise Green The Heide Collection

This exhibition in Heide II traces 40 years of painting and drawing by Denise Green, an expatriate Australian artist born in Brisbane in 1946, who has lived in New York since 1969.

Denise Green

Saturday 08 April 2017 to Saturday 18 August 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

3 collections

Making History: The Boyd Family

The third exhibition in the Making History series, this display highlights the museum’s rich collection of paintings, works on paper and ceramic objects by various members of the acclaimed Boyd dynasty and their close collaborators.

Arthur Boyd Merric Boyd

Saturday 27 May 2017 to Sunday 12 November 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls

Charles Blackman’s compelling Schoolgirls series, produced between 1952 and 1955, marked a turning point in the artist’s career, sealing his reputation as a significant painter of modern life in the post-war era.

Charles Blackman

Saturday 04 March 2017 to Sunday 18 June 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Rebecca Mayo: Habitus

Rebecca Mayo’s prints and textiles connect her interests in sustainable practices, local ecologies and forgotten printmaking techniques. In this installation for ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017, Mayo reflects on the history of the Heide site.

Rebecca Mayo

Saturday 04 March 2017 to Sunday 18 June 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Making History: Charles Blackman

A key figure in both Australian art and Heide history, artist Charles Blackman gained the support of John and Sunday Reed in the early 1950s and they were among the first collectors of his work. Sunday introduced him to the poetry of John Shaw Neilson, which informed his compelling Schoolgirl paintings, while his remarkable Alice in Wonderland series is infused with references to life at Heide.

Charles Blackman

Saturday 12 November 2016 to Sunday 21 May 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

We Who Love: The Nolan Slates

We who love: The Nolan slates is a window into the world of renowned Australian painter Sidney Nolan (1917–1992), reflecting a time of artistic experimentation and personal upheaval.

Sidney Nolan

Saturday 03 September 2016 to Sunday 02 April 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

A Life In Art Albert Tucker

Presenting a concise selection of paintings from each decade of Albert Tucker’s career, this exhibition outlines some of the central themes of his continually evolving oeuvre.

Albert Tucker

Saturday 19 November 2016 to Sunday 19 March 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

3 collections

Antonia Sellbach Open Fields

Antonia Sellbach’s practice is focused on language—its ambiguities as well as its logic. Painting’s linguistic potential is tested in her ongoing series of large abstract canvases and painted timber arrangements.

Antonia Sellbach

Saturday 17 September 2016 to Sunday 26 February 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

O'keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith Making Modernism

Making Modernism brings together for the first time the iconic art of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of America's most significant painters of the twentieth century, alongside modernist masterpieces by pioneering Australian artists, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith.

Grace Cossington Smith Margaret Preston Grace Cossington Smith Georgia O’Keeffe

Wednesday 12 October 2016 to Sunday 19 February 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Making History The Angry Penguins

In response to ongoing visitor interest in Heide’s unique history, a new semi-permanent exhibition drawn from the collection and archives of Heide Museum of Modern Art opens this Autumn.

Saturday 16 April 2016 to Sunday 06 November 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Morning Tea Making Modernism

Cody Hartley, director, curatorial affairs at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Denise Mimmocchi, curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, discuss the development of global and regional modernisms through the practice of artists Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith. View Making Modernism and enjoy a delicious morning tea from Café Vue.

Georgia O'keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe Cody Hartley Denise Mimmocchi

Friday 14 October 2016 to Friday 14 October 2016
Art special_event in Victoria, Australia.

Sitelines Natasha Johns- Messenger

Natasha Johns-Messenger’s work is a complex process of imitation, illusion and trickery activated by architectural interventions and optical physics, extended also to photography, digital painting and sculpture.

Natasha Johns Messenger

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

Esther Stewart: How to Decorate a Dump

Esther Stewart borrows the title for this site-specific installation from a 1983 book written by New York decorator Philip Almeida, continuing her enquiry into the aesthetics and ethos of DIY home improvements.

Esther Stewart

Saturday 04 June 2016 to Sunday 11 September 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

MICHELLE NIKOU A E I O U

Adelaide-based artist Michelle Nikou draws on surrealism in a reflective and productive way to transform mundane domestic objects and materials into sculptures of humour and marvel.

Michelle Nikou

Saturday 23 April 2016 to Sunday 28 August 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Artists At Leisure Albert Tucker Photographs

This exhibition shows artists from the Heide circle enjoying days at the beach, meals with friends, and other leisurely activities, through the eye of Albert Tucker (1914–1999), who photographed the people and places around him as a personal record.

Albert Tucker

Saturday 12 March 2016 to Sunday 07 August 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

Dancing Umbrellas

An exhibition of moving image, performance, painting and object-based works by contemporary Australian artists which together create a spatio-temporal and visually immersive environment.

Belle Bassin

Saturday 05 March 2016 to Sunday 05 June 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Sarah Crowest #straponpaintings

Paintings take the form of apparel in this interactive installation, which is part of Sarah crowEST’s ongoing inquiry into how art production can be energetic, fluid and potent while treading lightly upon the earth.

Sarah Crow Est

Saturday 27 February 2016 to Sunday 29 May 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Artist Minna Gilligan and Heide curator Sue Cramer will discuss how this pop-art cinematic musical inspired the exhibition Dancing Umbrellas: An Exhibition of Movement and Light, before a rare screening of this 1964 French film at Cinema Nova in Carlton.

Minna Gilligan Sue Cramer

Wednesday 18 May 2016 to Wednesday 18 May 2016
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Alex Selenitsch: Life/text

Though primarily known as a concrete poet, Alex Selenitsch works across a broad spectrum of disciplines from architecture to artist books, collage and sculpture. His practice in each of these areas is underpinned by a creative exploration of the notion of theme and variation, often using found materials and the pre-existing systems of language and mathematics.

Alex Selenitsch

Saturday 24 October 2015 to Sunday 17 April 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Modern Love: The Lives Of John And Sunday Reed

Heide founders John and Sunday Reed were champions of modernism in all its forms and catalysing figures for successive generations of Australian artists and writers. Their libertarian attitudes, self-sufficient lifestyle and support of the avant-garde paved the way for the shaping of a new cultural landscape.

John And Sunday Reed

Saturday 19 September 2015 to Sunday 10 April 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

In Fond Memory: The Barbara Tucker Gift

On 16 May 2015 Heide Museum of Modern Art sadly lost one of its most treasured friends and supporters, Barbara Tucker.

Saturday 22 August 2015 to Sunday 06 March 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Aleks Danko: My Fellow Aus-tra-aliens

MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS presents artworks spanning more than four decades of the long career of influential Victorian-based artist Aleks Danko, from his early exhibitions in Adelaide in the late 1960s through to his recent large-scale installations.

Aleks Danko

Saturday 07 November 2015 to Sunday 21 February 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Mitch Cairns: The Reader’s Voice

Somewhere between cartoons, writing, and concrete poetry, these collages by Mitch Cairns are inspired by all these forms, and by music. As with his painting, he imposes limits that paradoxically allow freer expression; for example using French, a language he doesn’t speak, or letters to make images.

Mitch Cairns

Saturday 24 October 2015 to Sunday 21 February 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Art Workshop: Hand Made Humans

Part 1: Hand-building ceramics, Saturday 31 October, 10am–1pm Part 2: Glazing and decorating, Saturday 21 November, 10am–1pm

Saturday 31 October 2015 to Saturday 21 November 2015
Art workshop in Victoria, Australia.

Man About The House With Tim “rosso” Ross

Join one of Australia’s finest comedians for his award winning and ground-breaking show ‘Man About the House’ where architecture, comedy and music collide. For the last two years, Rosso has taken over iconic modernist buildings across the globe and turned them into temporary performance spaces, with music from Kit Warhurst.

Tim “Rosso” Ross

Thursday 12 November 2015 to Thursday 12 November 2015
Art performance in Victoria, Australia.

3 collections

Colour Sensation: The Works Of Melinda Harper

Colour and optical vibrancy animate Melbourne artist Melinda Harper’s remarkable oeuvre of abstract works developed over three decades. While Harper is best known as a painter, this survey reveals a surprising diversity of practice in its inclusion of drawings, collages, screenprints, experimental photographs, painted objects and exquisite handmade embroideries.

Melinda Harper

Saturday 27 June 2015 to Sunday 25 October 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Morning Tea: Modern Love

Curators and authors Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan share new discoveries made in the course of writing the double biography Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed.

Saturday 24 October 2015 to Saturday 24 October 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Naomi Eller: If Not Bones, Then Stones

Naomi Eller is a Melbourne artist who makes sculpture inspired by nature, myth and the human condition, translating our complex states and feelings into visual form.

Naomi Eller

Saturday 06 June 2015 to Sunday 18 October 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Abstraction: The Heide Collection

This exhibition brings together a selection of Heide Collection works from the 1930s to the present that show several individual approaches to abstraction. The featured artists are predominantly painters, all of whom share a more gestural or lyrical style of mark-making.

Saturday 04 July 2015 to Sunday 11 October 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Family Day: Pop-up Cinema

Before settling down to watch Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth starring David Bowie, join Barking Spider Visual Theatre artist Justine Warner to create wild sock puppet creatures worthy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop! Construct a box-stage for a puppet performance and learn how to lip-sync.

Saturday 19 September 2015 to Saturday 19 September 2015
Art screening in Victoria, Australia.

Halcyon Days: Heide In The 1940s

This exhibition celebrates Museum collection highlights from the 1940s, a heady period of extraordinary creative achievement and cultural change in the history of Heide. Throughout the decade John and Sunday Reed’s home formed a focal point for some of Australia’s most avant-garde artists, who rejected conventional ways of living and learning and spearheaded the modernist movement in Melbourne.

Arthur Boyd Joy Hester Sidney Nolan John Perceval Albert Tucker

Saturday 20 June 2015 to Sunday 13 September 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Albert Tucker: The Truth In Masquerade

As a young artist in the 1940s Albert Tucker’s interest in popular culture drew him to Melbourne’s colourful entertainment venues.

Albert Tucker

Saturday 21 February 2015 to Sunday 16 August 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

3 collections

21st Century Heide: The Collection Since 2000

Over 1500 artworks have been acquired by Heide since the turn of the century, from a small gem of a painting by Frank Hinder from the 1950s to a monumental installation by contemporary artist Kathy Temin.

David Thomas Sam Atyeo Erica Mcgilchrist Jacky Redgate Siri Hayes John Nixon Micky Allen Daniel Crook Rosslyn Piggott

Saturday 28 March 2015 to Sunday 14 June 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Rosemary Laing: Weathering

Works from two photographic series by Sydney based artist Rosemary Laing are presented in this exhibition, part of Climarte, a Melbourne-wide Festival seeking to ‘harness the creative power of the Arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change’.

Rosemary Laing

Saturday 21 February 2015 to Sunday 31 May 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

GUNTER CHRISTMANN: NOW AND THEN

'Gunter Christmann: Now and Then' is the first exhibition to survey the fifty-year career of this remarkable Australian artist. It includes sound works, photographs and drawings alongside his paintings, and traces the evolution of his major themes and series.

Gunter Christmann

Saturday 26 July 2014 to Sunday 16 November 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

From The Home Of Mirka Mora

Mirka Mora is one of Melbourne’s most colourful personalities and best-loved artists. This exhibition celebrates Mirka’s sixty-year association with Heide and her close ties with John and Sunday Reed.

Mirka Mora

Saturday 17 May 2014 to Sunday 09 November 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.