Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

Kindergarten

Kindergarten is a significant new project and solo show by influential senior Australian artist John Nixon. The exhibition incorporates two new bodies of over 70 paintings, a poster project, archival photography and an experimental music performance. This will be Nixon's first major public gallery exhibition since 2007.

John Nixon

Saturday 03 November 2012 to Sunday 30 December 2012
Opening: Friday 02 November 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

YonderVarious

Yonder offers a contemporary perspective on the desire that artists have always had to know 'what's over there'. With the notion of 'mobility' as the exhibition's central idea, Yonder considers some of the poetic and pragmatic connotations associated with this strategy for investigating, taking action and day dreaming about one's place in the world.

Saturday 08 September 2012 to Sunday 21 October 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

The Democratic SetBack to Back Theatre

The Democratic Set is a residency model that explores the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy social, political and economic rights and opportunities.

Tuesday 28 August 2012 to Sunday 21 October 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Thrashing Without Looking APHIDS

Thrashing Without Looking is an experiential work that combines performance with live cinema. A 3am ride through loneliness, frenzy, banality and cliché. A performance you can watch, create, perform and control. Created by the audience, for the audience, it involves video goggles, champagne and a lot of loud music.

Wednesday 22 August 2012 to Saturday 25 August 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Objects. Food. Rooms. Thomas Rentmeister

Presented in partnership with Kunstmuseum Bonn, Objects. Food. Rooms. is a major exhibition of new and site specific works by Thomas Rentmeister, a leading German artist who has been producing distinctive sculptural and installation works over the last 25 years.

Thomas Rentmeister

Saturday 23 June 2012 to Sunday 19 August 2012
Opening: Friday 22 June 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

PICA Salon

The PICA Salon is the flagship event for ART1000, PICA's award-winning donor program. An exhibition featuring a curated selection of local, national and international contemporary artists, PICA Salon 2012 celebrates the stellar history of Perth's leading contemporary arts organisation by showcasing artworks for sale by those involved in it's 23 year history.

Alex Spremberg David Rosetzky Brook Andrew Tarryn Gill Pilar Mata Dupont Richard Lewer Silvana Mangano Gabriella Mangano Petrina Hicks John Gerrard Christian Thompson Sarah Pickering Brian Blanchflower Paul Caporn Susanna Castleden Olga Cironis Thea Costantino Benjamin Forster Tom Freeman Claire Healy & Sean Cordiero Brian Mc Kay Patrick Miller Tony Nathan Conor O'brien Clare Peake Simon Perecich Ryan Presley Thomas Rentmeister Tanya Schultz Helen Smith Jon Tarry The Greater Asian Co Prosperity Sphere Michele Theunissen Ignacio Uriarte Andrew Varano Jurek Wybraniec

Sunday 22 July 2012 to Sunday 12 August 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

HATCHED 2011: Various Artists

It's a real coming of age for Hatched. This year, the landmark exhibition that has launched the careers of many Australian artists - turns 21! Every year for the past two decades Hatched has tracked the changing trends and developments in emerging contemporary art by providing an annual snapshot of the country's aesthetic mood.

Pip Stafford Cj Taylor Claire Marsh Hardy Lohse Amina Mc Convell Nathan Brooker Ian Williams David Attwood Michelle Williamson Louisa Hansal Shanna Muston Dominic Reidy Raphaela Rosella Ysabelle Dauguet Lachlan Petras Jacqui Shelton Anastasia Booth Brianne Mackinnon Skye Kelly Wendy Korol Johann Rashid Karen Stone Jesse Price Kelly Brett Minna Gilligan Jethro Harcourt Sarah Jane Haywood Liam Power George Alex Nagle Ramesh Nithiyendran Zoe Woods Spike Deane Amanda Jane Newing Lydia Evangelou Oost Rob Davies Kimberley Cannon Wilson

Saturday 21 April 2012 to Sunday 10 June 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

9 collections

Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia & the UK

A fleeting glimpse into the life and times of two countries and beyond, this exhibition will disrupt the way you think about photography. From oblique takes on portraiture and collage to snapshots of society at its best and worst, Hijacked III presents far reaching photographic practices which question what it means to look, catch or construct images for the 21st century.

Saturday 18 February 2012 to Sunday 08 April 2012
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Alternating Currents

Alternating Currents is a major exhibition developed by PICA and the Japan Foundation and sponsored by Allens Arthur Robinson, that presents significant new work by six contemporary Japanese artists, artist collectives and musicians.

Saturday 12 November 2011 to Saturday 31 December 2011
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

STADIUM Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont

PICA will be transformed into a sporting arena, complete with bleachers, suspended ropes and cheerleaders for an exhibition and performance work by celebrated Western Australian collaborative duo Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont.

Saturday 03 September 2011 to Sunday 30 October 2011
Art exhibition in Australia.

Alex Spremberg Wrong Angles

Wrong Angles is a major solo show of all new work by the highly acclaimed Western Australian artist, Alex Spremberg. In this show, the artist seeks to integrate everyday materials such as cardboard boxes and newspapers into his paintings.

Alex Spremberg

Friday 02 September 2011 to Sunday 30 October 2011
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Sonia Leber & David Chesworth Space-Shifter

PICA Performance Space Sonia Leber and David Chesworth will create a psychogeography of voice and space at PICA, using sound, vibration and metallic constructions.

Sonia Leber And David Chesworth

Thursday 15 September 2011 to Tuesday 27 September 2011
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Intimate ActsGroup show of international artists

Searching philosophical exchanges, fleeting glimpses and peep hole voyerurism Intimate Acts brings together a range of performative, video and photographic works that provide a glimpse into the nature of intimacy, desire and the suggestive power of the imagination.

Tuesday 16 June 2009 to Sunday 02 August 2009
Opening: Wednesday 17 June 2009
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

HATCHED 09National Graduate Show

PICA's annual HATCHED National Graduate Show is the most prestigious and comprehensive survey of new emerging artists in Australia today. Showcasing some of the country's finest graduates HATCHED 09 presents us with a startling array of art spanning painting, print making, ceramics, sculpture, installation, textiles, animation, photography and video.

Friday 17 April 2009 to Sunday 07 June 2009
Opening: Thursday 16 April 2009
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

A Certain Slant of LightBrendan van Hek

A Certain Slant of Light is a meditation on the complexities and instability of 'truth'. Consisting of a constellation of neon light works where the innate nature of the materials - gas and light - evoke senses of intangibility, impermanence and transformation, A Certain Slant of Light touches upon the uniqueness of every individual's experience of the world.

Thursday 12 February 2009 to Sunday 05 April 2009
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Oscar MunozMirror Image

Acclaimed as one of Latin America's most significant living artists, Oscar Muñoz alludes to 50 years of political and social turmoil in his native Columbia in this his first Australian solo exhibition. Described by the prestigious UK magazine Apollo as 'beautiful and mysterious, little miracles and apparitions' Muñoz's art raises questions about the nature of illusion, association and memory.

Thursday 12 February 2009 to Sunday 05 April 2009
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

Vessel vesselLucy Quinn

Canberra based artist Lucy Quinn's poetic and sensuous video Vessel vessel pictures droplets of ink dispersing into water. Projected vertically from the ceiling to the floor, this engaging and mesmerising moving image work explores the interplay of interior and exterior space, body and architecture, permanence and transience.

Thursday 12 February 2009 to Sunday 05 April 2009
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.

PICA Residency Studio 2# Kieran Stewart

Artists talks and presentation of final work

Kieran Stewart

Wednesday 19 December 2007 to Sunday 27 January 2008
Opening: Wednesday 19 December 2007
Art exhibition in Western Australia, Australia.