Gertrude Contemporary

Amiel Courtin-wilson, The American Experiment

The American Experiment is a new solo exhibition by Australian artist and filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson. Representing a collection of expanded fragments assembled over seventeen years of filmmaking in the United States of America, the exhibition will comprise of moving image installation, audio recordings and diagrammatic endeavors to find new graphic representations of cinematic structure.

Amiel Courtin Wilson

Friday 18 September 2015 to Saturday 24 October 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

TRANSCENDENCE: NELL, ANGELICA MESITI, AURA SATZ

A suite of three major works by Nell, Angelica Mesiti and Aura Satz explore altered consciousness and the spiritual or hallucinatory force of music.

Angelica Mesiti Nell Aura Satz

Friday 14 March 2014 to Thursday 17 April 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Director

Gertrude Contemporary is seeking a charismatic and communicative director who has successfully led an art institution in the past, or who has otherwise shown distinctive leadership in the field of cultural programming and/or contemporary art.

Sunday 01 September 2013 to Monday 07 October 2013
Art opportunity in Victoria, Australia.

DAN MOYNIHAN, LOST IN SPACE

In this major new work, Melbourne artist Dan Moynihan will duplicate a local commercial gallery within the Front Gallery of Gertrude Contemporary. Lost In Space is an immersive installation that challenges the dynamics of two different buildings brought together in a speculative union.

Saturday 23 March 2013 to Saturday 27 April 2013
Opening: Friday 22 March 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

LOOSELY SPEAKING

Isn’t this entire, unending world constructed by the understanding out of incomprehensibility or chaos? [Schlegel]. Loosely Speaking makes a case for not-understanding. Language and coded behaviour can be restrictive in their clarity and this exhibition, curated by Pip Wallis, defies concrete logic in favour of indeterminacy.

Saturday 23 March 2013 to Saturday 27 April 2013
Opening: Friday 22 March 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

STUDIO 12 - REKO RENNIE

Gertrude Contemproary is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Gertrude Contemporary studio artist Reko Rennie. Reko Rennie is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay/Gummaroi man, born in Melbourne, Australia. Through his art Rennie explores what it means to be an urban Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society.

Reko Rennie

Saturday 23 March 2013 to Saturday 27 April 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

BRIDIE LUNNEY AND TORIE NIMMERVOLL, PROPOSITIONS

During February of 2013 Gertrude Contemporary’s Front Gallery will be transformed into an activated, evolving performance space. In Gertrude Contemporary’s window-like front room collaborating artists Bridie Lunney and Torie Nimmervoll will investigate the ways that architectural spaces and forms can mimic psychological states of being.

Saturday 09 February 2013 to Saturday 09 March 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

GEOFF KLEEM, AEGIS

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present a new solo project by Sydney-based artist Geoff Kleem. Over the past twenty-five years Kleem’s practice has been typified by its diversity - traversing photography, sculpture, painting and even performance.

Saturday 09 February 2013 to Saturday 09 March 2013
Opening: Friday 08 February 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

STUDIO 12: ASH KILMARTIN

Kilmartin House Museum is an exhibition of new sculpture, built around ideas of work, time and memory.

Ash Kilmartin

Saturday 09 February 2013 to Saturday 09 March 2013
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

GERTRUDE STUDIOS EXHIBITION 2012

Gertrude Contemporary’s 2012 Studio Artists’ exhibition presents a dynamic selection of new work by sixteen of Australia’s most innovative young artists. Gertrude Contemporary offers an environment where risk, experimentation and creativity are encouraged.

Veronica Kent Laith Mc Gregor Katie Lee George Egerton Warburton Darren Sylvester Hanna Tai Jake Walker Reko Rennie Trevelyan Clay Jensen Tjhung Paul Yore Fergus Binns Eliza Dyball Christopher Hill Ash Kilmartin Joshua Petherick

Saturday 17 November 2012 to Saturday 15 December 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

DAS SUPERPAPER LAUNCH

Guest edited by Ivan Muniz-Reed (MCA) and Mexico-based Lorena Pena Brito, Periférico is looking at ideas of the periphery and, taking its name from the monumentally failed ring-road in Mexico City, Mexican art of the last 20 years and current interchanges between Australian and Mexican artists. Join us from 3–4pm to celebrate the launch of the issue and Das Superpaper's 4th birthday.

Saturday 24 November 2012 to Saturday 24 November 2012
Opening: Saturday 24 November 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

GERTRUDE STUDIOS OPEN DAY

Each year Gertrdue Contemporary's sixteen studio artists open their doors to the public. This is a unique opportunity to gain privilged access to the creative work spaces of some of Australia's most innovative and dynamic contemporary artists.

Saturday 24 November 2012 to Saturday 24 November 2012
Opening: Saturday 24 November 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

City Within the City

With the majority of the world’s population dwelling in cities, it is not just our bodies that are contained within urban commercial and industrialized zones, but our imaginations as well. City Within the City examines how through activating urban spaces, we might engender them as sites for creative expression, transgression and resistance.

Ash Keating Minouk Lim Emily Cormack Abraham Cruzvillegas Nayla Dabaji And Ziad Bitar Alicia Frankovich Emil Goh Jinyeoul Jung And Changmo Ahn Yeondoo Jung Kim Beom Jooyoung Lee Listen To The City Andrew Mcqualter Part Time Suite Hyunsuk Seo Haegue Yang Jun Yang Suyeon Yun Jinyoung Koh Sunjung Kim Alexie Glass Kantor Claudia Pestana Hyejin Lim

Friday 05 October 2012 to Wednesday 07 November 2012
Opening: Friday 05 October 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

12: JOSH PETHERICK

Petherick's multi-disciplinary practice considers media and material in a constant state of shifting in and out of any fixed body. His installations of sculpture, video/audio and "image objects" place emphasis on the grey areas that open up through systems of manifold production and translation, from one context or material to the next.

Josh Petherick

Friday 24 August 2012 to Saturday 22 September 2012
Opening: Friday 24 August 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

IRREGULAR HEXAGON

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present an exhibition curated by José Roca. The exhibition is part of an international six-part project showcasing Colombian art. Irregular Hexagon is Roca’s examination of a group of Colombian artists who each draw upon social and political issues embedded within Latin American and particularly Colombian society.

Delcy Morelos Gabriel Sierra JosÉ Roca

Friday 24 August 2012 to Saturday 22 September 2012
Opening: Friday 24 August 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

CITY WITHIN THE CITY

Artsonje Center and Gertrude Contemporary announce their collaboration for the City Within the City exhibition to open November 11, 2011 in Seoul and August 2012 in Melbourne.

Ash Keating Minouk Lim Abraham Cruzvillegas Nayla Dabaji And Ziad Bitar Alicia Frankovich Emil Goh Jinyeoul Jung And Changmo Ahn Yeondoo Jung Kim Beom Jooyoung Lee Listen To The City Andrew Mcqualter Part Time Suite Hyunsuk Seo Haegue Yang Jun Yang Suyeon Yun Jinyoung Koh

Friday 17 August 2012 to Saturday 22 September 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

STUDIO 6: PROJECT 1

For the remaining duration of Ash Kilmartin's 2012-14 Gertrude Contemporary studio residency, the Studio 6 space will become a site for occasional temporary exhibition projects.

Xin Cheng Virginia Overell Oliver Van Der Lugt

Saturday 25 August 2012 to Saturday 25 August 2012
Opening: Friday 24 August 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

OCTOPUS 12: FIRST AMONGST EQUALS (PART I)

Gertrude Contemporary presents the twelfth exhibition in our annual Octopus series. Octopus is a unique program that offers leading curators from across Australia the opportunity to extend their professional practice, developing exhibitions that enhance curatorial and creative debate within Australia and internationally.

Christian Marclay Rebecca Baumann Leigh Robb Len Lye Elizabeth Mcalpine Paul Pfeiffer

Friday 13 July 2012 to Saturday 18 August 2012
Opening: Friday 13 July 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

STUDIO 12: JAKE WALKER

Current Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist Jake Walker's upcoming Studio 12 exhibition entitled Painting and Relief, will comprise a table-based assemblage/collage of paintings and ceramics.

Jake Walker

Friday 13 July 2012 to Saturday 18 August 2012
Opening: Friday 13 July 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

JOHN NIXON | EPW: Colour-Music

Gertrude Contemporary is proud to present two major projects by highly regarded Australian artist John Nixon. A solo project in the main gallery space and a group show curated by Nixon in the front gallery space.

John Nixon

Friday 01 June 2012 to Saturday 30 June 2012
Opening: Friday 01 June 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

STUDIO 12: JENSEN TJHUNG

Current Gertrude Contemporary Studio Arist Jensen Tjhung's new body of work explores variations on black and grey paintings using cement, bitumen, acid, oxide and other chemicals on paper. At various stages of disintegration, these works study the alchemy of black paintings and refer to the artist's ongoing enquiries into belief, non-belief and the sub-suburban void.

Jensen Tjhung

Friday 01 June 2012 to Saturday 30 June 2012
Opening: Friday 01 June 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

WHITE PAINTINGS Curated by John Nixon

White Paintings includes work by John Nixon as well as Melbourne and Sydney -based painters Gunter Christmann, Robert Hunter, David Thomas and Karl Wiebke. Nixon has assembled this group of white paintings by peers, colleagues and friends who have shared a discourse around abstract painting since the late 1960s.

David Thomas Karl Wiebke John Nixon Gunter Christmann Robert Hunter

Friday 01 June 2012 to Saturday 30 June 2012
Opening: Friday 01 June 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

5 collections

Bellowing Echoes

Bellowing Echoes explores the stories left behind, the truths untold, and uncovers our immortal need for connection to place and community. Hosted by Gertrude Contemporary, leading artists draw upon a local 1838 narrative to guide us through a temporal wanderlust of immersive installation and process-orientated works, to a place where time is unhinged and our realities transformed.

Thursday 19 April 2012 to Sunday 27 May 2012
Opening: Thursday 19 April 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

STUDIO 12: LAITH MCGREGOR

For his Studio 12 project, Laith McGregor intends to highlight and play on the bridge between the studio and the Studio 12 Exhibition Space. Laith Mcgregor works within a multi-disciplinary practice including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. His work documents the grey area between fiction and non fiction.

Laith Mc Gregor

Thursday 19 April 2012 to Saturday 26 May 2012
Opening: Thursday 19 April 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

DARREN SYLVESTER

For his Studio 12 exhibition, Darren Sylvester has a new series of four polished bronze sculptures opening in Studio 12 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Saturday 17 March, 3-5pm through to 7 April 2012. These sculptures continue a series of cosmetic masks made in 2007 from wood.

Darren Sylvester

Friday 16 March 2012 to Saturday 07 April 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

NO NAME STATION

No-Name Station is an innovative China/Australia cultural exchange project. The exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary marks the final phase of a program that has extended over two years, from the East Kimberley in Western Australia, to Beijing in China, and now in Melbourne for its concluding instalment.

Newell Harry Brook Andrew Gao Shiqiang Mabel Juli Liang Shuo Rusty Peters Rammey Ramsey Sally Smart Wang Wei Zhao Zhao

Friday 16 March 2012 to Saturday 07 April 2012
Opening: Saturday 17 March 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Katie Lee

Katie Lee, current Gertrude Contemporary studio artist will exhibit new work in Studio 12. Katie has spent time in Vietnam where she worked and exhibited independently in 2003/4 and returned as a resident artist with Asialink in 2007. She teaches in the Sculpture department and the Architecture and Design Foundation Studies program at RMIT.

Friday 03 February 2012 to Saturday 10 March 2012
Opening: Friday 03 February 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Masato Takasaka - ALMOST EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES (IN FOUR PARTS...)

Takasaka’s sculptural practice takes the riff, reference, collage and re-working of the ready-made as a starting point, and he will for the first time, configure a new site-specific solo project for the Gertrude main gallery spaces. Takasaka employs the larger structure to ask the question, does the artwork support the structure or does the structure support the artwork?

Friday 03 February 2012 to Saturday 10 March 2012
Opening: Friday 03 February 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Tom Polo - Gestures & Mistakes

Tom Polo’s work takes inspiration from the performance of anxiety. Exploring, exaggerating and mocking moments of self-reflection, self-sabotage, self-help, self-indulgence and self-aggrandising, and he pushes self-doubt towards its cringe-worthy limits.

Friday 03 February 2012 to Saturday 10 March 2012
Opening: Friday 03 February 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

ANASTASIA KLOSE: I CAN'T STOP LIVING

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by acclaimed Australian artist Anastasia Klose, bringing together a new video with a site-specific wall drawing and a suite of drawings, Klose’s commingling of satirical, nostalgic and candid commentary imbued in video, sculptural work and a drawing practice, has received critical acclaim throughout Australia.

Anastasia Klose

Thursday 19 April 2012 to Sunday 01 January 2012
Opening: Friday 25 May 2012
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Gertrude Studios 2011 Exhibition

Gertrude Contemporary’s 2011 Studio Artists’ exhibition presents a selection of new work by Australia’s most innovative young artists.

Laith Mc Gregor Katie Lee Sanné Mestrom Emily Ferretti Darren Sylvester Susan Jacobs Geoff Newton Selina Ou Kate Smith Alex Vivian Hanna Tai Jake Walker Trevelyan Clay Gabriella Mangano And Silvana Mangano Jensen Tjhung Paul Yore

Saturday 19 November 2011 to Saturday 17 December 2011
Opening: Friday 18 November 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

HARUN FAROCKI - WAR AT A DISTANCE

War at a Distance is the largest selection of work by pivotal German filmmaker Harun Farocki ever to be shown in Australia, featuring four film installations from the past decade. Since the 1960s Harun Farocki has made filmic essays from found footage which explore the power and politics of the image.

Harun Farocki

Friday 07 October 2011 to Saturday 05 November 2011
Opening: Friday 07 October 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

VERNON AH KEE - TALL MAN

"Tall Man asks questions, questions that compel. What of Lex Wotton? And why don’t we talk about Palm Island? When we say ‘Palm Island’, there are connotations that fix us, that give us pause, and send our emotions racing toward tipping points. Like when we say ‘Cronulla’." Vernon Ah Kee, November 2010

Vernon Ah Kee

Friday 07 October 2011 to Saturday 05 November 2011
Opening: Friday 07 October 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

4 collections

OCTOPUS 11: THE MATTER OF AIR

Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present Octopus 11: The Matter of Air. Running for over a decade, the annual Octopus exhibitions series offers a curator the opportunity to explore key ideas in current curatorial practice, experimenting with their methodology and opening up new possibilities for the discipline.

Michaela Gleave Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva Zilvinas Kempinas Sanne Mestrom Dane Mitchell

Friday 26 August 2011 to Saturday 24 September 2011
Opening: Friday 26 August 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Studio 12: Kate Smith

Gertrude Contemporary presents new work by Kate Smith.

Kate Smith

Friday 26 August 2011 to Saturday 24 September 2011
Opening: Friday 26 August 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

10 collections

Project 35 - Curated by 35 international curators and featuring work by 35 artists

Gertrude Contemporary is very pleased to present Project 35. This extraordinary travelling exhibition features 35 of the world’s most pivotal contemporary video works.

Ulla Von Brandenburg Michael Stevenson Tracey Moffatt Zhou Xiaohu Guy Ben Ner Yukihiro Taguchi Dan Halter Wanda Raimundi Ortiz The Propeller Group Kota Ezawa Edwin Sanchez Robert Cauble Sammy Baloji Jos De Gruyter And Harald Thys Andrea Büttner Alexander Apóstol Daniela Paes Leao Ranbir Kaleka Ho Tzu Nyen Stephen Sutcliffe Azorro Group Yason Banal Meris Angioletti Vyacheslav Akhunov Beryl Korot Anja Medved Tracey Rose Elodie Pong Chto Delat/What Is To Be Done? Chen Chieh Jen Manon De Boer Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain Nestor Krüger Vartan Avakian Tamar Guimarães

Friday 22 July 2011 to Thursday 18 August 2011
Opening: Friday 29 July 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.