Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry
Richard Bell, Megan Cope and Sancintya Mohini Simpson are exhibiting work in the 16th Sharjah Biennial. The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multi-vocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered. The exhibition will run until 15 June 2025. More information is available here. Image: Megan Cope, Kinyingarra Guwinyanba, Buhais Geological Park, Sharjah.
TWFAx2 - Project Space Opens 300 George St
TW Fine Art has announced the opening of TWFAx2, an interactive pop-up located in the Brisbane Quarter, part of the W Hotel, Brisbane’s first 5 star hotel in 20 years. ” We’ve teamed up with artist…
Artists tackle an Australian obsession in sporting exhibition at UQ Art Museum.
A distinctly Australian exhibition bringing together a decade of artwork exploring sport and sporting culture will open on 24 November at UQ Art Museum. Play On: The art of sport celebrates 10 years of the Basil…
PURPLE REIGN
The first stage of APT9 Kids launches this weekend with the unveiling of Purple Reign 2018, an immersive ‘secret garden’ populated with images of jacarandas and interactive experiences by Australian artist Gary Carsley. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of…
Brisbane Open House
Brisbane Open House is a free event, providing residents and visitors with the rare opportunity to discover the hidden wealth of architecture, engineering and history in buildings and places around Brisbane city. Held annually in…
RESORT
RESORT is an iconic annual event series celebrating the James St precinct and its community as a leading cultural hub on both a local and national level. The series showcases James St’s retail, art, design…
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) will present the 2018 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) from 11 to 21 October. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines today announced BIFF 2018 would launch on Thursday 11…
churchie national emerging art prize 2018
Established in 1987 the churchie national emerging art prize is a highly regarded emerging art prize dedicated to innovation and excellence across contemporary, traditional and new media genres. Artists from all Australian states and territories…
Speed Date an Architect
As part of this year’s Asia Pacific Architecture Forum, MoB have teamed up with the Australian Institute of Architects to offer a series of free 20 minute mini-consultations with 16 Brisbane-based architects. Thinking about a…
HEART OF THE CITY
Join Uber in lighting up Brisbane with Heart of the City — a vibrant light show installation featuring new art by Sofles. Immerse yourself in a luminous visual storytelling experience combining street art, 3D mapping,…
Ben Quilty: HOME
Join Archibald Prize winning artist Ben Quilty as he sits down with ABC Radio’s Sarah Kanowski to discuss his new book, Home, a collection of drawings by Syrian children. Ben Quilty has assembled this heartbreaking…
Milani Gallery's New Space
Milani Gallery’s new premises at 270 Montague Road, West End, will open on 8 September 2018. The gallery will open with Richard Bell’s Embassy, an exhibition of new works by Gareth Sansom, and projects by Tintin…
Brisbane Festival 2018
Brisbane Festival is Australia’s major international arts festival and Queensland’s largest cultural event, which attracts an audience of over one million people every year. Running from the 8th to 29th of September 2018, Brisbane Festival…
Australian Virtual Reality Film Festival
Returning to the Brisbane Powerhouse after a sell out first year in 2017 is the Australian Virtual Reality Film Festival (AVRFF)! From August 21-26 the festival will showcase virtual reality (VR) films guaranteed to whisk…
Qui Zhijie Announced for APT9
Leading Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie will be onsite at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) this month to create Map of Utopia 2018, an enormous ink painting that will be a major highlight of ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of…
GOMA CINÉMATHÈQUE
The Australian Cinémathèque at GOMA provides an ongoing program of film and video that you’re unlikely to see elsewhere. Screenings take place Wednesday and Friday nights and Saturday and Sundays matinees. We offer a rich…
BIGSOUND Festival 2018
Now in its seventeenth year, BIGSOUND Festival is your annual opportunity to discover the future of Australian music. Running over four September days and nights, Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley comes alive with a global gathering of…
Fresh Blood Festival
The Fresh Blood Festival is a pop-up frenzy of experimental theatre, visual art, short films, live music and liberal drinks, hidden in a loft studio above the streets of Fortitude Valley. Presented by Vena Cava Productions,…
Sharon Muir: Scenes for Hearts and Flowers
Sharon Muir’s ceramic sculptures are a surrealist reinvention of artefacts from the shelves of yesterday. Found mementos having lost their owners and the sentiments that once attached to them, are alchemically reborn into a contemporary…
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
“We defy: By existing; By determining our identity; By asserting our histories; our culture; our language; By telling our stories, our way; By being one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world.” – Tina Baum, NGA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Storm Riders
SBS has today released a new 360° immersive film, Storm Riders, which explores the creative collaboration between acclaimed Australian video artist and ex-pro skater Shaun Gladwell and two female Muslim skateboarders, Chadnee Shah and Farhana Hussain. Following a chance…
Home of the Arts
HOTA, Home of the Arts is the home for all things creative. A home that brings people together where ideas are transformed into real life experiences. A place where art makes the world a better…
BRISTOPIA
As Brisbane grows we reflect upon the elements of our city that nurture and connect us. BRISTOPIA invites you to contribute your voice to this conversation by exploring the values you hold in relation to…
Easton Pearson Archive Appeal
It’s almost 12 months since we announced that Museum of Brisbane was the recipient of the largest textile donation from a single fashion house to an Australian museum. The donation by Brisbane philanthropist and contemporary…
Fiona Lowry: The Viewing Room
Fiona Lowry undertook a residency at the Tweed Regional Gallery’s Nancy Fairfax Studio in 2017 to develop a new series of works: “Initially what was interesting about doing a residency in Murwillumbah was the opportunity…
Extensive Regional Tour for QAGOMA Video Works
Regional Queensland audiences have an opportunity to experience key video works from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Collection, when the exhibition ‘Physical Video’ tours extensively across the region from 4 July 2018…
Los Angeles County Museum of Art acquires work by QCA student
Queensland College of Art doctoral candidate Anna Carey will join the ranks of artists like Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, and Claude Monet with the acquisition of two of her works by the renowned Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).…
Lawrence English - Artist Talk
Internationally renowned sound artist Lawrence English will talk about the nature of sound, listening and his artistic process as he reveals a journey that has taken him from the Amazon to Antarctica. To compose his…
DIVERSE SUBJECTS AND IDEAS INSPIRE THE 35TH TELSTRA NATSIAA FINALISTS
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) is delighted to announce 67 works have been selected from 308 entries to be part of the country’s most prestigious national Indigenous art awards, the Telstra…
Untold Australia VR
SBS’s Untold Australia VR immerses audiences at the heart of Torres Strait Islander stories SBS’s Digital Creative Labs have today released the final Untold Australia VR (virtual reality) immersive experiences, Every King Tide and A…
PATRICIA PICCININI UP LATE
An eclectic line-up of musicians including Zola Jesus (USA), Lydia Lunch Retrovirus (USA) and Xylouris White (Melbourne) will take to the stage for the Patricia Piccinini Up Late program at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from 8 June to 6 July 2018.…
Gentle Northerly: The Reimagined Queenslander
Gentle Northerly: The Reimagined Queenslander presents four much-loved homes in the Brisbane suburbs of Auchenflower, West End and New Farm, which have been thoughtfully reimagined by award-winning architects. The interiors of the original houses have been…
New Artists APT9
Major new works by artists Jonathan Jones (Australia), Aisha Khalid (Pakistan) and Iman Raad(Islamic Republic of Iran), as well as two projects involving more than 30 women artists from the Pacific, will be among the highlights of ‘The 9th Asia Pacific…
people+artist+place
people+artist+place is a new arts initiative that aims to stimulate and support the production of socially-engaged, participatory and site-specific art in Brisbane. Facilitating projects that expand community perceptions of art in public space, we embrace the ability contemporary art…
EMPIRE OF OUR SENSES: THE BODY AND MIND IN SCIENCE
Presented in partnership with Queensland Museum, this program of documentaries and films for the 2018 World Science Festival Brisbane reflects on some of the expectations we have of our minds and bodies and how these…
Brisbane Airport Awards
Queensland College of Art (QCA) Master of Visual Art student Michael Phillips has won a commission to create an epic 90 metre floor to ceiling art work for the expansion of Brisbane Airport’s International Terminal…
Brisbane Street Art Festival 2018
Street artists from around the world gather in Brisbane to create 50 new large scale murals for the city. Street artists from near and afar will gather in Brisbane from 31 March to 15 April…