Free Range returns to the Institute of Modern Art for an evening of experimental sound, live performance and underground music culture. The program features three distinct performances exploring improvisation, electronics, magnetic tape and sonic experimentation: Botborg – A transcontinental project spanning Berlin and Meanjin/Brisbane, featuring an electronic performance by Joe…

Griffith University Art Museum presents Undying, a major solo exhibition by acclaimed Australian sculptor Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. Commissioned by the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, the exhibition brings together intricately carved and painted sculptures exploring humanity’s relationship with life, death, the afterlife and the natural world. Inspired by…

Milani Gallery presents Figure of 8, a solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Sandra Selig. The exhibition features a new body of work spanning reverse pendulum textiles, paintings on cork, sculpture, and a charcoal wall drawing, continuing Selig’s exploration of materiality, movement and spatial relationships. An opening event…

US artist and technologist Mindy Seu brings her acclaimed participatory lecture-performance A Sexual History of the Internet to Brisbane following presentations across North America, Asia and Europe. Described by the LA Times as “the internet’s sexual historian”, Seu explores the intertwined histories of digital technology and sexuality through a curated…

Metro Arts presents Rewiring Townhall #2, a free sector gathering offering an update on the organisation’s evolving artistic direction, upcoming programs and future opportunities. Following a period of strategic development, the townhall will provide an opportunity for artists, arts workers and the wider creative community to hear about new artist…

As part of winning the Young Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA), emerging Ipswich artist Kathryn Neilsen presents Natured & Nurtured, a solo exhibition at Land Street Gallery. Working across photography and painting, Neilsen explores relationships between the human body and the natural landscape. Her practice…

For several years, my practice has explored the relationship between opposing forces—hard and soft, masculine and feminine, and ideas of self and other. Rather than treating these as fixed opposites, I am interested in the spaces where they overlap and create something new. The paintings in Holding the Centre continue…

Psithurism — Whispering of Trees is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Kay Watanabe, presented at Side Gallery. Originally from Tokyo, Watanabe’s multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, ceramics and other media, exploring the relationship between humanity and the natural environment. The exhibition invites audiences to slow down and reflect on the…

UNLEASHED+ 2026 is a major exhibition celebrating Queensland’s emerging craft and design practitioners, presented by artisan in collaboration with HOTA, Home of the Arts. For more than two decades, UNLEASHED has provided an important platform for early-career makers and designers, connecting emerging practitioners with national curators, collectors and industry professionals.…

برزخ liminal brings together the English word “liminal” with the Farsi term برزخ (barzakh), a concept that evokes a state of suspension – a threshold between death and resurrection, presence and disappearance. While the two terms resonate with one another, they are not fully interchangeable; each carries its own cultural and philosophical…

Ho Rui An’s video Ultimate Coin Test China High-Speed Rail (2018) offers a playful critique of China’s rapid modernisation and the fetish of stability within the chaos of late capitalism. Ho appropriates a viral internet phenomenon, in which passengers on Chinese bullet trains film coins standing perfectly upright on their edges at…

The Straddie Arts Trail returns for its fifth year, transforming Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) into a vibrant celebration of contemporary art, culture and creativity across four days. Presented as a free, community-driven event, the trail features 70+ artists and makers across 33 creative stops spanning the island’s three townships. Visitors…

Lethbridge Gallery presents Green Leaves, a solo exhibition of new watercolour works by Queensland artist Jane Grealy. Drawing on a career spanning decades as an architectural illustrator, Grealy brings a refined understanding of precision, perspective and observation to her contemporary art practice. Her delicate watercolours explore the relationship between natural…

Snarm takes its title from the Khmer word meaning both a scar and a trace. The exhibition reflects on how experiences of displacement leave marks that linger over time, shaping understandings of home not as something fixed or secure, but as something continually formed in response to changing conditions. While rooted…

Created specifically for Night Feast, Total Vibration is a major new site-specific installation by Sydney artist Jonny Niesche, presented by Brisbane Powerhouse in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art. Transforming the Stores Studio into an immersive environment of reflection, movement and sound, the installation features two monumental flexible mirrors…

PARKER Contemporary presents Filtered Light, a solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Alethea Richter. Blurring the boundaries between digital imagery and handcrafted process, Richter transforms pixel-like forms into intricately woven silkscreen works. Built through meticulous layers of hand-pulled print, cut paper and woven surfaces, the works explore how…

The churchie 2026 Finalists Exhibition brings together 17 emerging artists selected from more than 550 submissions from across Australia. Established in 1987, the churchie is one of Australia’s longest-running prizes dedicated to supporting and promoting emerging contemporary artists. Presented at Metro Arts, the exhibition offers a snapshot of contemporary artistic…

The Joy Generator returns for its second chapter as an immersive sculptural installation by Australian artist Nixi Killick. Presented in the Fairfax Studio as part of Night Feast, the vibrant installation invites visitors to step inside a colourful environment designed to inspire connection, curiosity and shared moments of joy. Through…

Ties that Bind brings together leading Australian artists to explore the many ways people connect to home, Country, memory and one another. Through diverse contemporary practices, the exhibition considers belonging as something shaped by place, ancestry, migration, displacement and lived experience. Rather than presenting a single idea of home, the…

Jorge Mariño Brito was born in Cuba and lives and works in Brisbane. He graduated from the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane in 2024. Mariño Brito’s artistic practice encompasses painting, papermaking and printmaking. With a background in psychiatry, his artwork combines sensitive depiction of human relationships with a love…

Absence is a new exhibition by Gureng Gureng/Gangulu and Kanak South Sea Islander artist Darren Blackman, presenting neon, print and digital works that confront systemic inequality, cultural memory and First Nations histories. Building on his previous exhibition Post Truth, Blackman’s latest works examine the erasure of Aboriginal histories through deeply…

The 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After The Rain brings together ten newly commissioned multidisciplinary installations by established and emerging First Nations artists from across Australia. Led by Artistic Director Tony Albert (Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples), the exhibition explores themes of rebirth, renewal and cycles of cleansing while celebrating intergenerational legacies and…

LORE and LAND is an exhibition grounded in the deep cultural knowledge, ancestral connections and sovereign rights of Australian First Nations peoples. Drawing from the Sunshine Coast Art Collection, the exhibition explores the enduring relationships First Nations artists hold with Country, culture, community and identity. Through painting, sculpture, textiles, digital…

Shields: Design and Functionality explores the history, artistry and cultural significance of traditional Aboriginal shields through a major exhibition at The University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum. The exhibition presents more than 130 shields dating from the early 1900s, highlighting the regional diversity of shield design across Australia. Traditionally used for…

Jon Rafman is an anthropologist-explorer charting the dark heart of the digital world. This Canadian artist scrapes the recesses of the internet, mines 4chan greentexts, strips images from video games, and documents fringe online communities. As a seer of our networked lives, his prescient examination of online alienation offers a…

‘Worlds within Worlds’ explores how the symbolic and stylistic features of art from the Baroque period (around 1600–1750) have been invoked by contemporary artists, who — like their predecessors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries — are reflecting on a world in flux. These works suggest parallels between Baroque and…

Where Do I Belong? is a contemporary exhibition exploring the beauty, fragility, and future of Australia’s native birdlife. Bringing together local, Queensland, and nationally recognised artists, the exhibition celebrates the connection between art, nature, and community while encouraging reflection on environmental sustainability and conservation. Through painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and…

Tim Page: The Very Edge of the Brightest Light brings together almost 70 photographic works from the Griffith University Art Collection alongside archival materials and ephemera, offering a renewed perspective on one of the most influential war photographers of the 20th century. Curated by Carrie McCarthy, the exhibition highlights Page’s…

Full Bush is the first solo exhibition by QUT alumna Anne Kelley, bringing together new works that explore the intersections of labour, militarisation, global politics, dysphoria and “boganism” within regional Australian communities. Curated by Kelsey Woods, the exhibition employs assemblage, carving, scale, visual contrast and custom framing as critical strategies,…

Flying Arts Alliance presents Maintaining Momentum, a solo exhibition by moo (Sam Matthews), winner of the Remote Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards. Living and working in Far North Queensland, moo creates ceramic works inspired by the natural environment and the quiet moments of connection that emerge…

Moments is a solo exhibition by Andrew K, bringing together a new body of oil and charcoal works exploring the people, places and memories that have shaped the artist’s life. From the vast landscapes of rural Australia to the streets of Paris, and portraits reflecting the weight of human experience,…

Milani Gallery presents Site, Non Site, Place, a new solo exhibition by d harding, bringing together works created in the artist’s Paris studio alongside works made on Country during a recent return home. Working across painting, installation and sculpture, harding explores the visual and social languages of their Bidjara, Ghungalu…

Side Gallery presents The Magical Muff, a bold and playful exhibition by artists Nyx and Myfanwy Gullifer that celebrates the female body through humour, storytelling and vibrant visual language. Challenging taboos while embracing bodily autonomy, the exhibition explores themes of identity, empowerment and lived experience. Through painting, illustration and contemporary…

Lethbridge Gallery presents Knowing, a solo exhibition by Marisa Veerman exploring clothing as an extension of identity, memory and human connection. Through photography, embroidery and textile-based processes, Veerman considers garments as material archives that carry traces of lived experience, inherited presence and personal history. Rather than functioning simply as objects,…

Till and Toil presents a new body of paintings by Karla Marchesi that uses the garden as both subject and metaphor for navigating uncertainty, pressure and change. The exhibition reflects on sustaining hope through periods of personal and collective turbulence. Drawing together botanical forms, produce and the human figure, Marchesi…

Philip Wolfhagen presents a new exhibition of paintings that continue his long-standing exploration of the atmospheric landscapes of northern Tasmania. Widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape painters, Wolfhagen is known for his distinctive use of beeswax mixed with oil paint, creating richly textured surfaces that capture the…