NETHERWORLDS
9th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Spring Hill Reservoir
NETHERWORLDS: NAOMI BLACKLOCK, ANASTASIA BOOTH, CAITLIN FRANZMANN, CHANTAL FRASER, CLAY KERRIGAN, & BLAKE LAWRENCE NETHERWORLDS brings…
First Thursdays: Naomi Blacklock
7th June, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
You’re invited to an evening of meditative breath work led by artist Naomi Blacklock and her mother Charlie…
Down Here #3
10th June, 5:00pm
Common House
Down Here is an ongoing series focused on presenting local, inaccessible experimental/noise/etc projects. A Natural Low is…
BOTBORG
30th April, 6:00pm
Common House, Fortitude Valley
Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to…
Ross Manning: Sound Performance
14th April, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Milani Gallery
Join Milani Gallery for a premiere performance of new open piano and waveform sound work…
All That Remains
20th May, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Captain Burke Park, Kangaroo Point
in a city full of concrete that never misses a beat do we really understand…
MONO 26
5th May, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
The IMA and Room40 present MONO 26, with Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh, with Aki Onda. Between…
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…
The Beautiful Game
7th April, 2:45 - 3:45pm
New Farm Park
Two giant footballs, a roaming field and a surreal landscape of boulders and cakes: step…
Jordan Azcune & Liam Marsden: A Duel
16th March, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE
A DUEL “I am quicker than you.” “I am smarter than you.” “But I am…
Star-Crossed Rivers
23rd March, 5:30pm
River Quay Green - South Bank
Next Friday locals and tourists in South Bank can experience a free, family-friendly contemporary art…
First Thursdays: Digi Youth Arts
5th April, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Digi Youth Arts (DYA) takes over the IMA with performances responding to historical stories in…
Clive Murray -White: Smokework
9th March, 5:45 - 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Please join us for the restaging of Clive Murray-White’s ‘Smokework’ (previously titled ‘Smokebomb sculpture’) 1971…
Magic Demonstration: Acid Money, Malin Nilsson
8th March, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Experience a one-of-a-kind live magic demonstration that conjures up the sleight-of-hand routinely used by actors…
Live Performance: Amalia Pica - please open hurry
10th February - 10th March
Institute of Modern Art
See a live performance in the gallery of Amalia Pica‘s work, ‘In alphabetical order (Catalogue…
Anne Scott Wilson: Every Day I Wait
11th November - 8th April
Museum of Brisbane
Artist Anne Scott Wilson draws on 30 years of live performance and exhibitions to explore…
SUPERCELL: Festival of Contemporary Dance
10th - 18th February
Bris Powerhouse & Judith Wright Centre
SUPERCELL: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane is co-curated by Kate Usher and Glyn Roberts. Two colleagues…
Summer Up Late
19th January, 5:30 - 10:00pm
Gallery of Modern Art / Queensland Art Gallery
Up Late returns for a one-off special event over summer. Cool down and chill out…
Parallel Park: Can You Keep Me Occupied
14th January, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Outerspace
Outer Space presents two new works by Parallel Park In Time is a performance installation…
First Thursdays: Caroline Garcia and Athena Thebus
7th December, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join artists Caroline Garcia and Athena Thebus and their friends and family for a very…
Upper Partialism #14
4th December, 7:30pm - 11:00pm
Common House
Upper Partialism returns for our last show for the year. Featuring: Nicole Carroll [USA] Dylan…
Puppet Tearing
1st - 5th November
POP Gallery
“Puppet’ is a term of contempt, though there still remain some who find beauty in…
First Thursdays: Mariam Arcilla
5th October, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Writer, curator, and researcher Mariam Arcilla, along with her friends, will present an evening of…
Philipp Gehmacher: my shapes, your words, their grey
12th October - 11th November
Griffith University Art Gallery
Philipp Gehmacher is a choreographer, dancer and visual artist whose works on gesture, space and…
Jeremy Hynes Award: Naomi Blacklock
24th October, 7:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join us at the IMA after sundown Tuesday 24 October for Naomi Blacklock’s first Brisbane…
Alrey Batol: Études
20th - 21st October
STABLE
ÉTUDES – Étude (Fr. for ‘study’): technical material for a player of a musical instrument.…
Strike A Prose: Art and Poetry in the Art Museum
20th October, 6:30 - 9:30pm
UQ Art Museum
‘What are you looking at? Strike a prose.’ Join us for an evening combining art…
Kinly Grey: The Size of Air
25th - 27th, October
Queen Street Mall
Over three nights only… In this temporary installation, Kinly Grey brings the sky to the…
First Thursdays: Courtney Coombs
2nd November, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Brisbane-based artist Courtney Coombs invites you to participate in a guided evening of unlearning. Joined by artists Naomi Blacklock and Leena Reithmuller,…
Pope Alice - Open Sésame / Ouvre-Toi (Open Yourself)
28th October, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
James St, Brisbane
The Pope Alice Xorporation (PAX) in association with Mr Josh Milani of Milani Gallery welcomes…
The Way Through All Things
7th - 8th October
Spring Hill Reservoirs
Brisbane City Council has commissioned artists Caitlin Franzmann, Dale Gorfinkel and Ross Manning to present…
IMA First Thursdays X MONO: Tetsuya Umeda & Ross Manning
7th September, 6:00–9:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
Based in Osaka, Japan, Tetsuya Umeda’s work focuses on the creation of profoundly dynamic environments, through the…
Aidan Renata: PUSH, PULL, PUSH, PULL
16th September, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Kunstbunker
Showcased as a performance PUSH, PULL, PUSH, PULL, considers failure as a queer aesthetic to…
Carolyn Craig: Mechanisms for Leaning
20th September –1st October
POP Gallery
Carolyn Craig’s work reflects her research within the coded construction of subjectivity and relates this to…
Brian Fuata at First Thursdays
Brian Fuata Will Most Likely Die From Suicide or “Minibar” was a delightful insider take…
Piyali Ghosh: Insomnia 2
11th August – 19th August
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
After her solo exhibition Insomnia 1 in 2015, Indian artist Piyali Ghosh returns to Brisbane…