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Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. Read our review here!
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Julie Rrap has examined representations of the body in art and popular culture for over four decades, often using her own body as the subject.
Dive into the 1837 wreck of the whaling ship South Australian.
The MCA’s annual exhibition of work by early-career artists living and working in Australia.
In 2024, almost 50 years since his work was presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Lee Ufan returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.
Embark on a journey to the past that has already been enjoyed by more than 1 million others with Horizon of Khufu!
Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction.
Explore a vibrant tapestry of life! Step inside this immersive, sensory exhibition featuring spectacular rare and unusual tropical and subtropical rainforest plants. Read our review here!
Angelica Mesiti is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building.
Dinos Alive is a dinosaur exhibition featuring life-size animated replicas in an immersive Jurassic venue. Walk alongside the massive creatures that roamed our world millions of years ago!
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), will open Isaac Julien's compelling cinematic installation Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) from 27 September 2024 until 16 February 2025.
Immerse yourself in an underwater world in an exhibition that traces explorer and filmmaker James Cameron’s passion for deep ocean science, technology and exploration, including material on his record-breaking dive to the bottom of the planet in the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the submersible he co-designed and co-engineered.
Step inside the world of FRIENDS™ from 5 October in Sydney and experience your favourite show like never before!
Kwatja Kngarritja Tnyirlalhama (Big Rain Falling) invites children and families to drop in to create your own shapes or designs to add to Robinya’s immersive desert landscape wall.
Opening on 26 October, Magritte will feature more than 100 works and will be the first retrospective ever dedicated to the artist in Australia.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist whose films and photographs uncover alternative histories, including of people, rituals and objects connected to the Indonesian island of Bali. Developed through extensive research and community collaboration, her works carry a potent emotive charge in their sensitive yet affecting retellings.
Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.
Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru transports you to ancient Peru with breathtaking artefacts and immersive storytelling. With over 130 artefacts and one of the most impressive collections of gold to ever tour the globe, this is an exhibition not to be missed.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) will host a major exhibition by acclaimed American artist Julie Mehretu, the first exhibition of the artist's work to be shown in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Cao Fei: My City is Yours heralds the artist’s first retrospective in Australia.
A contemporary exhibition interrogating the importance of water
Experience the major winter exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine as a family with a day of free activities.
Oz Comic-Con offers a wide range of ticketing options to suit all types of pop culture enthusiasts.
Your next free opportunity to explore White Bay Power Station is here! Get ready for 3 supercharged days of local art, food, music and more.
Sydney Design Week 2024 brings together visionary designers, architects and artists, engaging research, storytelling and image making to create space for alternative futures.
A dynamic new display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.
Global flower show sensation Fleurs de Villes returns to Sydney, for the third time with new show VOYAGE. A floral journey of discovery to destinations around the world.
Time Machine brings together over 100 artworks and includes rarely-seen pieces from the photographer's own collection alongside works from the Odawara Art Foundation. Read our review here!
Photography competition and exhibition for budding photographers aged 5 to 12 years.
Deep dive into ethical wildlife photography and the intricacies of your digital camera in this interactive workshop for intermediate photographers.
Learn the basics of ethical wildlife photography and how to get the most out of your digital camera in this interactive workshop for beginners.
Spanning more than five decades of Lesley Dumbrell's practice, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings and works on paper as well as recent forays into sculpture that demonstrate Dumbrell's unique abstract language, which probes the nuances of colour, rhythm and visual perception.
Follow in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton on an expedition into one of history’s greatest survival stories in this immersive VR experience.
Returning to the Gardens for its 100th exhibition, the Australian Watercolour Institute (AWI) works to ensure the future of watercolour painting as a vital medium.
Explore Australia's wildlife with Creatures of Australia - an immersive digital experience featuring stunning projections and high-speed cinematography.
Nature is in focus with the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year, a South Australian Museum exhibition.
Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia.
One of art’s great stylistic innovators, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) created some of most instantly recognisable and best-loved works in modern European art. In seductive, sinuous compositions, he developed a new language that defined the look of late 19th-century Paris to be the very spirit of art nouveau.
Experience breathtaking wildlife photography that captures the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world. Read our review here!
The Archibald Prize for portrait painting is Australia’s most celebrated and democratic – sometimes controversial – art award. Open to any artist living in Australia or New Zealand, since 1921 it has reflected the unique experiences of the people who live in this region, highlighting figures from all walks of life.
Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity. Composed of drawings, sketchbooks, artist-made books, paintings, ceramics, sculptural forms and site-specific wall murals, it creates a complete artistic creation or gesamtkunstwerk (a German word meaning ‘total work of art’).
A dynamic new display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.
An exhibition of collage constructions telling the story of a boy discovering that the desert he feared is actually a place of endless wonders.
Join the Art Gallery of NSW this May for an inspiring month of art-making, workshops, performances and talks as they celebrate collaboration and creativity.
Princess Diana: Accredited Access Exhibition will showcase the emotional journey of the world’s most loved Princess through a side of the story that has never been experienced before.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) is delighted to announce A World Undone, a major exhibition by Australian artist Nicholas Mangan, opening from 5 April to 30 June 2024.
A fun-filled extravaganza filled with activities, workshops and creativity for kids of all ages at the 24th Biennale of Sydney, ‘Ten Thousand Suns’
Cast in cast out is inspired by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding’s experiences and childhood memories of growing up in ‘The Block’, an Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern. Read our review here!
‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his five-minute video installation Ngaya (I am), a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW.
Guests can discover, play, and win with Haunted Habitats - an interactive adventure that will see them embark on a fun journey through the aquarium and zoo in Darling Harbour. Discover amazing animals and learn fun facts. Engage with interactive booths to keep guests looking out for ghostly visitors who are temporarily calling the much-loved Sydney attractions home!
Guests can discover, play, and win with Haunted Habitats - an interactive adventure that will see them embark on a fun journey through the aquarium and zoo in Darling Harbour. Discover amazing animals and learn fun facts. Engage with interactive booths to keep guests looking out for ghostly visitors who are temporarily calling the much-loved Sydney attractions home!
