Anna Schwartz Gallery
Part 1: 5 October – 1 November 2019
Part 2: 8 November – 21 December 2019
By Victoria Perin
Never the same river at Anna Schwartz Gallery feels like a birthday party. It is a retrospective of sorts, not of the artists or the gallery even, but of the career of the dealer Anna Schwartz herself. It is a two-part exhibition, the first launching this week and the second launching in early November. 37 years of gallery-stewardship is an odd milestone...
Australian Centre of Contemporary Art
14 September – 17 November 2019
By Philip Brophy
Hey, Siri. I want to make some contemporary art. Maybe something with sound.
Hi, Philip. Do you mean Sound Art?
I guess so, if that's what they call it.
Well, you should first check out the exhibition of Haroon Mirza at ACCA.
What?! Someone's done sound art already in a contemporary art space?!
Yes, Philip. You need to be more informed of what's happ...
Bendigo Art Gallery
17 August – 10 November 2019
By Matthew Linde
I was staying with Mona Bismarck in Capri when the news came. I was downstairs, dressed for dinner, having a drink. Consuelo Crespi telephoned me from Rome, saying it had just come over the radio that Balenciaga had closed his doors forever that afternoon, and that he'd never open them again. Mona didn't come out of her room for three days. I mean, she went into a complete…I mean, it was the en...
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
The Mining Exchange
24 August – 20 October 2019
By Maddee Clark
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale launches with a performance of the title work of Fiona Foley's headlining major solo exhibition, Who are these strangers and where are they going? The song is performed in both Badtjala and English by a group of young local Aboriginal singers. The title work of the show, a new commiss...
KINGS Artist-Run, Black_Box
31 August – 21 September, 2019
By Giles Fielke
Entering KINGS Artist-Run on a Wednesday afternoon, I slink past a homeless woman asleep on the sidewalk. Her things are pushed against the front window of a fast-food shop that looks and smells like Subway but isn't. Moments before, I'd jumped off a packed tram at the Southern Cross stop at the top of Bourke Street after skipping one which was overfu...
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery
29 July – 10 November 2019
By Aneta Trajkoski
The 'serial,' or series, adopts numerous contemporary forms: from binge-worthy television series, countless iterations of Podcasts, ever-expanding adaptations of franchise cinema, to the systematic tendencies that were examined in the recent exhibition A New Order at Buxton Contemporary. Do the conditions of a fast-moving and increasingly chaotic world urge us to seek reprieve, order and famili...
MADA Gallery, Monash University
25 July – 24 August 2019
By Philip Brophy
The exhibition ...(illegible)... offers a fascinating exquisite corpse for conceptual consideration: the sliced intersection between 'queer' and 'abstraction'. Their categorical differences within art channels are manifold: where queer is performative, salacious, interruptive and disingenuine, abstraction is constructural, metaphysical, holistic and earnest. That they are assumed to never categor...
STATION
10 – 31 August 2019
By Isabel White
"Nullius in verba", a latin saying that roughly translates to "take no one's word for it", acts as the title for both this STATION exhibition, and for one of the artworks it presents. Nullius in Verba II-XIII, created by Gunai and Monero Melbourne-based artist, Steaphan Paton, is one of two works in Paton's first STATION show. While this is Paton's first exhibition at the contemporary art gallery in South Yarr...
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