GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE
Exhibition:
Witness: an Exhibition of Seven Contemporary Painters
Details: Julia Ciccarone, Greg Creek, Louise Forthun, Fiona Jeffery, David Keeling, Louise Murray & Gregory Pryor
Date: June 1 to June 30 2009.
Location: 200 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy, Melbourne.
More information: www.gertrude.org.au
HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Exhibition:The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality
Dates: 18 July to 15 November 2009.
Details: Paul Yore is presenting a new, site-specific version of an installation made from numerous everyday throwaway items, both natural and artificial. Glittery psychedelia, plastic objects, fake flowers and real branches are intricately organised into shrine-like arrangements and spaces for reflection, patching together a joyful and contemplative garden of delights, wherein this cheap detritus may function in a new way.
Location: 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen Victoria, www.heide.com.au
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA ( NGV INTERNATIONAL)
Exhibition: Andreas Gursky
Details: A collection of photographic works by one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Gusky examines the experience of living in the globalised world.
Date: November 21st 2008 to February 22nd 2009.
Exhibition: The Cricket and The Dragon: The Animals in Asian Art
Details: An exhibition aimed at children, which focuses on images of animals in Asian art.
Date: October 17th 2008 to March 15th 2009.
Location: National Gallery of Victoria International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
More information: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvinternational
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (CCP)
Exhibition: Je toto lokální, nebo národní zvyk?
Details: This series was produced during a five-month artist-in-residence program at the Meet Factory in Prague, Czech Republic.
Date: January 21st to March 21st 2009.
Location:
404 George St, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
More information: www.ccp.org.au
IAN POTTER MUSEUM OF ART
Exhibition: Intelligentsia: Louis Kahan's portraits of writers
Details: A collection of Louis Kahan’s portraits of writers from the provocative literary and cultural journal Meanjin from 1955 to 1974.
Date: January 22nd to April 19th 2009.
Location:
The University of Melbourne, Swanston Street, Melbourne.
More information: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au
LINDEN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Exhibition: Linden Postcard Show
Details: This annual show is the biggest open entry award exhibition in Australia featuring works in a smaller postcard-style.
Date: February 7th to March 27th 2009.
Location: 26 Acland Street, St Kilda, Melbourne.
More information: www.lindenarts.org
AUSTRALIA CENTRE FOR MOVING IMAGE
Exhibition: Setting the Scene: Film Design from Metropolis to Australia
Details: The exhibition features original sets, sketches, storyboards and models behind some of cinema's most recognizable worlds, including the sets of Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
Date: December 4th 2008 to Sunday April 19th 2009
Location: Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne.
More information: www.acmi.net.au
NELLIE CASTAN GALLERY (Commercial)
Exhibition: David Thomas Colour. Time.
Date: April 2 - May 2
Location: 12 River Street, South Yarra 3141
More information: www.nelliecastangallery.com