Public programs for NEW12, ACCA’s annual exhibition for rising Australian contemporary artists, involves artists talks and a meditation session with Tibetan Lama Khentrul Rinpoche.
Program and exhibition details below.
LUNCHTIME DEFRAG Monday 30 April, noon
Switch off your work-brain and take a guided tour using your cognitive cogs and meditative minds. Visit the current exhibition at ACCA with Tibetan Lama, Khentrul Rinpoche. This gallery meditation session is designed for office-folk to slip off their shoes, loosen their ties and defrag over lunchtime. Suits are encouraged!
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The On Sunday March 4 the National Gallery of Victoria says Goodbye Summer at the Gallery’s third annual free
celebration of art and music.
Held in the picturesque sculpture garden at NGV International on St. Kilda Road, Goodbye Summer is the perfect
opportunity for visitors to unroll the picnic rug and relax in the dappled shade while enjoying performances from
Melbourne musical talents Geoffrey O’Connor, Teeth and Tongue, and The Orbweavers plus sets from RRR DJs.
This year’s event coincides with the final day of the NGV’s popular exhibition The Mad Square: Modernity in
German Art 1910–37 which explores the radical and provocative avant‐garde art movements that emerged in
Germany during one of the most important and chaotic periods of the twentieth century.
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Bold, brave new art from the art stars of tomorrow.
NEW is the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s prestigious annual commissions exhibition.
Every year 6-10 rising Australian contemporary artists are offered the rare opportunity to make a bold, brave new work and have it shown in one of the country’s finest exhibition spaces.
2012 marks the tenth year of the NEW exhibition series, which is known for having a canny knack for finding the art stars of tomorrow. Daniel von Sturmer, David Rosetzky, Anastasia Klose, Emily Floyd, Darren Sylvester, Laresa Kosloff, Stuart Ringholt and Agatha Gothe-Snape are all previous NEW artists.
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Linda Jackson Bush Couture
26 January – 9 September 2012
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia | Free entry
“My love of couture, together with the inspiration and beauty of the Australian bush, brought about the idea of translating all this into a style of art and fashion that I call…Bush Couture”
Linda Jackson, 1987
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Last season Melbourne artist Stuart Ringholt invited visitors to take their clothes off for a series of nude tours of the exhibition Power to the People.
But for ACCA’s next exhibition, I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase, leading Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist asks just that they remove their shoes.
Fresh from knockout exhibitions at London’s Hayward gallery and Milan’s Trussardi Foundation, Pipilotti Rist will flood ACCA’s walls and ceilings with her trippy, psychedelic video projections.
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NEW SHOWS AT BSG
Please come and join us for drinks with the artists at BSG this Friday 4 November at 6pm. All welcome
322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Cnr Argyle St. Free event.
CALLING FOR ENTRIES
$10,000 BSg 40×40 Prize & Exhibition. Be part of our last and biggest show for the year running from 21 Dec 2011 through to 16 Jan 2012. All entries exhibited in our 40×40x40cm show. Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Drawing, Video - any medium welcome as long as it is no larger than 40×40x40cm. You can find more details and enter online at www.bsgart.com.au
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4 November 2011 – 26 February 2012
“There is an element of chance in how you see the sculpture, in terms of how it positions itself in space according to movement of air in the space.” Ranjani Shettar
On 4 November, the National Gallery of Victoria will launch its newest contemporary art space with a spectacular exhibition of work by internationally renowned contemporary artist, Ranjani Shettar (1977 - ).
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