Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger
The Water-Hole
Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger will bring their fairy-tale world to Australia when they create a ‘water-hole’ in Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger create site-specific fantasias and interactive wonderlands that are an adaptation of nature through synthesis.
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The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
27 March – 9 June 2008
“Top Arts provides an invaluable opportunity for students to work alongside arts professionals and reinforces for them and their peers that the visual arts is a sustainable and significant career path.”
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, National Gallery of Victoria, 2008
The artistic achievements of VCE Art and Studio Arts students will be showcased at the National Gallery of Victoria for the fourteenth year. Opening tomorrow, Thursday 27 March, Top Arts: VCE 2007 will be on show at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia profiling the art and innovation of young Victorians.
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Seven Australian artists will create their dream works for NEW08, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s annual commissions exhibition for emerging artists.
This year audiences will be treated to dayglo geometrics, resuscitated record covers, fluro patterns, mirror worlds and live social encounters in an exhibition series that is known for consistently delivering works of surprise and invention.
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The National Gallery of Victoria today closed its doors on the most successful and highly attended exhibition of late modern and contemporary and art ever held in the Gallery’s history. Over 180,000 people attended the blockbuster exhibition Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, placing it in the top seven most attended exhibitions at the NGV.
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11-30 September
‘Fragile Beauty’ features works on paper that fuse Chinese traditions of flower and bird paintings with contemporary Western paper collages.
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4 August - 22 September
The exhibition documents landscape painting from the colonial 1850s to the immediate period following World War II.
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A Kind of You
6 Portraits by Roni Horn
The first ever solo exhibition in Australia by renowned New York artist Roni Horn will be held at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art from August 11th.
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