Neue Luxury is a global dialogue on luxury in the 21st century.

Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH is an extensive survey exhibition encompassing the full scope of the artist’s work, and includes a major new room-scaled installation developed especially for the exhibition.

Pioneering artist Helen Saunders (1885 – 1963), one of the first British artists to pursue Abstraction, will be celebrated in a new exhibition at The Courtauld.

Curatorial+ Co. is proud to unveil a vibrant and powerful new collection of works by artist Daniel O’Toole. Inspired by the colours of the natural world, the series is the artist’s response to the pressures of climate change and human survival on a warming planet, within the confines of the digital age. 

This June, coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend and Art Basel, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1 presents Facing Infinity. Alberto Giacometti & Pablo Picasso, an exhibition of critical late works by two of the most important artists of the 20th Century. 

Award-winning photographic artist Lilli Waters will unveil her latest solo exhibition, Orpheus, in Sydney for one week only from 9 to 21 May.

A new solo exhibition by Australian artist Arran Russell, titled Silent Language, will be unveiled on Tuesday 3 May 2022 featuring a series of sculptures, wall assemblages, paintings and works on paper. 

For more than two decades, Julie Mehretu has been reinventing abstraction with a poetic and unique visual language layered with a variety of marks, gestures and meanings.

Fergus McCaffrey is pleased to announce Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape, opening at the gallery’s  Tokyo location on Saturday, January 22, 2022.

One of Australia’s most successful contemporary artists, David Noonan, will feature in a major exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art.

Brutalized Language, Moffat Takadiwa’s second solo exhibition with Nicodim, casts light on the violence inherent to globalization that remains largely invisible to the west.

Pace Gallery (London) is pleased to announce Creating Abstraction, a group exhibition that brings together seven female artists whose experimental approach to material and engagement with Modernism has pushed the boundaries of abstraction.

Important sculptures by the late Inge King AM and Norma Redpath OBE will be featured alongside works from 11 contemporary sculptors in a major autumn exhibition at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, highlighting the impact of modernism on current artistic practice.

Osaka-born, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani has developed his own distinct visual language, uniting organic materials and avant-garde aesthetics, for more than six decades.

Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present an online exhibition by Korean artist GJ Kimsunken titled Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves. The exhibition consists of 15 oil paintings on canvas in saturated shades of ocher, navy, verdant green, deep purple and black.

The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, is pleased to announce the inauguration of Art, a Serious Game, the group show curated by Meryem Sebti, editor-in-chief of Diptyk magazine.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? a large-scale installation questioning the traditional notion of the museum as a repository.

To celebrate Frieze London 2021, Annabel’s has joined forces with iconic British Artist Damien Hirst to showcase an exclusive presentation of previously unseen works curated by Hirst himself.

Barbican Cinema is proud to present Homeland: Films by Australian First Nations directors which explores a thrilling selection of seven of the very best movies by Indigenous Australian filmmakers from the last three decades.

Tate Modern has unveiled a major new work by artist Anicka Yi as the renowned Hyundai Commission returns to the gallery. This captivating installation is Yi’s largest and most ambitious project to date, transforming the Turbine Hall at the heart of Tate Modern with her vision of a new kind of ecosystem.

Gagosian is pleased to present Stance, Rhythm, and Tilt, an exhibition of sculptures by John Chamberlain (1927–2011). Curated by art historian Susan Davidson, the exhibition takes its title from a conversation between Chamberlain and poet Robert Creeley, and gathers work made over a sixty-year period.

Due to open from 4 December 2021 until 25 April 2022 at QAGOMA, APT10 will include 69 projects with new and recent work by more than 150 emerging and established artists, collectives and filmmakers from more than 30 countries.

Ron Mueck 25 Years of Sculpture, 1996–2021, will mark the most comprehensive gallery survey of the internationally acclaimed sculptor to date.

The Powerhouse has announced it will reopen on Monday 11 October 2021, with five new exhibitions spanning photography, design, music, ceramics and applied arts.

The 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, brings together works across mediums by forty artists and collectives living and working in twenty-three countries.

Based on the concept that everything exists in a borderless continuity, art collective teamLab’s enormous exhibition teamLab Borderless Hamburg: Digital Art Museum will open in Hamburg, Germany in 2024.

As part of the 38th edition of European Heritage Days, with its theme of ‘Heritage for all’, the headquarters of Kering and Balenciaga at the former Laennec Hospital was open to the public for a sixth consecutive year.

Gagosian is pleased to present Impronte di corpi nell’aria/Bodies Imprinted in the Air, an exhibition of works by Giuseppe Penone made between the early 1970s and 2021.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents a new exhibition focusing on the work of five emerging Black artists who have turned the lens inward to explore and capture the “unseen” moments of their lives during a time of unprecedented change.

Gagosian is pleased to present The Antepenultimate End, an exhibition of new paintings by Kon Trubkovich.

Against the backdrop of the natural, geological features of UCCA Dune, Daniel Arsham: Sands of Time stages recent sculptures and related drawings that expand upon his fascination with history, relics of the past, and idea of a “fictional archeology.”

Open at the National Gallery of Australia, Project 1: Sarah Lucas brings together recent work by one of England’s most influential and unapologetic artists.

UCCA Edge presents its first solo exhibition, Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends. A pioneering painter of a new realism in China.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Vasi/y Kandinsky: Around the Circle. Drawing from the Guggenheim's exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition spans the artist's earlier years in Russia and Germany, through to his exile in France.

Pace Gallery presents Silence, an exhibition that brings together five artists who use abstraction as a means of engaging with meditative, spiritual and philosophical understandings of nature.

Presented simultaneously in New York and Philadelphia, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror will be the artist’s first major museum retrospective on the East Coast in a quarter century.

New and recent works by Anri Sala are showcased in a solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Christophe Guye Galerie has announced the second solo exhibition of Korean artist Jun Ahn (*1981) at the gallery. The exhibition shows works from four different series – One Life/Gravity, Liberation, Invisible Seascape and, Lucid Dream. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present American artist Doug Aitken’s first major solo exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. Exclusive to Sydney, the exhibition will now open in October 2021 as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2021–22.

Five artists will form this year’s Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). Primavera is the MCA’s annual exhibition of emerging artists living and working in Australia, aged 35 years and under.

Opening July 3, 2021 at UCCA Beijing and subsequently traveling to UCCA Edge in Shanghai, Becoming Andy Warhol is the most comprehensive exhibition of Andy Warhol staged to date in China.

Six paintings by Nigel Milsom are included in the group show, Shadox Boxer, at Maitland Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition features work of contemporary Australian artists who explore ideas of race, gender and class through images of boxing in their work.

The National Gallery of Victoria presents Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories as the first major retrospective of Melbourne-based artist and designer, Maree Clarke. Clarke is a pivotal figure in the reclamation of south-east Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices and has a passion for reviving and sharing elements of Aboriginal culture.

Marian Goodman Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Nairy Baghramian at the Paris gallery. For two decades, Nairy Baghramian has been conducting rigorous formal and conceptual research, investigating the relationship between architecture, object and the human body.

The largest Australian solo exhibition by artist and activist Richard Bell opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). You Can Go Now brings together over 30 years of the artist’s practice from the early 1990s through to 2021.

Marco Fusinato, who has been selected to represent Australia at next year’s 59th Venice Biennale, will unveil his latest series of works for the exhibition titled Experimental Hell at Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Superblue, the groundbreaking new venture dedicated to producing, presenting, and engaging audiences with experiential art, today opens its first highly-anticipated center in Miami, Florida – offering visitors of all ages unprecedented access to a dynamic range of large-scale experiential artworks and iconic installations. 

Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Julie Mehretu is a midcareer survey that will unite more than seventy paintings and works on paper dating from 1996 to the present, reflecting the breadth of Mehretu’s multilayered practice.

In UCCA Dune’s first exhibition in 2021, twelve Chinese and international artists search for hope in a weary world and reimagine paradigms for future human civilization with planetary perspectives.

In recent years, Olafur Eliasson has grown increasingly interested in efforts to consider life not from a human-centric perspective but from a broad, biocentric perspective. Here he reflects on Life at the Fondation Beyeler.

Desert X announced their participating artists in its third edition of the site-specific, international art exhibition at sites across the Coachella Valley. Thirteen artists from eight countries have been presented in the exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and Co-Curator César García-Alvarez.

NotFair, the art fair unlike any other, is back to celebrate its 10th iteration presenting the new and fresh work of artists deemed under-represented and worthy of significant attention.

This June, Saatchi Gallery presents JR: Chronicles - the largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years.

Pace Gallery presents Lynda Benglis: An Alphabet of Forms, an exhibition of sculpture in cast bronze by the pioneering artist. Marking Benglis’s first solo presentation with the gallery in New York, the exhibition brings together six new large-scale works made over the past three years.

In this recent body of work, Woo continues the investigation into the interrelationship between humans and the natural world via layered, undulating and ethereal paintings that examine the complex systems and structures of nature, as exemplified in the breathtaking key work, Current.

McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery is celebrating its 50 Anniversary from May 3 with a stellar program of exhibitions, a series of major art prizes and publication of a commemorative book. Director, Lisa Byrne, says 50 years is a major achievement for any arts organisation, and well worth celebrating.

Heide Museum of Modern Art will present Bruce Munro: From Sunrise Road, the first museum exhibition in Australia of the work of internationally celebrated English/Australian artist Bruce Munro, best known for his interactive, large-scale light installations inspired largely by his interest in shared human experience.

Tetsumi Kudo first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York, focuses upon the late artist’s idea of metamorphosis which emphasizes the need for personal and collective spiritual evolution beyond the values of Western Humanism, which he believed caused war, racism, and colonialism, and alienated people from the natural environment.

The first 59 participants in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022) have been announced. The title of this major international contemporary art event, which will be open to the public from 12 March to 13 June 2022, is rīvus, meaning ‘stream’ in Latin.

A significant Brazilian artist of her generation and a founding member of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927 – 2004) favoured the primacy of the viewer’s sensorial experience and its role in everyday life. Examining the artist’s unique reframing of geometry, abstraction and poetry,Tupinambá is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to Pape’s work.

This April, Artereal Gallery presents Catalysing Colour, an online solo exhibition of new sculptures by Yioryios Papayioryiou. Having shown his work since he graduated from Australian National University’s School of Art in 2014, this will be Yioryios fifth solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery, illustrating the upward trajectory of a fast-emerging artist.

Galerie Marian Goodman will present Theory of Colours, the third solo exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto in Paris. The exhibition will focus on his new body of work, Opticks. The 2018 exhibit was created by capturing the photographic transcription of colors as revealed when light passes through an optical glass prism.

Marian Goodman Gallery New York is very pleased to announce an exhibition by Giuseppe Penone. The exhibition will feature a series of canvas works titled Leaves of Grass which are being shown for the first time, alongside individual sculptures and drawings made concurrently.

Vito Schnabel Gallery will present Robert Nava: Angels, the first New York solo exhibition for the Brooklyn–based artist. Angels will debut a new series of paintings devoted to the archetype of the seraphim, the winged figure that has animated art history since the early Christian era of the 4th century.

Lévy Gorvy has announced a solo exhibition of new paintings by American artist Pat Steir, debuting in the Palm Beach. Considering Rothko represents Steir’s personal exploration of and deep engagement with the legacy of Mark Rothko, which began with an early encounter between her and the famed Abstract Expressionist in the 1960s when Steir was starting out as a painter.

Whitechapel Gallery is to present Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Agar (1899-1991). The exhibition is the largest exhibition of Agar’s work to date and celebrates the crucial role that Agar played within the development of European twentieth century culture.

Australian experimental curatorial platform Prototype has announced a new three-month season Prototype 2021 featuring nine new short works – including eight world premieres – by 10 international and Australian artists, filmmakers and collectives.

The Ravestijn Gallery opens the new year with a solo exhibition Earth Not a Globe by Philippe Braquenier, nominated for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020. Taking its name from an influential volume on one of the most extreme conspiracy theories, claiming the earth’s surface to be flat rather than spherical.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced Margel Hinder: Modern in Motion, the first retrospective of one of Australia’s most important and dynamic, yet underrated, modernist sculptors of the 20th century.

Audemars Piguet Contemporary is delighted to announce that Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Hui has been selected to realise the fifth Audemars Piguet Art Commission, in collaboration with Hong Kong-based independent curator Ying Kwok, who notably curated the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.

Anna Schwartz Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Australian artist Shaun Gladwell. The exhibition Homo Suburbiensis gives equal weight to, and balances, the artist’s practice of painting and moving image. Through formal and conceptual links, a dialogue is established between a single channel moving image work, and a series of paintings.

Pace Gallery presents Intermediaries, a solo exhibition bringing together discrete yet interrelated bodies of work created by Tara Donovan throughout 2019 and 2020. Based in Donovan’s rigorous investigatory methods and aggregative logic, the exhibition’s drawings, wall-bound pieces, and free-standing sculptures transform commonplace materials into totalities that test our perceptual limits.

François Morellet (1926 – 2016), a prolific self-taught painter, sculptor, and installation artist, developed a radical approach to geometric abstraction during a career spanning more than six decades.

For the first time, a museum exhibition at Fondation Beyeler brings into dialogue Auguste Rodin and Hans Arp, pairing the groundbreaking work of late 19th-century sculpture’s great reformer with the influential work of a major protagonist of 20th-century abstract sculpture.

Curatorial+Co. presents an exhibition of new works by Melbourne-based multimedia artist Daniel O’Toole. For Deliquescent Light, O’Toole will immerse audiences in a field of colour and sound, with 13 paintings, three video works and a custom created soundtrack informed by synaesthesia to enhance the exhibition and the way the audience experiences colour.

Visitors can now immerse themselves in the futuristic world of Nxt Museum. The groundbreaking museum - which is the first in the Netherlands dedicated to New Media Art - opens its doors to the public with the inaugural exhibition ‘Shifting Proximities’.

As the second temporary exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project, “Design and the Wondrous” questions current adornment and how it relates to new digital logics for designing and producing design items. The exhibition presents more than a hundred design objects, both from the Centre Pompidou collection and contemporary Chinese designers.

Fergus McCaffrey presents Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, Kazuo Shiraga, and Min Tanaka at their Tokyo location, opening October 15th. Exhibiting together for the first time, this selection of visionary artists seeks to prompt cross-generational insights, from East to West, into the physicality that underscores the act of artmaking.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia announced four curators and 39 exhibiting artists, collectives and collaboratives for The National 2021: New Australian Art.

Pace Gallery presents a series of recent paintings by Nigel Cooke in his first monochromatic exhibition. Featuring five large-scale works and new works on paper completed over the past year, the exhibition marks Cooke’s first in Switzerland and will be on view at Quai des Bergues, in Geneva.

Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Kevin Francis Gray at 6 Burlington Gardens. At the core of Kevin Francis Gray’s practice is an interrogation of the intersection of traditional sculptural techniques and contemporary life.

Over the Influence is pleased to present Hysteria, the second solo exhibition at the gallery of American artist Cleon Peterson. The exhibition will be open at Over the Influence, Los Angeles, and will present a new body of work made over the past year.

Prada presents Rubber Pencil Devil, a site-specific intervention by American artist Alex Da Corte, with the support of Fondazione Prada. The project will be on view in the premises of Prada Rong Zhai, a 1918 historical residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in October 2017.

The Ravestijn Gallery presents the exhibition The Nursery, an exhibition with new works by Ruth van Beek. In 2018, van Beek published How To Do The Flowers, an absurdist manual of strange instructions and unfinished collages in which the building of a body was a persistent thought. Since then, the physicality and animation of lifeless matter has played an increasingly important role in her work.

The new London Art Week Winter 2020 Digital platform will again be hosting highlights from some 50 participating international dealers, and offering a varied online live events programme with our museum partners. Special gallery exhibitions will be open in London’s Mayfair and St. James’s - and also in Paris, New York, Italy and Germany.

For more than six decades, American artist Ida Applebroog has continuously engaged with the polemics of human behaviour, often exploring interrelated themes of power, gender, politics, and sexuality in works that span and challenge the boundaries of her mediums. Her forthcoming exhibition ‘Applebroog Birds,’ at Hauser & Wirth New York, finds the 91 year old artist advancing her trenchant political inquiry through avian portraits, paintings, and sculptures.

This November Hauser & Wirth New York present rarely seen works made by American artist Jack Whitten (1939 – 2018). The exhibition focuses on his practice from 1991 through 2000, a period of intense experimentation during which, deeply affected by tumultuous world events, he strove to incorporate them into his work.

For the upcoming edition of TEFAF Online New York, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac present Donald Judd's Untitled (1988) as the gallery highlight. One of the most influential artists of the post-war period, Judd (1928–1994) radically transformed notions of the 'visible', developing a rigorous visual vocabulary that emphasises simple, mathematical proportions and openness of form.

The Art Institute of Chicago presents Bisa Butler: Portrait. Showcasing 22 quilts in four galleries, the exhibition engages with themes of family, community, migration, the promise of youth, and artistic and intellectual legacies. Meticulously stitched with vivid fabrics that create painterly portraits, Bisa Butler’s quilts convey multidimensional stories and narratives of Black life.

Marking a highlight of London’s busy arts calendar this October, Maddox Gallery are pleased to announce a collaboration with prestigious member’s club Annabel’s to showcase a series of bronze sculptures by Joseph Klibansky throughout the building’s opulent rooms.

In 2018 Fondazione Prada undertook a multidisciplinary project for the study of scientific themes in depth. These reflections engendered Human Brains, a program of exhibitions, debates and publishing activities. The project is the result of a complex research conducted in collaboration with a scientific board chaired by Giancarlo Comi and composed of researchers, physicians, psychologists, linguists, philosophers, popularizers and curators.

Organized by The Clark Art Institute under the leadership of guest curators Molly Epstein and Abigail Ross Goodman, Ground/work features a dynamic range of outdoor presentations by international artists Kelly Akashi, Nairy Baghramian, Jennie C.

Pace Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions of work by pioneering American painter Jo Baer at the gallery’s location at 540 West 25th Street in New York. Jo Baer: The Risen will feature five of Baer’s Risen works, unprecedented Minimalist paintings originally created in 1960 and 1961 that were subsequently destroyed and then remade by the artist in 2019 from archival images.

For the online iteration of Frieze London 2020, Pace Gallery presents a selection of abstract sculptures that brings together four leading women artists from the gallery’s contemporary programme: Lynda Benglis, Torkwase Dyson, Sonia Gomes and Arlene Shechet.

Pace London is pleased to return to its physical space with an exhibition of new works by American artist Trevor Paglen. Held both at 6 Burlington Gardens and on the gallery’s digital platform, Bloom explores Paglen’s central themes of artificial intelligence, the politics of images, facial recognition technologies, and alternative futures.

Exploring some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including isolation, representation and speculation on the future, the NGV Triennial will present a large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, design and architecture. Featuring 86 projects by more than 100 artists, designers and collectives from more than 30 countries.

Galerie Marian Goodman announced its first major exhibition by Adrián Villar Rojas. It is perhaps one of the most comprehensive interventions in the history of the gallery in Paris, encompassing and connecting each of its rooms, and invoking the past essence of the building as a former domestic environment.

Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands artist and Western Arrernte man Vincent Namatjira has won the 2020 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for his portrait of champion Australian Rules footballer and community leader Adam Goodes.

UCCA presents Immaterial/Re-material, a group exhibition tracing the history, present, and future of computing art through more than 70 artworks by more than 30 artists from around the world, ranging from the pioneers of the 1960s to today’s emerging voices.

Exhibited for the first time in a digital format, this online exhibition is a chance to experience Pierre Huyghe’s ‘mental image’ works – a product of imagination between two types of intelligences, human and artificial.

Much has changed in 2020, not least our relationships with our homes. Since March, we’ve got to know them very well indeed. For months, we no longer locked the door behind us, and departed for hours, days or longer. In 2020 our homes became both sanctuary and prison; the spaces and objects within them ever more familiar, fond and important.

Hauser & Wirth co-presidents Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Marc Payot, announced that the gallery has organised ‘Artists for New York,’ a major initiative to raise funds in support of a group of pioneering non-profit visual arts organizations across New York City that have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gagosian is pleased to announce the first-ever exhibition in Hong Kong dedicated to work by contemporary Indigenous Australian artists. It is the third in a series of critically acclaimed exhibitions presented by the gallery, following New York and Los Angeles in 2019.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Real Worlds, the fourth Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, from 24 October 2020 – 7 February 2021. Supported by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, this exhibition presents new work by eight contemporary Australian artists who create extraordinary new worlds in drawings of great complexity and invention.

An exhibition of works themed on the monumental elements of earth, water, fire and air by Aboriginal artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce will open this November at TarraWarra Museum of Art, as part of a collaboration with Ikon (Birmingham, UK).

The Art Gallery of South Australia is excited to announce that entries for the national Ramsay Art Prize are open. Held every two years, the $100,000 acquisitive prize invites submissions of new or recent work by Australian artists under the age of 40 working in any medium, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation and time-based art.

Philosopher Siegfried Kracauer was among the first twentieth century thinkers to seriously contemplate the seductive surfaces and ornamentation of mass culture. Beginning September 3rd, the exhibition Mass Ornament: Pleasure, Play, and What Lies Beneath at South Etna Montauk takes liberties with the philosopher’s critical lens, transposing it to a twenty-first century exploration of pleasure and ornamentation, and the secrets they may conceal.

Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to announce Smoke Signals, Vaughn Spann’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. On this occasion, the artist will present a selection of abstract paintings never before exhibited.

MACRO presents AGORA, the first section of Museum for Preventive Imagination: the discursive motor of the museum. Artists, curators, critics and researchers, musicians and practitioners of other disciplines will be the protagonists of the events of AGORA, the “column” of Museum for Preventive Imagination for live, first person narration of contemporary languages and their stories.

The National Gallery of Victoria announced the second edition of the landmark, city-wide exhibition, Melbourne NOW, which will be centred at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in 2023. The exhibition will mark the ten-year anniversary of the inaugural 2013 exhibition which was a bold and unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is very proud to present Streeton, a landmark exhibition of Australia’s iconic impressionist, Arthur Streeton, whose brilliant evocations of light, land and sea captured the spirit and optimism of our country.

Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) will be the exclusive Australian venue for the major exhibition ‘European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’ from 12 June to 17 October, 2021.

The Whitney debuts Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986. The exhibition pays homage to Gordon Matta-Clark's legendary Day's End (1975) and features works by twenty-two artists who engaged with the Meatpacking District and West Side piers, among other downtown Manhattan locations, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

This autumn Tate Britain will present a landmark exhibition dedicated to JMW Turner (1775-1851), exploring what it meant to be a modern artist during his lifetime. Turner’s Modern World will reveal how Britain’s greatest landscape painter found new ways to capture the momentous events of his day.

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of the American photographer William Eggleston’s medium-and large-format photographs from the 1970s. On view at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, this exhibition marks the artist’s debut solo presentation in Greater China.

For the summer of 2020 MACRO presents TRACCE / TRACES, an exhibition by Lawrence Weiner produced by the museum with the aim of getting out of conventional spaces and looking to the sky, thanks to a series of aerial banners along the coast, from Ladispoli to Anzio.

Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce the exhibition Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings on Paper, opening August 17, 2020 at the gallery’s New York City location. Working on paper has been a quintessential aspect of Steir’s acclaimed practice since the 1970s.

The Art Gallery of South Australia announced the exhibition Open Hands for this year’s Tarnanthi, AGSA’s annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Open Hands will be held from 16 October until 31 January 2021 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. AGSA also announced that in 2020, the Tarnanthi Art Fair will be held from 4 - 6 December.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is delighted to announce its updated 2020 exhibition program of three new exhibitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MCA Australia has shifted its Spring/Summer season to focus on works by Australian artists, providing an opportunity to celebrate the range and diversity of work being produced in Australia.

UCCA Beijing presents Elizabeth Peyton: Practice the first solo exhibition in China by the artist, a leading figure in contemporary painting. Since the 1990s, Peyton (b. 1965, Danbury, Connecticut) has been a major force in the resurgence of painting and the revitalization of portraiture.

Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Marc Payot, co-presidents of Hauser & Wirth, announced the gallery’s representation of the Estate and Foundation of Gustav Metzger. The first project will be an exhibition of work by the visionary artist at Hauser & Wirth in 2021.

This autumn Tate St Ives will stage Strange Attractors, the UK’s largest exhibition to date by celebrated South Korean artist Haegue Yang. Yang is renowned for creating immersive environments from a diverse range of materials.

Long known for exhibiting large-scale, public sculptures, the McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery has instituted a new national “small sculpture” Award as a way of supporting artists in troubled times.

Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to present Metamorphoses, a group exhibition that features six Chinese and international artists: Leonardo Drew, Golnaz Fathi, Huang Yuanqing, Pang Tao, Gatot Pujiarto, and Zhang Huan.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to present Hyper-linked, an online exhibition of Together In Art New Work by seven contemporary Australian artists. Created specifically for the digital space, the exhibition confronts the realities and tensions between our private selves and our online personas.

The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) announced Australian artist Alex Seton as winner of The 2020 Sovereign Asian Art Prize and US$30,000 for his work, Oilstone 05_Corrosion (2019), a chemically-transformed marble sculpture resembling a Yamaha boat engine.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is pleased to present A Promise: Khaled Sabsabi, a solo exhibition of major works by contemporary artist Khaled Sabsabi. Featuring works made over the last 20 years that consider the connection between spiritual belief, culture and politics, the exhibition brings together Sabsabi’s large scale immersive works alongside intimate collections of paintings.

The National Gallery of Victoria presents Big Weather, an exclusive exhibition exploring Australia’s unique weather systems in a presentation that recognises Indigenous cultural knowledge as central to understanding our natural environment.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to present Fieldwork: Landscapes West of Sydney, a travelling exhibition drawn from the Gallery’s treasured collection of late 19th and early to mid 20th century paintings and works on paper.

Room 32 – the largest and one of the most visited rooms of the National Gallery displaying 17th-century Italian paintings by artists including Caravaggio, Artemisia and Orazio Gentileschi, Guido Reni and Guercino – will reopen with an enriched re-hang in July 2020 after a 21-month refurbishment.

The Art Gallery of South Australia today announces Samurai, an exhibition featuring over 100 works of art from AGSA’s Japanese collection that portray the pervasive influence of the samurai in Japan from the 14th to 20th centuries.

Online gallery and art consultancy Curatorial+Co. have announced it will launch a new physical gallery space in Redfern, Sydney. Launching on 10 August 2020, the new warehouse-style gallery will showcase accessible, one-of-a-kind and limited edition works by established and emerging artists and designers from around the world.

Art Basel and BMW are delighted to present Leelee Chan as the next BMW Art Journey winner. An international jury conducted its selection process unanimously and online. Leelee Chan was selected from a shortlist of three proposals by artists who are represented by galleries originally accepted into this year’s Art Basel show in Hong Kong.

New Museum’s Department of Education and Public Engagement presents Ensayos: Passages, its first online artist residency, foregrounding the department’s year-round commitment to contemporary art and pedagogy centered on personal and social growth.

Melbourne based artist Pimpisa Tinpalit returns to break a bowl of tea over the bowl of Grau Projekt to celebrate the reopening of the art space. Known for her large spatial and conceptual installations that transform the materiality of everyday objects to a reimagined eminence, Silence #1.5 will push the artist to a level of medium diversity and scale.

Anna Schwartz Gallery will present Daniel von Sturmer’s ongoing series Electric Light (facts/figures…) as part of Melbourne Art Fair’s free Virtual Art Fair taking place from 1-7 June 2020 in partnership with Ocula.

Following an recent government announcement that museums and galleries will be permitted to reopen in June, the Biennale of Sydney rallied partner arts organisations to extend the exhibition period for NIRIN.

The Burning World brings together four significant photographic series created by leading Australian artists Hoda Afshar, Peta Clancy, Rosemary Laing and Michael Cook. Taking its title from the apocalyptic science fiction text of the same name by JG Ballard, the exhibition interrogates urban and natural landscapes to reveal truths about human inhabitations.

Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s premier international contemporary art fair, announced it will return in September 2021. First presented in 2013 and presented annually since 2017, Sydney Contemporary will not present an edition in 2020 due to uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australia’s first major survey of contemporary Indigenous Australian textiles and fashion will now open at Bendigo Art Gallery in September 2020, postponed from the original opening date of July due to national COVID-19 gallery closures.

Kaldor Public Art Projects has announced its 36th project, which launches in partnership with London’s Serpentine Galleries, Independent Curators International and Google Arts & Culture. Together the global partners will premiere 50 new artworks designed to inspire creativity during lockdown periods.

Commissioned by Carriageworks, REMEMBER ME is a major site-specific, illuminated text work by Kamilaroi artist, Reko Rennie that will officially be launched on 29 April 2020 to mark the 250th anniversary since Captain James Cook’s first landfall at Kamay Botany Bay and the HMB Endeavour’s charting of the east coast of Australia.

The Art Gallery of South Australia announced that it is supporting visual artists directly through its reinvigorated South Australian Artists Fund. With several $10,000 Artist Bursaries on offer, AGSA will open applications for the bursaries to South Australian artists, collectives and art centres who are experiencing hardship as a result of the COVID-19 situation.

The Art Gallery of South Australia is responding to its temporary closure with enhanced digital experiences for audiences to engage with its collection, exhibitions and their own artmaking online.

HOFA Gallery announces their innovative and exciting virtual art experiences designed to bring contemporary art to connoisseurs, collectors and art enthusiasts across the globe during the Coronavirus lockdown.

ACCA’s popular two-year lecture series Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1968–1999 will this year be presented as illustrated video lectures.

Taipei Dangdai announced the launch of a new digital initiative, Taipei Connections, developed in collaboration with online arts platform Ocula. Bringing together a diverse mix of galleries from Taipei Dangdai’s latest edition, the inaugural Taipei Connections will showcase a series of richly contextualised artworks for the public to explore.

Carriageworks and Sydney Chamber Opera announced the online world premiere of Breaking Glass, four new operatic works created by Australian female composers: Peggy Polias, Josephine Macken, Georgia Scott and Bree van Reyk. Following the temporary closure of Carriageworks during the COVID-19 crisis, these new one-act operas will be presented for the first time as a Facebook Premiere Event to be broadcast free to the public.

On Painting: Art Basel Online, a presentation of artists from the gallery program that debuted simultaneously in Art Basel’s inaugural Online Viewing Room and in an expanded version on David Zwirner Online, closed on March 25 and received strong engagement and sales from a global audience.

The Biennale of Sydney announced initial details of how it is taking the 22nd edition, titled NIRIN, online through a series of activations and experiences.

The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) will temporarily close its doors to the public from the 26th March. This follows Federal and State Government advice – a decision made alongside the South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia.

A major exhibition honouring the life and work of the late Aurukun artist Mavis Ngallametta (1944–2019), opened at the Queensland Art Gallery on Saturday 21 March

The National Gallery of Victoria has opened its State collection and programming virtually to offer the public access to the NGV Collection during the temporary closure of the Gallery.

Taking place in the summer of 2020, Helsinki Biennial announced the 40 artists and groups of artists participating in the inaugural edition, The Same Sea. Located on Vallisaari, an island in the Baltic Sea, the biennial presents over 75% new commissions and site-specific works, sensitively positioned across this remarkable maritime setting.

The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) announced the names of 31 mid-career artists shortlisted as finalists for The 2020 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the 16th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists.

The Flim-flam film series presents a compelling collection of stories of swindles and fabricated realities. Uniting classic works with exciting new short films, the series explores cinematic tropes such as doppelgangers, false identities and body swaps.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Shadow catchers, an exhibition that explores the way shadows, body doubles and mirrors haunt our understanding of photography and the moving image.

Multidisciplinary artist and seminal figure in contemporary Australian abstraction, John Nixon, will present 80–150 new works for his institutional-scale exhibition, GROUPS & PAIRS 2016 – 2020 which opens 21 March until 24 April at Anna Schwartz Gallery.

On 29 February, the V&A opens Europe’s first major exhibition on kimono. The ultimate symbol of Japan, the kimono is often perceived as traditional, timeless and unchanging. Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk counters this conception, presenting the garment as a dynamic and constantly evolving icon of fashion.

Lyon Housemuseum Galleries in Kew presents a cinematic installation of A Drone Opera by multi-disciplinary artist Matthew Sleeth. Two monumental 66-panel LED screens will be mounted on trusses and presented as sculptural objects in a dramatic evocation of a rock concert with four speaker stacks to amplify the sound.

Taking its title from the old English word for geometry ‘eorõcræft’, Earthcraft 2020 is an exhibition of new work by Melbourne artist Mikala Dwyer. In Earthcraft 2020 the numerous objects and diversions elicit bodily responses to form and space.

The Biennale of Sydney has revealed details of the program for its 22nd edition, titled NIRIN. Under the artistic direction of acclaimed Indigenous Australian artist, Brook Andrew, NIRIN, is an artist- and First Nations-led endeavour, presenting an expansive exhibition of contemporary art and events that connect local communities and global networks.

GR Gallery is thrilled to present ATOMIZED, a unique exhibition featuring Alberto Di Fabio, Italian master of exceptional scientific abstraction, Masakatsu Sashie, a visionary Japanese talent of Pop Surrealism and new works by street art legend Harif Guzman. The show will feature works that will challenge the title by the subliminal textures of atomized landscapes in peculiar ways.

Carriageworks recently unveiled major new artworks commissioned from leading Australian contemporary artists. In 2020 the Redfern multi-arts precinct will house immersive and participatory large-scale art installations by Rebecca Baumann, Daniel Boyd, Kate Mitchell, and by Reko Rennie.

The National Portrait Gallery announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.

ACCA’s summer season exhibition invites audiences to enter the fantastical worlds of six artists whose practices sample ideas and images from our past, present and speculative futures.

Following the launch of Tarnanthi 2019 at the Art Gallery of South Australia today, AGSA announces that in 2020, for the first time, Tarnanthi will feature an exhibition in France.

The cultural renaissance that emerged in Mexico in 1920 at the end of that country’s revolution dramatically changed art not just in Mexico but also in the United States. Vida Americana 1925–1945 will explore the profound influence Mexican artists had on the direction American art would take.

A major exhibition by leading Australian artist Lindy Lee will be presented at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in July 2020. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s to date, spanning early works to more recent large-scale installations and sculptures.

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) launches its 2020 program with a thematic exhibition on the centrality of water to human life globally, and major solo exhibitions celebrating contemporary artists Mavis Ngallametta, Chiharu Shiota, Gordon Bennett and William Yang.

Japanese Modernism showcases works created during the first half of the 20th century, when Japan’s traditional art and aesthetics interacted with European life and culture, resulting in an era of modernism and the emergence of Asian Art Deco architecture, paintings, prints, design and fashion.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has marked the start of construction of its highly anticipated expansion, the Sydney Modern Project, at a groundbreaking ceremony today.

Filthy Lucre is an immersive installation by contemporary American artist Darren Waterston, presenting a detailed reimagining of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room – the sumptuous 19th-century dining room.

Iranian-born artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat will be celebrated with a solo exhibition Dreamers, featuring a trilogy of video installations, at NGV International.

GR Gallery is pleased to announce Apnea, the first solo exhibition of Johan Van Mullem with the gallery. Exploring the artist’s unique creative practice the 25 original pieces on display will showcase the artist’s signature gestural technique and striking early Rembrandt-like style.

Heide Museum of Modern Art presents En Route, an immersive exhibition by artists Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler. Marking their first public museum presentation, these large-scale installations create an experiential journey within the iconic modernist building Heide II.

This November, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presents Wild Is The Wind, a new exhibition of work by Scottish contemporary artist Jim Lambie.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to announce that Melbourne based artist Nusra Latif Qureshi is the 2019 recipient of the $80,000 Bulgari Art Award.

Heide Museum of Modern Art will present National Gallery of Australia exhibition Terminus, a collaboration between New York based visual artist Jess Johnson and Wellington, New Zealand based video maker and animator Simon Ward.

In an unprecedented, world premiere exhibition, the National Gallery of Victoria presents the work of two of the most significant and influential artists of the late twentieth century in Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines. Exclusive to Melbourne, the exhibition offers new and fascinating insights into their unique visual languages and reveals, for the first time, the many intersections between their lives, practices and ideas.

Anna Schwartz Gallery presents a landmark, large-scale group exhibition of work by over 50 Australian and international artists spanning the 1980s to the present. The exhibition draws from the exhibition histories of four galleries, presenting works that directly engage the political and social contexts of their time, and are redefined by the present tense.

Introducing a major new sector within the Miami Beach fair, Meridians offers a platform for ambitious and large-scale sculptures, paintings, installations, film and video projections, as well as performances that push the boundaries of the traditional art fair layout.

Carriageworks will present four large-scale art installations by leading Australian contemporary artists that will be unveiled on 8 January, 2020 as part of Sydney Festival.

From February 20 through summer 2020 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Countryside, The Future, an exhibition addressing urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique exhibition for the Guggenheim rotunda, Countryside, The Future will explore radical changes in the vast nonurban areas of Earth with an immersive installation premised on original research.

A solo exhibition by Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei recently opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) until February 2020. Drawn from the MCA Collection, the exhibition explores three decades of the artist’s practice featuring painting, animation, prints as well as his more recent exploration into site-specific installations and wall paintings.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris presents Ordered Disorders, an exhibition of new works by American-Iranian painter Ali Banisadr (b. 1976), the artist’s sixth show with the gallery. Alluding to the representation of conflicts in the history of art, this new series reflects upon the current state of increasing unrest in the world. Neither fully abstract nor definitively figurative, Banisadr’s richly evocative paintings do not seem to have any single narrative.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Jean McEwen (1923-1999), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is paying homage to this Montreal great by presenting a selection of his works acquired mainly over the last two decades. The number and importance of these works donated by the artist’s family and various local collectors attest to the special connection between McEwen and the MMFA.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first major survey exhibition of celebrated Australian photographer Petrina Hicks. The exhibition includes more than forty photograph and video works spanning the period 2003 to 2019. Seen together for the first time, Hicks’s shimmering and often hyperreal compositions convey the inherent ambiguity and complexity of the female experience.

In 2020, the V&A will mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death by transforming the way museum visitors experience the iconic Raphael Cartoons, loaned to the V&A from the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen.

Situated in the charming Medieval village of Mougins on France’s sun-dappled Cotes D’Azur,  Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins is a museum quite unlike any other - part superlative collection of antiquities, part showcase to a world of matching modern art.

One of the world’s most dynamic contemporary artists currently working, Cai Guo-Qiang, created a gunpowder drawing Transience II (Peony) in Melbourne. The 31-meter art work created from fire and gunpowder is the largest of three works presented as part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces, opening at NGV International, 24 May.

Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to announce Assembly (Daughter Architect), a solo exhibition by renowned Australian artist Sally Smart. Smart’s practice has engaged with the female subject for over 30 years, employing womens’ bodies, histories and legacies to consider female subjectivity within broader cultural frameworks.

Quilty is the first major survey exhibition of one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Ben Quilty. The exhibition was developed by the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by assistant director, Artistic Programs, Dr Lisa Slade. Quilty will be open in Adelaide from 2 March to 2 June 2019 before a year of touring to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

From a pulsating coloured dance floor based on an Yves Saint Laurent makeup compact, to a chaise lounge upholstered in cheeseburger wrapping, more than 70 of Darren Sylvester’s works—known for their pop culture and multinational brand references—will be on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in the artist’s first major Australian exhibition.

Art Basel announced the list of 242 leading international galleries selected for its 2019 Hong Kong show. From 36 countries and territories across Asia, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Africa, the exhibitors will present Modern and contemporary works of the highest quality by emerging and established artists.

Louvre Abu Dhabi’s first 2019 international exhibition, Rembrandt, Vermeer & the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre, will bring together paintings and drawings by Dutch masters Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and their contemporaries.

In February 2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen kicks off the Bauhaus centenary with a huge exhibition about the legendary art and design school, whose influence is felt to this day. For the first time, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam spotlights the Dutch Bauhaus network in a wide-ranging retrospective, revealing over sixty artists, designers, architects and other intermediaries from the Netherlands who were personally and artistically involved with the Bauhaus and vice versa between 1919 and 1933.

Rosslynd Piggott is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists and has received critical acclaim since the early 1980s. With a foundation based in painting, her practice is wide and varied, encompassing drawing, photography, textiles, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Rosslynd Piggott: I sense you but I cannot see you comes twenty-one years after her first survey exhibition, Rosslynd Piggott: Suspended Breath, also held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1998.

Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor presents approximately ninety sculptural and pictorial compositions made by renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976), drawn from private and museum collections in North America, including a substantial number of works lent by the Calder Foundation, New York.

Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul, a three-year nationally touring survey exhibition organised by Bundanon Trust, will be on display at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney from 10 January until 9 March 2019 before touring regional institutions across Australia until 2021. Curated by Barry Pearce and drawn principally from Bundanon Trust’s own collection of the artist’s work, Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul explores a lifetime of landscape paintings by renowned Australian artist Arthur Boyd.

Ben Quilty’s upcoming body of work, The Accident, is largely possessed by images of torment. Predominantly featuring new etchings, the bulk of these works were created in the weeks and months after the artist dislocated his right shoulder and left knee.

The NSW Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall announced two extraordinary exhibitions exclusive to Sydney for the tenth iteration of the Sydney International Art Series in 2019-20: the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) will present a major retrospective of British artist Cornelia Parker, encompassing works across three decades.

The NGV has revealed the 2019 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces presentation: China’s ancient Terracotta Warriors alongside a parallel display of new works by one of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists, Cai Guo-Qiang.

Artist Charlotte Prodger has won the 2018 Turner Prize for an autobiographical film shot on a mobile phone. The 44-year-old, who will represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale next year, will join the ranks of past Turner Prize winners which include Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.

Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds is the first exhibition in the world to feature the extraordinary work of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher in dialogue with the work of acclaimed Japanese design studio nendo, led by designer Oki Sato. Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds will be on display from 2 December 2018 – 7 April 2019 at NGV International in Melbourne.

David Hockney's painting Portrait Of An Artist has been sold to an unknown buyer for a record price for a living artist. The painting sold for $US90 million ($A124 million), smashing the auction record for a living artist.

Christie's, the auction house that has sold paintings by Picasso and Monet at record prices, is poised to set another milestone with the first-ever auction of art created by artificial intelligence.

Thursday, 15 November 2018 — Friday, 15 March 2019

What does perfume say to you? If it’s a means to an end, a well packaged accessory or merely a mask to cover your true identity, then look away now. There is scent, and there is sense. A smell can be evocative but does it stop you in your tracks? Can it relay some intangible signal that will move you in the same way music makes you dance, or a painting inspires awe? Niche perfumery Folie À Plusieurs steadfastly believe so, adhering to a unique brief of using fragrance for the purpose of emotional, artistic and cultural expansion.

A highlight of Melbourne’s event calendar, the NGV Gala is a black-tie ball featuring art, fashion, music, fine wine and food.

Anna Schwartz Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Mike Parr entitled KINDNESS IS SO GANGSTER from 5 October to 21 December 2018 as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2018. This most recent development of Mike Parr's historic 'Self Portrait Project’ now investigates glass as a sculptural medium.

The National Gallery of Victoria presents the Australian premiere of the ground-breaking video installation Factory of the Sun by German-born artist Hito Steyerl, who was named the number one artist on ArtReview’s 2017 Power 100 list.

The NGV’s Designing Women exhibition will highlight the dynamic and critical force of female designers in shaping contemporary design culture with works including Oru Chair by UAE’s Aljoud Lootah, Yang Metamorphosis designed by Carlotta de Bevilacqua for Artemide and Horse Lamp by Swedish design studio Front Design.

Limitless in their drive to forecast, translate and influence their spheres, a curator must also rigorously keep on top of an escalating orbit of new artists, concepts, spaces, exhibitions and biennials. From the star curators whose names are among the most uttered, to the rising vanguards carving shapes outside the dominant Western sphere, we uncover the luminaries who are nailing down a new and provocative landscape for contemporary art.

Patrons have long played a pivotal role in the art world by influencing trends in art collecting and by championing the career longevity of iconic and emerging artists. Unbound by the bureaucracy of institution based collecting, patrons are empowered to acquire and commission art projects based upon passion, instinct, strategic investment and emotional connection.

The runway show is universally considered to be the perfect distillation of a designer’s creativity. Each season creative and artistic directors lead a team of multidisciplinary agents in a quest to help realise their visions. Neue Selects celebrates seven creative luminaries who, through their innovation and poise, have helped elevate fashion into an art form. 

Peterson channels the uneasiness he feels about the world into startling artworks that are charged with malignant energy. Fear and uncertainty become dystopian scenes painted in a primordial palette of black and white or a livid, fluorescent red.

“Sculpture is an exorcism,” Louise Bourgeois once told an interviewer. “When you are really depressed and have no other way out except suicide, sculpture will get you out of it.” It’s the voice of a lifelong extremist: Give me art or give me death.

Both artist and designer imbued their work with the same love of nature, eclectic influences (from classical art to folk traditions and ethnography), and self-expression: Klimt, in his highly decorated Art Nouveau canvasses that swirled with symbolism and sexual desires; Flöge in her free flowing and bold reform dresses that liberated fin-de-siècle Viennese women from tight-laced fashions.

Mali Moir pulls out a chair and sits amid the dissonant quiet of the Melbourne Observatory’s Whirling Room at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Built in 1905 to house a machine that tested air flow equipment, and named for the deafening sound it once made, the room is entirely silent now, save for the occasional chirp of a bird outside.

In a world premiere, renowned Samoan-born contemporary artist, Greg Semu, will unveil a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria featuring a series of powerful photographic works, The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific). Working with a cast of twenty-two indigenous actors from the Cook Islands, Semu restages two iconic European history paintings.

An achromatic colour, black absorbs light. It is perhaps this capacity for deadening that has carried with it myriad associations with melancholy, haunting and obliteration. That it should, conversely, be perceived as an instrument of possibility, variety, even optimism is a radical notion, one which sets the work of French painter Pierre Soulages apart from that of many other artists preoccupied with notions of darkness.

The great German poet, Goethe, who was a passionate admirer of Greek art, wrote “nothing gripped my whole being so much as the Laocoön group … I was in ecstasies over it.”1 He penned this on viewing a plaster cast of the original in Mannheim in Germany.

His use of spray paint, with its associations of graffiti and vandalism, formed a rebellious and anarchic foil to the neat and straight lines preferred by government officials. And where the FBI’s redactions targeted information too sensitive to be released, Garifalakis took aim at the most public of all information: the faces of models and celebrities.

Tatsuo Miyajima is a veteran of the international exhibition circuit whose work has twice been included in the Venice Biennale (1988 and 1999). The artist believes that every human life is unique and important. To this end and over the last three decades, Miyajima has become known for his large-scale, immersive installations, which use LED-lit numbers, counting from one through to nine, backwards and forwards at different speeds, while never hitting zero.

Watson sits cross-legged on a half-finished painting laid out on the floor. The unstoppable octogenarian speaks very little English but smiles, extends his firm hand and continues to dot the canvas. I watch the master colourist work for another hour. He completes a section of canvas almost as big as himself; he looks up occasionally, grinds his teeth and says something in a language I don’t understand. I smile knowing he is happy for me to sit, watch and discreetly take photographs.

The sculptural works of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye are strewn with winding helixes, spiralling ladders, windmills, wheels and coiled digestive tracts, whose movements lead us around, back to the beginnings. These elusive, twisting motifs evoke an ambivalence with regards to notions of progress—rather than advancing forwards, we encounter things in states of contorted escape and evasion, turning away and unweaving themselves.

Known for ‘painting without paint’, Burri would tear, stitch, burn and batter his creations into submission. In the words of the Italian critic, Emilio Vila, Burri’s works were “nourished by matter that conserves only a tragic reminiscence of painting, almost as if it were asphyxiated; a material that is devitalised, impoverished, rotted, consumed and already wasted away”.

There are generations of people for whom Tom represents an indelible part of their upbringing. Artists, photographers, performers—the unapologetically horny—have all fallen under his spell in some shape or form. Whether by default or design, Tom’s men, or what they represent, have united taste and sexuality in the most fluid way imaginable.

Featuring a dynamic selection of artworks by Barry X Ball, Damien Hirst, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Claudio Parmiggiani, this group exhibition reveals how each of these artists integrate themes and imagery from Classical art into a contemporary context. Through varied references to antique sculpture, these four masters address issues pertinent to today’s cultural and political discussions.

Marilyn Minter received her first retrospective, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, at the Brooklyn Museum earlier this year. It surveyed a career that arcs, with unflinching momentum, from the late 1960s to the present day, and cast the American artist into the spotlight and under the favourable gaze of a new generation of feminists. 

Gus Speth, an American environmental lawyer and advocate said “I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with thirty years of good science we could address those problems, but I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy—and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation and we scientists don’t know how to do that.”

Borrowing from museological, archival and archaeological practices and fields as diverse as geology, anthropology and surrealism, Andrew Hazewinkel's largely photographic and object-based works are striking for their strange arrangements of repurposed materials that unearth unexpected associations.

From fashion innovators such as Rick Owens and Bernard Wilhelm to iconic musicians such as Casey Spooner, The Kills and Patti Smith, Robert Knoke is surreptitiously challenging traditional notions of portraiture through his abstract and intuitive depictions.

A murmur is by definition an elusive thing, existing in the periphery. Like a shadow or an imprint, the more one attempts to grasp it, the more ephemeral it becomes, its force residing in the realm of suggestion or evocation rather than that of the literal or figurative.

Employing a variety of rare and experimental materials, in combination with emerging digital and industrial technologies, Barry X Ball reinterprets traditional figurative sculpture to produce works that are at once historicized and unmistakably of their period.

It’s a fine winter’s day in central Amsterdam, a city so preternaturally handsome it should come with its own mirror and grooming kit. Tall merchants houses standing proud in the sunshine, bathed in a flattering light, huddle together on the banks of its famous canals and all seems well in this picture-perfect world.

The story of the pelican operates as an evocative microcosm of John Wolseley’s career: in the winter of 2014, the artist was camped in a swampy area just south of Mataranka the Northern Territory, Australia nearing the conclusion of six weeks spent creatively immersed in the wilderness.

Kenny Schachter has marked the art world with his own refreshing discourse and vision as an art dealer, curator and writer. Influenced by the view that art should not pander to an exclusive form of dialogue or be held hostage by the select few.

Saint Auxelius’s head rests delicately upon an embroidered pillow, his face veiled in diaphanous muslin, one hand poised contemplatively against his cheek. His costume of elaborate gold filigree is decorated with precious jewels: rubies, sapphires, diamonds and pearls anoint his reclining form, from the pinnacle of his headdress to the tips of his slippered feet.

Van Mullem’s monumental portraits are fluid, transitory, evocative things. Rendered in generously applied oil-based ink on unprimed board, they retain a quality of wetness, an uncanny sense that their surfaces are in fact still shifting.

Azuma Makoto is a renegade in the art of floral sculptures. In his haute couture Tokyo-based floral shop, JARDINS des FLEURS, Azuma creates abstract forms and grand floral structures. His work has attracted coveted brands and individuals devoted to his artisanal skills.

Say you were hiring the new Director Asia at Art Basel, the organisation that produces the biggest yearly arts event, in the world’s most populous continent. Who would you headhunt? On paper, the person who got the job seems to tick every possible box.

In the same year as Michael Zavros was born, 1974, the great Italian writer and philosopher, Umberto Eco, was exploring the realm of ‘hyperreality’ in America. This exploration was published the following year in a landmark essay, Travels in Hyperreality.

Time makes a mockery of objects. It gnaws away at them, strips them bare, loses them. Objects are cracked, faded, dissolved, forgotten, deformed, renamed, undone—all in time. When artists set out to make objects that visualise time itself, they risk turning time into space and thereby losing its temporal essence, its movements and contingencies.