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Exhibitions

Exhibition Future

Exhibition Future

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2026 Xu Tiantian

Exhibition Current

Plant Life The Nature of Design

Exhibition Past

John Gollings Artist Room

Exhibition Past

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025 Nipa Doshi

Exhibition Past

2024 NGV Architecture Commission Home Truth by Breathe

Exhibition Past

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2024 Christien Meindertsma

Exhibition Past

Reimagining Birrarung Design Concepts for 2070

Exhibition Past

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission Bethan Laura Wood

Exhibition Past

2023 NGV Architecture Commission (This is) Air by Nic Brunsdon

Exhibition Past

Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

Exhibition Past

The Fox: NGV Contemporary Design Competition Exhibition

Exhibition Past

2022 NGV Architecture Commission Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang | Temple of Boom

Exhibition Past

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission Tatiana Bilbao

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

2021 NGV Architecture Commission pond[er] | Taylor Knights with James Carey

Exhibition Past

Sampling the future

Exhibition Past

Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees Botanical pavilion

Exhibition Past

2019 Architecture Commission In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office

Exhibition Past

Black Bamboo Contemporary Furniture Design
from Mer, Torres Strait

Exhibition Past

Lucy McRae Body Architect

Exhibition Past

John Wardle Architects Somewhere Other

Exhibition Past

SO – IL Viewing China

Exhibition Past

Archaeology of Light Architectural Photography by Erieta Attali

Exhibition Past

2018 NGV Architecture Commission Doubleground by MUIR + OPENWORK

Exhibition Past

2017 NGV Architecture Commission Garden Wall | Retallack Thompson and Other Architects

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

2016 NGV Architecture Commission Haven’t you always wanted…? | M@STUDIO Architects

Exhibition Past

Glenn Murcutt Architecture of Faith

Exhibition Past

2015 Summer Architecture Commission John Wardle Architects

Exhibition Past

Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

Exhibition Past

Melbourne Now 2013

Exhibition Past

Ian Strange: SUBURBAN

Exhibition Past

Draw the Line The Architecture of LAB

Exhibition Past

Art Deco 1910–1939

Exhibition Past

Great Exhibitions The World Fairs 1851-1937

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Lionel Lindsay An Antipodean in Spain

Exhibition Past

Mario Bellini Architect & Designer

Exhibition Past

Mythform The Making of Nearamnew

Exhibition Past

Habitat Callum Morton

Exhibition Past

Helge Larsen and Darani Lewers A Retrospective

Essays

A Plant Life Future

John Gollings: Building Myths

Frank Lloyd Wright Vase, c. 1902

Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright

Celebrating 10 years of the Rigg Design Prize

The great breath

Artist Profile: Frank Lloyd Wright

John Wardle Architects: Somewhere Other

SO – IL: Viewing China

Joris Laarman Microstructures, aluminium gradient chair, structural prototype

Archaeology of Light: Erieta Attali

2018 Architecture Commission Design: Doubleground

The Rigg Design Prize

Design Storytellers: The Work of Broached Commissions

Designing Women

Maarten Baas Grandfather clock

The 2016 NGV Architecture Commission: M@ STUDIO Architects

The Australian Islamic Centre in Newport, Melbourne

Encountering art in the people’s gallery: Grant and Mary Featherston and the interior furnishing and fit-out of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1966–68

Between Beauty and Power: Henry Moore’s Draped seated woman as an emblem of the National Gallery of Victoria’s modernity, 1959–68

Jakuchū’s pleasure garden

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Pair of candlesticks

Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co. Saint Paul, window from the Chapel of Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester

‘There is no modern furniture!’: Adolf Loos and the Viennese apartment of Jakob and Melanie Langer

Videos

NGV Triennial 2023 | Exhibition introduction

Sampling the Future | Knitted Architecture Ewan McEoin, Jenny Underwood & Leanne Zilka

Sampling the Future | MARS Ewan McEoin & Alex Goad

Triennial profile | Glenda Nicholls

Installing JR’s Homily to Country NGV Triennial 2020

Preparing for NGV Triennial 2020 Celebrating contemporary art, design and architecture

Bringing NGV Triennial 2020 to life Celebrating contemporary art, design and architecture

Artist Talk – In Absence: NGV Architecture Commission 2019

Formafantasma Ore streams

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

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Learning Resource

Suburban collages: Inspired by Howard Arkley’s Actual Fractual Levels 5-8