Asia

Exhibitions Essays Videos Listen Learn resources

Exhibitions

Exhibition Past

Bearing Witness Contemporary Asian Art from the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

Exhibition Past

China – The past is present

Exhibition Past

Transforming Worlds Change and Tradition in Contemporary India

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

Golden shells and the gentle mastery of Japanese lacquer

Exhibition Current

International Art

Exhibition Past

Japanese Design Neolithic to Now

Exhibition Past

Japanese Modernism

Exhibition Past

Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang

Exhibition Past

Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang

Exhibition Past

Visions of Paradise Indian Court Paintings

Exhibition Past

Imari Porcelain Brocades of Translucent Colour

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Buddha’s Smile

Exhibition Past

REALTIME Miyanaga Akira

Exhibition Past

Bamboo Tradition in contemporary form

Exhibition Past

Adorned Textiles and Jewellery from Central Asia

Exhibition Past

Blue Alchemy of a Colour

Exhibition Past

Gods, Heroes and Clowns Performance and Narrative in South and Southeast Asian Art

Exhibition Past

Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

Exhibition Past

The Instrument Builders Project Collaborations in Sound by Indonesian and Australian Artists

Exhibition Past

Bushido Way of the Samurai

Exhibition Past

Wang Gongxin Video Artist

Exhibition Past

Negoro Lacquer NGV Collection Focus

Exhibition Past

Three Perfections Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting in Chinese Art 三绝：詩书画

Exhibition Past

Contemporary Asian & Pacific Art

Exhibition Past

Living Traditions The Art of Belief

Exhibition Past

RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

In the steps of the Buddha

Exhibition Past

Kaleidoscope: Art and colour

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Chinoiserie Asia in Europe 1620–1840

Exhibition Past

Five Elements – Water

Exhibition Past

Dressed to Rule Imperial Robes of China

Exhibition Past

The cricket and the dragon Animals in Asian Art

Exhibition Past

Moon in Reflection The art of Kim Hoa Tram

Exhibition Past

Body Language Contemporary Chinese Photography

Exhibition Past

Krishna Love and Devotion

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Cinema India The Art of Bollywood

Exhibition Past

Ikat Asian resist dyed textiles

Exhibition Past

Six good reasons to stay at home Hiraki Sawa video works

Exhibition Past

Mountains and Streams Chinese Paintings from the Asian Collection

Exhibition Past

Focus on Lacquer Japanese Lacquer at the National Gallery of Victoria

Exhibition Past

Pictures of the Floating World Japanese Prints from the Collection

Exhibition Past

Shashin Nineteenth–century Japanese Studio Photography

Exhibition Past

Akira Isogawa Printemps – Été

Exhibition Past

Rajput Sons of Kings

Exhibition Past

Living Together is Easy

Exhibition Past

The Art of Zen From the Asian Collection

Exhibition Past

Xin Nian Contemporary Chinese Australian Art

Exhibition Past

Resonance Highlights of the Asian Collection

Exhibition Past

Spring Flowers, Autumn Grass

Exhibition Past

Treasures of Asian Art Selections from the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of the Asia Society, New York

Exhibition Past

The Slowness of Speed Contemporary Korean Art

Exhibition Past

The Evocative Brush Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in the National Gallery of Victoria

Exhibition Past

Vision of Kings Art and Experience in India

Exhibition Past

Point and Counterpoint Influence and Innovation in the Arts of China and Japan at the National Gallery of Victoria

Exhibition Past

Dragon Emperor Treasures from the Forbidden City

Exhibition Past

Hiroshige One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Exhibition Past

Japan Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection

Exhibition Past

Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties 14th – 20th Century

Exhibition Past

The Art of the Japanese Package Tsutsumu

Exhibition Past

Sculpture of Thailand

Exhibition Past

The Chinese Exhibition A Selection of Recent Archaeological Finds from the People's Republic of China

Exhibition Past

The Arts of Asia

Exhibition Past

Master of Suiboku

Exhibition Past

Art of Malaysia

Exhibition Past

5000 Years of Pakistan Art and Archaeology

Essays

Matsumoto, plants and the origins of avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama

Monyo 紋様 Exploring traditional kimono patterns

The art of imitation

Kimono through the ages

Contemporary Korean jewellery

Stories of saris

Interpreting Shunga scroll: sex and desire between women in Edo’s ‘floating world’

Tcheu Siong Chao and the Three Spirits (Yawm Saub Chao)

China – The Past Is Present

Kai-awase: the shell-matching game

A golden opportunity

Divergent Ambitions: The Door of Hope Mission in early twentieth-century Shanghai

Moga: the audacity of being a modern girl

Rediscovering Fumie Taniguchi

Japanese Design: Neolithic to Now

‘Unfolding’ Japanese screens

Issey Miyake; Ikko Tanaka Sharaku and Maiko dancer (Nihon buyo)

Imari porcelain: brocades of translucent colour

Yonezawa Jiro Fossil (Kaseki)

Transmission through a smile

Ishikawa Toraji Ten nudes

Bamboo: Tradition in Contemporary Form

An interview with Ichwan Noor

Blue: Alchemy of a Colour

A case study of two lama portraits in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

Zhu Qizhan Mountain landscape

Gods, Heroes and Clowns: Performance and Narrative in South and Southeast Asian Art

Takahiro Iwasaki’s Reflection model (Itsukushima), 2013–14

Utagawa Yoshinku: Sumo Banzuke

Bushido: Way of the Samurai

Lu Ji’s Birds in a winter landscape

Zen on life: spirituality in the art of Kim Hoa Tram

The singularity of occasion Sōami and sixteenth-century Japanese display protocols

The Old Man, Mount Fuji and the Sea

Svayambhu linga

Rei Kawakubo’s Dress

Nakahara Nantenbo’s The stick of Nantenbo (Nanten staff)

Lee Bul’s Untitled

Negoro lacquer: the refined beauty and rustic ambience of medieval Japan

Wu Zhen’s Bamboo in spring rain

John Galliano’s Elvira evening dress

An Orthodox Master and an Individualist: Wang Yuanqi and Daoji

Japanese Horse stable

Three Perfections: Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting in Chinese Art

Tang Silver bowl

Jakuchū’s pleasure garden

Yang Yongliang Phantom landscape

In search of immortality: provisions for the afterlife

Japanese Amida Buddha

Devotion and idolatry: the conflicting purposes of a nineteenth-century Indian deity album

Videos

Julia Fox: Flower Obsession

Yayoi Kusama at NGV

NGV Asian Art Collection

Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India

NGV Collection Highlight | Sori Yanagi Curator talk

Buddhism, Mindfulness & Asia Asia Society X NGV

Korean art and culture NGV Curator’s perspective

The world of wabi-sabi | Japanese ceramics and kimono With NGV Curator

Taniguchi Fumie’s Preparing to go out A reflection of changing times

Craft and Culture | Textiles in the Asian galleries With Senior Curator of Asian Art Wayne Crothers

Exhibition Tour – Japanese Modernism

Immersive spaces for paintings Rosslynd Piggott

Resistance to the exhibition space and discovering new mediums Eko Nugroho

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

Asian Art | Ambience in a Timeless Japanese Landscape Gallery Playlist

Learn resources

Learning Resource

Introduction to the Kimono | Japanese Language Teacher Resource Levels 5–10

Learning Resource

Accessible Learning with Venkat Raman Singh Shyam

Learning Resource

Chinese Ceramics Throughout History Levels 8-10

Learning Resource

Introduction to ukiyo-e and kabuki Levels 5-8

Learning Resource

Frozen winter landscapes Levels 1-5

Learning Resource

Leaping lines Levels 3-6

Learning Resource

Short-form poetry with Kim Hoa Tram’s Pine with cranes dancing in the snow, dance in motion, 2000 Levels 6-9

Learning Resource

Japanese vocabulary skills with Noh Theatre costumes and characters Levels 8-10

Learning Resource

Composite creatures: Inspired by guardian spirits from ancient China Levels 2-4

Learning Resource

Poster design for change: Inspired by twentieth century Japanese graphic design Levels 7-10

Learning Resource

Magical masks Levels 1-4

Learning Resource

Make your mark: Design your own Japanese inspired emblem Levels 5-6

Learning Resource

Decorative blue and white porcelain paintings: Inspired by Asian art Levels 3-4

Learning Resource

Bushido: Way of the Samurai | Language Resource for Japanese Students Levels P-6

Learning Resource

Asian Art Resource All levels