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Exhibitions

Exhibition Future

Ben Quilty The Unimpressionist

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Sam Jinks | Into Art

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Escher X nendo A House for Escher

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Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

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The Picasso Century

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The Picasso Century

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International Art

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Ivan Durrant Barrier draw

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Alexander Calder Radical Inventor

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Alexander Calder Radical Inventor

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Ken Unsworth Truly, Madly

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Baldessin/Whiteley Parallel Visions

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Rirkrit Tiravanija

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Floodplain James Geurts

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

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Del Kathryn Barton The Highway is a Disco

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Louise Paramor Palace of the Republic

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CLAUDIA MOODOONUTHI COYA – LITTLE ONE, 2017

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Akio Makigawa Spirit and Memory

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Michael Lin Federation, 2017

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Viktor&Rolf Fashion Artists

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Lee Mingwei The Moving Garden

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

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John Olsen The You Beaut Country

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Bruce Armstrong An Anthology of Strange Creatures

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Bamboo Tradition in contemporary form

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Fake Food Park Martí Guixé for Kids

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Greg Semu The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific)

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Jeppe Hein Semicircular Space

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Subodh Gupta Everyday Divine

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Art of the Pacific NGV Collection Focus

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Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Sculpture

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Hard Edge Abstract Sculpture 1960s–70s

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Andy Warhol — Ai Weiwei

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Jamie North Rock Melt

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The Kaleidoscopic Turn From the NGV Collection

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Takahiro Iwasaki Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

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Emily Floyd The Dawn

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David Shrigley Life and Life Drawing

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

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Outer Circle The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists

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Carsten Höller Golden Mirror Carousel

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Robert Jacks Order and Variation

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Wade Marynowsky Nostalgia for Obsolete Futures

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Paola Pivi You started it...I finish it

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Pastello – Draw Act

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Inge King Constellation

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Late Modern and Contemporary Art

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Pedro Reyes Disarm

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The Ancient World

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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot | clinamen

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Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style

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Contemporary Asian & Pacific Art

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RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho

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Negotiating this world Contemporary Australian Art

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Napoleon: Revolution to Empire

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In the steps of the Buddha

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Ranjani Shettar Dewdrops and Sunshine

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10 ways to look at the past

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Kaleidoscope: Art and colour

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Unnerved The New Zealand Project

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Harrell Fletcher The sound we make together (Melbourne)

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John Davis Presence

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Mari Funaki Objects

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Contemporary encounters

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European Masters Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century

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Ricky Swallow The Bricoleur

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Draw the Line The Architecture of LAB

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Five Elements – Water

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Bugatti Carlo Rembrandt Ettore Jean

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The Gallery Ark

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Rosalie Gascoigne

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Klippel/Klippel Opus 2008

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Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection

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Top Arts: VCE 2007

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Bertram Mackennal The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project

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Modern Britain 1900–1960 Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections

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Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition Joseph Beuys and Rudolph Steiner

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Geoffrey Bartlett

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Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now New York–Venice–Bilbao–Berlin

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Top Arts: VCE 2006

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Olafur Eliasson The cubic structural evolution project 2004

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Deborah Halpern Angel

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Top Arts: VCE 2005

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Exiles and Emigrants Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era

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Martin Grant Paris

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Bruce Nauman Mapping the studio

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Top Arts: VCE 2004

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Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules

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Ron Mueck The Making of Pregnant Woman, 2002

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The Art of Zen From the Asian Collection

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Top Arts: VCE 2003

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world rush_4 artists

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Fraught Tales Four Contemporary Narratives

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Peter Booth Human/Nature

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Mythform The Making of Nearamnew

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Black Intentions Susan Cohn

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Sandman Patricia Piccinini

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Top Arts: VCE 2001

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Top Arts: VCE 2000

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Top Arts: VCE 1999

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

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Rosslynd Piggott: Suspended Breath

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Imperial Austria Treasures of Art, Arms and Armour from the State of Styria

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Modern Masters from the Museum of Modern Art The William S. Paley Collection

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Louise Bourgeois

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Power to the People The Art of Mike Brown

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Uncommon Australians Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery

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Donald Friend 1915–1989 Retrospective

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Clifford Last Sculpture A Retrospective Exhibition

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The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial

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Victorian Vision 1834 Onwards

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Australian Sculpture Now Second Australian Sculpture Triennial

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The Great Eighteenth Century Exhibition

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Some Recent Acquisitions 1979–1981

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Claus Bury Drawings and Objects

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Colonial Crafts of Victoria

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Treasures of a Decade

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Survey 2: Rosalie Gascoigne

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Survey 1: John Davis

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Mike Brown Embracing Chaos, a Survey of Work 1961 – 1977

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Jean Arp Sculpture, Reliefs, Works on Paper

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Sculpture of Thailand

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Barlach / Kollwitz Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz

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Gilbert and George

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Some Recent American Art

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Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the Father

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The Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture in Aluminium: 1970

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The Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture in Aluminium: 1969

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Richard Stankiewicz Welded Sculptures

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Alcorso Sekers Travelling Scholarship Award for Sculpture 1968

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The Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture in Aluminium: 1968

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Marcel Duchamp The Mary Sisler Collection, 78 works 1904–1963

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Emilio Greco Sculpture, Drawings and Prints

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Bronze Sketches by Jaques Lipchitz

Essays

The meandering line of April Glaser-Hinder

The mystique of Madame Bertaux

Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink

Countess Matilda of Tuscany Gianlorenzo Bernini

Surrealism and Design

Fragile flight of memory

Haunted objects

Seeing ordinary men and women

Peel slowly and see¹

Gather ye rosebuds

Infinite horizons

Myth, Matter and Satellites

Resisting closure

Who am I? Paola Pivi

Infinite woven symphony

Archaistic kore; Head of kore Italy

Head of Septimius Severus   Italy

Head of Vespasian   Italy

Flagellation group Alessandro Algardi  

The Virgin attended by three holy women Antonio Begarelli  

Cardinal Richelieu Gianlorenzo Bernini

Chair Carlo Bugatti

Love is blind Donato Barcaglia

Writer Response: Emotion and Empathy

MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission | Tatiana Bilbao

We Change the World

Ai Weiwei Letgo room

Ken Unsworth: Truly, Madly

Interview with Louise Paramor

Jess Johnson Ixian Gate

Lee Mingwei, The Moving Garden, 2009–

Tracey Emin The passion of your smile

John Kaldor’s early Art Projects and the NGV

Bamboo: Tradition in Contemporary Form

Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus

An interview with Ichwan Noor

Hard Edge: Abstract Sculpture 1960s–70s

Carlos Amorales, We’ll see how all reverberates, 2012

In defence of Australian Minimalism: Guy Stuart’s Lock Span, 1969

André Masson Ecstasy

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

Two insights into Auguste Rodin’s The thinker

France: The derision of Christ

Tam tam slit-drum

Fragile memories: Keith Haring and the Water Window Mural at the National Gallery of Victoria

Every thing in its right place

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

Paola Pivi: You started it … I finish it

Desirable Things, the private collection of Alfred Felton

Stowed Away: Emmanuel Frémiet’s Gorilla carrying off a woman

Svayambhu linga

La-sisi malagan canoe

Lee Bul’s Untitled

A Symbolic Centenary Sculpture

A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne

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

John Kasaipwalova’s Sail the Midnight Sun

Ricky Swallow’s Salad days

Ron Mueck’s Two women

Pedro Reyes: Disarm

In the Void: Robert Klippel’s Models of Unreason

Ian Burns’s Down under where …

A Processional cross attributed to Bernardo Daddi and his workshop

Ian Strange: Suburban

When the wattles bloom again: The Barak Project

David Noonan Untitled

Kohei Nawa’s PixCell-Red Deer

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: clinamen

Elemental: the power, diversity and materiality of Indigenous art

In search of immortality: provisions for the afterlife

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wool works at the National Gallery of Victoria

Japanese Amida Buddha

Rosalie Gascoigne Flash art

Thomas Demand Public housing

Ricky Swallow The days aren’t different enough nos 1–4

The cult of the queen empress: royal portraiture in colonial Victoria

Videos

Hugh Hayden NGV Triennial

David Shrigley | Really good NGV Triennial

Agnieszka Pilat NGV Triennial

Franziska Furter NGV Triennial

Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence) NGV Triennial

Jean Jullien | Rififi: Jean Jullien for Kids NGV Triennial

David Shrigley | Melbourne Tennis Ball Exchange NGV Triennial

Public Reaction to Ron Mueck’s Mass

Curators Against the Clock | Picasso’s Sculptures The Picasso Century

Whiteley’s Lasting Legacy Wendy Whiteley

Viktor&Rolf’s Zen Garden collection Thierry-Maxime Loriot

The story of Viktor&Rolf Thierry-Maxime Loriot

Golden Mirror Carousel Installation Carsten Höller

Water, Music and Movement

Double 0 Zilvinas Kempinas

Occupying space with language and text Emily Floyd

Bertram Mackennal: Beauty to be discovered Curator Talk

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