Curatorial

Contemporary Art

The Contemporary Art collection encompasses Australian and international art from 1980 to the present day and includes painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and time-based and new media art. With a committed focus on commissioning new works, this collection provides a global context for art in our times, while reflecting and responding to current developments in artistic and cultural practice.

Simon Maidment
Senior Curator, Contemporary Art

Jane Devery
Curator, Contemporary Art

Pip Wallis
Curator, Contemporary Art

Katharina Prugger
Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

NGV International Camille Henrot Play Your Part Opens 2021

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Collection Highlights

Marco FUSINATO
Aetheric plexus (Broken X)
 (2013) Bill VIOLA
Ocean without a shore
 2007 Louise BOURGEOIS
Cell (Glass spheres and hands)
 (1990-1993) Yayoi KUSAMA
Tender are the stairs to heaven
 (2004) Kohei NAWA
PixCell-Red Deer
 (2012)
from the Beads series 2000– Ryan TRECARTIN Lizzie FITCH
Available sync
 2011 Joan JONAS
Left side right side
 (1972) Ernesto NETO
The island bird
 (2012)

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The power of ‘women’s work’: craftivism

By Sigourney Jacks

 She Is Like No Other: A call and response to Umma (Mother)

By Kimberley Moulton, Yorta Yorta

 Are You Listening? The poster as a site for resistance

By Megan Patty

 Living Libraries: Feminist histories in the art of Emily Floyd

By Jane Devery

Art Journal

Julian Rosefeldt In the Land of Drought

By Katharina Prugger

 Adam Goodrum, Arthur Seigneur Bloom, cabinet

By Ewan McEoin

 Living annotations (for Clare Milledge)

By Tom Melick

 A trick of the eye: illusion, mimicry and camouflage in nature and art

By David Haworth