Members Viewing Hour
David Hockney: Current

On the closing weekend of the exhibition, the NGV will open an hour early for Members and their guests to farewell the contemporary works of one of the world’s most influential living artists without the crowds. Curated by the NGV in collaboration with David…

NGV Members: Free Orientation Tours
NGV Australia

If you have recently become an NGV Member or just want to learn a little more about your Gallery, join us for a free orientation tour of the NGVs facilities.

The orientation tour concludes with a free Voluntary Guide Tour of the NGV Collection (optional…

Politics of Identity

How has Indigenous women’s art been considered throughout history, and how is this changing?

Who’s Afraid of Colour? brings together presentations of work by a broad range of Indigenous women artists, whose practice is unbounded by convention. It includes bold statements that explore…

Saturday Night at NGV – David Hockney: Current
Tripod

Celebrate the closing weekend of David Hockney: Current with a special Saturday Night at NGV event. Take the final opportunity to experience David Hockney’s art after-hours, drop-in to an exhibition talk, grab some food and a spot in the NGV Garden with…

Hockney and the Opera
Sir Andrew Davis In Conversation

The beauty of David Hockney’s set designs have enriched the experience of opera productions by the Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera.

Hear about the power of these sets from conductor Sir Andrew Davis who worked with Hockney on the…

THE A-Z OF TDR™ (30 YEARS / 26 LETTERS / 90 MINUTES) Discussion
Presented by AGDA

Ian Anderson and The Designer Republic™ is credited with defining the visual language of dance music, the techno vernacular and the post-Wipeout gaming generation. In the 90s/00s, TDR™ were cited as the most copied design company in the world.

This AGDA keynote lecture…

Celebrating Auguste Rodin
Rodin – The Australian Connection

Often considered the father of modern sculpture, many of Auguste Rodin’s most notable sculptures were criticised during his lifetime. On the centenary of his death, NGV curators celebrate the life and work of this world-renowned artist through close examination of his works in…

Lisa Waup X Verner
Presented by Craft

A collaboration between award-winning Gunditjmara and Torres Strait Islander artist Lisa Waup, Melbourne-based fashion designer Ingrid Verner and Craft, this exhibition reveals a new collection of clothing and accessories, fusing art and fashion. Presented in Craft’s 24/7 window exhibition space, the…

Regenerated Towns in Regenerated Nature
Presented by RMIT

This exhibition investigates architectural and landscape projects for the urban, economic and social regeneration of towns in decline in the Wimmera region. Design interventions are proposed in integration with land care activities related to the current large-scale reforestation project Habitat 141. Investigating cross-programming…

Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival Business Breakfast
Presented by Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival

The Business Events Program of the fashion festival provides a place to challenge and inspire a thriving Australian fashion industry and creative culture.  The Business Breakfast speakers are all innovative leaders in their fields and will kickstart the day sharing insights into the business of…

Don’t be too polite: Posters and activism
Presented by The Ian Potter Museum of Art

Don’t Be Too Polite presents an exhibition of graphic works from three influential Melbourne based printmaking collectives. Sharing similar concerns with Sister Corita’s Summer of Love, this exhibition considers the agency of community printmaking workshops through participation and learning. Focusing on printmaking collectives…

2016 NGV Architecture Commission: M@Studio Architects
Presented by NGV

A playful reinvention of the suburban car wash is the concept behind the 2016 NGV Architecture Commission built in the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden this spring. Designed by Melbourne-based M@STUDIO Architects, the ephemeral structure is titled Haven’t you always wanted…?

With…

Tectonic Grounds
Presented by United Make, Cube Zero & Melbourne School of Design

What if architecture could interact with us? What would it say? How would it respond? Would it change the way we move and think about the physical world around us? Part sculpture, part architecture, part spectacle, the exhibition Tectonic Grounds explores the contemporary role of…

International Symposium on Typography

Featuring globally acclaimed local and international practitioners, the third in a series presented in collaboration with RMIT Design Futures Lab, this day-long symposium will explore contemporary developments in type design and typography. Featuring keynote presentations by: Radim Peško, London; Sara De Bondt, Amsterdam…

Modern Forms
Presented by NGV

The exhibition and photobook by Warsaw-based artist Nicolas Grospierre offers a fresh and critical perspective on modern architecture. His photographs dwell on unfamiliar aspects of post-war design that speak of some of the disparate forces that have shaped the twentieth century. These include…

Innovators: Australian Design and Innovation
Presented by Monash University

Innovators: Australian Design and Innovation is an exhibition that celebrates design and innovation from Australia. The exhibition will feature sixteen digital archives with iconic Australian innovations like wifi, the bionic ear, polymer notes, and innovators including Marc Newson, Susan Cohn, Michael Simcoe and Denton Corker…

Gallery O Seoul at NGV Design Store
Presented by Gallery O & NGV

Gallery O in Seoul is one the foremost contemporary jewellery galleries in Asia. Established by jeweller Miwha Oh in 2001, Gallery O represents leading and emerging South Korean practitioners and plays a pivotal role in the promotion of contemporary jewellery from the region.
For Melbourne…

Weaving the Waterways: Women and Fishing
Presented by Koorie Heritage Trust

Netmaking came to Glenda Nicholls from her ancestors in a vision and has inspired this exhibition of river-life, featuring baskets, ochre nets, scoop nets, fishing lines, hooks and bird nets. The works demonstrate a continuous and evolving link with techniques passed down through generations…

Departures
Presented by Eugenie Kawabata, Marc Pascal, Yan Huang & Ilan El

Set within the context of a transit lounge, Departures is an installation of handmade objects that explores the relationship between nature, old traditions and new futures. Departures is a collaborative exhibition of new works by Melbourne based designer makers, Eugenie Kawabata, Marc Pascal, Yan Huang…

Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen
Presented by Criteria Collection and Broached Commissions

Over 5 years of research and design investigation Trent Jansen has recreated two creatures that represent both Indigenous and non-Indigenous vernaculars – Pankalangu and the Hairy Wild Man From Botany Bay – suggesting these conflating myths as central figures for a national mythology that is inclusive…