Art exhibitons to expand your horizons this February throughout Melbourne.
Mellow War – All Hat, No Herd
Mellow War (Riley Barr)’s solo exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery, All Hat, No Herd, is a microscopic portrayal of life and landscapes in America’s west. It weaves through the nuance and idiosyncrasy of life in a pocket of the world full of story.
Brunswick Street Gallery until 11 Feb
Woo Yong Min & Jiyun Lee
Jiyun Lee and Woo Yong Min have collaborated in their show at Sol Gallery to bring together a body of works utilizing Hanji paper. The culturally significant South Korean material comes to life in the artists’ portrayal of natural scenes, teeming with animals, plants, and landscapes. Their technicality and devotion to the medium are made apparent with the use of vibrant colors and delicate detail.
Sol Gallery until 18 Feb
Queer Photo – Black and Blur
As part of Midsumma Festival 2024, Queer Photo draws forth a visual representation of migrant and Black individuals through a series of portraits. Navigating the cultural scape of Australia and how their stories sit in the broader framework, Queer Photo shares the mosaic of cultural, ethnic, and global Indigenous backgrounds through the evocative style of portraiture.
Footscray Community Arts throughout Feb
Nic Brunsdon – (This) Is Air
Air is a vital element of maintaining life, and yet it cannot be seen. (This) Is Air makes the invisible visible in a large scale architectural/sculptural installation in the gardens at NGV. Assumed in a spherical form the fourteen-metre-tall orb will exhale and absorb air in a grandiose representation of making air seen, heard and felt.
NGV Garden throughout Feb
Landscapes of Photobooks – Spector Books
Presented in partnership with Perimeter Books and supported by the Goethe Institut, Australia, Hahnemuhle, and Spicers, Landscapes of Photobooks extols the world-renowned contemporary photographic and art publisher Spector Books (Leipzig). This show will spotlight hundreds of their publications, including many rare and out-of-print photography books.
CCP until 18 Feb
Dean Cross – Black Smoke White Cubes
Through the multi-disciplinary collision of installation, sculpture, and painting, Dean Cross traverses not only materials but ideas, histories, and cultural events. Cross’ practice enacts First Nations sovereignty through his exploration of contemporary art methodologies. He challenges patterns and systemic examples of modernism, dominant cultural and social histories.
Gertrude Contemporary throughout February
Triennial
The famed NGV Triennial is back in 2024, and this year it will feature over 100 groundbreaking projects from 120 artists, designers, and collectives leading the way in contemporary art. It will once again take over all four levels of the NGV in a captivating way.
NGV throughout February
Ariana Lim – Intertidal
Ariana Lim explores the intersections of life apparent on the shoreline. In coastal areas, entanglements are ubiquitous, where salt, water, human, and more-than-human collide. In an assemblage of gooey forms, Lim combines algal and molluscan depictions through sculpture and textiles to recreate the diverse and sprawling ecosystems of the coast.
Craft Victoria until 24 Feb
Domenico de Clario – Al-Jabr (the Restoration or Re-union of Broken Parts)
Al-Jabr is the Arabic precursor for what we have now come to know as algebra, acting as an instruction manual on the application of the mathematical practice. Domenico de Clario examines this and presents an interdisciplinary body of work that considers the origin of Al-Jabr and the impact it has indented on the modern world.
Mars Gallery until 24 Feb
Nadine Christensen – Around
Stretched across 70 works spanning multiple decades, Around is a curated exhibition of Nadine Christensen’s dedicated relationship with painting. Christensen pushes the status quo and expected parameters through her exploration of alternative ways to apply paint. Transcending spatial and perceptual norms, Christensen’s works are threaded together through time.
Buxton Contemporary throughout Feb
From The Other Side
From The Other Side is a group exhibition consisting of nineteen Australian and International artists analyzing the experience of Horror. Weaving through collective anxieties and modern fears, to sexual liberation and pioneering technologies, racial tension and subversion of gender and identity expression, the show accepts the prevalence of horror and reclaims it through artistic expression. Embedded in From The Other Side are feminist, queer, and non-binary perspectives that criticize the portrayal of the monstrous-feminine.
ACCA throughout Feb
