Releases

Expressions of interest now open for Melbourne Design Week 2025, Australia’s largest annual design event 2 days ago Kusama paints the town pink: More than 60 trees along St Kilda Road, Melbourne to be wrapped in custom artwork by Yayoi Kusama in celebration of NGV-exclusive exhibition 3 weeks ago NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe  1 month ago Simply gourd-geous: monumental Yayoi Kusama Dancing Pumpkin sculpture unveiled ahead of exhibition opening 15 December 1 month ago Australian First Nations artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr presents first European solo exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Paris curated by NGV 1 month ago NGV’s Autumn-Winter Season 2025 headlined by French Impressionism, alongside Martin Grant and Kimono exhibitions 2 months ago First Impressions get a second chance: 100+ masterpieces of French Impressionism return to Melbourne direct from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 2 months ago Phar-whoa! More than 336,000 visitors attend the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh 2 months ago Bark Salon now open in Wurrdha Marra 2 months ago Ewe beauty: Dutch designer makes three-metre-tall lamb sculpture out of hundreds of kilograms of discarded European wool 3 months ago Largest-ever international exhibition of Indigenous Australian Art will have North America star-struck: The Stars We Do Not See makes global premiere in Washington DC in 2025 3 months ago Indian Community Day 2024 3 months ago NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe 3 months ago NGV celebrates art and fashion with the return of the NGV Gala on 14 December 2024 4 months ago REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie 5 months ago Bark Salon: on display in Wurrdha Marra 5 months ago Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 5 months ago Abstract Arp: 24 works by 20th century sculptor Hans Arp make NGV debut 5 months ago Australian fashion designer Martin Grant gifts more than 200 elegant and timeless designs to National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia 6 months ago Pucker up, Melbourne: Salvador Dalí’s iconic Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at NGV International 6 months ago Cats & Dogs: ‘paw-some’ exhibition shares our love of furry friends 6 months ago Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh 6 months ago Discover Ancient Egypt for Kids this Winter at NGV 7 months ago NGV Friday Nights brings music, mystique and more with Pharaoh after hours this winter 8 months ago From polka dots to pumpkins and more: Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition opens exclusively in Melbourne with new, world-premiere work 8 months ago Nina Sanadze 8 months ago NGV presents tenth year of Melbourne Art Book Fair 8 months ago Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson: exhibition pairs two pioneers of Australian abstraction for the very first time 9 months ago NGV Triennial: More than 1,063,000 visitors see blockbuster exhibition 9 months ago Melbourne gets the ‘thumbs up’: Felton Bequest acquires David Shrigley’s larger-than-life bronze Really Good, 2016 for NGV 9 months ago Melbourne Design Week 2024 – Design the world you want 9 months ago Africa Fashion: showstopping exhibition of fashion from the V&A featuring 50+ designers from more than 20 countries in Africa 10 months ago Night of Ideas 2024: Major global event of talks, critical thinking, debates and performance comes to Melbourne for the first time 10 months ago NGV Triennial: more than 600,000 visitors attend gallery-wide exhibition of contemporary art and design in first two months 10 months ago