Releases

From Pets to Pumpkins: A week of art-tastic adventures for families at NGV Kids Summer Festival 2025 4 months ago NGV Kids on Tour 2025 partners with more than 150 community venues across Victoria this January to offer FREE art-making activities 4 months ago Kimberley couture: Peggy Griffiths and Cathy Ward create two breathtaking gowns as part of NGV’s biennial Indigenous Fashion Commission 4 months ago Expressions of interest now open for Melbourne Design Week 2025, Australia’s largest annual design event 4 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 4 months 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 5 months ago NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe  5 months ago Simply gourd-geous: monumental Yayoi Kusama Dancing Pumpkin sculpture unveiled ahead of exhibition opening 15 December 5 months ago Australian First Nations artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr presents first European solo exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Paris curated by NGV 5 months ago NGV’s Autumn-Winter Season 2025 headlined by French Impressionism, alongside Martin Grant and Kimono exhibitions 6 months ago First Impressions get a second chance: 100+ masterpieces of French Impressionism return to Melbourne direct from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 6 months ago Phar-whoa! More than 336,000 visitors attend the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh 6 months ago Bark Salon now open in Wurrdha Marra 6 months ago Ewe beauty: Dutch designer makes three-metre-tall lamb sculpture out of hundreds of kilograms of discarded European wool 7 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 7 months ago Indian Community Day 2024 7 months ago NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe 7 months ago NGV celebrates art and fashion with the return of the NGV Gala on 14 December 2024 8 months ago REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie 8 months ago Bark Salon: on display in Wurrdha Marra 9 months ago Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 9 months ago Abstract Arp: 24 works by 20th century sculptor Hans Arp make NGV debut 9 months ago Australian fashion designer Martin Grant gifts more than 200 elegant and timeless designs to National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia 10 months ago Pucker up, Melbourne: Salvador Dalí’s iconic Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at NGV International 10 months ago Cats & Dogs: ‘paw-some’ exhibition shares our love of furry friends 10 months ago Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh 10 months ago Discover Ancient Egypt for Kids this Winter at NGV 11 months ago NGV Friday Nights brings music, mystique and more with Pharaoh after hours this winter 12 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 1 year ago Nina Sanadze 1 year ago NGV presents tenth year of Melbourne Art Book Fair 1 year ago Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson: exhibition pairs two pioneers of Australian abstraction for the very first time 1 year ago NGV Triennial: More than 1,063,000 visitors see blockbuster exhibition 1 year ago Melbourne gets the ‘thumbs up’: Felton Bequest acquires David Shrigley’s larger-than-life bronze Really Good, 2016 for NGV 1 year ago Melbourne Design Week 2024 – Design the world you want 1 year ago Africa Fashion: showstopping exhibition of fashion from the V&A featuring 50+ designers from more than 20 countries in Africa 1 year ago Night of Ideas 2024: Major global event of talks, critical thinking, debates and performance comes to Melbourne for the first time 1 year ago NGV Triennial: more than 600,000 visitors attend gallery-wide exhibition of contemporary art and design in first two months 1 year ago