Famous Viennese and French artworks rarely seen outside Europe are coming to Melbourne in 2011 and 2012.

This unique exhibition reveals how self-portraits have shaped our perceptions of art and the artist’s life. Works are displayed in themes exploring the potential for self-portraits to re-evaluate identity. Drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection, the exhibition demonstrates its extraordinary range and depth. A rich diversity of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, installations and fashion illustrates one of the most constant subjects in Western art and includes significant cross-cultural examp

Calling all Monet fans: you need to hurry on down to the NGV’s European Masters exhibition before 9pm Wednesday 1 September! Claude Monet’s fascinating work The Luncheon is making a…

Through her installation Sandman, contemporary Australian artist Patricia Piccinini speculates on the facts and mysteries of human evolution; the transformation from one state of being to another; the emotional turmoil of adolescence; car culture, romance; and fate.

Charles Conder was one of the key founders of the Heidelberg school of Australian Impressionism. This exhibition traces his career in Australia and Europe and features his Australian, French and English plein air landscapes, portraits and lithographs, as well as his ornamental paintings on silk.

This exhibition brings together four exceptional works by four international artists – Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Lee Bul and Sarah Sze – that chart the shifts in contemporary art that swept across the globe at the start of 21^st Cent

At the heart of Guy Bourdin’s fashion photographs is a confrontation with the very nature of commercial image making. While conventional fashion images make beauty and clothing their central elements, Bourdin’s photographs offer a radical alternative. Bourdin presented fashion as the luxurious embellishment rather than the subject of his photographs.

James Gleeson is one of Australia’s most important artists. For more than six decades his work has explored the realms of the Surrealist creed and sought to show an alternative reality beyond the obvious and everyday. This exhibition features 120 paintings and works on paper from collections throughout Australia.

This exhibition draws on the NGV’s rich collection of prints, drawings and illustrated books to explore the ways in which European artists have given expression to the monstrous, the diabolical and the fantastic from the 15th century through to the 21st centur

Celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman is renowned for his images that explore the duality of life. His Alice in Wonderland series blends iconic motifs from Lewis Carroll’s fantastic journey into the imagination with Blackman’s personal life. The results are challenging images that are simultaneously amusing and disquieting.

The National Gallery of Victoria today opened a new dedicated children’s gallery at Federation Squar

This exhibition retraces the dynamic changes in fashion during Jane Austen’s lifetime. Featuring more than 70 works, with most from the NGV Collection, Persuasion surveys the period 1770-1830 and includes fashion, prints and drawings, decorative arts and paintings, with a focus on English women’s dress from the early 19th cent

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Since the medium of photography began in the 1830s, the body, especially the nude, has been the subject of our fascinated gaze. This exhibition explores how artists have used the camera to describe, celebrate and mythologise the naked body through a selection of photographs drawn from the NGV Collection.

‘Chinoiserie’ was coined in the 19th century for a decorative style that takes its inspiration from Asian art and design but ultimately reflects European visions of Asia. This exhibition illustrates the development of the style through the NGV’s stunning collection of European and Asian decorative arts, as well as key loan

The National Gallery of Victoria will present a superb collection of Asian and European decorative art from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Chinoiserie: Asia in Europe 1620–184