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

The National Gallery of Victoria today announced two exciting new acquisitions in the lead up to next year’s 150th birthda

Opening 7 May, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Timelines: Photography and Time, a captivating exhibition exploring the notion of time in photographs.

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including Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edgar
Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. These important works illustrate a century of
phenomenal change – a period that helped shape our modern world. Part of the
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces ser

This exhibition presents 80 paintings and drawings depicting Rajput courtly life from the 17th to the19th centuries. Created in the princely states of Rajasthan, the paintings encapsulate the vitality and sensuality of life at the Maharana’s court.

During the first decades of the 20th century, the ‘Paris end’ of Collins Street, as it was affectionately known, was a popular home to the artistic community of Melbourne. This exhibition brings together commercial and fashion photography from the 1900s to the 1950s reflecting the changing face of Melbou

Brook Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist who comments on racial, social and political issues in Australia and internationally. He is known for his particular perspective in unveiling different historical ‘truths’. This Melbourne International Arts Festival commission is inspired by his screen print portraits of boxer Anthony Mundine.

This is the first large-scale exhibition of Man Ray’s photography to be presented in Australia. Reflecting the most influential and productive years of Man Ray’s photographic output, most of the 200 works in the exhibition comprise vintage photographs made between 1917 and 1939.

This comprehensive exhibition of Edvard Munch’s art assembles more than 80 works from across the artist’s entire oeuvre – including paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours. Seminal and well-known images of Munch’s early maturity are featured together with a substantial body of work made from the early 1900s until before his deat

This exhibition features print publications by some of the most acclaimed artists working in Britain over the past two decades including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Julian Opie and Langlands & Bell.

One of the world’s finest collections of 19th and 20th century art will come exclusively to Melbourne this June as the seventh exhibition in the hugely popular Melbourne Winter Masterpieces…

This exhibition pays tribute to Rembrandt, an artist of unequalled stature in the history of art who is renowned for his paintings but also for his prints and drawings. Presenting Rembrandt’s most celebrated prints, the exhibition enables audiences to fully appreciate the artist’s extraordinary vision and exceptional and experimental techni

Despite the photo-rich days we live in, large-scale surveys of Australian photography are relatively rare. Light Sensitive seeks to address this by presenting a major exhibition of work by Australian photographers including Brook Andrew, Patricia Piccinini, Simon Cuthbert, Cherine Fahd, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Simon Obarzanek, Selina Ou and Deborah Paauwe.

Black in fashion is a perennial topic of discussion. Throughout history the wearing of black clothing has had multiple and often contradictory meanings. At times, it has signified death, power, elegance, urbanity, subversion and sex appeal. This exhibition explores the symbolism and enduring use of black in Australian and international fashion.

The sixth exhibition in the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire brings together more than 200 stunning works by Salvador Dalí in all media including painting, drawing, watercolour, etchings, sculpture, fashion, jewellery, cinema and photogra