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What's On: Art You Can't Miss!
✻ Metartworld - Open Hours & Tickets ✻
When: Monday to Sunday
Open 7 days: Open 10am - 6pm @ Boundary Street, Port Melbourne
A One-of-a-kind Art Space
ART that you can touch and interact with
Metal Art Exhibition
Covering an area of 400 square meters, over 12+ themed exhibiti..
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✻ Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light ✻
When: 28th November 2025 to 3rd May 2026
A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.
Featuring prints, postcards, photobooks and magazines, the exhibition explores the role o..
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✻ Aida Azin: Brown Pillars II ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Wednesday
Where: Incinerator Gallery
Brown Pillars is an ongoing body of work by artist Aida Azin that interrogates colonial hierarchies within the arts.
First presented in 2017 at Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, where it critiqued institutional racism in the art w..
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✻ ArtVo | Trick Art - Open Hours & Tickets ✻
When: Monday to Sunday
Become part of the artwork at ArtVo Melbourne. The interactive trick art gallery is your chance to touch the art and strike a pose in front of the mind boggling themed zones.
The venue is a fun activity for all ages with ove..
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✻ Dylan Marelic: ...and there's no one around to hear it ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Wednesday
Where: Incinerator Gallery
..and there's no one around to hear it is an exhibition exploring power structures and ways nature is shaped through human systems.
Artist dylan marelic approaches organic materials as living records-archives of environmenta..
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✻ Group: Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Wednesday
Where: Incinerator Gallery
Artists: Celline Mercado, Jermaine Ibarra, Justyne Allen, and Lance Zuniga
Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)
In this exhibition, the concept of the shadow symbolises the linge..
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✻ Jennifer Webb: Sailing on Albert Park Lake ✻
When: Friday, Monday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday
From the 'Sailing ' series of Melbourne paintings of Jennifer Webb, this artwork is executed in layers of acrylics and varnishes on linen.
It can be purchased online or in person at Port Art stockrooms in Port Melbourne, and ..
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✻ The Huxleys: Life on Mars ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday
The Huxleys will make their spectacular MARS debut this December with 'Life on Mars,' a full building takeover across every floor of MARS Gallery.
Featuring work from their acclaimed series Bloodlines, a dozen video work in o..
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✻ The Summer Salon | Little Treasures ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Where: Lennox St Gallery
The Summer Salon | Little Treasures, features both represented and invited artists. This special showcase will highlight small-scale works, perfect for intimate collections.
The "High Heel Index" theory, coined by former IBM..
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✻ Wurrdha Marra: First Nations Art ✻
When: Monday to Sunday
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
Ground Level, First Nations Art
Ongoing, free entry
Open daily 10am–5pm
Wurrdha Marra - meaning 'Many Mobs' in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language.
The name comes to..
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✻ Rigg Design Prize 2025 ✻
When: 19th September 2025 to 1st February 2026
The Rigg Design Prize is Australia's most prestigious accolade for contemporary design.
Next in Design: 35 Under 35
19 Sep 25 - 1 Feb 26, free entry
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
Level 3
Since its ..
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✻ Margaret Morgan: .... or what you will - 'the bard' exhibition of paintings ✻
When: 16th December 2025 to 9th February 2026
Where: Heathcote Winery
Enjoy this exciting exhibition of paintings by Margaret Morgan many local scenes in both oil acrylic pours and watercolour paints.
The paintings are dominated by the theme of water giving a refreshing view in strong colour d..
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✻ Maria Kontis: And I Would Say These Things To No One But You ✻
When: 6th September 2025 to 23rd February 2026
Where: Heide | Museum of Modern Art
Working in pastel on paper, Maria Kontis creates finely detailed drawings of fragments of miscellanea such as found photographs, discarded crumbled papers and forms of correspondence.
At first glance the drawings appear to b..
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✻ TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection: Selected Works ✻
When: 29th November 2025 to 2nd March 2026
Where: TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29th November 2025 - Monday 2nd March 2026 @ TarraWarra Museum of Art
Curated by Patrice Sharkey
Selected Works from the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection
The Museum presents a group exhibition inspired b..
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✻ Nell: Face Everything ✻
When: 11th October 2025 to 8th March 2026
Where: Heide | Museum of Modern Art
Nell, Born Together 2024, bird's nest, 24 carat gold, hand-blown glass, courtesy of the artist and STATION, Australia
In Face Everything, Sydney-based artist Nell responds to the domestic nature of Heide Modern, populating th..
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✻ John Nixon: Song of the Earth ✻
When: 22nd November 2025 to 9th March 2026
Where: Heide | Museum of Modern Art
For over five decades, Australian artist John Nixon (1949-2020) produced abstract art driven by a spirit of experimentation and a deep engagement with radical modernism. An influential and collaborative figure both in Australia ..
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✻ Scotty So: DIOR ✻
When: 14th February 2026 to 14th March 2026
MARS is delighted to present Scotty So's latest series exploring the glamour and vigour of vintage Dior reimagined through the genre of performance.
Melbourne/Naarm-based artist Scotty So's cutting-edge series reinterprets t..
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✻ Telly Tuita: A Tongpop Tale - Memoirs Of A Professional Brown Man ✻
When: 18th March 2026 to 2nd May 2026
Telly Tuita's vibrant practice has been celebrated for his bold exploration of diasporic identity and neo-Pacific expression.
Working across video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation, Telly has coined the term..
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✻ Adam Elliot: Making Memoir of a Snail ✻
When: 8th August 2024 to 1st November 2026
ACMI presents
Making Memoir of a Snail
Free
8th August 2024 - 1st November 2026 @ Australian Centre for the Moving Image | ACMI
Discover the magic behind Adam Elliot's remarkable Claymation style with a display of ha..
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More Melbourne Art
Renowned Melbourne artists: Sidney Nolan, John Brack, Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, Charles Conder and DEEJ.
Iconic Melbourne Art
John Brack: Collins Street, 5 pm
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre: Chloe
Ron Robertson-Swann: Vault (Yellow Peril)
Callum Morton: HOTEL
John Kelly: Cow Up a Tree
Deborah Halpern: Ophelia
Gerry Knight: Melbourne The Pulse of a Nation
Leonard French: NGV Stained-Glass Ceiling
DEEJ: Barry Humphries/Dame Edna Everage
Street Art
Melbourne International Gateway
DEEJ
Where to see art in Melbourne
Private Galleries Public Galleries Laneway Art
National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
National Gallery of Victoria is two public art galleries within one magnificent arts precinct: NGV International and NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre.. and soon (late 2025) The Fox: NGV Contemporary.
NGV International
NGV International houses one of the world's finest international art collections of art, paintings, pottery and sculpture.
180 St Kilda Road, Southbank
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NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre
NGV AUSTRALIA is located in Federation Square in the heart of Melbourne's CBD houses Australian art including paintings, pottery and sculpture.
Federation Square | Corner Flinders Street and Swanston Street, Melbourne
The Ian Potter Centre What's On
ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery presenting the most challenging, innovative and creative visual art of our time.
111 Sturt St, Southbank
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art What's On
HEIDI - Museum of Modern Art
Heide is one of Australia's leading public art museums open daily. Celebrated for its award-winning architecture and breathtaking gardens, Heide has a rich and colourful social history and art heritage.
7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen
Heidi | Museum of Modern Art What's On
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