Melbourne Art

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Art Exhibitions Melbourne

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Featured Exhibitions

✻ TarraWarra International 2026: System Release ✻

Where: TarraWarra Museum of Art - Healesville

A bold new exhibition exploring creative approaches to precarious times. 2026 marks the return of TarraWarra Museum of Art's TarraWarra International series, paused during and after the pandemic, with TarraWarra International.. View More..

✻ The Joseph Brown Collection - Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia ✻

Where: The Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia - Melbourne

See Australia's greatest artists and art, free at the Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia. In May 2004 Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE donated the major part of his incomparable collection of Australian art to the National Gallery of V.. View More..

✻ Bald Archy Prize Exhibition 2026 - Mansfield ✻

Where: Arts Mansfield - Mansfield

Our 30th year, featuring everyone from Barnaby to Bob Irwin, 2026 is officially our biggest yet. The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, which parodies the prestigious portraiture award, the Archibald Prize is back. W.. View More..

✻ Westwood | Kawakubo ✻

Where: National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International - Southbank

This major international exhibition pairs the work of two of the most influential fashion designers in recent history, Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons. Beginning their careers in the 1970s working in d.. View More..

✻ Yoko Ozawa: New works ✻

Where: Melbourne Art Rooms | MARS Gallery - Windsor

Ozawa's work is informed by a lifelong interest in natural phenomena - including seasonal transitions, fog, breeze, rain, light and shadow. Through the past study of Japanese painting, Ozawa deeply realised and became influen.. View More..

✻ Top Arts 2026 | VCE Young Artists ✻

Where: The Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia - Melbourne

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square Ground Level, NGV Design Studio 13 Mar – 19 Jul 26, free entry The annual Top Arts exhibition provides a platform for emerging artists from across the state who are com.. View More..

✻ Triennial ✻

Where: National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International - Southbank

NGV International Free entry Featuring more than eighty ambitious and thought-provoking projects, including major new commissions, the 2026 NGV Triennial offers a global journey through contemporary art and design. Unfo.. View More..

✻ Claude Monet: Haystacks, midday ✻

Where: Geelong Gallery - Geelong

Geelong Gallery Saturday 22 November 2025 to Friday 19 November 2027 Free entry In 1890, Monet purchased his home at Giverny, where he began the celebrated Haystacks series. These stacks of wheat, tightly thatched for pr.. View More..

Must See Exhibitions

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✻ Aleks Danko: A(GAP)E ✻

Gallery: McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park - Langwarrin

For over fifty years, Aleks Danko has shown an unwavering interest in the ways people interact with art. Now in his mid-seventies, Danko's observations of the absurdities of the art world and contempo.. View More..

✻ Art Exhibitions @ red gallery ✻

Gallery: red gallery | contemporary art space - Fitzroy North

Red Gallery is pleased to announce new exhibitions 8 - 19 Apr 2026 Opening Night 10 April | 6 - 8 pm We warmly invite you to celebrate the Opening Night of our current exhibitions on Frida.. View More..

✻ Chantel de Latour: Rooms with a view ✻

Gallery: Melbourne Art Rooms | MARS Gallery - Windsor

Rooms with a View examines the relationship between interior spaces and the landscapes beyond them. Painted from locations across Paris, Arles, Milan, and New York, the works focus on rooms, corri.. View More..

✻ Jennifer Webb: Sailing on Albert Park Lake ✻

Gallery: Port Art Gallery - Port Melbourne - Port Melbourne

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 stockr.. View More..

✻ Metartworld - Open Hours & Tickets ✻

Gallery: Metartworld - Metal Art Gallery - Port Melbourne

Opening Hours Weekdays: 10am–6pm Weekends: 10am–7pm @ Boundary Street, Port Melbourne A One-of-a-kind Art Space ART that you can touch and interact with Metal Art Exhibition C.. View More..

✻ On The Street Where I Live: Viva Gibb ✻

Gallery: City Gallery - Melbourne

On the street where I live: Viva Gibb's portrait of North and West Melbourne Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, Viva Gibb documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived. .. View More..

✻ Minhwa Group: Stories of Blessing: Modern Echoes of Minhwa ✻

Gallery: Arts Spaces at City Library - Melbourne

Free Art @ Gallery at City Library Level 1 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 3000 Stories of Blessing: Modern Echoes of Minhwa by Minhwa Group Artists: Okhee Choi, Ji Young Kim, Tina Park, HeeJi.. View More..

✻ Geelong Gallery Collection: Minimal ✻

Gallery: Geelong Gallery - Geelong

Minimal art emerged in the 1960s alongside other experimental artforms - including conceptual, performance and land art - that challenged traditional forms of Western artistic expression and the cultu.. View More..

✻ Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 years of Linden New Art ✻

Gallery: Linden New Art - St Kilda

Marking four decades of cultural significance, this landmark exhibition celebrates Linden's extraordinary journey from domestic residence to contemporary art institution. The exhibition excavates .. View More..

✻ John Louis Lloyd: Recent Abstracts ✻

Gallery: Port Art Gallery - Port Melbourne - Port Melbourne

Recent Abstracts from Melbourne Artist, John Louis Lloyd Melbourne abstract artist, John Louis Lloyd, utilises a range of mixed media and substrates while creating his abstract painting series . .. View More..

✻ Escultura X Bettina Willner, Claudia Terstappen, and Christopher Jewitt: Pas de Deux ✻

Gallery: Lennox St Gallery - Richmond

Developed for Melbourne Design Week, this collaboration between Lennox St. Gallery and ESCULTURA challenges the traditional "white cube" convention where the pedestal is treated as a neutral, invisibl.. View More..

✻ Sean McDowell: Infusion; Diffuse ✻

Gallery: Arts Spaces at City Library - Melbourne

Free Art @ Gallery at City Library Level 1 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 3000 The exhibition has been inspired by research into biology and microscopy through psychology and neuroscience. Locat.. View More..

✻ Flapper Said: Exploring the Future of Conversational AI ✻

Gallery: Deakin University - Burwood

Flapper Said: Exploring the Future of Conversational AI is a multidisciplinary exhibition that investigates how machines speak and how we respond. At its centre is Flapper, a conversational AI bas.. View More..

✻ Archer Davies: New works ✻

Gallery: Melbourne Art Rooms | MARS Gallery - Windsor

Archer Davies was born in the town of Maleny, Queensland. He graduated from the QLD College of Art in 2010. Since then he has traveled and painted consistently. His paintings have been exhibit.. View More..

✻ Jon Campbell - DUNNO ✻

Gallery: Geelong Gallery - Geelong

Geelong Gallery Free Geelong Gallery's rear facade overlooking Johnstone Park has been transformed with a newly commissioned artwork by contemporary artist Jon Campbell. With his use of wor.. View More..

Photographic Exhibitions

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✻ Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits ✻

Gallery: Frankston Arts Centre - Frankston

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits introduces us to Alan Adler (1932 - 2024). Adler, while little known, was likely the most photographed man in Australia and is also the oldest and longest serving ph.. View More..

✻ Women Photographers 1900-1975: A Legacy of Light ✻

Gallery: National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International - Southbank

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 ex.. View More..

✻ Brook Andrew: ROLLERCOASTER ✻

Gallery: Museum of Australian Photography - Wheelers Hill

In 2026 the Museum of Australian Photography presents a major commission by Brook Andrew, one of Australia's most influential and internationally recognised artists. Working across visual art, res.. View More..

Public Art Galleries Melbourne

National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), founded in 1861, is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum and holds the largest collection of art in the country. Located across two buildings – N..

180 St Kilda Road,, Southbank | Map

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The Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia

Australian art is the focus of The Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square, one of three Victorian public art galleries within one magnificent arts precinct. ..

The Ian Potter Centre, Corner Flinders Street and Swanston Street,, Melbourne | Map

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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is Melbourne's leading contemporary art gallery presenting the most challenging, innovative and creative visual art of our time. ACCA brings the la..

111 Sturt St, Southbank | Map

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The Fox: NGV Contemporary

Melbourne's newest gallery, National Gallery for Contemporary Art and Design will open in 2028. NGV Contemporary will be a landmark, new purpose-built gallery dedicated to displaying local, nationa..

77 Southbank Blvd, Southbank | Map

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Private Galleries Melbourne

Heide | Museum of Modern Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art and Sculpture Park in Bulleen is one of Australia’s leading public art museums. Celebrated for its award-winning architecture and breathtaking gardens, Heide has a rich..

7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen | Map

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Museum of Australian Photography

MAPh is Australia's leading public art museum devoted to the collection and exhibition of photography. It is a cultural institution of regional, state and national importance with the only collection ..

860 Ferntree Gully Rd,, Wheelers Hill | Map

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Potter Museum of Art

The Potter manages the University Art Collection, a rich resource of art and artefacts spanning from the Neolithic period to contemporary works. It is a cultural and educational facility, serving both..

800 Swanston Street, , Parkville | Map

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Artbank Melbourne

Artbank in Collingwood is a unique Australian initiative that supports living contemporary artists by buying their work and leasing it to the public, with all fees going straight back into supporting ..

18 - 24 Down Street , Collingwood | Map

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Art Galleries & Houses | Melbourne

Anna Schwartz Gallery

Melbourne

No Exhibitions Currently Showing

Anna Schwartz Gallery is a major contemporary art gallery in Australia which has been owned and operated by founder Anna Schwartz since 1986. Established in Melbourne, Anna Schwartz Gallery has ide..

Blak Dot Gallery

Brunswick East

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A contemporary Indigenous-run art gallery & performance space showcasing modern & traditional artworks from world Indigenous cultures. Blak Dot Gallery acknowledges the traditional custodians of th..

City Gallery

Melbourne

What's Showing
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
On The Street Where I Live: Viva Gibb

Melbourne's City Gallery presents free, quarterly exhibitions on city life, past and present. Artworks and artefacts reign supreme in this small space, and the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage ..

Collingwood Yards

Collingwood

What's Showing
Keith Haring: Collingwood Mural
Arts Project Australia: Gallery
Hope St Radio | Restaurant & Wine Bar

Collingwood Yards is a new, permanent and affordable home for scores of artists and independent arts organisations working across music, visual arts, performance, digital media, creative industries an..

Craft Victoria

Melbourne

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Craft Victoria brings together a vibrant and sustainable contemporary craft and design community by supporting, showcasing and celebrating all craft disciplines and practitioners. It is Craft Victo..

Flinders Lane Gallery

Melbourne

No Exhibitions Currently Showing

Since opening its doors in 1989, FLG has gained a reputation for actively supporting the practices of emerging, mid-career and Indigenous Australian artists. Operating beyond a rigid aesthetic or ..

fortyfivedownstairs

Melbourne

What's Showing
Tape Face - The Show
Melbourne Shakespeare presents Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

fortyfivedownstairs was established in 2001 to provide a versatile and interesting space for performance, exhibitions, forums and music. Situated in a former factory, and gallery, in Flinders Lane,..

Gasworks Arts Park

Albert Park

What's Showing
Gasworks Farmers' Market
Gasworks Arts Tour
Gasworks Public Sculptures

Gasworks Arts Park is a vibrant arts precinct producing a range of high-quality arts programs, workshops and activities for every age, ability, interest and audience. Situated in Albert Park, Melbo..

Gertrude Contemporary

Preston South

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Gertrude Contemporary is a non-profit gallery and studio complex supporting contemporary artists. The organisation provides professional support to artists in the early stages of their careers thr..

Incinerator Gallery

Aberfeldie

What's Showing
Angus Scott: Tending the Invasion
Leo Bagus Purnomo: Alas-alasan
Norton Fredericks: we/us/theirs/all

The Incinerator Gallery in Moonee Ponds is a centre for visual arts. The gallery houses the City of Moonee Valley Art Collection exhibiting work from established and emerging artists, as well as p..

Linden New Art

St Kilda

What's Showing
Time Moves Through These Walls: 40 years of Linden New Art

Linden New Art is a unique not for profit contemporary art gallery. Our vision is for Linden to be a vibrant, evolving centre for the creation and presentation of contemporary art; a place where a..

Lyon Housemuseum Galleries

Kew

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The new Housemuseum Galleries at 217 Cotham Road offer a new platform for works of international and local contemporary art, architecture and design, where new ways of presenting and experiencing art ..

MAD Gallery

Lancefield

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MAD Gallery shows contemporary and leading edge fine art - 2D & 3D - from emerging and established artists, from all geographic locations, including this region and overseas. MAD Gallery is on the ..

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park

Langwarrin

What's Showing
Phil Price: Tree of Life
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McClelland Collection

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park houses an excellent collection of fine art and a world famous collection of major works by leading Australian sculptors. McClelland is a truly unique art galler..

Melbourne Art Rooms | MARS Gallery

Windsor

What's Showing
Telly Tuita: A Tongpop Tale - Memoirs Of A Professional Brown Man
Chantel de Latour: Rooms with a view
Chun Yin Rainbow Chan: Continuum

MARS (Melbourne Art Rooms) is a commercial gallery that specialises in exhibiting, promoting and building the careers of contemporary Australian artists. Situated just off Chapel St in Windsor, MA..

No Vacancy Gallery | Project Space

Melbourne

No Exhibitions Currently Showing

Tenancy 32 | No Vacancy Gallery is a Melbourne-based contemporary hire-gallery that provides a link between artist run initiatives and the commercial art world. In 2010, No Vacancy extended into Fe..

Outre Gallery | Fitzroy

Fitzroy

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Outre Gallery challenges the conventions of the archetypal gallery. Established for over two decades in Melbourne Australia Outre features solo and group exhibitions by international and Australian ar..

Port Art Gallery - Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne

What's Showing
Jennifer Webb: Sailing on Albert Park Lake
John Louis Lloyd: Recent Abstracts

Port Art Gallery, representing local artists' paintings and interstate artists as well, was founded by fine artist Jennifer Webb in 2005. Established as as a bricks-and-mortar commercial gallery i..

red gallery | contemporary art space

Fitzroy North

What's Showing
Art Exhibitions @ red gallery

red gallery is a multi-exhibition space in Melbourne's Fitzroy North arts precinct. Operating since 2002, red gallery is committed to presenting innovative contemporary art and welcomes interest f..

Romulus Folio Gallery

South Melbourne

What's Showing
Xinzhi Li: Inside Wonder

Romulus is both a platform and a gateway - a space where artists, collectives, and creatives can showcase their work, connect with opportunities, and shape cultural conversations. We believe in th..

Smart Artz Gallery

South Melbourne

No Exhibitions Currently Showing

Housed within a converted warehouse in South Melbourne lies one of Melbourne's most versatile and innovative spaces. Smart Artz Gallery matches an industrial space with contemporary Australian art..

St Heliers Street Gallery

Abbotsford

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Ground floor - Abbotsford Convent Established in 2009, St Heliers Street Gallery is an Abbotsford Convent Foundation initiative. The gallery is located on the ground floor of the main Convent bui..

The Fitzroy Art Collective

Fitzroy

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The Fitzroy Art Collective's mission is to revolutionise the Art culture and community in Fitzroy. Vision: TFAC envisions a community where: the Artist is valued as much as the Art Art is an inte..

The Nook Gallery & Studios

Mornington

No Exhibitions Currently Showing

The Nook Gallery & Studios Creative studios for lease | Gallery spaces for hire | Multipurpose spaces for workshops, photoshoots, events etc STUDIO FEATURES CO-WORKING STUDIO Studio #2 has b..

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Melbourne's Street Art Outdoor Exploration Game

Discover the secret stories behind Melbourne's colourful laneways in a thrilling outdoor exploration game. You're a runaway teen in search of a lost connection, and the city's street art begins to..
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ArtVo Melbourne | Trick Art Museum

Priceless photos. Unbelievable scenarios. Explore the interactive gallery over 11 themed zones, touch the art and have fun! ArtVo is a new interactive 3D art or otherwise known as Trick Art museum ..
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Metartworld - Metal Art Gallery

The biggest metal art gallery in Australia, showcasing unique artworks from international artists. Covering an area of 400 square meters, we have over 12+ themed exhibitions, a 360 degree immersiv..
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Public Art Melbourne

Public Art

Melbourne has always loved its public art that includes, paintings, street art, laneway art, statutes and scultpures.

Street Art Melbourne

Melbourne has become the street art capital of the world, known for its unique art on display throughout the city and suburbs.

From quirky street art in the burbs, to vaults in Southbank and laneways in the CBD, all glorious free street art.

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John Brack: Collins Street, 5 pm

DEEJ: Barry Humphries/Dame Edna Everage

Deborah Halpern: Ophelia

Callum Morton: HOTEL

John Kelly: Cow Up a Tree

Gerry Knight: Melbourne The Pulse of a Nation

Ron Robertson-Swann: Vault (Yellow Peril)

Charles Robb: Statue : Charles La Trobe

Iconic Melbourne Art

Cavalcade of Transport Mural

Centenary Of Federation Arch (2001)

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre: Chloe

Leonard French: NGV Stained-Glass Ceiling

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Melbourne enjoys a thriving art scene, boasting 100's of galleries from public institutions to small independent galleries and artist co-operatives.

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Melbourne Art

Art Exhibitions @ red gallery

Cartier | Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2026

John Brack: Collins Street, 5 pm

Westwood | Kawakubo

Art Exhibitions Melbourne

Enjoy, feel, love ART

On this page

Melbourne Art begins here..

Featured Exhibitions

Must See Exhibitions

Photographic Exhibitions

Public Art Galleries Melbourne

What's Showing: National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International

What's Showing: The Ian Potter Centre | NGV Australia

What's Showing: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

What's Showing: The Fox: NGV Contemporary

Private Galleries Melbourne

What's Showing: Heide | Museum of Modern Art

What's Showing: Museum of Australian Photography

What's Showing: Potter Museum of Art

What's Showing: Artbank Melbourne

Art Galleries & Houses | Melbourne

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Public Art Melbourne

Public Art

Street Art Melbourne

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Renowned Melbourne artists

Iconic Melbourne Art

Victoria Silo Art

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ART SCENE!

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