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✻ 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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✻ Art @ Red Gallery ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Wednesday
Angela Ndalianis
Steve Leadbeater
Gothic Romanticism Group Exhibition curated by Tammy Honey
Jayne Pickering
Exhibition Dates:
29 Oct - 9 Nov 2025
Opening Night:
Friday 31 October
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Red Gallery, F..
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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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✻ Christopher Jewitt: The Edge of Form ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Where: Lennox St Gallery
It is a practice shaped by change-shifts in material, method, and meaning. Over the past decade, his path has curved sharply, each turn marking a commitment to experimentation and reinvention.
In this new body of work, cerami..
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✻ Future Dreaming ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Where: The Torch Project
The Torch proudly presents Future Dreaming, an exhibition featuring 200+ artworks by First Nations artists incarcerated in 2025.
Each artwork offers a glimpse into the artist's vision of the future - from deeply personal hope..
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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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✻ Observer - Group Exhibition at Romulus Folio Gallery ✻
Where: Romulus Folio Gallery
Featuring artists: Gerard Russo · Andrea Vargas · Joanne Morris · Keith Ross · Florence Wang · Ellen Jury · Anita Mirabito
Join us for the opening of Observer, a group exhibition that brings together seven distinctive a..
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✻ Tom Gerrard: 20 Shot Sequence ✻
When: Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Where: Lennox St Gallery
Lennox St. Gallery is pleased to announce '20 Shot Sequence', an exhibition of new works by Tom Gerrard.
Each painting in this series unfolds across 20 individual frames, capturing sequences of movement and change. Some spa..
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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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✻ Man Ray and Max Dupain ✻
When: 6th August 2025 to 9th November 2025
Where: Heide | Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition brings into dialogue for the first time the contemporaneous work of American-born artist Man Ray and eminent Australian photographer Max Dupain, with a focus on their experimentation with surrealist imagery and i..
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✻ Rose Nolan: Breathing Helps ✻
When: 9th August 2025 to 9th November 2025
Where: TarraWarra Museum of Art
9th August 2025 - 9th November 2025 @ TarraWarra Museum of Art
Curated by Victoria Lynn
Ticketed
Rose Nolan is a Narrm/Melbourne-based artist with a diverse practice encompassing painting, installation, sculpture, phot..
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✻ 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art ✻
When: 30th May 2025 to 22nd November 2025
Where: Ian Potter Museum of Art
The Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne has reopened with 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art - a landmark exhibition launching during Reconciliation Week that celebrates the enduring brilliance of Ab..
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✻ Rituals: Gifts for the Gods ✻
When: 11th June 2025 to 23rd November 2025
Where: Hellenic Museum
Explore the histories and mysteries of ancient Greek rituals in a new international exhibition presented by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture Greece and Hellenic Museum Australia.
Across cultures and centuries ritual has offer..
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✻ Aida Azin: Brown Pillars II ✻
When: 29th November 2025 to 18th January 2026
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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✻ Dylan Marelic: ...and there's no one around to hear it ✻
When: 29th November 2025 to 18th January 2026
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: 29th November 2025 to 18th January 2026
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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✻ The Summer Salon | Little Treasures ✻
When: 3rd December 2025 to 31st January 2026
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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✻ 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: Possibly Albert Tucker ✻
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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✻ 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 artists: Sidney Nolan, John Brack, Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, Charles Conder and DEEJ.
Iconic Melbourne Art
Collins Street 5 pm
Chloe | Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Vault (Yellow Peril)
HOTEL
Cow Up a Tree
Barry Humphries
Street Art
Melbourne International Gateway
DEEJ
Where to see art in Melbourne
Private Galleries Public Galleries Laneway Art
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria is two public art galleries within one arts precinct: NGV International and NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre.. and soon (late 2025) it will be three when The Fox: NGV Contemporary opens its doors.
#1 - NGV International
180 St Kilda Road, Southbank
NGV International houses one of the world's finest international art collections of art, paintings, pottery and sculpture.
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#2 - NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre
Corner Flinders Street and Swanston Street, Melbourne
NGV AUSTRALIA is located in Federation Square in the heart of Melbourne's CBD houses Australian art including paintings, pottery and sculpture.
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#3 - The Fox: NGV Contemporary
77 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank
The National Gallery for Contemporary Art and Design is the newest of three Victorian public art galleries within one magnificent arts precinct on St Kilda Road. Opens late 2025.
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt St, Southbank
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.
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HEIDI - Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen
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.
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