Exhibitions
The Gallery aims to present a diverse range of exhibitions and Collection displays of local, national and international artists across both buildings.
In addition to presenting exclusive international blockbuster exhibitions, the Gallery has two flagship triennials. The ‘Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ is the only major series of exhibitions in the world to focus exclusively on the contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific. A more recent initiative of the Gallery is ‘Contemporary Australia’ which is a national triennial series of thematic contemporary Australian art.
The Gallery also presents travelling exhibitions to regional and remote centres of the state to ensue that all Queenslanders have access to the Collection.
Quilts 1700-1945
15 June – 22 September 2013 | Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) | Ticketed
In collaboration with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), 'Quilts 1700-1945' explores more than 200 years of British patchwork and quilt-making. Read more
Sugar
8 June – 7 October 2013 | Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) | Free admission
As part of the celebrations commemorating 150 years of Australian South Sea Islander contributions to Queensland, ‘Sugar’ reflects on the history of the industry that first brought South Sea Islanders to this country. Read more
Ever Present: Photographs from the Collection 1850–1975
8 June – 7 October 2013 | Collection Display | Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) | Free admission
This exhibition, drawn from the Gallery’s historical collections, presents works by unknown nineteenth-century photographers alongside iconic images by some of the masters of the twentieth century. Read more
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia
1 June – 7 October 2013 | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) | Free admission
This exhibition will be the Gallery’s largest ever exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art. It will feature works by Indigenous Australian artists from across the country. Read more
Gordon Hookey: Kangaroo Crew
1 June 2013 - 27 January 2014 | Children’s Art Centre, GOMA | Free admission
The Children’s Art Centre presents ‘Kangaroo Crew’, an interactive artist project created especially for children and families by Indigenous Australian artist Gordon Hookey, from the Waanyi people. Read more
Earth and Elsewhere: Contemporary Works from the Collection
25 May 2013 – 30 March 2014 | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) | Free admission
‘Earth and Elsewhere’ brings together works from across the Gallery’s contemporary collection that explore history, emotion and geography. The exhibition connects personal and social histories to bigger questions about the origin and nature of the universe. Read more
Death and Life: Rakuny Ga Walnga: Contemporary Arnhem Land Art
25 May – 1 September 2013 | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) | Free admission
Belief in the circulatory nature of death and life is integral to Arnhem Land art. ‘Death and Life: rakuny ga walnga’, the Gallery’s first Collection‑based exhibition of contemporary art from Arnhem Land, will include bark paintings, hollow log memorial poles, sculptures and weavings that embody this idea. Read more
Voice and Reason
From 18 May 2013 | Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) | Free admission
Since the colonial era, Indigenous artists have been actively examining the conversations and conflicts involving their ancestors and settlers in Australia. Their works affirm the place of their peoples’ cultures in these interactions with different histories and beliefs. This display considers the Indigenous Collection from numerous points of cultural intersection. Read more
Creative Generation Excellence Awards In Visual Art
10 May – 11 August 2013 | Media Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
This annual exhibition showcases the outstanding achievements of senior visual art students from schools throughout Queensland. Read more
William Robinson
9 May – 7 October 2013 | Collection Display | Watermall, Queensland Art Gallery (QAG)
Featuring a number of the much loved paintings and pastels by important Queensland landscape painter, William Robinson. Read more
The Apocalypse: Albrecht Dürer
4 May – 21 July 2013 | Collection Display | Gallery 2, Queensland Art Gallery (QAG)
'The Apocalypse' is the subject of the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2013 Appeal. With two remaining works to be sourced for acquisition, 14 of the 16 prints in the series are on display. Read more
A Private Collection – Artist's Choice: Michael Zavros
23 March – 23 June 2013 | Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery (Gallery 14), Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) | Free admission
Continuing the Artist's Choice series of exhibitions, Brisbane-based artist Michael Zavros was invited to work with the Gallery’s Collection. Taking his own seductive, realist painting — Unicorn in the anticamera 2008 — as his point of departure, Zavros has cast contemporary beauty, decadence and ego in terms of possessions. Read more
