Image: Asad Raza, Untitled (plot for dialogue), 2017, CONVERSO, Milan, 2017, © Asad Raza, Photo Credit: Andrea Rossetti

Kaldor Public Art Projects and Carriageworks today announced Asad Raza will create Kaldor Public Art Project 34, a new work presented free to the public from 3 until 19 May 2019. The project represents the first time the New York-based artist has presented his work in Australia.

Raza’s project will take place in the Clothing Store building on the Carriageworks site in Eveleigh, Sydney.

Raza’s project, developed in consultation with biologists and environmental scientists, will comprise an installation with organic elements that will mediate interactions in the space, setting the scene for collaborations, rituals, and conversations.

As part of the project, Raza will invite a number of Australian artists to develop interventions of their own within the project space. Focusing on dialogue and collaboration, these artist interventions may take the form of installations, performances or experiments, reflecting an exchange with each individual artist.

The exhibition will evolve and change throughout its duration. A dedicated group of interlocutors will inhabit and take care of the space, as well as interact with visitors as they navigate the conditions of the work.

In 2019, Australia’s leading annual international design event, Melbourne Design Week, will present its largest program to date, with more than 200 events including 47 exhibitions, 14 film screenings, 77 talks, 22 tours and 18 workshops across Melbourne and – for the very first time – Geelong  from 14 – 24 March 2019. Celebrating the best of local, national and international design, the expanding, state-wide festival is an initiative of the Victorian Government presented by Creative Victoria and the National Gallery of Victoria.

From Yarra River boat tours showcasing long-held aspirations for Melbourne’s waterways, to keynote addresses from major international speakers, including internationally renowned Turkish-born digital media artist Refik Anadol, British design and architecture critic Oliver Wainwright and Jing Liu, an architect, educator and co-founder of the award-winning design firm SO-IL in New York City, the diverse program explores the central theme of Design Experiments, which asks the question ‘How can design shape the future?’.

Melbourne Design Week 2019 exhibitions, events, talks and workshops will be held at NGV International, NGV Australia and partner venues across Melbourne, Geelong and Victoria from 14 – 24 March 2019. Further information and full program for Melbourne Design Week 2019 is available at DESIGNWEEK.MELBOURNE.

Head On Photo Festival, Australia’s leading annual photography event, today announced 12 international award-winning photographers that will headline the 2019 Festival, presented across multiple venues in Sydney from Saturday 4 May and Sunday 19 May.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019, Head On will present curated exhibitions featuring contemporary fine art photography, portraiture and photojournalism by artists from Japan, Israel, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, United States of America, Korea and Australia. Six of the curated exhibitions will be presented at the Festival Hub at Paddington Town Hall, Sydney with the remaining exhibitions being presented across Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, Lyons Gallery, Paddington and Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle.

Head On Creative Director Moshe Rosenzveig OAM said: “Head On prides itself in being a platform that presents world class exhibitions that place the work of internationally recognised artists alongside those of emerging and established Australian talent. 2019 is set to be our most exciting year yet as we celebrate our 10th anniversary with a robust program that brings some the world’s leading photographic artists to audiences across Sydney.”

“Over the past decade, Head On has presented the work of over 5000 photographers including Roger Ballen, Mary Ellen Mark, and Bill Henson. Last year, the two-week Festival attracted record attendances and showcased 147 exhibitions and more than 1000 artists at 98 Sydney venues and galleries,” added Rosenzveig.

Image – Sunday 12th November 2017 from Exodus: Rohingya Refugee Crisis by Australian Walkley Award-winning photojournalist David Dare Parker

Quilty, the first major survey exhibition of one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Ben Quilty, launches at 5.30pm in Adelaide on Friday 1 March at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The exhibition will be officially opened by the Premier of South Australia, The Hon. Steven Marshall MP with Australian hip hop group, The Herd, kicking off proceedings with a concert on the Gallery’s forecourt.

Heralding from Sydney, this is the first time in six years that The Herd will perform in Adelaide. Frontman, Urthboy says “We’re looking forward to performing at the Art Gallery of South Australia in support of Ben’s exhibition, an artist all of us in the band greatly admire and respect. Adelaide is a special place to be during the Festival and the Fringe so we can’t wait to get amongst it.”

Developed by the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Dr Lisa Slade, Quilty will be open in Adelaide from 2 March to 2 June 2019 before a year of touring to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.