Gold Coast Cultural Precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts has announced its inaugural exhibition program that will be presented in the new $60.5 million HOTA Gallery, opening to the public on 10 April 2021. Spanning six levels, HOTA Gallery is the largest public gallery outside a capital city in Australia and will present a dynamic program of world premiere international exhibitions, Australian exclusives, and new commissions, celebrating artists from across Australia and the world.

Information on 2021 exhibition program can be found at www.hota.com.au, with further details and programming to be announced in 2021.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has announced its 2021 season, an ambitious hybrid of live and digital concerts responding to 2020 and welcoming a new musical era. The bold season features seven live concert programs, opening in New South Wales in February and touring nationally from May 2021, alongside eight 50-minute concert films premiering on a new streaming platform from February 2021.

Image: Stephen Ward

The Powerhouse Museum has announced a program of free exhibition tours, music performances, DJ sets, film screenings and a Campari bar for the Culture Up Late program, running throughout Summer 2021.

As part of the recently announced ‘Culture Up Late’ initiative by City of Sydney and NSW Government, the Powerhouse will remain open until 9pm every Thursday evening from 21 January – 25 March 2021, with a special ‘after-hours’ Museum experience, including late admission to the exhibitions and live performances across the Ultimo site.
Independent broadcaster FBi Radio will bring their innovative programming out of the studio and into the Museum with an evening of new local music, digital projections and performances on 28 January.

The full program more information on Culture Up Late can be viewed HERE

Tickets are free and will be available in January 2021.

Curatorial+Co. will present an exhibition of new works by Melbourne- based multimedia artist Daniel O’Toole from 10 – 20 February 2021. For Deliquescent Light, O’Toole will immerse audiences in a field of colour and sound, with 13 paintings, three video works and a custom created soundtrack informed by synaesthesia to enhance the exhibition and the way the audience experiences colour. One hundred limited edition transparent vinyl records of the soundtrack will be on display and available as part of the exhibition, with a hand painted canvas square unique to each record.

The Fivex Art Prize: Billboard Art Reimagined, Australia’s first award dedicated to digital billboard art, has announced Melbourne-based artists Catherine Clover and Daniel Kotsimbos as joint winners of the inaugural $30,000 Prize. The winners were announced by Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Sally Capp at a launch event for the Prize’s outdoor exhibition displaying all six finalist works on two prominent billboards opposite Flinders St Railway Station until 31 January 2021.

 
The 2020 Fivex Art Prize attracted over 520 entries from photographers, graphic designers, street artists, illustrators and architects from across Australia, each for two large-scale LED QMS Media billboards – a horizontal corner ‘wrap’ and a vertical ‘podium’ – prominently located at the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth Streets in Melbourne’s CBD. The winning and finalist works will be on view at intervals throughout the day, interspersed with, and surrounded by, commercial advertising content, surprising city-goers to re-engage and experience their built environment differently.

Heide Museum of Modern Art is delighted to announce full program details for the inaugural Heide Summer Festival which will activate the museum’s much-loved sculpture park with an outdoor event series designed to support local performing artists, youth bands and cultural festivals impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria the nine-week program, presented from mid-January to March 2021, will feature free and ticketed curated programs of music, dance, and storytelling from the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Songlines Music Aboriginal Corporation and Australia’s premier queer arts and cultural organisation Midsumma.