BLEACH* Festival, the Gold Coast’s annual contemporary arts festival, returns this Winter with a packed program, presenting over 30 shows and 110 performances of music, dance, theatre and visual art, from 1–11 August 2024.

The 11 day program presents 8 world premieres and 18 Queensland premieres, and brings together over 400 Australian and international creatives including Bree Van Reyk, Ellen van Neerven, Erik Griswold, The Farm, Gravity and Other Myths, Karul Projects, Lucy Guerin AO, Wayfinders – A Pacific Journey and Tim Munro.

Now in its 13th year, BLEACH* Festival celebrates the region’s world-renowned natural landscape as a unique stage for authentic and unexpected cultural experiences that inspire a deeper connection to place. The festival will be presented across four unique festival hubs including North Burleigh, Broadbeach Cultural Precinct, HOTA, Home of the Arts and the Tallebudgera Valley.

An exhibition celebrating the longevity and brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art headlines the reopening of the University of Melbourne’s flagship art museum, the Potter Museum of Art (The Potter), next year.

Titled 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art and featuring more than 400 artworks, the exhibition is part of a year-long program to mark the Museum’s reopening.

The Museum has undergone extensive redevelopment by Wood Marsh Architects and will feature an impressive new entrance on the University’s campus, along with new and improved spaces for the Museum’s leading collection-based learning programs made possible by the generous support of The Ian Potter Foundation and Lady Primrose Potter AC.

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia’s art history and is curated by Professor Marcia Langton AO, Associate Provost, Ms Judith Ryan AM and Ms Shanysa McConville in consultation with Indigenous custodians.

The City of Melbourne’s newest major festival, Now or Never, will return this August following a phenomenal debut last year.

More than 250 local and international creatives, musicians, artists and thought leaders will take over iconic venues across Melbourne – presenting immersive digital art experiences, cutting-edge performances, groundbreaking music and captivating talks.

This year’s festival theme, ‘Look through the image’ invites audiences to interrogate what’s in front of them to explore deeper meanings and contemplate the layers of symbolism and hidden messages within.

Ames Yavuz has unveiled a second Australian gallery space at 114 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills, launching with the major program MEMORY/MYTH.

Curated by Director of Ames Yavuz Ananya Mukhopadhyay, the presentation features video installations by 27 internationally renowned artists from across the world, including Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri, Ngunnawal/Australia), Mónica Alcázar-Duarte (Mexico), Choy Ka Fai (Singapore), Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnam), Joy Gregory (UK), Thania Petersen (South Africa), and Stanislava Pinchuk (Ukraine).

The 24th Biennale of Sydney, titled Ten Thousand Suns, closed on Monday 10 June, following a record-breaking three-month run that attracted over 771,000 visitors. White Bay Power Station, one of seven sites for the edition, was revitalised and opened to the public for the first time in over 100 years, welcoming 172,000 visitors alone, making it the most attended non-museum site in the history of the Biennale.

After 50 years of presenting the most dynamic contemporary art in Sydney’s unique cultural hot spots, the Biennale continues to innovate, inspire, and captivate audiences, both locally and internationally.

Ten Thousand Suns featured 400 artworks by 96 exhibiting artists and collectives. The exhibition, with free admission, was presented with an eclectic program of events with 140 musicians, performers, and creatives across live music, performance art, workshops, talks, feasts, guided tours, theatre, education programs and family days. The events program booked out, with over 20,000 tickets booked.

TarraWarra Museum of Art today announced a major exhibition of new and existing works by leading contemporary Australian artists Su san Cohn and Eugenia Raskopoulos, presented from 3 August to 10 November 2024. The exhibition (SC)OOT(ER)ING around Su san Cohn and Eugenia Raskopoulos, curated by Victoria Lynn, explores how the human body expresses social and cultural experiences.

The human body wears lived experience both on its skin and within. It expresses the cultural, sexual, racial and diverse geographic histories of individuals. Craft artist Su san Cohn and visual artist Eugenia Raskopoulos have explored the human body, often specifically female, for decades, their practices arising from their personal lived experiences and ageing bodies. The exhibition (SC)OOT(ER)ING around is conceived as an artistic collaboration by the two artists and the curator, bringing together 20 works that break down conventional understandings of the body.