PAST MEDIA RELEASES
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ACCA Pop-Up Program: Forecourt
| August 2011
A shipping container placed on the Grant Street side of the ACCA building in Southbank will house a series of new works created by young local artists.
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David Rosetzky: How to Feel
| August 2011
A major new ACCA COMMISSION from one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally acclaimed artists. How to feel evolves Rosetzky's video presentation to cinema scale.
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Yael Bartana...and Europe will be stunned
| August 2011
An exhibition of video work by Israeli artist Yael Bartana, who represented Poland in the 2011 Venice Biennale.
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ART#2 Horsham
| July 2011
| The second in a series of regional exhibitions curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) around the State will kick off in May at Horsham Regional Art Gallery.
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Nathan Coley: APPEARANCES
| May 2011
| Turner prize exhibiting artist Nathan Coley creates a major commission and exhibition for ACCA in May 2011.
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NEW11
| March 2011
| NEW11, ACCA’s annual commissions exhibition, offers more artists from more places around Australia the opportunity to make something new and have it shown in 2011.
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Mortality
| October 2010
| Some of the world’s leading artists explore life’s journey from the moment of lift-off to the final send-off and all the bits in-between in this new group exhibition, part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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Gestures and Procedures
| August 2010
| A new survey exhibition where artists use gestures, rituals and repetitions in video and photography opens at ACCA on August 6th.
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JAMES DEUTSHER @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL
| July 2010
| A series of new ‘wallscapes’ by Melbourne artist James Deutsher that mix high-end architectural design with everyday, domestic objects are the next to feature at ACCA @ Mirka.
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Peter Cripps
| July 2010
| A major survey of work by pioneer Australian artist Peter Cripps will open in ACCA in June, as part of ACCA’s Influential Australian Artists Series.
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ART#1
| April 2010
| A series of exhibitions curated by Melbourne’s internationally renowned Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) will be exhibited concurrently at three regional Victorian galleries from April.
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NEW010
| March 2010
| Australian artists are offered the opportunity to make a new work in this popular, annual commissions exhibition at ACCA – this year with the added drama of an altered exhibition space courtesy of Nexus Designs.
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Jenny Holzer
| December 09
| The first Australian survey of works by celebrated New York artist Jenny Holzer – famous for her ongoing text series Truisms
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The Dwelling
| October 09
| International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Sanja Pahoki
| June 09
| Photographs depicting the extremities of life in Reykjavik by Melbourne artist Sanja Pahoki are the next to feature at ACCA @ Mirka. In this series Pahoki explores the intensity of Iceland’s weather cycles and the beauty of its all-too rare winter daytime light.
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Tacita Dean
| June 09
| Fourteen recent projects by celebrated British contemporary artist Tacita Dean will feature in this major survey exhibition opening at ACCA on June 6th.
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Kate Daw
| March 09
| Accomplished Melbourne-based artist Kate Daw will create eight new works focused on the art of dining out in a new exhibition at Mirka at Tolarno, curated by ACCA.
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NEW09
| March 09
| ACCA’s annual NEW exhibition series continues in 2009 with seven new commissions from eight great contemporary Australian artists.
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Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger, The Water Hole
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Nov 08
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Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger will create an ecological fantasy world in ACCA’s main gallery.
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Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, Almost Always Everywhere Apparent
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Nov 08
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A major artwork by leading sound, video and installation artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth - the 2007 Helen Macpherson Smith Commission at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art - will go on display at the Mildura Arts Centre from November.
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, David Harley
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Nov 08
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Melbourne artist David Harley will create a series of digitally inspired abstract paintings for the next exhibition at ACCA @ Mirka.
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Intimacy
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Oct 08
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Artists contemplate passion, love and longing, as well as feelings of disquiet, loss, and loneliness that embody intimate human relations. The exhibition includes works by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Steve McQueen, Sophie Calle . . .
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Judith Van Heeren
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July 08
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Judith Van Heeren has created six new paintings inspired by museum specimens, taxidermy and the impact of the drought for the ACCA's ongoing exhibition series at Mirka at Tolarno Hotel.
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Jim Lambie, Eight Miles High
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July 08
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Scotland’s ‘rock n’roll artist’ Jim Lambie will turn ACCA’s main gallery into a psychedelic dance-party with one of his signature floor-works.
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Rosslynd Piggott, Extract: in 3 parts
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July 08
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Australian artist Rosslynd Piggott continues to question the idea of perfection, purity and the precious in the next Helen Macpherson Smith Commission exhibition.
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LOOK WHO'S TALKING - SPECIAL KEYNOTE LECTURE
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World-renowned contemporary feminist and philosopher Professor Elizabeth Grosz will deliver a keynote lecture in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts ‘Look who’s Talking’ series, complementing Lyndal Jones Darwin with Tears exhibition.
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Laresa Kosloff
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A new work to be shown in ACCA’s ongoing exhibition series at Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, sees Melbourne artist Laresa Kosloff extend her interest in the way the human body transforms itself in the pursuit of sport.
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Lyndal Jones, Darwin with Tears
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May 08
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“Lyndal’s provocative and evocative work, developed over 30 years of artistic pursuit, represents a most comprehensive evolution of ideas – feminism linked to Darwinism, psychoanalysis, Freud and the self, sexuality linked to desire, ecology linked to responsibility”...
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Alex Pittendrigh
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The fifth exhibition of works curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Mirka at Tolarno Hotel features the intricate floral landscapes of Alex Pittendrigh.
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NEW08
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Mar 07
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NEW08 audiences will be treated to dayglo geometrics, resuscitated record covers, fluro patterns, mirror worlds and live social encounters in an exhibition series that is known for consistently delivering works of surprise and invention.
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Richard Billingham, People Places Animals
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Dec 07
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"...before Billingham, only photojournalists - all bush jackets and social conscience - had penetrated the drab world of the high-rise and the council estate..." Richard Billingham’s shambolic family life will feature in a survey exhibition of work by this acclaimed British artist.
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Nathan Gray
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Dec 07
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The fourth exhibition of works curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Mirka at Tolarno Hotel features the wonderfully exuberant ecosystems of Melbourne artist, Nathan Gray.
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CINEMA PARADISO
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Oct-2007
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“Since Warhol established a kind of minimal cinematic gaze, artists have recognized the frisson between these two compatible mediums..." An exhibition that brings together works from some of the world's leading contemporary artists to explore the intersection between cinema and art....
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Viv Miller
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The third exhibition of works curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Mirka at Tolarno Hotel features the painterly and sublime images of Melbourne artist Viv Miller.
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A Kind of You, 6 Portraits by Roni Horn
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Aug-2007
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The first ever solo exhibition in Australia by renowned New York artist Roni Horn.
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Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, Almost Always Everywhere Apparent
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Aug-2007
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Sound, video and installation artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth will create a ‘polyphonic phantasmagoria’ at ACCA as the third annual Helen Macpherson Smith Commission recipients.
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Matt Hinkley
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The second exhibition of works curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Mirka at Tolarno Hotel features the mesmerising, hypnotic drawings of Melbourne artist Matt Hinkley.
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A Constructed World, Increase Your Uncertainty
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Jun-2007
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A major monographic survey of one of Australia’s most enduring and experimental partnerships, A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva and Geoff Lowe) are known internationally for their ad hoc, responsive practice and for creating ‘happenings’ – spontaneous performances, conversations, dances and sit-ins.
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NEW07
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Mar-2007
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NEW07 promises the look of love, the disappearance of things, masculine mythologies, the aesthetic of the pathetic, fractured indentities and a skating incident!… and much, much more…
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ACCA @ MIRKA AT TOLARNO HOTEL, Stuart Ringholt
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The first exhibition of works curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Mirka @ Tolarno Hotel features one of Melbourne's exciting contemporary artists, Stuart Ringholt.
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Mike Nelson, Lonely Planet
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Dec-2006
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Walk in the footsteps of bikers, cult members and fringe-dwellers as you explore new worlds that are strangely familiar…. and, didn’t someone just leave the room….?
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Gillian Wearing, Living Proof
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Oct-2006
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Adults relive their childhood traumas, passers-by carry signs revealing their inner-most thoughts, homeless alcoholics weave their way in front of the camera, and a series of static portraits ‘speak’ about their journey through life…
A major survey of work by British artist and Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing opens at ACCA in October.
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Mariele Neudecker, Ambassador
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At Republic Tower (corner Queen and La Trobe Streets, Melbourne)
The latest installment on the Republic Tower (corner Queen and La Trobe) features a work by German-born artist Mariele Neudecker. Titled
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Ambassador, the work features three images – the central, largest image being a replica of a female skull which becomes distorted when viewed from different angles.
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Uncanny Nature
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Local and international artists subvert and mutate nature and the landscape in Uncanny Nature, a new group exhibition at ACCA which opens on August 8, 2006.
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Daniel von Sturmer, The Field Equation
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A major new installation by Daniel von Sturmer will explore space, scale and perception in The Field Equation, the second Helen Macpherson Smith Commission at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
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The Unquiet World
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The mysterious closure of the Iraq Airline office in regional Switzerland…..The bizarre dementia of those caught up in the Jerusalem syndrome…..The ill wind that sweeps its way through the indigenous tent city in Canberra…..Messages about the perils of everyday life in Iraq…..
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ACCA takes art to the street for the Commonwealth Games
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16-Feb-2006
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The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) will take art onto the streets of Melbourne as part of Festival Melbourne2006, the cultural festival of the Commonwealth Games.
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NEW IDEAS: Palaces, Pop, Mazes and Memories
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16-Feb-2006
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NEW06, ACCA’S annual showcase of the best young Australian artists returns in 2006, with five new commissions by Melbourne artists and two from New South Wales.
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Barbara Kruger
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13-Sep-2005
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Barbara Kruger's Twelve comes to Melbourne.
Plus the world premier of three new works, exclusively created for ACCA by Kruger.
A major installation by one of the world's foremost contemporary artists, Barbara Kruger, opens at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) on December 20.
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Melbourne International Arts Festival, Visual Arts Program
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22-Aug-2005
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Worldwide attention has recently focused on the rise of conceptual art practice which emerged to challenge the traditional concepts of visual art as pictorial, painted and sculptural. This year's Visual Arts Program brings together a number of outstanding projects by leading international artists who each pursue the ethos of conceptualism in new and extending ways.
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The Lights Off
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22-Aug-2005
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Turner Prize winner Martin Creed will turn the lights off at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in a new work created exclusively for Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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Babylonia
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22-Aug-2005
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Callum Morton, one of Australia's most acclaimed international artists, will create his own fantasy island at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) for Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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A Second Simplicity
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15-Jul-2005
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Domenico de Clario will create a sculptural representation of the apartment building that housed his entire family prior to their migration to Australia from Italy in 1956, in a milestone exhibition in this prominent and prolific installation artist's career.
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Truth Universally Acknowledged
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15-Jul-2005
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Seven leading female artists will explore the notion of narrative, the great unfolder of fact and fiction, in Truth Universally Acknowledged, a new group exhibition opening at ACCA on 5 August.
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ACCA has Balls
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25-May-2005
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Australian artist Nike Savvas returns home from London to fill ACCA's main gallery with 100,000 shimmering balls.
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NEW continues to set the agenda
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07-Feb-2005
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ACCA's annual NEW exhibition, a showcase for the very best and latest in contemporary Australian art, returns in 2005 with six major new commissions from a selection of outstanding young Australian artists.
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Whats on at ACCA
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12-Jan-2005
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'Look Who's Talking'
Free public lectures at ACCA for A Molecular History of Everything*(*well not Everything)
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The Helen Macpherson Smith Commision
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23-Nov-2004
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An exciting new partnership between the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Helen Macpherson Smith Commission is a major new annual art commission that will give a Victorian artist the opportunity to create an ambitious new work of art, accompanied by an exhibition in ACCA's prestigious exhibition hall.
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The Festival goes on and on at ACCA
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19-Oct-2004
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The Melbourne International Arts Festival may close this week, but two of the highlights of the Visual Arts Program continue for another six weeks at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
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The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything)
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19-Oct-2004
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The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything) is an international survey of new work from twenty artists on the threshold of major career breakthrough is the next exhibition to open at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
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Naomi Milgrom To Head Major Australian Arts Organisation
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13-Sep-2004
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The Chairman of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Mr Steven Skala, today announced that he will be retiring from the position in January next year and that Ms Naomi Milgrom will be appointed as his successor.
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Cycle Tracks will Abound in Utopia
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07-Aug-2004
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A provocative discourse on the notion of social and political paradise is the subject of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's (ACCA) next major exhibition, Cycle Tracks will Abound in Utopia.
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John Nixon To Reveal His True Colours At ACCA
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19-May-2004
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The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything) is an international survey of new work from twenty artists on the threshold of major career breakthrough is the next exhibition to open at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
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The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything)
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19-Oct-2004
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The Molecular History of Everything* (*well not Everything) is an international survey of new work from twenty artists on the threshold of major career breakthrough is the next exhibition to open at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
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The Sexy And The Sumptuous To Adorn The Walls At ACCA
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19-May-2004
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Swoon to Turn Up the Heat on Melbourne's Winter!
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) will turn up the heat in Melbourne this winter with its latest exhibition Swoon, which will expose a world of saucy, hot, lush art when it opens on Friday, May 28.
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