PAST MEDIA RELEASES
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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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