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EXHIBITIONS
DOCKLANDS
XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands
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PRESENCE (PERFORMANCE)
Matto Lucas, Kevin Bernardin, Jaxom McKie, Tyler Tippett, Edwin Surijah, E.F.P.
10 January - 15 February 2026
Event: 4 February night viewing 5:30-7:30pm
Ticket needed for this free event.
This exhibition highlights the work of some of the Melbourne-based photographic talent. Each is responding to the theme, present (performance) in their own way. Each start at the point of their gay desire for other males and lets personality, history and emotion take them on a journey which has manifested these images on XYZ Photo Gallery's walls.
Photographers of various backgrounds find the views of this ‘once was rich’ city and explore that which resinates with each them. This presents as many visions of the city as there are participants.
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This is hard to find, Details on the website.
PRESENCE (PERFORMANCE)
Matto Lucas, Kevin Bernardin, Jaxom McKie, Tyler Tippett, Edwin Surijah, E.F.P.
10 January - 15 February 2026
Event: 4 February night viewing 5:30-7:30pm
Ticket needed for this free event.
This exhibition highlights the work of some of the Melbourne-based photographic talent. Each is responding to the theme, present (performance) in their own way. Each start at the point of their gay desire for other males and lets personality, history and emotion take them on a journey which has manifested these images on XYZ Photo Gallery's walls.
Photographers of various backgrounds find the views of this ‘once was rich’ city and explore that which resinates with each them. This presents as many visions of the city as there are participants.
Magnet Gallery - Docklands
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2025 Summer Salon
Various Artists
To 18 January 2026
A community-focused photographic showcase featuring a diverse range of prints from numerous contributors. The salon celebrates local creativity and provides an accessible platform for both established and emerging photographers.
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2025 Summer Salon
Various Artists
To 18 January 2026
A community-focused photographic showcase featuring a diverse range of prints from numerous contributors. The salon celebrates local creativity and provides an accessible platform for both established and emerging photographers.
Library at the Dock - Docklands
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LOVING: Photographs of Men in Love 1850s to 1950s
Various known and unknown
14 January to 22 February 2026
Drawn from the archive of Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, partners and collectors based in New York, the photographs were gathered over 25 years from flea markets, antique stores, family albums and online auctions.
Beginning with a single photo found in Dallas in the 1990s, that captured what Nini and Treadwell described as the 'unmistakeable look of love', has grown into an archive of over 4,000 photographs. These images capture everyday moments between men in love: holding hands, embracing, posing cheek to cheek, captured at a time when same-sex relationships were often illegal or unspoken.
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LOVING: Photographs of Men in Love 1850s to 1950s
Various known and unknown
14 January to 22 February 2026
Drawn from the archive of Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, partners and collectors based in New York, the photographs were gathered over 25 years from flea markets, antique stores, family albums and online auctions.
Beginning with a single photo found in Dallas in the 1990s, that captured what Nini and Treadwell described as the 'unmistakeable look of love', has grown into an archive of over 4,000 photographs. These images capture everyday moments between men in love: holding hands, embracing, posing cheek to cheek, captured at a time when same-sex relationships were often illegal or unspoken.
Kindred Camera - Docklands
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Seasons: An exhibition presented by Brunswick Darkroom
Various
17 to 27 January 2026
Life imitates nature, and the passing of seasons can closely mimic the peaks and troughs of our lives. The contemplative environment of the darkroom allows past seasons to be relived, pondered, and reimagined as physical artworks: either as what they once were, or romantic expressions of how we remember them.
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Seasons: An exhibition presented by Brunswick Darkroom
Various
17 to 27 January 2026
Life imitates nature, and the passing of seasons can closely mimic the peaks and troughs of our lives. The contemplative environment of the darkroom allows past seasons to be relived, pondered, and reimagined as physical artworks: either as what they once were, or romantic expressions of how we remember them.
INNER CITY
Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick
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Pause
Chris Middlebrook
to 23 January 2026
Chris Middlebrook has been documenting skateboarders and skateboarding for the past 35 years.
From shooting photos and video in his hometown of Frankston, to filming in Melbourne for Blank Clothing, to working for Nike SB & Alien Workshop, shooting video clips for Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Coaching Australian Olympic Skateboarders and starting April Skateboards, Chris’ expansive archive continues to inspire multiple generations of Australian and International skateboarders and film makers.
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Chris Middlebrook
to 23 January 2026
Chris Middlebrook has been documenting skateboarders and skateboarding for the past 35 years.
From shooting photos and video in his hometown of Frankston, to filming in Melbourne for Blank Clothing, to working for Nike SB & Alien Workshop, shooting video clips for Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Coaching Australian Olympic Skateboarders and starting April Skateboards, Chris’ expansive archive continues to inspire multiple generations of Australian and International skateboarders and film makers.
Red Gallery - Fitzroy
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Feeling First - a Queer Group Exhibition
Bonnie-Jean Whitlock, Simon Welsh, Liam Folie, Bella Insch, JD Mitchell, Raph James, and Richard McCoy
28 January to 8 February 2026
Work in various media by Queer Artists, including the curious photo based collages.
A group exhibition at the Wolfhound by 6 alumni of PSC.
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Feeling First - a Queer Group Exhibition
Bonnie-Jean Whitlock, Simon Welsh, Liam Folie, Bella Insch, JD Mitchell, Raph James, and Richard McCoy
28 January to 8 February 2026
Work in various media by Queer Artists, including the curious photo based collages.
A group exhibition at the Wolfhound by 6 alumni of PSC.
Sol Gallery - Fitzroy
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SOULS (Midsumma Festival 2026)
Ivan Sun, Jean-Luc Syndikas and Cain Cooper, Marcus O’Donnell, Suzanne Phoenix, and others artists with other media.
20 January – 1 February 2026
A vibrant visual art exhibition showcasing LGBTQIA+ artists through painting, photography, sculpture, and digital media. The collective works celebrate identity, resilience, and the shared spirit of the queer community.
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SOULS (Midsumma Festival 2026)
Ivan Sun, Jean-Luc Syndikas and Cain Cooper, Marcus O’Donnell, Suzanne Phoenix, and others artists with other media.
20 January – 1 February 2026
A vibrant visual art exhibition showcasing LGBTQIA+ artists through painting, photography, sculpture, and digital media. The collective works celebrate identity, resilience, and the shared spirit of the queer community.
Fitzroy Public Art Gallery - Fitzroy
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Fluid
Various
30 January to 8 February 2026
Fluid is a dynamic group exhibition showcasing queer themed art across painting, photography and sculpture. Presented as part of Midsumma Festival, the exhibition brings together diverse creative voices that explore identity, desire, transformation and joy.
The City Is Not Still
Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach
Dates: March 13 – 22, 2026
In this joint exhibition, Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach reimagine the city as a living, shifting force.
Long exposures, overlaps, and blurred figures reveal an urban world defined by flow rather than form.
Opening Night on Friday, March 13, 6–9 PM
The exhibition continues:
Weekend 1 - March 14 & 15, and
Weekend 2 - March 21 & 22.
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Fluid
Various
30 January to 8 February 2026
Fluid is a dynamic group exhibition showcasing queer themed art across painting, photography and sculpture. Presented as part of Midsumma Festival, the exhibition brings together diverse creative voices that explore identity, desire, transformation and joy.
The City Is Not Still
Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach
Dates: March 13 – 22, 2026
In this joint exhibition, Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach reimagine the city as a living, shifting force.
Long exposures, overlaps, and blurred figures reveal an urban world defined by flow rather than form.
Opening Night on Friday, March 13, 6–9 PM
The exhibition continues:
Weekend 1 - March 14 & 15, and
Weekend 2 - March 21 & 22.
Counihan Gallery - Brunswick
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Pit Yourself Against
Ma Ei
4 February to 19 April 2026
The artist seeks to highlight the invisible struggles and unspoken truths that people carry when they are not at peace. In these new video and photographic self-portraits, the fragility, resilience, and depth of human experience is laid bare, urging us to reflect on what it means to seek peace in a turbulent world.
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Pit Yourself Against
Ma Ei
4 February to 19 April 2026
The artist seeks to highlight the invisible struggles and unspoken truths that people carry when they are not at peace. In these new video and photographic self-portraits, the fragility, resilience, and depth of human experience is laid bare, urging us to reflect on what it means to seek peace in a turbulent world.
Off the Kerb - Collingwood
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Summer Daze (Midsumma Festival Group Show)
Elijah Franco, Surej Sidhu, alongside artists in other media.
17 January – 5 February 2026
Off the Kerb spotlighting diverse voices from the queer community. The exhibition explores lived experiences through visual, sound, and performance art, celebrating unique identities.
As It Is - Photographs of the Land
David Tatnall
12 – 26 February 2026
Stunning hand crafted silver gelatin photographs of landscape, come see beauty.
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Summer Daze (Midsumma Festival Group Show)
Elijah Franco, Surej Sidhu, alongside artists in other media.
17 January – 5 February 2026
Off the Kerb spotlighting diverse voices from the queer community. The exhibition explores lived experiences through visual, sound, and performance art, celebrating unique identities.
As It Is - Photographs of the Land
David Tatnall
12 – 26 February 2026
Stunning hand crafted silver gelatin photographs of landscape, come see beauty.
Neon Parc - Brunswick
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‘True Love at Dawn’ up on Skull Rock
Anna Higgins
6 March to 11 April 2026
Anna Higgins’ expanded image-based practice incorporates found archival and contemporary material as well as her own photography, which is abstracted and re-contextualized through collage, painting, drawing, and film photography to form new perspectives and poetic interpretations.
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‘True Love at Dawn’ up on Skull Rock
Anna Higgins
6 March to 11 April 2026
Anna Higgins’ expanded image-based practice incorporates found archival and contemporary material as well as her own photography, which is abstracted and re-contextualized through collage, painting, drawing, and film photography to form new perspectives and poetic interpretations.
CITY
Leica Gallery Melbourne - Melbourne
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All That Life Can Afford
Matt Stuart
to 28 February 2026
Matt Stuart (UK) has built a reputation as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary street photography, finding humour, humanity and spontaneity in the chaos of everyday life.
His exhibition brings together a selection of images that transform fleeting moments from city streets into perfectly timed visual punchlines. At the heart of Stuart’s work is a deep affection for people and public spaces. His photographs are never cynical; instead, they celebrate the quirks, gestures and absurdities that make urban life endlessly fascinating. He spends hours wandering the streets with his Leica, waiting for that split second when chance and composition align. The result is imagery that feels both meticulously composed and completely accidental — the hallmark of great street photography.
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All That Life Can Afford
Matt Stuart
to 28 February 2026
Matt Stuart (UK) has built a reputation as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary street photography, finding humour, humanity and spontaneity in the chaos of everyday life.
His exhibition brings together a selection of images that transform fleeting moments from city streets into perfectly timed visual punchlines. At the heart of Stuart’s work is a deep affection for people and public spaces. His photographs are never cynical; instead, they celebrate the quirks, gestures and absurdities that make urban life endlessly fascinating. He spends hours wandering the streets with his Leica, waiting for that split second when chance and composition align. The result is imagery that feels both meticulously composed and completely accidental — the hallmark of great street photography.
Australian Museum of Performing Arts
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Diva
Various
11 December to 26 April 2026 DIVA is a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating some of history’s most provocative and powerful performers. The exhibition presents more than 250 objects, including 60 spectacular costumes, jewellery, photography, art, and music, drawn from the V&A’s Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne’s Australian Performing Arts Collection, and loaned treasures from across the world. Discover the triumphs and transformations of the diva, from 19th-century opera goddesses and silent film stars to Golden Age Hollywood legends and today’s global megastars and pop icons.
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Diva
Various
11 December to 26 April 2026 DIVA is a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating some of history’s most provocative and powerful performers. The exhibition presents more than 250 objects, including 60 spectacular costumes, jewellery, photography, art, and music, drawn from the V&A’s Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne’s Australian Performing Arts Collection, and loaned treasures from across the world. Discover the triumphs and transformations of the diva, from 19th-century opera goddesses and silent film stars to Golden Age Hollywood legends and today’s global megastars and pop icons.
NGV International - Melbourne
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Women Photographers 1900–1975
A Legacy of Light
Various artists
28 November to 3 May 2026
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards, photobooks and magazines, the exhibition explores the role of photographers as image-makers, and the ways in which women artists create an image of themselves, of others, of the times – from images of the women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the twentieth century, through to the women’s liberation movement and beyond. From Melbourne to Tokyo, Paris to Buenos Aires, the exhibition showcases the works of trailblazing artists.
City Gallery - Melbourne
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You Are Here: Melbourne Memory-scapes
Govt aerial photographers
to 6 February 2025
'You Are Here' engages with a collection of 1960s aerial photographs of Melbourne/Naarm. Originally used in mapping and surveying, these photographs invite the viewer to explore memory, place and connection – to locate their memories in affirming their connection to place.
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You Are Here: Melbourne Memory-scapes
Govt aerial photographers
to 6 February 2025
'You Are Here' engages with a collection of 1960s aerial photographs of Melbourne/Naarm. Originally used in mapping and surveying, these photographs invite the viewer to explore memory, place and connection – to locate their memories in affirming their connection to place.
RMIT Gallery - Melbourne
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Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South
Various artists
20 February - 02 May 2026
The exhibition seeks to foster new encounters and perspectives, highlighting the transformative power of art and literature in unveiling the complexities of the South Polar region.
The exhibition examines the role artists and writers play in expanding the Antarctic narrative to afford new understandings and access to one of the world’s most remote and fragile wilderness zones. Creative Antarctica features both site specific and historically significant works of art, supported by a rich assortment of talks, panels and workshops that offer a variety of engagement opportunities, and modes of encounter with the Far South.
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Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South
Various artists
20 February - 02 May 2026
The exhibition seeks to foster new encounters and perspectives, highlighting the transformative power of art and literature in unveiling the complexities of the South Polar region.
The exhibition examines the role artists and writers play in expanding the Antarctic narrative to afford new understandings and access to one of the world’s most remote and fragile wilderness zones. Creative Antarctica features both site specific and historically significant works of art, supported by a rich assortment of talks, panels and workshops that offer a variety of engagement opportunities, and modes of encounter with the Far South.
Old Treasury Building - Melbourne
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Swinging Sixties
Various
Until 2027
The 1960s is remembered as a turbulent decade. In contrast to the ‘conservative’ 1950s, the sixties are associated with changing ideas, youthful rebellion and experimentation. New music, new fashions and new attitudes to authority defined ‘the generation gap’.
Making Modern Melbourne
historical photographs & Sarah Pannell
Indefinitely
An optimistic new nation was created at the dawn of the 20th century. Australia was self-governing, and Melbourne would be its temporary capital while Canberra was constructed.
This free exhibition at Old Treasury Building examines the tumultuous century that was to come, with two world wars and a Depression. But also, a ‘long boom’, multiculturalism, rights for all citizens, increased public transport and heritage laws which would protect the historic buildings we still have today!
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Swinging Sixties
Various
Until 2027
The 1960s is remembered as a turbulent decade. In contrast to the ‘conservative’ 1950s, the sixties are associated with changing ideas, youthful rebellion and experimentation. New music, new fashions and new attitudes to authority defined ‘the generation gap’.
Making Modern Melbourne
historical photographs & Sarah Pannell
Indefinitely
An optimistic new nation was created at the dawn of the 20th century. Australia was self-governing, and Melbourne would be its temporary capital while Canberra was constructed.
This free exhibition at Old Treasury Building examines the tumultuous century that was to come, with two world wars and a Depression. But also, a ‘long boom’, multiculturalism, rights for all citizens, increased public transport and heritage laws which would protect the historic buildings we still have today!
SOUTH OF MELBOURNE
Pride Centre - St Kilda
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Behind the Zip
Various
to 8 March 2026
Sexy Galexy shines a light on Australia’s drag king culture. An exhibition curated by legendary drag king Sexy Galexy, celebrating Australia’s rich drag king culture. This powerful showcase lifts the veil on a bold, gender-bending artform often overlooked in mainstream drag narratives. Featuring images from across Australia, including King Victoria.
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Behind the Zip
Various
to 8 March 2026
Sexy Galexy shines a light on Australia’s drag king culture. An exhibition curated by legendary drag king Sexy Galexy, celebrating Australia’s rich drag king culture. This powerful showcase lifts the veil on a bold, gender-bending artform often overlooked in mainstream drag narratives. Featuring images from across Australia, including King Victoria.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art - Southbank
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Tourmaline: Transcendent
Tourmaline
to 15 March 2026
Transcendent features new large-scale photographs and the global debut of Tourmaline’s newest video work, specially commissioned by ACCA. The video work extends her ongoing research into queer histories, including her recently published biography on the life and legacy of revolutionary LGBTIQA+ activist Marsha P. Johnson. Currently on an international tour for Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, Tourmaline is sharing a story that feels deeply pertinent to the times. Figures like Johnson have become powerful symbols of the need for queer solidarity with the trans community. Johnson rose to prominence for her role in the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City – an event often linked to the queer community’s mourning of Judy Garland and their resistance to police raids. Although the story that Johnson ‘threw the first brick’ is disputed, it has become emblematic of the beginning of American queer liberation. With trans rights increasingly under threat globally, this timely exhibition invites reflection on those legacies, while challenging audiences to engage with the political present.
r e a : c l a i med
r e a
to 15 March 2026
This presentation includes an exciting new commission alongside a curated selection of works spanning more than three decades. Presented across three galleries, the exhibition is accompanied by the largest monograph of r e a’s work to date, cementing their position as one of Australia’s leading figures in contemporary art. With trans rights increasingly under threat internationally, this is a timely exhibition that addresses themes of memory, representation, intersectionality, and positionality.
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Tourmaline: Transcendent
Tourmaline
to 15 March 2026
Transcendent features new large-scale photographs and the global debut of Tourmaline’s newest video work, specially commissioned by ACCA. The video work extends her ongoing research into queer histories, including her recently published biography on the life and legacy of revolutionary LGBTIQA+ activist Marsha P. Johnson. Currently on an international tour for Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, Tourmaline is sharing a story that feels deeply pertinent to the times. Figures like Johnson have become powerful symbols of the need for queer solidarity with the trans community. Johnson rose to prominence for her role in the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City – an event often linked to the queer community’s mourning of Judy Garland and their resistance to police raids. Although the story that Johnson ‘threw the first brick’ is disputed, it has become emblematic of the beginning of American queer liberation. With trans rights increasingly under threat globally, this timely exhibition invites reflection on those legacies, while challenging audiences to engage with the political present.
r e a : c l a i med
r e a
to 15 March 2026
This presentation includes an exciting new commission alongside a curated selection of works spanning more than three decades. Presented across three galleries, the exhibition is accompanied by the largest monograph of r e a’s work to date, cementing their position as one of Australia’s leading figures in contemporary art. With trans rights increasingly under threat internationally, this is a timely exhibition that addresses themes of memory, representation, intersectionality, and positionality.
Museum of Australian Photography - Monash
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Flowers have long stood in for the things we couldn’t say aloud: sex, death, longing, defiance. Soft in appearance, potent in meaning, they are the great deceivers of art history. Across centuries and cultures, the bloom has operated as a colourful code, a motif that artists actively engage, reclaim and rewrite.
Young | youth in Australian Photography: 1980s to now
Atong Atem, Donna Bailey, Anne Ferran, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, Naomi Hobson, Samuel Hodge, Paul Knight, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Köller, Jesse Marlow, Rod McNicol, Jacqueline Mitelman, Tracey Moffatt, Corben Mudjandi, Prudence Murphy, Derek O'Connor, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Drew Pettifer, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap, Naomie Sunner, Darren Sylvester, Simon Terrill, David M Thomas, Lisa Tomasetti, Lyndal Walker
to 22 February 2026
Through the lens of some of Australia’s most vital image-makers, the exhibition asks us to consider the role photography plays in shaping the story of growing up in this country. It captures the fleeting and the formative, reflects cultural ideals and anxieties, and constructs the very image of youth itself. From the staged to the spontaneous, from the diaristic to the documentary, these works reveal that youth is not only lived but also performed, remembered and mythologised.
Us
Daniel Temesgen
to 22 February 2026
Born in Ethiopia and now living in Australia, Daniel Temesgen creates portraits that are intimate, luminous, and grounded in community. Focusing on friends and peers, he celebrates youth, friendship and the vibrancy of Black life in contemporary Australia, exploring layered identities and cultural richness through a personal lens.
Drawing on the visual language of fashion photography, including composition, light and colour, Temesgen transforms these tools into expressions of tenderness. His subjects appear in transitional spaces such as cars and shorelines: ordinary yet cinematic, capturing moments of movement, change and self-possession.
Lights
Valeriy Taouk
22 November to 22 February 2026
Melbourne-based artist Valeriy Taouk works with found objects and appropriated photographs to examine how images shape culture, desire and collective memory. His intuitive, darkroom-based practice embraces unorthodox printing methods and experimental processes, blurring the boundaries between photography and its material form.
CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pat Brassington, Del Kathryn Barton, Jake Preval, Meng-Yu Yan
7 March – 24 May 2026
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Flowers have long stood in for the things we couldn’t say aloud: sex, death, longing, defiance. Soft in appearance, potent in meaning, they are the great deceivers of art history. Across centuries and cultures, the bloom has operated as a colourful code, a motif that artists actively engage, reclaim and rewrite.
Young | youth in Australian Photography: 1980s to now
Atong Atem, Donna Bailey, Anne Ferran, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, Naomi Hobson, Samuel Hodge, Paul Knight, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Köller, Jesse Marlow, Rod McNicol, Jacqueline Mitelman, Tracey Moffatt, Corben Mudjandi, Prudence Murphy, Derek O'Connor, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Drew Pettifer, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap, Naomie Sunner, Darren Sylvester, Simon Terrill, David M Thomas, Lisa Tomasetti, Lyndal Walker
to 22 February 2026
Through the lens of some of Australia’s most vital image-makers, the exhibition asks us to consider the role photography plays in shaping the story of growing up in this country. It captures the fleeting and the formative, reflects cultural ideals and anxieties, and constructs the very image of youth itself. From the staged to the spontaneous, from the diaristic to the documentary, these works reveal that youth is not only lived but also performed, remembered and mythologised.
Us
Daniel Temesgen
to 22 February 2026
Born in Ethiopia and now living in Australia, Daniel Temesgen creates portraits that are intimate, luminous, and grounded in community. Focusing on friends and peers, he celebrates youth, friendship and the vibrancy of Black life in contemporary Australia, exploring layered identities and cultural richness through a personal lens.
Drawing on the visual language of fashion photography, including composition, light and colour, Temesgen transforms these tools into expressions of tenderness. His subjects appear in transitional spaces such as cars and shorelines: ordinary yet cinematic, capturing moments of movement, change and self-possession.
Lights
Valeriy Taouk
22 November to 22 February 2026
Melbourne-based artist Valeriy Taouk works with found objects and appropriated photographs to examine how images shape culture, desire and collective memory. His intuitive, darkroom-based practice embraces unorthodox printing methods and experimental processes, blurring the boundaries between photography and its material form.
CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pat Brassington, Del Kathryn Barton, Jake Preval, Meng-Yu Yan
7 March – 24 May 2026
Gasworks - Albert Park
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QUEER RECLAMATION
Elyas Alavi & Ayman Kaake
January 19 to February 8, 2026
For Midsumma Festival 2026 Gasworks is bringing together Lebanese-born artist Ayman Kaake and Hazara-Australian artist Elyas Alavi to explore ideas of queer reclamation through cultural and religious frameworks.
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QUEER RECLAMATION
Elyas Alavi & Ayman Kaake
January 19 to February 8, 2026
For Midsumma Festival 2026 Gasworks is bringing together Lebanese-born artist Ayman Kaake and Hazara-Australian artist Elyas Alavi to explore ideas of queer reclamation through cultural and religious frameworks.
Creative Whitehorse - Box Hill
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Whispers in the Neons 霓虹低語
Ben Goh
19 January to 28 February 2026
This series began with a fascination for the glowing nights of old cinema — when neon lights shaped the mood of the city and gave the night its quiet stories.
Using impressionistic multiple exposure, I let the neon of Box Hill and Whitehorse drift, overlap, and blend, turning colour into memory and movement into texture.
Neon becomes the brushstroke, and the night streets become the canvas.
這個系列源自一份對舊光影的想念—— 霓虹曾柔化黑夜， 也讓故事在光裡停留。
透過多重曝光， 我讓 Box Hill 與 Whitehorse 的霓虹交疊、漂浮， 讓色彩化成記憶的微光。
這些影像不只描繪招牌， 更記錄其下的情緒—— 懷舊、城市的脈動， 以及夜裡悄然升起的故事。
願這些熟悉的街道 在你眼中重新被照亮； 願你在柔和的光裡， 聽見城市輕聲的低語。
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Whispers in the Neons 霓虹低語
Ben Goh
19 January to 28 February 2026
This series began with a fascination for the glowing nights of old cinema — when neon lights shaped the mood of the city and gave the night its quiet stories.
Using impressionistic multiple exposure, I let the neon of Box Hill and Whitehorse drift, overlap, and blend, turning colour into memory and movement into texture.
Neon becomes the brushstroke, and the night streets become the canvas.
這個系列源自一份對舊光影的想念—— 霓虹曾柔化黑夜， 也讓故事在光裡停留。
透過多重曝光， 我讓 Box Hill 與 Whitehorse 的霓虹交疊、漂浮， 讓色彩化成記憶的微光。
這些影像不只描繪招牌， 更記錄其下的情緒—— 懷舊、城市的脈動， 以及夜裡悄然升起的故事。
願這些熟悉的街道 在你眼中重新被照亮； 願你在柔和的光裡， 聽見城市輕聲的低語。
Carlisle Street Arts Space - St Kilda
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Picturing Democracy
Bruno Benini | Ruth Maddison | Brook Andrew | Darren Sylvester | Martin Kantor | Ricky Maynard | Judith Webb | Michael Williams | Leanne Temme | Jacqueline Riva | Ben McKeown | Roderick McNicol | Martin Munz | Deborah Kelly | Sue Ford | Linda Jullyan | Rozalind Drummond | Michael Bastin | Trevor Graham | Pasqualina Grosso
23 February to 15 May 2026
In Picturing Democracy, Coulter explores and poetically creates representations of democracy, democratic processes, community participation, and connections across the City of Port Phillip.
Drawing from 4,000 photographs held within the Port Phillip City Collection, and in addition to creating his own photographs, artist and curator Ross Coulter re-imagines what democracy looks like, from the past and into the future.
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Picturing Democracy
Bruno Benini | Ruth Maddison | Brook Andrew | Darren Sylvester | Martin Kantor | Ricky Maynard | Judith Webb | Michael Williams | Leanne Temme | Jacqueline Riva | Ben McKeown | Roderick McNicol | Martin Munz | Deborah Kelly | Sue Ford | Linda Jullyan | Rozalind Drummond | Michael Bastin | Trevor Graham | Pasqualina Grosso
23 February to 15 May 2026
In Picturing Democracy, Coulter explores and poetically creates representations of democracy, democratic processes, community participation, and connections across the City of Port Phillip.
Drawing from 4,000 photographs held within the Port Phillip City Collection, and in addition to creating his own photographs, artist and curator Ross Coulter re-imagines what democracy looks like, from the past and into the future.
Latrobe Regional Gallery - Morwell
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A Country Practice
Janina Green
24 January to 24 September 2026
A Country Practice brings new life to Janina Green’s seminal artist book – of the same title – A Country Practice, animating its pages into an immersive photographic installation that unfolds in chapters—much like the lived passages it draws from. Each section invites viewers into the shifting terrains of memory, migration, and belonging, tracing the contours of a life shaped by arrival, adaptation, and the quiet persistence of looking back.
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A Country Practice
Janina Green
24 January to 24 September 2026
A Country Practice brings new life to Janina Green’s seminal artist book – of the same title – A Country Practice, animating its pages into an immersive photographic installation that unfolds in chapters—much like the lived passages it draws from. Each section invites viewers into the shifting terrains of memory, migration, and belonging, tracing the contours of a life shaped by arrival, adaptation, and the quiet persistence of looking back.
WESTERN MELBOURNE/GEELONG
NORTH OF MELBOURNE
Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East
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Small Talk
Keiko Goto Edwards
to February 2026
Local people were not used to seeing foreigners till then. Politics was pretty much based on old communism. It was very interesting for me to see the lives of local Russian people and capture them in B&W with my Leica IIIb (1938).
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Keiko Goto Edwards
to February 2026
Local people were not used to seeing foreigners till then. Politics was pretty much based on old communism. It was very interesting for me to see the lives of local Russian people and capture them in B&W with my Leica IIIb (1938).
Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat
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Jill Orr’s Detritus Springs
Jill Orr
23 August – 19 October 2025
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is delighted to welcome Jill Orr’s Detritus springs series of photographs and video into the Collection. Lecturing at Federation University’s Arts Academy, Orr is an important figure in the Ballarat arts community, as well as being a highly celebrated artist who has been at the fore of performance art in Australia since the late 1970s. Throughout her vast body of work, Orr has masterfully interpreted her live performances into photography and more recently into moving image – a process that often requires the artist to engage with skilled technicians who collaborate on the finished product.
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Jill Orr’s Detritus Springs
Jill Orr
23 August – 19 October 2025
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is delighted to welcome Jill Orr’s Detritus springs series of photographs and video into the Collection. Lecturing at Federation University’s Arts Academy, Orr is an important figure in the Ballarat arts community, as well as being a highly celebrated artist who has been at the fore of performance art in Australia since the late 1970s. Throughout her vast body of work, Orr has masterfully interpreted her live performances into photography and more recently into moving image – a process that often requires the artist to engage with skilled technicians who collaborate on the finished product.
Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham
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Held in light
Con Kroker
to 01 March 2026
Conrad Otto Kroker (1910–1989) was a mid-20th-century Australian photographer who spent the majority of his life living and working in Horsham, Victoria. A passionate observer of the Wimmera region, Kroker used his camera to record both the natural beauty and subtle transformations of his environment.
His photographs reflect a deep appreciation of the Australian landscape, capturing its textures, seasonal shifts, and quiet human presence.
New acquisitions: The work of F.A. Joyner
F.A. Joyner
to 01 March 2026
Displaying a newly-acquired suite of silver gelatin photographs, the exhibition New acquisitions: The Work of F. A. Joyner marks the debut of South Australian photographer Frederick Allen Joyner (1863–1945) to the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection.
Frederick Joyner was born in Adelaide in 1863. He was a solicitor and plant breeder as well as an accomplished photographer. Joyner was a leading figure in Australia’s Pictorialist movement, which emphasised beauty, atmosphere, and emotional resonance in photography.
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Con Kroker
to 01 March 2026
Conrad Otto Kroker (1910–1989) was a mid-20th-century Australian photographer who spent the majority of his life living and working in Horsham, Victoria. A passionate observer of the Wimmera region, Kroker used his camera to record both the natural beauty and subtle transformations of his environment.
His photographs reflect a deep appreciation of the Australian landscape, capturing its textures, seasonal shifts, and quiet human presence.
New acquisitions: The work of F.A. Joyner
F.A. Joyner
to 01 March 2026
Displaying a newly-acquired suite of silver gelatin photographs, the exhibition New acquisitions: The Work of F. A. Joyner marks the debut of South Australian photographer Frederick Allen Joyner (1863–1945) to the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection.
Frederick Joyner was born in Adelaide in 1863. He was a solicitor and plant breeder as well as an accomplished photographer. Joyner was a leading figure in Australia’s Pictorialist movement, which emphasised beauty, atmosphere, and emotional resonance in photography.
MAMA Murray Art Museum Albury - Albury
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A fever of a memory
Hayley Millar Baker, Bonita Bub, Will Coles, Michael Cook, Destiny Deacon, Rex Dupain, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Peter Fitzpatrick, Nicole Foreshew, Jillian Viva Gibb, Mark Hinderaker, John Immig, Mark Kimber, Anna Kristensen, Bea Maddock, Belinda Mason, Todd McMillan, Tracey Moffatt, Archie Moore, Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek, Trent Parke, Cornelia Parker, Debra Phillips, Michael Riley, Mona Ryder, Brenda Saunders, Tim Silver, Darren Siwes, Glenn Sloggett, Rickey Swallow, Justine Varga, Beverley Veasey, Anne Zahalkaand once known artists Mugisha
To 1 February 2026
In recent years there has been a move towards understanding and working with rather than against the complicated histories of archives and collections. Just as there will always be more voices and stories that need to be included in these conversations there are also the ghosts of the past that will always remain.
Rather than seeking to establish one clear narrative through the MAMA collection, A fever of a memory looks to explore the idea of haunting and what it unearths.
Hello
Frank Hinder, Owen Leong, Robert MacPherson, Rose Nolan, nova Milne, Imants Tillers
to 8 March 2026
Hello is a MAMA collection exhibition, curated by Mia Maria. Featuring moving-image, kinetic, photographic, and printed works, Hello explores duration and inter-connectedness as agents of cultural, spiritual, and communal evolution. The exhibition looks to museum collections as places where these modes of evolution are recorded.
Hello includes several important new acquisitions to the MAMA collection, and marks the conclusion of gathered here, the second season of nginha that has offered new perspectives on the collection..
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A fever of a memory
Hayley Millar Baker, Bonita Bub, Will Coles, Michael Cook, Destiny Deacon, Rex Dupain, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Peter Fitzpatrick, Nicole Foreshew, Jillian Viva Gibb, Mark Hinderaker, John Immig, Mark Kimber, Anna Kristensen, Bea Maddock, Belinda Mason, Todd McMillan, Tracey Moffatt, Archie Moore, Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek, Trent Parke, Cornelia Parker, Debra Phillips, Michael Riley, Mona Ryder, Brenda Saunders, Tim Silver, Darren Siwes, Glenn Sloggett, Rickey Swallow, Justine Varga, Beverley Veasey, Anne Zahalkaand once known artists Mugisha
To 1 February 2026
In recent years there has been a move towards understanding and working with rather than against the complicated histories of archives and collections. Just as there will always be more voices and stories that need to be included in these conversations there are also the ghosts of the past that will always remain.
Rather than seeking to establish one clear narrative through the MAMA collection, A fever of a memory looks to explore the idea of haunting and what it unearths.
Hello
Frank Hinder, Owen Leong, Robert MacPherson, Rose Nolan, nova Milne, Imants Tillers
to 8 March 2026
Hello is a MAMA collection exhibition, curated by Mia Maria. Featuring moving-image, kinetic, photographic, and printed works, Hello explores duration and inter-connectedness as agents of cultural, spiritual, and communal evolution. The exhibition looks to museum collections as places where these modes of evolution are recorded.
Hello includes several important new acquisitions to the MAMA collection, and marks the conclusion of gathered here, the second season of nginha that has offered new perspectives on the collection..