Featuring pop-up lion dances, Peking opera performances and a delicious menu created by chef and restauranteur Victor Liong, Lunar New Year at NGV is a vibrant, all-ages celebration marking the first moon cycle of 2025 and the Year of the Snake. With two full days of free events at NGV International across Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February, visitors can enjoy
Celebrate the new year with a burst of creativity and fun at the NGV Kids Summer Festival, running now until 17 January. This year’s festival offers an exciting lineup of free events for families featuring hands-on workshops and engaging performances inspired by NGV’s newest exhibitions. Highlights include pet-themed events to celebrate Cats & Dogs at
This summer NGV Friday Nights offers audiences an after-hours journey through the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) blockbuster exhibition Yayoi Kusama. Running for 18 weeks at NGV International, the late-night series will transform the gallery into a kaleidoscopic landscape, filled with music, art, and culinary experiences in celebration of the iconic
A towering 5-metre-tall bronze pumpkin sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, weighing more than nine tonnes, was unveiled in NGV International’s Federation Court, marking the countdown to the major summer exhibition
Yayoi Kusama, opening 15 December 2024. The newly acquired
Dancing Pumpkin, 2020, supported by the Loti & Victor Smorgon Fund,
Following a five-year hiatus, Australia’s leading triennial festival of Asia-Pacific contemporary performance,
Asia TOPA
(Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts) returns from
20 February - 10 March
2025
with a city-wide celebration of world-class international and local contemporary performance,
International sky theatre masters Groupe F will present their Australian-exclusive spectacular by the shores of the Derbarl Yerrigan as a highlight of EverNow 2024.
After thrilling audiences at multiple Olympic Games ceremonies and other major global events, the French masters of light and fire will bring their latest epic outdoor public
The NGV Gala, a highlight of Australia’s cultural calendar celebrating art, music, fashion and food, returns on Saturday 14 December 2024 at NGV International, St Kilda Road, Melbourne. In 2024, the spectacular late-night event offers guests first-access to the NGV’s world-exclusive exhibition, Yayoi Kusama. Curated by the NGV especially for Australian
Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 is a new NGV exhibition that invites eight leading Australian landscape architecture and design firms to reimagine the lands and waters of the Birrarung (Yarra River) and create an exciting vision for how communities can better access, engage with and care for this important living ecosystem.
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Welcoming in the winter months, the reimagined NGV Friday Nights offers an after-hours ode to the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition
Pharaoh.
Taking place at NGV International with extended late-night access to the winter blockbuster exhibition, the season presents a diverse line-up of music residencies, pop-up performances,
Ancient Egypt for Kids is a free exhibition inviting children to unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt through a series of activities exploring the art and culture of this fascinating world. Coinciding with the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh at NGV International, this interactive exhibition will captivate young visitors and their families
Waverley Council is thrilled to announce this year’s Bondi Festival, boasting an astonishing arts line-up that’s bolder and better than ever before, with first-class theatre, comedy, cabaret and interactive experiences, from Friday 5th to Sunday 21st July 2024. Returning to its spiritual home at Bondi Pavilion (as well as various locations around Bondi),
Africa Fashion
– the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fashion from the African continent ever mounted in Australia – presents a dynamic survey of historical and contemporary designs from some of the most influential fashion designers in the region. Coming to Melbourne from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, the
