Reviews
New Histories
Artist and writer Stephanie Radok reviews three big new books that point towards new histories of art in the Southern hemisphere - Art in Oceania: A New History; Hotsprings: the Northern Territory and contemporary Australian artists and Mapping South: journeys in South-South Cultural Relations.
21st Century Portraits
Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon National Portrait Gallery, London, 2013 Freelance curator and scholar Margot Osborne reviews a new book on portraiture published by the National Portrait Gallery of London and featuring three Australian artists among others from around the world.
Groggy: Therese Ritchie, Todd Williams
Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Darwin 13 September – 12 October 2013
JamFactory Icon 2013, Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura
JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, 8 August – 28 September 2013
Tony Woods: An Archive
Art Information, 2013
Editor: Andrew Gaynor; Introduction: Tony Woods; Essays: Lesley Chow, Phil Edwards, Sheridan Palmer, Alex Selenisch, Gary Willis, Jake Wilson
Editor: Andrew Gaynor; Introduction: Tony Woods; Essays: Lesley Chow, Phil Edwards, Sheridan Palmer, Alex Selenisch, Gary Willis, Jake Wilson
55th Venice Biennale: The Encylopedic Palace
55th International Art Exhibition, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
1 June – 24 November 2013
Heartland: Contemporary art from South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
21 June – 8 September 2013
21 June – 8 September 2013
5th Auckland Triennial: “If you were to live here …”
The Auckland Art Gallery
10 May – 11 August 2013
10 May – 11 August 2013
Roy Ananda: The Devourer; Sandra Uray-Kennett: A Knights Tour through a Rent in the Wall
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Gallery and Project Space, Adelaide
26 April – 26 May 2013
26 April – 26 May 2013
19th International Symposium of Electronic Arts: Resistance is Futile
19th International Symposium of Electronic Arts
7 – 16 June 2013
7 – 16 June 2013
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
1 June – 7 October 2013
1 June – 7 October 2013
The archive in the contemporary
The artworks of Danie Mellor, Brian Robinson and Christian Thompson each draw on archival material for subject matter, for inspiration, and to develop new work that harks back and forward at the same time.
Louise Bourgeois: Late Works
Curator: Jason Smith Heide Museum of Modern Art 21 November 2012 – 11 March 2013
Mouths and Meaning Bronwyn Platten, Sarah Coggrave and others
Australian Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide 1 February – 2 March 2013
New Olds - Design between Tradition and Innovation
Curator: Volker Albus RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 7 December 2012 – 9 March 2013
Sculpture@Bathers
Curators: Tony Jones, Joanna Robertson Kidogo Arthouse and Bathers Beach Arts Precinct, Fremantle 16 March – 1 April 2013
Testing Ground
Curator: Julie Gough Artists: The 1491s, Ólöf Björnsdóttir, Trudi Brinckman, Darren Cook, Rebecca Dagnall, Sue Kneebone, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Jeroen Offerman, Perdita Phillips, r e a, Keren Ruki, Christian Thompson, Martin Walch, Siying Zhou Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart 14 March – 28 April 2013
tough(er) love: art from Eyre Peninsula
Curator: John Neylon Flinders University Art Museum 28 February – 28 April 2013
Go figure: contemporary Chinese portraiture
Curator: Claire Roberts
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of contemporary art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
We don’t need a map: a Martu experience of the Western Desert
Fremantle Arts Centre
17 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
Curators, Erin Coates, Kathleen Sorensen and Gabrielle Sullivan
17 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
Curators, Erin Coates, Kathleen Sorensen and Gabrielle Sullivan
A world between: a survey of prints by Milan Milojevic
Curators: Maria Kunda, Paul Zika Plimsoll Gallery
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
Build me a city
Curators: Vivonne Thwaites with Christine Garnaut, Julie Collins
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
9th Shanghai Biennale: Re-Activation
Chief Curator: Qiu Zhijie Co-curators: Boris Groys, Jens Hoffmann, Johnson Chang Shanghai Power Station of Art and other venues 2 October 2012 – 31 March 2013
Beata Batorowicz – Tales within Historical Spaces
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 1 September – 28 October 2012
Bungaree: the First Australian
Curator: Djon Mundine Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 1 September – 25 November 2012 then touring
Roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art
Curators: Vivonne Thwaites, Fiona Salmon, Anita Angel Flinders University City Gallery 29 June – 26 August 2012
In a silent way
Curator: Matt Warren Laura Altman, Monica Brooks, Nicolas Bullen, Darren Cook, Gail Priest, Lawrence English, Samaan Fieck, Joel Stern Contemporary Art Spaces, Hobart 28 July – 26 August 2012
Remarking | Remaking: Contemporary Australian Drawing Connections
Curators: Abdullah M. I. Syed and Wenmin Li Nicole Barakat, Denis Beaubois, Nick Brown, Muamer Cajic, Anie Nheu, Ana Pollack, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Marikit Santiago, Shay Tobin, Teo Treloar Remarking | Remaking Community Project Nicole Barrakat in collaboration with Blacktown Indian Subcontinent Women’s Group Blacktown Arts Centre 20 July – 1 September 2012
Pat Brassington: Á Rebours
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne 11 August - 23 September 2012
Conversations in ellipsis: an exercise in affect & association… time & (e)motion studies, or things unsaid
Curator: Lisa Harms Adelaide Botanic Garden, FELTspace, SASA Gallery 31 July – 26 August 2012
A Universe of Small Truths: Julie Henderson
AEAF (Australian Experimental Art Foundation), Adelaide 20 July – 18 August 2012
dOCUMENTA (13)
Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Kassel, Germany 9 June – 16 September 2012
Contemporary Australia: Women
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane 21 April – 22 July 2012
Theatre of the World
Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in collaboration with TMAG (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery), Hobart 23 June 2012 – 8 April 2013
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
unDisclosed: second National Indigenous Art Triennial
Curator: Carly Lane National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 11 May – 22 July 2012
Camouflage: Visual Art and Design in Disguise
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland 15 June – 7 October 2012
No Added Sugar: Engagement and Self-determination
Curator: Rusaila Bazlamit Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 12 May – 18 July 2012
The Kick Ass Painting Show
Curators: Brigid Noone, Ben Leslie Fontanelle, Adelaide 24 May – 30 June 2012
In-Habit (Project Another Country)
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney 22 June – August 2012
South Australia Illustrated: Colonial painting in the Land of Promise
Curator: Jane Hylton Art Gallery of South Australia 2 June – 5 August 2012
We are all Flesh: Berlinde De Bruckyere
ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne 2 June – 29 July 2012
How did Aborigines invent the idea of contemporary art?
Brenda L Croft, artist, curator and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW, reviews and finds gaps in the big pink book put together over many years by Ian McLean that collects iconic bits of writing about Aboriginal art and knits them together.
Indigenous Art Code: cracking the code
The Director of the Indigenous Art Code John Oster explains the Code, how it works, why it is needed and who isn't complying.
Chiharu Shiota: State of Being Sue Saxon and Jane Becker: All that is solid melts into air
TarraWarra Museum of Art 25 February - 27 May 2012