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A detail view of a collage work appearing as a kaleidoscopic circle of hand-cut photographs

LIVING PATTERNS

2023–24

A colourful abstract artwork by First Nations artist Naomi Hobson, painted using traditional techniques.

GONE FISHING

2023–24

Cross-hatching etched into rubber from tyres by Ngaymil artist Gunybi Ganambarr

TRANSITIONS

2022–23

A photograph of someone kayaking under a red post-bushfire sky.

AIR

2022–23

A bright and colourful collage comprising neon corals and geometric shapes on a background that uses optical illusion to seem to recede a long way.

APT10

2021–22

A still photograph of a masculine-appearing person making a splash in dark, almost black water (DETAIL)

WATER

2019–20

A view of shields installed on plinths in a gallery space, with a set of a shield and sword visible on a white wall in the background.

I, OBJECT

2019–21

A photograph of a woman wearing a blue blouse and holding fruit against a yellow background. We only see from her nose to her elbows, and red fruit juice runs from her mouth.

APT9

2018–19

A still photograph taken at night in a fun fair; the artist is costumed as a red caterpillar-like bug with a very long body and tail.

APT8

2015–16

A photograph of colourful artworks installed in a large gallery space

APT11

2024–25

Raja Ravi Varma's Laxmi 1894, printed by the Ravi Varma Press c.1910–20, garlanded with flowers for the official opening of 'The God of Small Things', QAG, September 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA

'The God of Small Things'

Sep 2025 - Oct 2026

A view of the GOMA entrance from outside, with a view of 'WONDERSTRUCK' signage between trees

'Wonderstruck'

Jun 2025 - Oct 2025

An artist stands with his room-scale installation work at the Australia Pavillion of the Venice Biennale

KITH AND KIN | INSCRIBING A LIFE

Sep 2025 – Oct 2026

An installation of sculptures depicting brightly coloured dogs

GREAT AND SMALL

JUN 2025 - MAY 2027

Works from Warakurna – The Force is with us (series) 2017 – by Tony Albert, David C Collins, Lucy Lewis, Joel Spring, Aziah Smythe, Kieran Smythe-Jackson and Braidan Reid – installed for 'Snap Blak', GOMA, September 2025 / Archival pigment print on paper / Gift of the artists through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2018 / © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA

SNAP BLAK

2025–26

Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles / Pintubi/Ngaanyatjarra people / WA Australia 1937–2010 / Valiant 2007 / Synthetic polymer paint on metal / Purchased 2008. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / © Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

'Value Added'

Jun 2025 - Feb 2026

Archie Moore's kith and kin (installation view, Australia Pavilion, Venice Biennale) 2024 / Presented to QAGOMA and Tate by Creative Australia on behalf of the Australian Government 2024 / © Archie Moore / Photograph: Andrea Rossetti / Image courtesy: The artist and The Commercial, Sydney

'Archie Moore: kith and kin'

Sep 2025 - Oct 2026

'Snap Blak'

Aug 2025 - Sep 2026

Sriwhana Spong's Costume for a mourner (still) 2010 / Hard Drive (transferred from standard-definition video): 8:22 minutes, black and white, sound / Purchased 2011. John Darnell Bequest / © Sriwhana Spong

'Inscribing a Life'

Sep 2025 - Oct 2026

TROMARAMA / Indonesia est. 2004 / Wattt?! (still) 2010 / Single-channel stop motion video animation: 5:48 minutes, colour, sound / Music: Kulan / Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Tromarama

'Contraptions'

Oct 2025 - Feb 2026

 Paul Jacoulet / France 1896–1960 / Les perles (The pearls), Manchukuo (detail) 1950 / Purchased 2021 with funds from the Airey Family through the QAGOMA Foundation / © Paul Jacoulet/ADAGP/Copyright Agency

‘Birds of Passage’

Feb 2024 - Jan 2026

A ceramic sculpture of a headless, armless figure on a green sofa. Liu Jianhua / China b.1962 / Obsessive memories (detail) 2000 / Porcelain, modelled and with overglaze colours, incised / Purchased 2004. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Jianhua Liu

‘Small Figures’

Sep 2023 - Aug 2025

An artist installs an installation made from ceramic bells

ASIA PACIFIC ART PAPERS

A QAGOMA publication

A drypoint print made with black and orange tones

I HAVE LOVED/I LOVE/I WILL LOVE

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026

Works by (l–r) Garry Namponan, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Craig Koomeeta and Jack Bell, installed at QAG for 'Great and Small', July 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

'Great and Small'

Jun 2025 - May 2027

APT7 Opening Weekend visitors view Takahiro Iwasaki's Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) 2010–12

APT7

Dec 2012 - Apr 2013

Works installed for 'Under a Modern Sun', Gallery 4, QAG, August 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA

'Under a Modern Sun'

Aug 2025 - Jan 2026

An installation view of three abstract paintings on a white gallery wall

'Spectrum'

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026

Ken Unsworth's Suspended stone series – Stone circle II 1974–78 / River stone, string, steel and mirror / Gift of Simon Mordant AO and Catriona Mordant AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2025. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ken Unsworth

'Ken Unsworth'

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026

Bill Henson / Australia VIC b.1955 / Untitled #143 (detail) 1985–86 / Type C photograph on paper / Gift of an anonymous donor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Bill Henson

‘Suburban Sublime’

Aug 2024 - Aug 2025

Zico Albaiquni / Indonesia b.1987 / When it shook, the earth stood still (After Pirous) (detail) 2018 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 2018 with funds from Konfir Kabo through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Zico Albaiquini

APT9

Nov 2018 - Apr 2019

Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

APT8

Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

Artist Lee Ufan during installation of his work Relatum 2002 for APT 2002, QAG / © Lee Ufan / Photograph: QAGOMA

APT4

Sep 2002 - Jan 2003

Zhou Xiaohu / China b.1960 / Utopian theatre 2006 / 11-channel video and fired clay installation, 11 DVDs (1:00 minute each, colour, stereo), 11 television monitors, 10 sets of headphones / Purchased 2007. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / Collection: QAGOMA / © Zhou Xiaohu

APT5

Dec 2006 - May 2007

© Lee Wen

APT3

Sep 1999 - Jan 2000

Feature image: Del Kathryn Barton / Australia b.1972 / Brendan Fletcher b.unknown / The Nightingale and the Rose (still) 2015 / Gift of Del Kathryn Barton through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / © Del Kathryn Barton / Image courtesy: The artist and RoslynOxley9 Gallery, Sydney

FAIRY TALES

Dec 2023 - Apr 2024

APT6 visitors viewing Kohei Nawa's PixCell-Double Deer#4 2010

APT6

Dec 2009 - Apr 2010

Cai Guo-Qiang’s Nine Dragon Wall (Drawing for Dragon or Rainbow Serpent: A Myth Glorified or Feared: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 28) 1996

APT2

Sep 1996 - Jan 1997

An installation view of Shigeo Toya's Woods III 1991-2 installed for APT1 in 1993, with sculpted wooden tree-like structures arranged near the Watermall in QAG.

APT1

Sep 1993 - Dec 1993

A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots. / Lee Paje / The Philippines b.1980 / The stories that weren’t told (detail) 2019 / Oil on copper mounted on wood / Purchased 2021 with funds from Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Lee Paje

APT10

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

An installation view of colourful, large-scale horse sculptures

'Sugar Spin'

Dec 2016 - Apr 2017

An installation view of a wood sculpture of a dog / Camp dog (Ku)

‘I, Object’

Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

'Travellers'

Jul 2017 - Oct 2017

'Sublime'

Aug 2014 - May 2015

Iris van Herpen / Netherlands b.1984 / Morphogenesis dress, from the ‘Sensory Seas’ collection 2020 / Lasercut screenprinting mesh, duchesse stain, lasercut Plexiglas / Collaborator: Philip Beesley / Collection: Iris van Herpen / Photograph: David Ụzọchukwu / © David Ụzọchukwu

‘Iris van Herpen’

Jun 2024 - Oct 2024

Rebecca Baumann's Untitled Cascade 2012, installed for 'Everyday Magic', September 2013 / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Rebecca Baumann

‘Everyday Magic’

Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

Charles Blackman's Suite I 1960 / Purchased 1988 with funds from the Russell Cuppaidge Bequest as a memorial to Russell Cuppaidge CBE / © Charles Blackman/Copyright Agency

Lure of the Sun

Nov 2015 - Jan 2016

Jon Molvig / Australia NSW 19–1970 / Self portrait (detail) c.1960–61 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Otte Bartzis

‘Jon Molvig: Maverick’

Sep 2019 - Feb 2020

Works by (l–r) Erbossyn Meldibekov and Zico Albaiquni, installed at QAG for ‘Errant Objects’  / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / © The artists / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Errant Objects’

Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

Tomás Saraceno b.1973 / Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms 2022 / Dimensions and installation variable / Purchased 2022 with funds from the Neilson Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Tomás Saraceno / GOMA, March 2023 / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Air’

Nov 2022 - Apr 2023

Works by Jenny Holzer, installed at GOMA for ‘A Kind of Library’, May 2023 / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘A Kind of Library’

May 2023 - Nov 2023

 Works by Jeff Koons, Scott Redford and Damien Hirst installed for 'Multiple Choice', GOMA, July 2010 / Photograph: B Wagner, QAGOMA

‘Multiple Choice’

Jun 2010 - Oct 2010

Works installed for 'Ever Present', Gallery 6, QAG, September 2013 / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘Ever Present’

Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

‘The Obliteration Room’

Dec 2014 - Apr 2015

Feature image: An installation view of ‘Fine Lines’, QAG, March 2022 / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Fine Lines’

Sep 2021 - May 2022

Olafur Eliasson’s Riverbed 2014, installed at GOMA for ‘Water’, December 2019 / Purchased 2021. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust / Collection: The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Water’

Dec 2019 - Mar 2020

An installation view of ‘Seeds and Sovereignty’, including works by (l–r) Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Minnie Pwerle (© Minnie Pwerle) and Evelyn McGreen and (foreground) mats by Judy Baypungala, Bonny Burarngarra, Lorna Jin-Gubarangunyja and Shirley Malgarrich, March 2024 / © The artists/Copyright agency (unless noted) / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘Seeds and Sovereignty’

Mar 2024 - Sep 2024

A view of Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr's Flying Fox Story Place 2002–03, installed at the entrance to 'My Country', GOMA, July 2013 / © Estate of the artist / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘My Country’

Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

A view of works installed for 'No. 1 Neighbour', QAG, October 2016 / © The artists / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘No. 1 Neighbour’

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

Patrick Tjungurrayi / Pintupi/Kukatja people / Australia c.1940–2017 / Untitled (Ngaru) (detail) 2009 / Purchased 2020. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Estate of Patrick Tjungurrayi/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

‘North by North-West’

Feb 2023 - Sep 2024

Ai Weiwei’s Painted vases 2006 installed for ‘Change Generators’, GOMA, October 2021 / © Ai Weiwei / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Change Generators’

May 2021 - Oct 2021

Ross Manning’s Spectra XIII 2017, installed for ’Courage and Beauty’, GOMA, September 2021 / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Courage and Beauty’

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

Anne Noble / New Zealand b.1954 / Dead Bee Portrait #1 2015, printed 2018 / Pigment on archival paper / The Taylor Family Collection. Purchased 2019 with funds from Paul, Sue and Kate Taylor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Anne Noble

‘Still Life Now’

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

 Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

‘Namatjira to Now’

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

‘Lightness and Gravity’

Mar 2012 - Oct 2012

A still photo depicting a person standing before a stone palace-type building, wrapped in a long bolt of patterned fabric that spans the full length of the photo.

‘I Can Spin Skies’

Aug 2023 - Jun 2024

Anniebell Marrngamarrnga’s Yawkyawk (Female water spirit) pregnant with twins 2007, installed for ‘Transitions’, GOMA, February 2023 / © Anniebell Marrngamarrnga/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Transitions’

Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

Feature image: John Citizen’s Portrait of Eddie Mabo (After Mike Kelley's "Booth's Puddle" 1985, from Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile) No2 1996, installed for ‘Gone Fishing’, GOMA, November 2023 / © The Estate of Gordon Bennett / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Gone Fishing’

May 2023 - Jan 2024

Feature image: Lara Favaretto’s Gummo IV 2012 in motion during ‘A World View’, GOMA, December 2016 / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘A World View’

May 2016 - Apr 2017