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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

Richard Bell's (Kamilaroi/Kooma/Jiman/Gurang Gurang people / Australia QLD b.1953) Bell's Theorem (Trikky Dikky and friends) 2005, installed for 'Something Borrowed', GOMA, July 2025 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2007. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Richard Bell / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

'Something Borrowed: Appropriation in Australian Art'

Jul 2025 - Jan 2026

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

An installation of sculptures depicting brightly coloured dogs

GREAT AND SMALL

JUN 2025 - MAY 2027

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

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

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

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

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

Works from Rona Rubuntja's 'Bush tucker' series 2009 / © Rona Rubuntja/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

'Ingkwia Tjaiya, Lyaartinya Tjaiya (Old Way, New Way)'

May 2025 - Nov 2025

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

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

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

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

'Spectrum'

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026

'Snap Blak'

Aug 2025 - Sep 2026

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

'Wonderstruck'

Jun 2025 - Oct 2025

A drypoint print made with black and orange tones

I HAVE LOVED/I LOVE/I WILL LOVE

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026

A view of Patricia Piccinini’s The Bond 2016 (Courtesy: The artist) installed within The Field (Planting) 2018 for ‘Curious Affection’, GOMA, March 2018 / © Patricia Piccinini / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection

Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

A photograph of colourful artworks installed in a large gallery space

APT11

2024–25

David Griggs’s Frog boy's dissertation into a new karaoke cult 2008, installed for ‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’, March 2023 / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund and with the assistance of the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation / © Courtesy of the artist, Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane and Station Gallery Melbourne / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’

Mar 2023 - Jul 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

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

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

‘Fine Lines’

Sep 2021 - May 2022

A film still from Danie Mellor's moving-image work Dark Star Waterfall, taken in Wooroonooran, showing a tropical landscape with waterfall in shades of pink, as seen through an infrared filter

DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

2025

A monochrome painting of a bark slab hut, with two colonial-era men standing either side of its doorway, an Aboriginal woman peering out from the dark interior, and an Aboriginal man, possibly a tracker or guide, pointing to a rainbow in the distance
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

LIST OF WORKS: Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible

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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 from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Davida Allen's Mother swinging her baby 1989 / © Davida Allen and Vincent Namatjira's Albert and Vincent 2014 / © Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency, QAG, March 2023 / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Looking Out, Looking In’

Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

Joe Furlonger / Australia b.1952 / 'Circus Paris-Berlin suite' 2006, installed for 'Joe Furlonger: Horizons', QAG Gallery 14, September 2022

‘Joe Furlonger: Horizons’

Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

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

Works installed for ‘Balance 1990’, QAG, 1990 (scan from colour side, QAGOMA Library) / Photograph: Ray Fulton, QAGOMA

‘Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences’

Feb 1990 - Apr 1990