What is the Asia Pacific Triennial?
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art is QAGOMA's flagship exhibition series. Since 1993, the Triennial has drawn more than four million visitors with an ever-evolving mix of exciting and important contemporary art by more than one thousand artists from the region.
The Triennial takes over both QAG and GOMA every three years with an exhibition, film programs, learning initiatives, Children’s Art Centre projects and a dedicated public program of talks and workshops.
The series has seen the Gallery develop long-standing partnerships throughout the region and helped build one of the world's most significant collections of contemporary Asian and Pacific art.
Learn more about the Asia Pacific Triennial – its history and its future – through the resources below, as well as the APT archive and Asia Pacific Art Papers, QAGOMA’s ongoing survey of the diverse creative contexts that animate the vast geopolitical region surveyed by the Triennial.
Michael Parekōwhai's (Ngāti Whakarongo/Ngāriki Rotoawe / Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1968) immense bronze statue The World Turns 2011–12 (detail), installed permanently outside QAGOMA in Brisbane, 2012 / Commissioned 2011 to mark the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Gallery of Modern Art in 2006 and 20 years of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through art+place Queensland Public Art Fund and from the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Michael Parekōwhai
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