Bertram Mackennal 30 Nov 2007 - 24 Feb 2008 Bertram Mackennal, the first Australian appointed as a member of the Royal Academy and arguably the most successful of this country’s artist expatriates, established a... more Artist: Bertram Mackennal
Modern Britain 15 Nov 2007 - 24 Feb 2008 An exhibition that celebrates the commitment to collecting twentieth century British art that invigorated all public institutions in the last century. Drawn from the holdings of... more Artists: Augustus John, Glyn Philpot, Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Tristram Hillier
Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition: ... 25 Oct 2007 - 17 Feb 2008 An exhibition that will examine the correspondences between the art of Joseph Beuys and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. The exhibition will utilise the blackboard drawing, a... more Artist: Joseph Beuys
Role Play: Portrait Photography 25 Oct 2007 - 06 Apr 2008 Portrait photography is a complex and fascinating area of photographic practice that, at its heart, has a dynamic process of collaboration between the sitter, the viewer and the... more Artists: G.B Poletto, H.P Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cindy Sherman, William Wegman, August Sander, Edweard Muybridge, Anne Ferran
Krishna, the God of Love 06 Oct 2007 - 16 Mar 2008 Krishna is one of the most popular of the Hindu gods worshipped throughout Asia and in particular in India. He is known for his playful, mischievous nature, his flirtations with... more
An incomplete world: works from the UBS ... 28 Sep 2007 - 06 Jan 2008 The UBS Art Collection represents the works of many of the most critically acclaimed and influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century to the present day. An... more
Yvonne Audette: Abstract Artist 14 Sep 2007 - 27 Feb 2008 Yvonne Audette is one of Australia’s most accomplished abstract artists. In the early 1950s she travelled to the United States of America to study and was introduced to the... more Artist: Yvonne Audette
Gordon Bennett: Retrospective 07 Sep 2007 - 13 Jan 2008 Gordon Bennett is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, photography, printmaking, video, performance and installation formats. He has achieved... more Artist: Gordon Bennett
Super-Bodies 22 Aug 2007 - 03 Feb 2008 The art of Fashion. This exhibition pays tribute to the powerful, body conscious and sexy styles that dominated fashion in the 1980s. Never before in the history of dress had... more
Geoffrey Bartlett 20 Jul - 14 Oct 2007 Geoffrey Bartlett is an established local artist whose distinctive public works can be seen throughout Melbourne. His sculptures are potently evocative and are characterised by... more Artist: Geoffrey Bartlett
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to now New ... 30 Jun - 07 Oct 2007 Iconic artworks from New York’s famous Guggenheim Museum will come to the National Gallery of Victoria International in 2007 as the latest instalment in the highly... more Artists: Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, JEFF KOONS
Katie Pye: Clothes for Modern Lovers 25 May 2007 - 13 Jan 2008 The art of fashion. This exhibition charts the work of Australian fashion innovator Katie Pye from the late 1970s through to 1990. Integrating performance, design, art and... more Artist: Katie Pye
Small Worlds: Travel photography of the ... 27 Apr - 30 Sep 2007 A photography exhibition. Small Worlds brings together a range of nineteenth century photographs and albums that document far-ranging travels popularised in the West, from the... more
Great Exhibitions! 27 Apr - 01 Aug 2007 This display in NGV International’s Decorative Arts Passage brings together objects from the Great Exhibitions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries held in... more
Kitty Kantilla 27 Apr - 19 Aug 2007 Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwalumi Purawarrumpatu) (Tiwi c. 1928–2003) produced an exceptional body of work from the 1970s until her last days in 2003. The NGV has a major holding... more Artist: Kitty Kantilla
Imaginary Prisons: G.B Piranesi and Vik ... 19 Apr - 30 Sep 2007 The breathtaking originality of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s dramatic series of etchings, the Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d’invenzione), has remained a source of... more Artists: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vik Muniz
Golden Screens 04 Apr - 09 Sep 2007 Presenting Japanese screens, dated from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, from the Asian collection. The free-standing byobu folding screens were decorated with beautiful... more
Australian Impressionism 31 Mar - 08 Jul 2007
Top Arts: VCE 2006 16 Mar - 03 Jun 2007 A student exhibition. Features the work of young artists who have completed Studio Arts and/or Art for their Victorian Certificate of Education. Now in its thirteenth year, Top ... more
Cinema India - The Art of Bollywood 09 Mar - 20 May 2007 Featuring works from pre-independent India to the present day, Cinema India - The Art of Bollywood charts the historical, political and cultural changes experienced by the... more
Olafur Eliasson – The cubic ... 02 Mar - 13 May 2007 An interactive installation that invites visitors to take part in the construction of a cityscape using thousands of pieces of Lego. Olafur Eliasson is a Berlin-based, Danish... more Artist: Olafur Eliasson
Proof - Contemporary Australian ... 09 Dec 2006 - 01 Apr 2007
Howard Arkley - A National Gallery of ... 17 Nov 2006 - 25 Feb 2007Artist: Howard Arkley
Picture to Print 13 Oct 2006 - 25 Mar 2007 An exhibition featuring reproductive prints in the NGV Collection.In the four centuries before photography was invented, knowledge of art was circulated primarily through prints. ... more
Ikat - Asian resist dyed textiles 05 Oct 2006 - 12 Mar 2007 The textiles exhibition Ikat explores the Asian textile tradition by focusing on a particular technique of textile embellishment that is employed throughout the region, from the... more
Six good reasons to stay at home 07 Jul - 03 Dec 2006 Hiraki Sawa’s home is both the backdrop and inspiration for most of the works in Six good reasons to stay at home. In the videos of the artist’s modest apartment in... more Artist: Hiraki Sawa
Rembrandt 1606-1669 - Prints and ... 24 May - 24 Sep 2006
American Beauty - Photographs of the ... 13 May - 22 Oct 2006
Abstract Mode - Geometric Fashion and ... 03 May - 12 Nov 2006
Mountains and Streams - Chinese ... 13 Apr - 10 Sep 2006
Focus on Lacquer 25 Mar - 16 Jul 2006