In the fall the National Gallery will put on its own major show, with its 10 Raphaels augmented by loans from the Vatican, Louvre, and Uffizi. The Foundling Museum explores 5… Rebecca Baumann: Radiant Flux, January 8th – June 14th Daniel Boyd: Video Works, January 8th – March 1st. will be the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney. Expect lots of swords.Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, March 4–July 5Richter is a fantastically interesting artist who, through no fault of his own, has principally become known for the prices his art achieves at auction. The shortlisted artworks for Australia's most prestigious portraiture prize have been announced! 7Saint Phalle, who was born in 1930 and died in 2002, was something of a late bloomer. 28In 1950 the surrealist painter Rene Magritte wrote out a thought experiment where he conceived of a “universal machine for making paintings” in an attempt to automatize artistic creation. Now these and other works will be reunited in a traveling exhibition comprised of 86 paintings and sculptures. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Source: RMN ‐ Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/René‐Gabriel Ojéda, Source: The Marina Abramović Archives Marina Abramović, Photographer: Juan Santana Fundación Gego, Source: Colección Pérez Simón, México Arturo Piera. Iranian Paris-based designer India Mahdavi (the interiors genius behind the iconic pink Gallery at Sketch restaurant in London) has been commissioned by the NGV to bring Bonnard’s extraordinary works to life, elegantly balancing historical references with contemporary culture in an immersive experience. March 4–July 5. June 27th – October 4th 2020 This exhibition showcases art made by women. August 8th 2020 – January 31st 2021 Shaky as the exhibition’s premise might sound, the organizers have stacked the deck with about 65 canvases in an effort to ensure the execution is a slam dunk. Drawing on works from the National Gallery’s own collection, as well as others from across Australia, Know My Name showcases the work of lesser-known artists alongside Australian greats from different times, places and cultures. Now in its 36th year, the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) is a major highlight for the Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin. Stanislava Pinchuk, ‘Topography : The Road to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant’. March 14th – June 8th 2020 It brings together more than 300 works, drawn from the Gallery’s collection and other collections from across Australia. Gaze at Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s snowman frozen in Brisbane’s summer heat. She quickly became famous for her ebullient sculptures of flying women, Gaudi-esque architectural monuments, books, paintings, jewelry, and women’s- and LGBTQ-rights activism. The Design Files acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Students communicate their passion and dedication as they capture the contemporary local and global issues. Each year when we’re putting together our annual guide of Unmissable Art Exhibitions, we’re reminded of the incredibly high calibre of both local and international artists on show across Australia. This year the Art Gallery of South Australia welcomes the hugely popular Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art back for its 30th year. Among others, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin has already opened a show of five of the artist’s paintings of the Virgin Mary, and the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome will put on a sweeping exhibition in the spring. Or wait a few months, and they’ll be clogging your social media feeds on their own. © 2020 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. The Gallery presents Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhalepapa 2020, a monumental sculpture in the form of a hot-air balloon. The National Gallery, London, Oct. 9–March 21Gertrud Goldschmidt (1912-1994), who went by the name Gego, is famous for her hanging wire sculptures. The winner of 2019 TDF Design Awards Textile Design category, Georgina Whigham, debuts a new collection of zero waste denim bags with local. Stanislava Pinchuk, ‘Topography : Topsoil Storage II, Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone.’ Pin-holes on paper, 2017. Australia's most famous portrait award will go ahead this year, with new dates revealed for the 2020 Archibald Prize exhibition. Spanning 450 years, Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London presents 60 paintings by some of Europe’s most revered artists. Regional NSW-based landscape artist Edwina Edwards retreats into nature for a new exhibition, ‘Bush Solace’. Drawn from the Kenneth Tyler Collection, the prints on display highlight Mitchell’s exploration of colour, shape and space, and consider how these elements contributed to her art. Traverse a cloud of suspended gymnastic rings in a participatory artwork by William Forsythe. This year’s judge is artist Lucy Culliton, who selected this year’s recipients and finalists from 129 entries. This commission is a Know My Name project supported by Wesfarmers Arts. MoMA PS1, New York, May 6–Aug. Matisse: Life & Spirit Now the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum is taking Magritte at face value with an exhibition that attempts to connect the artist’s work to the so-called Magritte Machine. Informed by the many voices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures and communities, the display reconsiders Australia’s history Developed alongside the Centre Pompidou in Paris, known for its unmatched collection of Matisse works. Special hours. Left to Right: Photo by Beth Wilkinson for Lindsay. Taking place across six major sites – Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Art School – the Biennale of Sydney will see 94 artists from 47 countries, Under the guidance of multidisciplinary artist and this year’s Biennale Artistic Director Brook Andrew, the 12-week exhibition is titled NIRIN, meaning ‘edge’ in Brook’s mother’s Nation – the Wiradjuri people of western New South Wales. | Learning gallery: Patricia Piccinini Skywhales 2013, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Gift of anonymous donor 2019 through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program | Devotion: India, Pichhavai [shrine hanging] for Nanda mahotsava [Festival of Nanda] (detail) mid 19th century, Nathdvara, Rajasthan, India, purchased 2009 | Urs fisher: Urs Fischer Francesco (detail) 2017, purchased 2018 © Urs Fischer, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London, Belonging: Christopher Pease (Minang/Wardandi/ Ballardong/Nyoongar peoples) Target 3 (detail) 2017, purchased 2019 | XU ZHEN®: ETERNITY VS EVOLUTION: XU ZHEN® European Thousand-Armed Classical Sculpture 2014 White Rabbit Collection, Sydney © the artist | The Body Electric: Pixy Liao Some words are just between us (detail) from Experimental Relationship 2010, image courtesy of the artist | Tjanpi Desert Weavers: Roma Butler and Yangi Yangi Fox, from Irrunytju in Western Australia, with their sculptures, 2017. Matisse: life & spirit, masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou. The renovated 1970s beach house in Sorrento, Victoria, of Kip&Co's Kate Heppell has hit the market. We learn a little more about the day-to-day of this inimitable Melbourne icon. Pierre Bonnard has been developed in partnership with Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes are some of the most prestigious and highly anticipated art events in the country. Developed alongside the Centre Pompidou in Paris, known for its unmatched collection of Matisse works, Matisse: life & spirit will be the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney. More, Dating from 2500 BCE to the contemporary era and created across a vast geographic area, the works displayed here represent many different nations and cultures. This is TRULY unmissable! Check them out in chronological order. More, Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhale family are two sculptures in the form of hot-air balloons that will take to the skies during Canberra’s Balloon Spectacular in March 2021. More, XU ZHEN® is one of China’s most significant artists and activists. Since its inception in 1921, The Archibald Prize the most well-known of the three awards celebrates paintings of notable figures that reflect Australian culture across areas including art, media, entertainment, politics, sports and more. Art Gallery South Australia, SA. And 2020 is shaping up to be seriously impressive! First held in 1973 as part of the opening celebrations of the Sydney Opera House, the Biennale of Sydney is now in its 22nd year and is one of Australia’s blockbuster contemporary art events. The Sydney exhibition will be the biggest version of Van Gogh Alive anywhere in the world, up to three times larger than in some cities. The artworks have been culled from a series of French museums including France’s national museum of the Middle Ages in Paris, the Musée de Cluny, and they combine objects in the permanent collection of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Begun in 1999, this scholarship for young Australian painters is celebrating its 22nd year. They force us to question our empathy towards differences across race, gender, sexuality and spirituality.’. This year, the 2020 exhibition is ONLINE from 7th August to 6th September. This exhibition is so important for visitors to gain an insight into First Nations People’s perspective in both contemporary interpretations, as well as those steeped in generations of tradition. In Bath, discover the early ceramics of Grayson Perry, many of which were retrieved from obscurity after an appeal to the public. Drawn from a range of media, topics, schools and students, Top Arts 2020 is part of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s annual showcasing of excellence. Aside from the opportunity to see one of the works of this beloved painter, what makes this exhibition absolutely unmissable is the design of the show itself. While Sydney-siders enjoy the masterful works of Henri Matisse, Melbournites won’t miss out on the opportunity to experience an incredible exhibition of another beloved French painter! So while you may not be in New York in March, Paris in May, or Madrid in October, we’ve compiled a list of what should be the biggest and/or most influential shows of the year. First Nations artists, designers, makers and creative business owners are encouraged to submit their projects for coverage on The Design Files – we would love to hear from you. National Gallery of Victoria. 17Once the dust has settled from the Louvre’s Leonardo show, visitors will be able to turn their sights onto a new exhibition of Italian masterworks, assembled in collaboration with the Castello Sforzesco museum in Milan. Finalists for the Archibald (portrait), Wynne (landscape/scenery) and Sulman (genre/subject) are shown in an exhibition that starts at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and tours at select galleries around Australia for the remainder of the year. Most people know Abramović for her endurance-style performance art, and understandably so. May 30th – September 13th 2020 The remarkable thing about major museum shows is that they can transcend the objects themselves to become global cultural phenomena. There will be multiple exhibitions to honor the painter, who created a spectacular amount of paintings, drawings, and frescoes in a relatively short period. In an effort to make themselves whole, the family sold off a trove of artworks including a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. At the work’s best, its spidery lines and disorienting asymmetry give viewers the impression of having tripped and stumbled into a computer simulation. The works are always a great capsule to represent Australian culture of the moment. The National Indigenous Art Triennial is the nation’s first large scale recurring exhibition dedicated to contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists. Know My Name Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now 14 Nov 2020 – 4 July 2021 Free.