Past events

Mon, 4 March 2024
10:00AM
Kānawapātāhmōwin: A Symposium on Indigenous Visual Knowledge
Gerald McMaster
A symposium about Indigenous ways of seeing, presented in association with the 2024 Biennale of Sydney.

Fri, 1 March 2024
10:00AM
Matisse: Minotaure to Verve
Roger Benjamin
An exhibition of treasures from the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library collection, curated by Roger Benjamin. On view from March to April 2024.

Thu, 22 February 2024
2:00PM
Lionel Lindsay's Maghreb: the anti-modernist as Orientalist
Roger Benjamin
A seminar on the unfamiliar work of Australian artist Sir Lionel Lindsay.
Sun, 11 February 2024
2:00PM
Unfixed: Migrant Identities in Asian/Australian art and subculture
Ye Funa, Jacquie Meng, Fan Donwang, WeiZen Ho, and Con Gerakaris
A pair of events on migrant and diasporic identities, and ways in which these are expressed in contemporary art and subculture.

Fri, 15 December 2023
7:00PM
Queer Powerpoint ft. Jack Halberstam
Queer PowerPoint and Jack Halberstam
An evening of corporate presentations and personal optimisation. But queer. And with Jack Halberstam.

Thu, 14 December 2023
6:00PM
All Fall Down: Post-Industrial Demolition Projects and the Aesthetic of Collapse
Jack Halberstam
A lecture on the disorderly architecture of 1970s artist and activists in the United States.
Wed, 13 December 2023
6:30PM
Perceiving Life beyond the Colonial Anthropocene
Macarena Gómez-Barris and Juan Francisco Salazar
A reading and conversation at the AGNSW about non-extractive modes of being and seeing.

Thu, 16 November 2023
4:30PM
Celebrating our 2024 Paris Residency Fellows
Amala Groom, Anthony Bond, Gail Priest, and Blythe Worthy
A gathering to celebrate our 2024 Nicholas and Angela Curtis Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellows.

Fri, 3 November 2023
6:00PM
The Womanifesto Way: Sydney Gathers
Yvonne Low, Marni Williams, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, and Con Gerakaris
A hybrid digital and in-person exhibition and publication project exploring the histories and collective ethos of Womanifesto, at the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.