Over 60 artists from 30 countries around the world will descend on Melbourne this December for NGV’s summer blockbuster exhibition, the inaugural ‘NGV Triennial 2017’, presenting art alongside design, with displays encompassing architecture, fashion, design objects and technology, performance, photography, painting and virtual reality.
Occurring every three years, the ‘NGV Triennial 2017’ will traverse through all four levels of the NGV International, it’s 300 plus artworks cement it as the most ambitious exhibition in the gallery’s history.
The triennial explores cutting edge technologies, architecture, animation, performance, film, painting, drawing, fashion design, tapestry and sculpture – across cultures, scales, geographies and perspectives.
Photographer and ‘visual activist’, Zanele Muholi is best known for having produced more than 250 portraits of black lesbian women and trans men in South Africa. The three works included in the ‘NGV Triennial 2017’ are from Muholi’s powerful series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the dark lioness) (2016), in which the artist turns the camera on herself, creating daring self-portraits as commentary on the political and cultural issues that affect the LGBTIQ community. In each, Muholi presents herself darkened with makeup and adorned with domestic objects: scouring pads, safety pins and cables. Her poses reference a history of photography in Africa in which portraiture presented the exotic ‘other’ to European audiences, or was the tool of ethnographers. In Muholi’s photographs her direct engagement with the camera, and in turn the viewer, is confronting and captivating, leaving no option but to face the fearsome gaze of the lioness.
Here is the full list of participating artists:
| Adel Abidin /Iraq Alexandra Kehayoglou / Argentina Analia Saban / Argentina Ben Quilty / Australia Brodie Neill / Australia Büro North / Australia Camille Henrot / France Candice Breitz / South Africa David Altmejd / Canada Edson Chagas / Angola Einat Amir / Israel Ephrem Solomon / Ethiopia Estudio Campana – Yarrenyty Arltere Artists – Elliat Rich / BRAZIL / AUSTRALIA / FRANCE Faig Ahmed / Azerbaijan Formafantasma / Italy Guo Pei / China Hassan Hajjaj / Morocco Iris van Herpen / The Netherlands Jonathan Owen / United Kingdom Jorge Méndez Blake / Mexico Joris Laarman / the Netherlands Josephine Meckseper / Germany Kay Hassan / South Africa Kushana Bush / New Zealand Louisa Bufardeci / Australia Myoung Ho Lee / South Korea Nathaniel Mellors / United Kingdom Nendo / Japan |
Neri Oxman / Israel Nick Cave / United States of America Olaf Breuning / Switzerland Olga Chernysheva / Russia Pae White / United States of America Pascale Marthine Tayou / Cameroon Paulina Ołowska / Poland PET LAMP – BULA BULA ARTISTS / EST. 2011, SPAIN / EST. 1990 AUSTRALIA Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Mexico Reko Rennie / Australia Richard Giblett / Hong Kong Richard Mosse / Ireland Riley Payne / Australia Ron Mueck / Australia Sascha Braunig / Canada Sean O’Connell / Australia Shilpa Gupta / India Sissel Tolaas / Norway Tala Madani / Iran Tala Madani / Iran Timo Nasseri / Germany Tom Crago / Australia Uji Hahan Handoko Eko Suputro / Indonesia We Make Carpets / the Netherlands Xu Zhen / China Yamagami Yukihiro / Japan Yayoi Kusama / Japan Zanele Muholi / South Africa |
