Tag Archives: Gertrude Contemporary

Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism

29 October 2019 | Melissa Pesa

Explored with humour, compassion, sadness and resignation, ‘Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism’ confronts our expectations and concerns surrounding mortality, extinction, suffering and failure....

Melbourne International Arts Festival 2019

27 September 2019 | Art Almanac

Melbourne International Arts Festival offers unique experiences that bring people together and break new ground in culture and the arts....

River Capital Commission | Consuelo Cavaniglia & Brendan Van Hek

22 July 2019 | Art Almanac

The inaugural River Capital Commission enables Gertrude Contemporary to work with leading artists or collaboratives by commissioning a major new project and exhibition....

Octopus 19: Ventriloquy

28 June 2019 | Art Almanac

Through inquiry into this unique form of storytelling curator Joel Stern delivers ‘Ventriloquy’....

Octopus 18: Mother Tongue

5 September 2018 | Art Almanac

'Mother Tongue’ features six female First Nations artists that speak to forms of language and the modes it manifests, shifting the white paradigm of ownership in relation to land, bodies, and identity. ...

Richard Bell: Dredging up the Past

30 January 2018 | Art Almanac

'Dredging up the Past' is the most recent body of paintings by Richard Bell and continues his ongoing campaign of focusing attention upon the disempowerment of Indigenous Australian peoples....

Zoë Croggon: In the back of my mind

5 April 2017 | Art Almanac

The artist’s photo collage and site-specific video is a vehicle to juxtapose, literally and conceptually how the human form can have a symbiotic relationship to architecture as well as miscalculate a step....

Antiques Roadshow

28 July 2016 | Art Almanac

The 16th in the Octopus series ‘Antiques Roadshow’, as the moniker suggests, looks back and forward at the same time putting the ephemera we use to express our identity on display....