Releases

From Pets to Pumpkins: A week of art-tastic adventures for families at NGV Kids Summer Festival 2025 7 months ago NGV Kids on Tour 2025 partners with more than 150 community venues across Victoria this January to offer FREE art-making activities 7 months ago Kimberley couture: Peggy Griffiths and Cathy Ward create two breathtaking gowns as part of NGV’s biennial Indigenous Fashion Commission 7 months ago Expressions of interest now open for Melbourne Design Week 2025, Australia’s largest annual design event 7 months ago From polka dots to pumpkins and more: Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition opens exclusively in Melbourne with new, world-premiere work 8 months ago Kusama paints the town pink: More than 60 trees along St Kilda Road, Melbourne to be wrapped in custom artwork by Yayoi Kusama in celebration of NGV-exclusive exhibition 8 months ago NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe  9 months ago Simply gourd-geous: monumental Yayoi Kusama Dancing Pumpkin sculpture unveiled ahead of exhibition opening 15 December 9 months ago Australian First Nations artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr presents first European solo exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Paris curated by NGV 9 months ago NGV’s Autumn-Winter Season 2025 headlined by French Impressionism, alongside Martin Grant and Kimono exhibitions 9 months ago First Impressions get a second chance: 100+ masterpieces of French Impressionism return to Melbourne direct from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts 9 months ago Phar-whoa! More than 336,000 visitors attend the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh 10 months ago Bark Salon now open in Wurrdha Marra 10 months ago Ewe beauty: Dutch designer makes three-metre-tall lamb sculpture out of hundreds of kilograms of discarded European wool 10 months ago Largest-ever international exhibition of Indigenous Australian Art will have North America star-struck: The Stars We Do Not See makes global premiere in Washington DC in 2025 10 months ago Indian Community Day 2024 11 months ago NGV Architecture Commission 2024: Home Truth by Breathe 11 months ago NGV celebrates art and fashion with the return of the NGV Gala on 14 December 2024 11 months ago REKOSPECTIVE: The Art of Reko Rennie 12 months ago Bark Salon: on display in Wurrdha Marra 12 months ago Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 1 year ago Abstract Arp: 24 works by 20th century sculptor Hans Arp make NGV debut 1 year ago Australian fashion designer Martin Grant gifts more than 200 elegant and timeless designs to National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia 1 year ago Pucker up, Melbourne: Salvador Dalí’s iconic Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at NGV International 1 year ago Cats & Dogs: ‘paw-some’ exhibition shares our love of furry friends 1 year ago Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh 1 year ago Discover Ancient Egypt for Kids this Winter at NGV 1 year ago NGV Friday Nights brings music, mystique and more with Pharaoh after hours this winter 1 year ago From polka dots to pumpkins and more: Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition opens exclusively in Melbourne with new, world-premiere work 1 year ago Nina Sanadze 1 year ago NGV presents tenth year of Melbourne Art Book Fair 1 year ago Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson: exhibition pairs two pioneers of Australian abstraction for the very first time 1 year ago NGV Triennial: More than 1,063,000 visitors see blockbuster exhibition 1 year ago Melbourne gets the ‘thumbs up’: Felton Bequest acquires David Shrigley’s larger-than-life bronze Really Good, 2016 for NGV 1 year ago Melbourne Design Week 2024 – Design the world you want 1 year ago Africa Fashion: showstopping exhibition of fashion from the V&A featuring 50+ designers from more than 20 countries in Africa 1 year ago Night of Ideas 2024: Major global event of talks, critical thinking, debates and performance comes to Melbourne for the first time 1 year ago NGV Triennial: more than 600,000 visitors attend gallery-wide exhibition of contemporary art and design in first two months 1 year ago