Watch as we install Huang Yong Ping’s spectacular ‘Ressort’

Huang Yong Ping’s spectacular Ressort 2012 is part of a series of large-scale sculptures that depict a snake or dragon, a central symbol in Chinese culture, as well as in many other countries around the world. The work plays on different interpretations of the snake, from creation and temptation to wisdom and deception. Symbolically linking sky and…

Watch as we install Sandra Selig’s mid-air

Sandra Selig’s installation practice concerns the site-specific interpretation of architectural spaces. The volume and form of space, air and light are evoked by works that employ the delicate, refined materials of nylon, plastics, cotton threads and pins. …I’ve always been interested in shapes and the formlessness of form.  These thread pieces are an attempt to…

Can a slide be art? Watch as we install Carsten Höller’s Left/Right Slide

Our ‘experience’ is the primary ‘material’ Carsten Höller manipulates as an artist. He aims to alter how we perceive the world and spark the senses in new ways. Inspired by his work as a biologist, Höller uses the museum to make scientific and philosophical experiments that reshape our expectations about art and produce unexpected outcomes.…

Ron Mueck’s ‘In bed’: Is she anxious or quietly reflective?

Ron Mueck’s In bed depicts a middle-aged woman who has been carefully composed so that the position of her body and facial expression suggest a range of possible emotional states. Is she anxious or quietly reflective? While the viewer may at first be taken aback by the monumental scale of the work, this is ultimately…

GOMA’s ‘Marvel’ blockbuster is coming soon

Today we’re previewing to media some of the costumes and props that have arrived to feature in the upcoming exhibition ‘Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from 27 May to 3 September 2017. The costumes of Marvel characters Captain America, Thor and The Ancient One will feature among over…

We welcome our 500,000 visitor to GOMA’s 10th Birthday

This week the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) welcomed its 500,000th visitor to our 10th anniversary program headlined by our major exhibition ‘Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything’ on view until Monday 17 April 2017. ‘Sugar Spin’ showcases GOMA’s extraordinary collection of contemporary art, as well as major new commissions. GOMA’s 10th anniversary program…