Interview: Alex Lotersztain, Designer & GOMA Ambassador

GOMA Ambassador Alex Lotersztain, designer of the official ‘GOMA turns 10′ Ambassador chair, the QTZ limited edition GOLD Alex Lotersztain is a Brisbane-based designer with an international reputation and a multi-disciplinary studio and also one of our GOMA Turns 10 Ambassadors. He’s spent the last decade sharing a postcode with the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA),…

Brisbane rehearsal for Nick Cave’s HEARD•BNE 2016 at the Gallery of Modern Art / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon © QAGOMA

A behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsals for Nick Cave’s HEARD performance

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsals for Nick Cave’s HEARD•BNE 2016 performance which was performed over the opening weekend of ‘Sugar Spin: you, me, art and everything’ in December 2016 and again in mid-January 2017 to celebrate GOMA turning 10. HEARD consists of 30 ‘soundsuits’, made to be worn or displayed as sculpture. HEARD comes alive…

Connections with culture

The QAGOMA Learning program accompanying ‘No 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016’ focusses on the role art can play in building bridges to cultural heritage and history. A pupil-free day in mid-October enabled 47 Papua New Guinean students from six schools in South East Queensland to travel to the Gallery to explore the…

An improbable performance

Michael Parekowhai is one of New Zealand’s leading contemporary artists. Primarily sculptural, his works often play with scale and space, using humour to comment on the intersections between national narratives, colonial histories and popular culture. Parekowhai is known for bringing together an array of references, sometimes in a single object, with in-jokes and snippets of…

2014: GOMA turns 10 countdown

In 2014, as part of a major season of Japanese art, cinema and design, the Gallery presented ‘Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion’ (1 November 2014 – 15 February 2015) and ‘We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989’ (6 September 2014 – 20 September 2015). ‘We can make another future’ surveyed the art…