What were you doing in 2011 when GOMA was the exclusive Australian venue for ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’ (11 June – 2 October 2011), a landmark exhibition of surrealist works from the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris. The exhibition presented more than 180 works by 56 artists, including paintings, sculptures, ‘surrealist…
As we continue our yearly countdown from 2006 to GOMA’s tenth birthday in December 2016, we highlight the exhibitions in 2010 that Brisbane embraced… do you remember ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ (18 December 2010 – 26 April 2011) which marked the end of the first decade of this millennium? This ambitious and…
As we continue our countdown to ‘GOMA Turns 10’ in December 2016, we look back to 2008 to ‘Picasso and his collection’ which attracted over 206 000 visitors. The collection was presented for the first time outside Europe exclusively at GOMA from 9 June to 14 September 2008, Picasso’s collection has only ever previously been seen…
In 2007, GOMA showcased Australia’s first major Andy Warhol retrospective, bringing together more than 300 works spanning all areas of Warhol’s practice from the 1950s until his death in 1987. The exhibition organised by the Gallery and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh was the final installment in GOMA’s year long program to celebrate its…
GOMA officially turns 10 on 2 December 2016. On that day in 2006 ‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT5) opened in our much-anticipated second building, the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and provided the opportunity for the Gallery to present a dynamic program of exhibitions on a scale never before seen in…
As part of GOMA turning ten, the Gallery has launched a new Ambassador program of supporters to assist in advocating GOMA as a space where people can connect to the relevance and transformative potential of contemporary art and ideas. These Ambassadors are successful across a range of different fields, reflecting the diversity of GOMA’s audiences.…
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