Melbourne Art Fair 2025
20 February - 23 February 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australasia's progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas Melbourne Art Fair presents new and iconic artists.
With a focus on solo shows and works of scale and significance explore and collect art from 60 leading galleries and Indigenous art centres.
Melbourne Art Fair is a seminal fixture on the Australasian cultural calendar stimulating critical and commercial attention for galleries and their artists for over 30 years.
The annual fair supports and promotes Australasian living artists through the staging of a world-class platform for contemporary art showcasing iconic and new works by artists from the region's most respected galleries.
With this global creative city as a backdrop the fair returns in 2025 to take up residence at the Denton Corker Marshall designed Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre continuing its lead role in the region for fostering the development of new audiences for contemporary art.
MELBOURNE ART FAIR ANNOUNCES 2025 GALLERY LINE UP, MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS, AND WELCOMES THE VICTORIAN FIRST PEOPLES ART AND DESIGN FAIR SHOWCASE, UNDER THE NEW DIRECTORSHIP OF MELISSA LOUGHNAN
Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne Art Fair - Australasia's leading forum for contemporary art and ideas - has announced 60 of the region's top galleries and Indigenous art centres for its 2025 summer fair, along with two major international commissions and key program highlights. The 2025 edition will feature works of significance and scale from both emerging and established artists, marking both the first fair under new Fair Director Melissa Loughnan and the first since its transition to an annual model.
From 20 - 23 February 2025, Australasia's premier contemporary art fair will span 10,000sqm of the Denton Corker Marshall-designed Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre to showcase solo and tightly curated presentations from more than 100 contemporary artists, continuing its lead role in the region for fostering new audiences for contemporary art. Gallery and art centre presentations will take place alongside a broader program of large-scale installations, video works, performance, conversations, and exhibition of the 2025 Melbourne Art Foundation Commissions. In 2025, Melbourne Art Fair will also welcome the showcase exhibition of the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair, which will officially launch in 2027, co-timed with Melbourne Art Fair.
Launching the 2025 Fair in her new role as Fair Director, Melissa Loughnan said, "Melbourne Art Fair continues to hold an essential role in growing the Australian art market, representing the most comprehensive and considered overview of the region's thriving contemporary art scene for 36 years," Loughnan continued. "The now-annual fair remains an exceptional showcase of Australia and its neighbouring regions' most significant galleries and, since 2022, Indigenous-owned art centres, as a progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas. We look forward to welcoming collectors, industry and the art loving public to the 18th edition of Melbourne Art Fair as the cultural event of the Australian summer and the official launch of Melbourne's annual arts calendar."
Under the Melbourne Art Foundation 2025 commission program, two ambitious new works from leading international artists will be presented at Melbourne Art Fair. In partnership with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) celebrated Singaporean multi-disciplinary artist Dawn Ng, represented by Sullivan+Strumpf (Gadigal Country/Sydney, Naarm/Melbourne), will exhibit a new moving image work exploring the tenor and trajectory of time via a hypnotic cascade of falling colour. Ng's presentation at the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair is supported by The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne.
Additionally, in partnership with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, represented by Fine Arts, Sydney (Gadigal Country/Sydney), will develop a large scale installation, calling into question what it means to make sculpture comprised of found objects in the networked digital age. Lee's commission at the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair is supported by Artwork Transport.
The two major new works will be gifted to the permanent collections of the respective partnering institutions.
Reuben Keehan, Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery Modern Art (QAGOMA) commented: "Dawn Ng's mesmerising video The Earth is an hourglass 2024 is the central component of her striking installation in the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial. It is also a significant work for Ng, marking the first time that she has experimented with a deep black ground, adding cosmic and metaphorical scope to her evocations of the elasticity of time. With Melbourne Art Foundation's generous support and collaboration, it will join QAGOMA's deep and wide-ranging collection of work from across Asia and the Pacific as an enduring document of strength and diversity of art from the region, and of this edition of the Triennial."
Dr. Zara Stanhope, Director of Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, shared her enthusiasm for the collaboration: "This is a significant event as the first collaboratively supported artist commission between an institution in Aotearoa and one of the most important art fairs in the region, and an opportunity for South Korean, Aotearoa-based artist Yona Lee to reveal new developments in her creative practice. Internationally known for her large-scale installations blending public and domestic spaces, this commission provides the chance for Lee to take creative risks and engage audiences in new ways."
Subsequent to the Melbourne installation, Lee's work will enter the Govett-Brewster Collection and be exhibited as part of Direct Bodily Empathy - Sensing Sound, a major group exhibition as part of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Len Lye Centre.
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Date/s: Thursday 20th February 2025 - Sunday 23rd February 2025
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