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Heide Museum of Modern Art

Gallery in Melbourne Art Precinct Victoria Australia
www.heide.com.au
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Located just 15 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD , Heide Museum of Modern Art is one of Australia’s leading public art museums.

Celebrated for its award-winning architecture and breathtaking gardens, Heide has a rich and colourful social history and art heritage.

Photograph: John Gollings 2010

Heide Museum of Modern Art photo
Address
7 Templestowe Road
Melbourne Precinct
Bulleen Victoria
3105
Australia
Opening Hours
Heide is open 10am-5pm, closed Mondays. Check heide.com.au for special opening hours.
Price
Adult $12, Senior $10, Concession $8 Gardens & Sculpture Park FREE
Wheelchair Access
Yes
Email
info@heide.com.au
Phone
03 9850 1500
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Archive
Callum Morton In Memoriam
Noël Skrzypczak: Talking to Strangers
The Futile City
Sculpture & Painted Relief
Born to Concrete: The Heide Collection
ALBERT TUCKER: IMAGES OF MODERN EVIL
COLOUR BAZAAR: NINE CONTEMPORARY WORKS
MIRKA showcases Heide’s collection of works by one of Melbourne’s best-loved personalities and artists, Mirka Mora.
MIRKA
This exhibition is the first in over twenty-five years to survey drawings in the Heide Collection. Featuring works by twenty modern and contemporary artists, it demonstrates the great variety of approaches to the activity of drawing in twentieth century Australian art.
DRAWINGS: THE HEIDE COLLECTION
Phillip Samartzis recording Antartic waters
Touch at a Distance
The notorious Ern Malley Affair of 1943–44 was Australia’s greatest literary hoax and its impact on Australian cultural history has resonated for more than sixty years. This exhibition explores through a range of artworks, original documents and publications this remarkable tale of deception, which was the brainchild of two young Sydney poets Harold Stewart and James McAuley.
Ern Malley
1940s Melbourne: Photographs by Albert Tucker presents an artist’s view of Melbourne during a tumultuous decade, bringing together over 50 photographs, many that are new to the public realm, together with related paintings and archival material.
1940s Melbourne
The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality by Melbourne artist Paul Yore is a fantastical insight into contemporary consumer culture. Paul Yore is presenting a new, site-specific version of an installation made from numerous everyday throwaway items, both natural and artificial. Glittery psychedelia, plastic objects, fake flowers and real branches are intricately organised into shrine-like arran
Paul Yore
Kathy Temin is a critically-acclaimed Melbourne-based artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past twenty years. This survey of Temin’s work will consider her contribution to Australian art, achieved through an individual and biographical synthesis of materials and attachment to art, history and consumer culture.
Kathy Temin
The Powerhouse Museum travelling exhibition Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia, presented in Melbourne by Connex, explores how modernism transformed Australian culture from 1917 to 1967, a period of great social, economic, political and technological change.
Modern times
Narelle Jubelin’s exhibition Cannibal Tours is a contemporary companion to Modern times and proposes an encounter with modernism through the artist’s own practice and the photographic archive of Albert Tucker.
Narelle Jubelin: Cannibal Tours
The art of existence is a major survey exhibition that reviews the 40 year career of artist Les Kossatz. A practitioner who has worked in painting, stained glass, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and installation, Kossatz has taken a consistently experimental approach to media and techniques.
The art of existence
Order and dissent investigates the dialogue and debate generated by the originality, diversity and non-conformity of a selection of works from the Heide Collection.
Order and dissent
In COVERS , Abicare turns her attention to the architecture of the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, transforming it into an opulent interior that is reminiscent of a 1940s Hollywood stage-set. Influenced by modernist art, design and architecture, and period fashions of the 1930s and 1940s, this project also responds to the history and identity of Heide.
COVERS
Hinterlands examines Albert Tucker’s new vision of his homeland, with particular emphasis on works depicting the bush around his property in rural Hurstbridge on Melbourne’s fringes; the distinctive Gippsland landscape off the coast of south-east Victoria; and the spectacular Barmah Forest in the north of the state.
Hinterlands
The world in painting reveals the subjects and approaches that make painting vital for twelve artists from Australia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The world in painting
Created for the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, Butterflown of love is international artist-in-residence Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s offering to the landscape.
Butterflown of love
A long-running campaign to showcase Australian architecture and encourage the replacement of the aging Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been reactivated with Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition.
Venice Biennale New Australian Comp
Rick Amor has exhibited professionally for over thirty years, and has developed a reputation as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary figurative painters. A single mind celebrates Amor’s artistic vision, offering for the first time a complete assessment of his painted oeuvre, from the 1960s to the present day.
A Single Mind
Scene 1 is an installation by artist collective DAMP , on display in the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery at Heide Museum of Modern Art from 15 March – 22 June 2008.
Scene 1
This exhibition comprises over fifty portraits and self-portraits by and of the artists and associates of the Heide circle during the development of modernism in Australia. It also considers the wider context of the main participants in this group, and the role played by other gathering places and creative hubs such as the Boyd’s Murrumbeena Pottery and the Kismet Library in Fitzroy.
Those who made and those who saw
 

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