Tolarno Galleries: Contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia

September

BROOK ANDREW & DANIE MELLOR

10 September – 18 December 2016

Yinchuan Biennale

For an Image, Faster Than Light

MoCA Yinchuan, China

Curated by Bose Krishnamachari

Other participating artists include: Anish Kapoor, Yoko Ono, Liam Gillick, Mary Ellen Carroll, Liu Wei, Cao Fei, Ivan Navarro, Santiago Sierra, Slavs and Tartars, Song Dong.

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July

PATRICIA PICCININI

The TAC has launched its latest provocative road trauma campaign featuring a fictitious creation designed to survive car crashes.

TAC has collaborated with a leading trauma surgeon, a crash investigation expert and Melbourne artist Patricia Piccinini to produce ‘Graham’, an interactive lifelike sculpture demonstrating human vulnerability.

The installation is on show at the State Library of Victoria until August 8, before going on a roadshow of regional centres. Victorians can also interact with Graham online at www.meetgraham.com.au.

June

ROSEMARY LAING

10 June – 21 June 2016

Tempest

Argyle Galleries 1-4, Central Gallery and throughout Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Dunn Place, Hobart

Tempest is presented by TMAG in association with Detached Cultural Organisation and Dark Mofo.

Curated by Juliana Engberg

Historic works from TMAG and other state collections will be shown alongside contemporary works by international and Australian artists including Tacita Dean, Valerie Sparks, Fiona Tan, William Kentridge, Victor Alimpiev, Hernan Bas, Mariele Neudecker, Rodney Graham, Pat Brassington, Rosemary Laing, Paul Wood, Ricky Swallow, Kit Wise and David Stephenson.

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April

BILL HENSON

Opens Friday 8 April 2016

ONEIROI

Hellenic Museum, Melbourne

ONEIROI is a photographic installation by one of Australia’s leading artists, Bill Henson that will be housed permanentely at the Hellenic Museum.

The photographs that make up ONEIROI incorporate priceless treasures from our award winning Benaki collection, Gods, Myths & Mortals.

The Hellenic Museum collaborated with the Benaki Museum and artist Bill Henson to develop this unique series. The ONEIROI commission was made possible with the support of Robert Buckingham.

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April

BILL HENSON

Thursday 21 April 6 – 8 pm

Book Signing | Particle Mist

Particle Mist draws together works from three of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series: Untitled 1974, Untitled 1975 with additional previously unseen photographs from an unfinished work begun in 1976. Together they form a portrait of an artist as a young man, which has now been published as a beautiful artist’s monograph by STANLEY/BARKER, with support from Tolarno Galleries.

February

FANTASTIC WORLDS

12 December 2015 – 14 February 2016

Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland

Fantastic Worlds brings together the work of eleven contemporary Australian sculptors, who each pose new and strange possibilities for the world around us.

NICHOLAS FOLLAND, CAROLINE ROTHWELL

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Image:
Caroline Rothwell
Tygers (set of 3) 2010
Bronze automotive paint and lacquer
Photo: Christian Cappuro

February

PATRICIA PICCININI

2 February – 27 June 2016

ComSciencia

CCBB Brasilia, Brazil (2 Feb 2016 – 4 April 2016)

CCBB Rio de Janeiro (19 Apr 2016 – 27 Jun 2016)

Patricia Piccinini’s first major solo exhibition in Brazil brings together sculptures, video, photography and drawing from the past 15 years of her practice. The title is a neologism in Portuguese, combining the ideas of science, conscience and consciousness alluding to Piccinini’s interest in empathy, ethics and humaness in the contemporary world.

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January

PATRICIA PICCININI

22 September 2015 – 4 September 2016

Weird and Wonderful

From the Olbricht Collection

Museum Folkwang, Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen, Germany

Thomas Olbricht shares his personal take on the large installation Helm/Helmet/Yelmo by Los Carpinteros.
Olbricht has chosen his favourite objects from his astonishingly eclectic collection, in a selection based on highly subjective decisions and personal tastes.

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January