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Exhibitions

Friday 16 January
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Coral Futures

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 February

Richard Lewer

I Only Talk to God When I Want Something

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Saturday 31 January

Group Show

The City Wakes, The City Sleeps

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Rest Time

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Pia de Bruyn

Female Trouble

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Corinna Berndt

jpg Fossils

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 8 October – Saturday 14 February

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan

Arranging by chance

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Group Show

Maquette: Sculpture Award

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

DONE/UNDONE

Craft
Friday 14 November – Saturday 7 February

Ko Jou Chen

Portable Passages

Craft
Thursday 6 November – Saturday 24 January

Group Show

Rosetta

Jacky Winter Gallery
Friday 5 December – Saturday 24 January

Group Show

House of Ghosts

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 26 November – Saturday 17 January

Group Show

New Directions

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

A Moment in Time—Collecting Contemporary

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 15 February

Heather B. Swann

Melanie and The Night Falls

Station Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 24 January

Séraphine Pick

Twenty 25

Station Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 24 January

Group Show

Summer Salon | Little Treasures

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 3 December – Saturday 31 January

Group Show

Textiles X Art

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 11 December – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

"PUPPETS? EVERYBODY LOVES PUPPETS"

Oigall Projects
Wednesday 3 December – Saturday 31 January

Dylan Marelić

…and there’s no one around to hear it

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 17 January

Group Show

Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 17 January

Aida Azin

Brown Pillars II

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 17 January

Group Show

Small Works Art Prize 2026

Brunswick Street Gallery
Sunday 4 January – Saturday 17 January

Bea Rubio-Gabriel

a slight tilt forward

West Space
Saturday 29 November – Tuesday 3 February

Group Show

rūḥ al-rūḥ – jan-e janān

West Space
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 31 January

Tourmaline

Transcendent

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

r e a

r e a : c l a i m e d

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

Leeroy New

Polyp

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 8 February

Group Show

The 13th Koorie Art Show 2025

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 6 December – Sunday 22 February

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Ruth Howard

Woven Mantle

Benalla Art Gallery
Friday 14 November – Saturday 28 February

Justin Andrews

PAINTING / SOUND

Castlemaine Art Museum
Saturday 1 November – Sunday 1 February

Millie Hopton

Self Portrait (Of Us)

Red Gallery
Wednesday 14 January – Sunday 25 January

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Disco Inferno

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

What if learning and unlearning could feel like a spell? Like letting go? Like dancing through fire?

Disco Inferno takes its title from a popular anthem of ecstatic release, a scene of a fire in a top-floor ballroom and a loose translation. I learn through suffering. It’s a phrase that flickers between pop spectacle and something slower, more interior. On one level, it conjures the dancefloor - a site of freedom, rhythm, and communal transcendence. On another, it speaks to the transformative textures of pain, repetition, and ritual. This exhibition moves between these registers, bringing together three artists - Nithya Iyer, Asha Maria Madge, and Leo Bagus Purnomo - whose practices engage in layered, often embodied ways, with memory, identity, ancestry.

The idea of movement - across bodies, borders, and belief systems - threads through the exhibition. Nithya’s two-channel video work Sītā anchors the show with a poetic excavation of diasporic inheritance and feminine visibility. Drawing from the Hindu epic Ramayana, Nithya stages the performative act of digging and lying in her own grave - a gesture both symbolic and corporeal. The grave here becomes not only a site of mourning, but a threshold; a furrow that marks and un-marks territory, identity, and time. Her merging of mythic and personal lineages suggests an alternate passage for South Indian diasporic women. One in which fragmentation can also be a site of reclamation.

In dialogue with this, Asha’s paintings offer a sensorial counterpoint. Her layered and gestural works meditate on the slippages between memory and place, abstraction and the body. Asha paints from a perspective shaped by geographic and cultural transience, allowing multiple temporalities, textures, and registers to coexist. Her work resists linearity, embracing instead a kind of painterly improvisation that echoes the visual rhythms of dream, movement, and sensual recall. What emerges is a painted archive of feeling and fugitive memory.

Leo’s installation practice expands these ideas into the atmospheric and the mystical. His fabric-based works, accompanied by the lingering scent of jasmine, conjure thresholds into unseen worlds. Drawing from Javanese mysticism, conceptual art, and critical theory, Leo’s work probes the porousness of identity. Refusing static representation in favour of multiplicity and the ineffable. His approach reflects an ongoing interest in epistemic crossings: where inherited knowledge systems meet posthuman and spiritual frameworks; to disrupt and reimagine what it means to belong.

These artists resist the instrumentalisation of identity demanded by institutional diversity frameworks. Their works illustrate complex, embodied practices that ask us to sit with the messier, more human parts of who we are. Nithya, Asha, and Leo offer more than representation; they’re offering transformation! Suggesting how art might generate new methods of knowing, and new forms of movement, both within and beyond the self.

Image | Still from Sīta (2023), a two-channel projection installation (9′14″) by Nithya Iyer, created during a residency at AADK, with shooting and editorial support from Vlad Mizikov.

Location

Seventh Gallery
215 Church Street, Richmond VIC, Australia

Date

Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

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Exhibitions

Friday 16 January
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Coral Futures

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 February

Richard Lewer

I Only Talk to God When I Want Something

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Saturday 31 January

Group Show

The City Wakes, The City Sleeps

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Rest Time

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Pia de Bruyn

Female Trouble

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Corinna Berndt

jpg Fossils

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 8 October – Saturday 14 February

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan

Arranging by chance

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Group Show

Maquette: Sculpture Award

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

DONE/UNDONE

Craft
Friday 14 November – Saturday 7 February

Ko Jou Chen

Portable Passages

Craft
Thursday 6 November – Saturday 24 January

Group Show

Rosetta

Jacky Winter Gallery
Friday 5 December – Saturday 24 January

Group Show

House of Ghosts

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 26 November – Saturday 17 January

Group Show

New Directions

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

A Moment in Time—Collecting Contemporary

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 15 February

Heather B. Swann

Melanie and The Night Falls

Station Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 24 January

Séraphine Pick

Twenty 25

Station Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 24 January

Group Show

Summer Salon | Little Treasures

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 3 December – Saturday 31 January

Group Show

Textiles X Art

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 11 December – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

"PUPPETS? EVERYBODY LOVES PUPPETS"

Oigall Projects
Wednesday 3 December – Saturday 31 January

Dylan Marelić

…and there’s no one around to hear it

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 17 January

Group Show

Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 17 January

Aida Azin

Brown Pillars II

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 17 January

Group Show

Small Works Art Prize 2026

Brunswick Street Gallery
Sunday 4 January – Saturday 17 January

Bea Rubio-Gabriel

a slight tilt forward

West Space
Saturday 29 November – Tuesday 3 February

Group Show

rūḥ al-rūḥ – jan-e janān

West Space
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 31 January

Tourmaline

Transcendent

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

r e a

r e a : c l a i m e d

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

Leeroy New

Polyp

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 8 February

Group Show

The 13th Koorie Art Show 2025

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 6 December – Sunday 22 February

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Ruth Howard

Woven Mantle

Benalla Art Gallery
Friday 14 November – Saturday 28 February

Justin Andrews

PAINTING / SOUND

Castlemaine Art Museum
Saturday 1 November – Sunday 1 February

Millie Hopton

Self Portrait (Of Us)

Red Gallery
Wednesday 14 January – Sunday 25 January

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Disco Inferno

Seventh Gallery
Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

What if learning and unlearning could feel like a spell? Like letting go? Like dancing through fire?

Disco Inferno takes its title from a popular anthem of ecstatic release, a scene of a fire in a top-floor ballroom and a loose translation. I learn through suffering. It’s a phrase that flickers between pop spectacle and something slower, more interior. On one level, it conjures the dancefloor - a site of freedom, rhythm, and communal transcendence. On another, it speaks to the transformative textures of pain, repetition, and ritual. This exhibition moves between these registers, bringing together three artists - Nithya Iyer, Asha Maria Madge, and Leo Bagus Purnomo - whose practices engage in layered, often embodied ways, with memory, identity, ancestry.

The idea of movement - across bodies, borders, and belief systems - threads through the exhibition. Nithya’s two-channel video work Sītā anchors the show with a poetic excavation of diasporic inheritance and feminine visibility. Drawing from the Hindu epic Ramayana, Nithya stages the performative act of digging and lying in her own grave - a gesture both symbolic and corporeal. The grave here becomes not only a site of mourning, but a threshold; a furrow that marks and un-marks territory, identity, and time. Her merging of mythic and personal lineages suggests an alternate passage for South Indian diasporic women. One in which fragmentation can also be a site of reclamation.

In dialogue with this, Asha’s paintings offer a sensorial counterpoint. Her layered and gestural works meditate on the slippages between memory and place, abstraction and the body. Asha paints from a perspective shaped by geographic and cultural transience, allowing multiple temporalities, textures, and registers to coexist. Her work resists linearity, embracing instead a kind of painterly improvisation that echoes the visual rhythms of dream, movement, and sensual recall. What emerges is a painted archive of feeling and fugitive memory.

Leo’s installation practice expands these ideas into the atmospheric and the mystical. His fabric-based works, accompanied by the lingering scent of jasmine, conjure thresholds into unseen worlds. Drawing from Javanese mysticism, conceptual art, and critical theory, Leo’s work probes the porousness of identity. Refusing static representation in favour of multiplicity and the ineffable. His approach reflects an ongoing interest in epistemic crossings: where inherited knowledge systems meet posthuman and spiritual frameworks; to disrupt and reimagine what it means to belong.

These artists resist the instrumentalisation of identity demanded by institutional diversity frameworks. Their works illustrate complex, embodied practices that ask us to sit with the messier, more human parts of who we are. Nithya, Asha, and Leo offer more than representation; they’re offering transformation! Suggesting how art might generate new methods of knowing, and new forms of movement, both within and beyond the self.

Image | Still from Sīta (2023), a two-channel projection installation (9′14″) by Nithya Iyer, created during a residency at AADK, with shooting and editorial support from Vlad Mizikov.

Location

Seventh Gallery
215 Church Street, Richmond VIC, Australia

Date

Wednesday 2 April – Saturday 10 May

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://www.seventhgallery.org/content/exhibition-disco-inferno-leo-bagus-purnomo-asha-maria-madge-nithya-iyer

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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