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Exhibitions

Saturday 31 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

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

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

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

Group Show

Houses, Spouses, Crises and Chrises

Arts Project Australia Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 7 March

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

Taree Mackenzie

Wave Works

Neon Parc
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Nick Selenitsch

Amalgam

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 February

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

Arthur (Jalyirri) Dixon

Untitled

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

Ruth Howard

Woven Mantle

Benalla Art Gallery
Friday 14 November – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

Justin Andrews

PAINTING / SOUND

Castlemaine Art Museum
Saturday 1 November – Sunday 1 February

Munmun Dhamija

Ethereal Pathway Of Serenity

Red Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

Group Show

Queer Group Exhibition

Red Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

Matt Ware

Walls to Colour

Red Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Grained

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Group Show

DECADE

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

Nothing Stays

Backwoods Gallery
Monday 19 January – Saturday 31 January

Jordan Dymke

Who Am I?

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

one septillion stars

CAVES Gallery
Friday 30 January – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

Molten Tongues

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Grained

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Grained is a cross-cultural group exhibition curated by Playte in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery and Nongkrong Festival. This project stitches together teachings of intergenerational and collective cultural practices, using rice as both nourishment and a vessel of shared histories across the Global South.

Bringing together artists from diverse migrant and Indigenous communities who share a cultural connection to rice, Grained explores themes of migration, identity, and belonging. Drawing influence from the Rice Theory of Culture, the exhibition examines rice-based processes - harvesting, storing, planting, and communal sharing - as catalysts for interdependent ways of living.

Inspired by the Indonesian concept of lumbung - a communal rice barn that stores surplus harvest for collective benefit - Grained functions as a lumbung of stories. Each artist’s contribution becomes part of a collective resource, strengthening community bonds and offering a framework to think through how food shapes guidance, care, and cultural connection.

Through installation, sculpture, spatial intervention, mixed-media works, and public programming, Grained gathers cultural knowledge, lived experience, and memory into a living archive that continues to nourish beyond the exhibition itself.

By highlighting how a single ingredient connects people across borders, Grained positions rice as a powerful symbol of sustenance, resilience, and interdependence, opening fresh conversations about cultural experience in contemporary Australia and the wider Global South.

Location

Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon Street, Brunswick VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

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Website

https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/1/17/grained

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Exhibitions

Saturday 31 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

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

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

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

Group Show

Houses, Spouses, Crises and Chrises

Arts Project Australia Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 7 March

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

Taree Mackenzie

Wave Works

Neon Parc
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Nick Selenitsch

Amalgam

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 February

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

Arthur (Jalyirri) Dixon

Untitled

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

Ruth Howard

Woven Mantle

Benalla Art Gallery
Friday 14 November – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

Justin Andrews

PAINTING / SOUND

Castlemaine Art Museum
Saturday 1 November – Sunday 1 February

Munmun Dhamija

Ethereal Pathway Of Serenity

Red Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

Group Show

Queer Group Exhibition

Red Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

Matt Ware

Walls to Colour

Red Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Grained

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Group Show

DECADE

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

Nothing Stays

Backwoods Gallery
Monday 19 January – Saturday 31 January

Jordan Dymke

Who Am I?

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

one septillion stars

CAVES Gallery
Friday 30 January – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

Molten Tongues

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

Grained

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Grained is a cross-cultural group exhibition curated by Playte in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery and Nongkrong Festival. This project stitches together teachings of intergenerational and collective cultural practices, using rice as both nourishment and a vessel of shared histories across the Global South.

Bringing together artists from diverse migrant and Indigenous communities who share a cultural connection to rice, Grained explores themes of migration, identity, and belonging. Drawing influence from the Rice Theory of Culture, the exhibition examines rice-based processes - harvesting, storing, planting, and communal sharing - as catalysts for interdependent ways of living.

Inspired by the Indonesian concept of lumbung - a communal rice barn that stores surplus harvest for collective benefit - Grained functions as a lumbung of stories. Each artist’s contribution becomes part of a collective resource, strengthening community bonds and offering a framework to think through how food shapes guidance, care, and cultural connection.

Through installation, sculpture, spatial intervention, mixed-media works, and public programming, Grained gathers cultural knowledge, lived experience, and memory into a living archive that continues to nourish beyond the exhibition itself.

By highlighting how a single ingredient connects people across borders, Grained positions rice as a powerful symbol of sustenance, resilience, and interdependence, opening fresh conversations about cultural experience in contemporary Australia and the wider Global South.

Location

Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon Street, Brunswick VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/1/17/grained

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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