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Exhibitions

Wednesday 5 November
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Stephen Benwell

People Now: Recent Ceramics and Paintings

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 15 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Eternal Oblivion death and the afterlife

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 23 August – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Chroma II

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Artists of Yirrikala

Yuṯa Ganydjarr

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyangulya Katie Nalgood

Friends in Flocks

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Jessie Rose Ford

Re-visiting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Samuel O’Malley

Knocking From Below

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyssa Braid and Dan Go

It’s Mothman’s world, we’re just living in it

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Myles Burgess

Still Drifting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nancy Cover

Flourish

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Trove: Contemporary Jewellery

Craft
Saturday 27 September – Saturday 8 November

David Meggs Hooke

Finding Flow

Backwoods Gallery
Saturday 1 November – Sunday 23 November

Man Ray and Max Dupain

Untitled

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 6 August – Sunday 9 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

Grace Wood

A Garden is a Mother

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 July – Sunday 16 November

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

Group Show

The Luminosity Series

West Space
Saturday 23 August – Wednesday 26 November

Group Show

Various Small Fires

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 31 October – Saturday 13 December

Tschabalala Self

Skin Tight

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

Dale Frank

Come on cuz, better luck next time

Neon Parc
Friday 10 October – Saturday 8 November

Adrian De Vries

To Clear A Path Forward

CAVES Gallery
Friday 24 October – Saturday 15 November

Wanapati Yunupiŋu

Ŋäṉarr – Tongue of Flame

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Thursday 27 November

Wen Pham

Catalyst

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 17 October – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Group Exhibition

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 4 November – Saturday 22 November

Tom Polo

Bodycave

Station Gallery
Saturday 25 October – Saturday 22 November

Sarah Contos

Vertical Hold

Station Gallery
Saturday 18 October – Saturday 15 November

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

The Charge That Binds celebrates the dynamism, vitality and power of natural phenomena and the more-than-human world, reminding us of what is at stake at a time of ecological emergency. Infused with both optimism and grief, the exhibition draws together works that celebrate a world composed of multifaceted, multispecies relations and pulses – foregrounding and reimaging modes of relationality and connection beyond the disruptive, extractive logic of capital.

The Charge That Binds presents recent artworks by Australian and international artists, alongside several key new commissions, traversing a broad range of mediums including painting, sculpture, moving image, sound and choreography. This lively assembly of practices celebrates and cultivates interdependency and reciprocity across difference in both a poetic and pragmatic register.

Grappling with the entwined issues of ongoing climate change and entrenched social inequity, works presented conjure new (and old) stories about our interconnectedness with the living world and each other, underscored by a recognition that natural exploitation, cultural domination and territorial occupation are often part of ongoing colonial processes and thinking.

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of experimental workshops, discussions, performances and pedagogical investigations addressing the role of artists and art institutions in fostering collaboration, collective action and new imaginaries in response to our planetary emergency. The Climate Aware Creative Practices Network will host the Relational Ecologies Laboratory throughout the course of the exhibition, culminating in an intensive two-day program of talks, discussions and workshops in late-February 2025.

The Charge That Binds adopts a collective curatorial model, with oversight from a curatorial advisory group including Associate Professor Michelle Antoinette, Art History and Theory program at Monash University; Professor Brian Martin, artist and Director of Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab; Professor Peta Rake, Director of University of Queensland Art Museum; and Professor Naomi Stead, Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University.

Location

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt Street, Southbank VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 5 November
2025

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Stephen Benwell

People Now: Recent Ceramics and Paintings

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 15 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Eternal Oblivion death and the afterlife

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 23 August – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Chroma II

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Carla McRae & Morgan Blue

Blooming And Buzzing Confusion

Boom Gallery
Thursday 16 October – Saturday 8 November

Artists of Yirrikala

Yuṯa Ganydjarr

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyangulya Katie Nalgood

Friends in Flocks

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Jessie Rose Ford

Re-visiting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Samuel O’Malley

Knocking From Below

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nyssa Braid and Dan Go

It’s Mothman’s world, we’re just living in it

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Myles Burgess

Still Drifting

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Nancy Cover

Flourish

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 23 October – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Trove: Contemporary Jewellery

Craft
Saturday 27 September – Saturday 8 November

David Meggs Hooke

Finding Flow

Backwoods Gallery
Saturday 1 November – Sunday 23 November

Man Ray and Max Dupain

Untitled

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 6 August – Sunday 9 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

Grace Wood

A Garden is a Mother

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 July – Sunday 16 November

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

Group Show

The Luminosity Series

West Space
Saturday 23 August – Wednesday 26 November

Group Show

Various Small Fires

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 31 October – Saturday 13 December

Tschabalala Self

Skin Tight

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 September – Sunday 23 November

Dale Frank

Come on cuz, better luck next time

Neon Parc
Friday 10 October – Saturday 8 November

Adrian De Vries

To Clear A Path Forward

CAVES Gallery
Friday 24 October – Saturday 15 November

Wanapati Yunupiŋu

Ŋäṉarr – Tongue of Flame

Tolarno Galleries
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 8 November

Group Show

Legacy 2025 - Part II

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 22 October – Thursday 27 November

Wen Pham

Catalyst

Outré Gallery Fitzroy
Friday 17 October – Sunday 9 November

Group Show

Group Exhibition

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 4 November – Saturday 22 November

Tom Polo

Bodycave

Station Gallery
Saturday 25 October – Saturday 22 November

Sarah Contos

Vertical Hold

Station Gallery
Saturday 18 October – Saturday 15 November

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

The Charge That Binds celebrates the dynamism, vitality and power of natural phenomena and the more-than-human world, reminding us of what is at stake at a time of ecological emergency. Infused with both optimism and grief, the exhibition draws together works that celebrate a world composed of multifaceted, multispecies relations and pulses – foregrounding and reimaging modes of relationality and connection beyond the disruptive, extractive logic of capital.

The Charge That Binds presents recent artworks by Australian and international artists, alongside several key new commissions, traversing a broad range of mediums including painting, sculpture, moving image, sound and choreography. This lively assembly of practices celebrates and cultivates interdependency and reciprocity across difference in both a poetic and pragmatic register.

Grappling with the entwined issues of ongoing climate change and entrenched social inequity, works presented conjure new (and old) stories about our interconnectedness with the living world and each other, underscored by a recognition that natural exploitation, cultural domination and territorial occupation are often part of ongoing colonial processes and thinking.

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of experimental workshops, discussions, performances and pedagogical investigations addressing the role of artists and art institutions in fostering collaboration, collective action and new imaginaries in response to our planetary emergency. The Climate Aware Creative Practices Network will host the Relational Ecologies Laboratory throughout the course of the exhibition, culminating in an intensive two-day program of talks, discussions and workshops in late-February 2025.

The Charge That Binds adopts a collective curatorial model, with oversight from a curatorial advisory group including Associate Professor Michelle Antoinette, Art History and Theory program at Monash University; Professor Brian Martin, artist and Director of Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab; Professor Peta Rake, Director of University of Queensland Art Museum; and Professor Naomi Stead, Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University.

Location

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt Street, Southbank VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/the-charge-that-binds/

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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