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Exhibitions

Saturday 5 September
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Other Worlds

Arts Project Australia Studio
Monday 13 July – Friday 25 September

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Jacquie Meng

I’ve got bells ringing in my big toe

West Space
Friday 7 August – Tuesday 8 September

Tia Ansell

Duality

Lon Gallery
Saturday 8 August – Saturday 5 September

Amanda Johnson

Enclosure Acts: New Landscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Kels O'Sullivan

Refractions

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

George Johnson

George Johnson: Centenary Exhibition

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 August – Saturday 5 September

Rebecca Fletcher

Cut From The Same Cloth

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Emma Sutherland

Inhale the Velvet Sky

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Ika Jumali and Isaac Hood

Dialogue: The surreal

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Hannah Goggs

Animalia

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Emmy Cooper Granville

Pretty Ugly

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Group Show

language to reach with

West Space
Saturday 22 August – Saturday 24 October

Caroline Walls

Night Light

Futures Gallery
Thursday 27 August – Saturday 26 September

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

An Afrofuturist exploration of climate change, land rights and the strength of West Africa's Ashanti people, who originate from present-day Ghana.

Multidisciplinary artist and musician Serwah Attafuah weaves past, present and future into an Afrofuturist vision of resilience and reclamation in The Darkness Between the Stars. Across five screens, female warriors rise from burning slave castles and shipwrecked colonial vessels, their glitch-patterned kente cloth celebrating Ghana’s matrilineal traditions. These avatars honour Yaa Asantewaa, the Queen Mother who led the Ashanti uprising against British forces in 1900, and embody a defiant march towards liberation.

Gold – sacred to Ghanaians as a bridge between ancestors, the living and future generations – anchors this work. Once exploited by colonisers who dubbed Ghana the ‘Gold Coast’, today 98% of Ghana’s gold remains controlled by global corporations. Attafuah’s frames, crafted from repurposed e-waste and painted gold, reference this legacy while pointing to Agbogbloshie, Accra’s infamous e-waste dump.

Infused with ‘Sakawa’ – Ghanaian internet magic – this speculative vision imagines technology and discarded materials as tools of empowerment. Using VFX, animation and 3D modelling, Attafuah’s art critiques historical and modern exploitation while envisioning a future reclaimed.

Location

ACMI
Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Date

Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

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Website

https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/serwah-attafuah-darkness-between-stars/

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Exhibitions

Saturday 5 September
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Other Worlds

Arts Project Australia Studio
Monday 13 July – Friday 25 September

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Jacquie Meng

I’ve got bells ringing in my big toe

West Space
Friday 7 August – Tuesday 8 September

Tia Ansell

Duality

Lon Gallery
Saturday 8 August – Saturday 5 September

Amanda Johnson

Enclosure Acts: New Landscapes

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

Kels O'Sullivan

Refractions

Boom Gallery
Thursday 13 August – Saturday 5 September

George Johnson

George Johnson: Centenary Exhibition

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 August – Saturday 5 September

Rebecca Fletcher

Cut From The Same Cloth

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Emma Sutherland

Inhale the Velvet Sky

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Ika Jumali and Isaac Hood

Dialogue: The surreal

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Hannah Goggs

Animalia

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Emmy Cooper Granville

Pretty Ugly

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 20 August – Sunday 6 September

Group Show

language to reach with

West Space
Saturday 22 August – Saturday 24 October

Caroline Walls

Night Light

Futures Gallery
Thursday 27 August – Saturday 26 September

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

An Afrofuturist exploration of climate change, land rights and the strength of West Africa's Ashanti people, who originate from present-day Ghana.

Multidisciplinary artist and musician Serwah Attafuah weaves past, present and future into an Afrofuturist vision of resilience and reclamation in The Darkness Between the Stars. Across five screens, female warriors rise from burning slave castles and shipwrecked colonial vessels, their glitch-patterned kente cloth celebrating Ghana’s matrilineal traditions. These avatars honour Yaa Asantewaa, the Queen Mother who led the Ashanti uprising against British forces in 1900, and embody a defiant march towards liberation.

Gold – sacred to Ghanaians as a bridge between ancestors, the living and future generations – anchors this work. Once exploited by colonisers who dubbed Ghana the ‘Gold Coast’, today 98% of Ghana’s gold remains controlled by global corporations. Attafuah’s frames, crafted from repurposed e-waste and painted gold, reference this legacy while pointing to Agbogbloshie, Accra’s infamous e-waste dump.

Infused with ‘Sakawa’ – Ghanaian internet magic – this speculative vision imagines technology and discarded materials as tools of empowerment. Using VFX, animation and 3D modelling, Attafuah’s art critiques historical and modern exploitation while envisioning a future reclaimed.

Location

ACMI
Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Date

Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Save to Calendar

Website

https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/serwah-attafuah-darkness-between-stars/

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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