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Exhibitions

Thursday 6 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Grant Nimmo

Spirits of the Green Woods

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Matt Arbuckle

Public Capacity

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Eliza Hutchison

When are the aliens coming?

CAVES Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Saturday 22 August

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Martin Smith

The Elegant Hope

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 8 August

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

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Group Show

Pith and Seed

KINGS Artist-Run
Thursday 23 July – Sunday 16 August

Marie Hagerty

The Human Comedy

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Winter Selection: Part Two

Lennox St. Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 15 August

Warsan Mohammed

To Ourselves

Hillvale Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 23 August

Kate Beynon

Talismanic: the Robe & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Jackson Farley

The Void View

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Pat Harry

Pat Harry

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Other Worlds

Arts Project Australia Studio
Monday 13 July – Friday 25 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

Thursday 6 August
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Spilt Milk (and hard honey)

West Space
Saturday 13 June – Saturday 8 August

Grant Nimmo

Spirits of the Green Woods

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Matt Arbuckle

Public Capacity

Daine Singer
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 22 August

Moya McKenna

Picture in a window

Neon Parc
Friday 31 July – Saturday 5 September

Eliza Hutchison

When are the aliens coming?

CAVES Gallery
Saturday 1 August – Saturday 22 August

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

The Solid Mandala

Arc One Gallery
Wednesday 8 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Martin Smith

The Elegant Hope

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 8 August

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

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Group Show

Pith and Seed

KINGS Artist-Run
Thursday 23 July – Sunday 16 August

Marie Hagerty

The Human Comedy

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Winter Selection: Part Two

Lennox St. Gallery
Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 15 August

Warsan Mohammed

To Ourselves

Hillvale Gallery
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 23 August

Kate Beynon

Talismanic: the Robe & Friends

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Jackson Farley

The Void View

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 9 July – Saturday 29 August

Pat Harry

Pat Harry

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 15 August

Group Show

Other Worlds

Arts Project Australia Studio
Monday 13 July – Friday 25 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

Google

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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