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Exhibitions

Sunday 1 June
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

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Albert Tucker

Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 31 August

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

Permanent Collection

Geelong Gallery
Sunday 9 March – Sunday 17 August

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Group Show

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July

Tina Stefanou

You Can't See Speed

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 4 April – Monday 9 June

Group Show

Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 July

Teho Ropeyarn

Atagu Alumu

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 8 March – Sunday 15 June

Phuong Ngo

Inheritance

West Space
Saturday 12 April – Saturday 7 June

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Escher X nendo

A House for Escher

NGV International
Saturday 1 March – Monday 9 June

Lee Bul

Untitled

NGV International
Thursday 1 August – Friday 1 August

Mark Raphael Baker

The Things You Cannot See: Photography of Mark Raphael Baker

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 1 April – Sunday 6 July

Group Show

Chutzpah: Spirit. Recollection. Self

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 1 May – Sunday 27 July

Group Show

1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 11 April – Sunday 8 June

Amber Stokie

Layers Of Life

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

James Price

Higher Frequency Medicine

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

Group Show

Big Smart

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 12 April – Sunday 8 June

Group Show

ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain

Burrinja Gallery
Saturday 24 May – Sunday 13 July

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

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Exhibitions

Sunday 1 June
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

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Albert Tucker

Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 15 March – Sunday 31 August

Izabela Pluta

Lumina

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 5 October

Group Show

Permanent Collection

Geelong Gallery
Sunday 9 March – Sunday 17 August

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Group Show

TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July

Tina Stefanou

You Can't See Speed

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 4 April – Monday 9 June

Group Show

Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 July

Teho Ropeyarn

Atagu Alumu

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 8 March – Sunday 15 June

Phuong Ngo

Inheritance

West Space
Saturday 12 April – Saturday 7 June

Serwah Attafuah

The Darkness Between the Stars

ACMI
Tuesday 11 March – Sunday 1 June

Escher X nendo

A House for Escher

NGV International
Saturday 1 March – Monday 9 June

Lee Bul

Untitled

NGV International
Thursday 1 August – Friday 1 August

Mark Raphael Baker

The Things You Cannot See: Photography of Mark Raphael Baker

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 1 April – Sunday 6 July

Group Show

Chutzpah: Spirit. Recollection. Self

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 1 May – Sunday 27 July

Group Show

1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 11 April – Sunday 8 June

Amber Stokie

Layers Of Life

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

James Price

Higher Frequency Medicine

Boom Gallery
Thursday 22 May – Saturday 14 June

Group Show

Big Smart

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 12 April – Sunday 8 June

Group Show

ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain

Burrinja Gallery
Saturday 24 May – Sunday 13 July

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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