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Exhibitions

Saturday 2 May
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Darebin Art Prize 2026

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 20 June

Group Show

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 5 July

Sam Martin

Contact

Futures Gallery
Thursday 9 April – Saturday 9 May

Aleks Danko

A(GAP)E

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 14 June

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

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

Kait James

Kiss my Moom

Neon Parc
Friday 17 April – Saturday 16 May

Group Show

Future Creatives

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

Art + Language

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

yEAH / dUNNO

Jon Campbell

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 24 May

Group Show

Minimal

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

A New Universe—Architecture in Print

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 7 June

Lena Becerra

Xenobotany

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 11 April – Sunday 3 May

Jeff Raglus

Free Jazz

Boom Gallery
Thursday 23 April – Saturday 16 May

Yoko Georgiou

Flow

Boom Gallery
Thursday 23 April – Saturday 16 May

Adrianne Dimitrakakis

Golden Lands

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

Jo Joyce

The Everyday

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

B.Ballirò

Practica.

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

Kel Ward

Country Wide

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

Group Show

A Thousand Words

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

John Perceval

All That We Are

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 12 July

Simone Slee

Light Time

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 March – Sunday 28 June

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

De / formed

Five Walls
Friday 10 April – Saturday 2 May

Edwin Devril

seeing you at a distance

West Space
Saturday 21 March – Tuesday 5 May

Rob Mchaffie

Designer Shell

Daine Singer
Saturday 2 May – Saturday 30 May

Group Show

Octopus 26: Melange

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 11 April – Saturday 30 May

Moorina Bonini

We Were Never Meant to be Contained

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 17 April – Saturday 16 May

Julius von Bismarck

This is not the storm

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 17 April – Sunday 14 June

Group Show

Surface Tension

No Vacancy
Tuesday 28 April – Saturday 9 May

Aleks Danko

An Ecology of Ideas

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 18 April – Saturday 16 May

Rachael Robb

In Time

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 18 April – Saturday 16 May

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 2 May
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Darebin Art Prize 2026

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 20 June

Group Show

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 5 July

Sam Martin

Contact

Futures Gallery
Thursday 9 April – Saturday 9 May

Aleks Danko

A(GAP)E

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 14 June

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

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

Kait James

Kiss my Moom

Neon Parc
Friday 17 April – Saturday 16 May

Group Show

Future Creatives

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

Art + Language

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

yEAH / dUNNO

Jon Campbell

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 24 May

Group Show

Minimal

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

A New Universe—Architecture in Print

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 7 June

Lena Becerra

Xenobotany

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 11 April – Sunday 3 May

Jeff Raglus

Free Jazz

Boom Gallery
Thursday 23 April – Saturday 16 May

Yoko Georgiou

Flow

Boom Gallery
Thursday 23 April – Saturday 16 May

Adrianne Dimitrakakis

Golden Lands

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

Jo Joyce

The Everyday

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

B.Ballirò

Practica.

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

Kel Ward

Country Wide

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

Group Show

A Thousand Words

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 16 April – Sunday 3 May

John Perceval

All That We Are

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 12 July

Simone Slee

Light Time

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 March – Sunday 28 June

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

De / formed

Five Walls
Friday 10 April – Saturday 2 May

Edwin Devril

seeing you at a distance

West Space
Saturday 21 March – Tuesday 5 May

Rob Mchaffie

Designer Shell

Daine Singer
Saturday 2 May – Saturday 30 May

Group Show

Octopus 26: Melange

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 11 April – Saturday 30 May

Moorina Bonini

We Were Never Meant to be Contained

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 17 April – Saturday 16 May

Julius von Bismarck

This is not the storm

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 17 April – Sunday 14 June

Group Show

Surface Tension

No Vacancy
Tuesday 28 April – Saturday 9 May

Aleks Danko

An Ecology of Ideas

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 18 April – Saturday 16 May

Rachael Robb

In Time

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 18 April – Saturday 16 May

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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