Heide Museum of Modern Art
Heide Museum of Modern Art is a unique space – a synthesis of indoor and outdoor environments, a place of modern and contemporary art and design and a rich and colourful art heritage and social history.
Located just 15 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD , Heide is one of Australia’s leading public art museums and offers a tranquil, surprising and always stimulating, place to visit.
Opening Hours
Heide is open 10am-5pm, closed Mondays. Check heide.com.au for special opening hours.
Price
Adult $12, Senior $10, Concession $8 Gardens & Sculpture Park FREE
Wheelchair Access
Heide is open 10am-5pm, closed Mondays. Check heide.com.au for special opening hours.
Price
Adult $12, Senior $10, Concession $8 Gardens & Sculpture Park FREE
Wheelchair Access
Yes
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
The notorious Ern Malley Affair of 1943–44 was Australia’s greatest literary hoax and its impact on Australian cultural history has resonated for more than sixty years. This exhibition explores through a range of artworks, original documents and publications this remarkable tale of deception, which was the brainchild of two young Sydney poets Harold Stewart and James McAuley.
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1940s Melbourne: Photographs by Albert Tucker presents an artist’s view of Melbourne during a tumultuous decade, bringing together over 50 photographs, many that are new to the public realm, together with related paintings and archival material.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality by Melbourne artist Paul Yore is a fantastical insight into contemporary consumer culture. Paul Yore is presenting a new, site-specific version of an installation made from numerous everyday throwaway items, both natural and artificial. Glittery psychedelia, plastic objects, fake flowers and real branches are intricately organised into shrine-like arran
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Kathy Temin is a critically-acclaimed Melbourne-based artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past twenty years. This survey of Temin’s work will consider her contribution to Australian art, achieved through an individual and biographical synthesis of materials and attachment to art, history and consumer culture.
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The Powerhouse Museum travelling exhibition Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia, presented in Melbourne by Connex, explores how modernism transformed Australian culture from 1917 to 1967, a period of great social, economic, political and technological change.
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Narelle Jubelin’s exhibition Cannibal Tours is a contemporary companion to Modern times and proposes an encounter with modernism through the artist’s own practice and the photographic archive of Albert Tucker.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
The art of existence is a major survey exhibition that reviews the 40 year career of artist Les Kossatz. A practitioner who has worked in painting, stained glass, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and installation, Kossatz has taken a consistently experimental approach to media and techniques.
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Order and dissent investigates the dialogue and debate generated by the originality, diversity and non-conformity of a selection of works from the Heide Collection.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
In COVERS , Abicare turns her attention to the architecture of the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, transforming it into an opulent interior that is reminiscent of a 1940s Hollywood stage-set. Influenced by modernist art, design and architecture, and period fashions of the 1930s and 1940s, this project also responds to the history and identity of Heide.
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Hinterlands examines Albert Tucker’s new vision of his homeland, with particular emphasis on works depicting the bush around his property in rural Hurstbridge on Melbourne’s fringes; the distinctive Gippsland landscape off the coast of south-east Victoria; and the spectacular Barmah Forest in the north of the state.
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The world in painting reveals the subjects and approaches that make painting vital for twelve artists from Australia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
Created for the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, Butterflown of love is international artist-in-residence Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s offering to the landscape.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
A long-running campaign to showcase Australian architecture and encourage the replacement of the aging Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been reactivated with Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
Rick Amor has exhibited professionally for over thirty years, and has developed a reputation as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary figurative painters. A single mind celebrates Amor’s artistic vision, offering for the first time a complete assessment of his painted oeuvre, from the 1960s to the present day.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
Scene 1 is an installation by artist collective DAMP , on display in the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery at Heide Museum of Modern Art from 15 March – 22 June 2008.
Gallery: Heide Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition comprises over fifty portraits and self-portraits by and of the artists and associates of the Heide circle during the development of modernism in Australia. It also considers the wider context of the main participants in this group, and the role played by other gathering places and creative hubs such as the Boyd’s Murrumbeena Pottery and the Kismet Library in Fitzroy.
