Art Guide Australia

Art Guide Australia is a print and online magazine exploring contemporary Australian art. Our editors and our team of writers and contributors know the local art scene and keep you informed through engaging and thoughtful articles. We speak with artists, curators and gallerists to learn more about their ideas and share them with an audience who want to know more about Australian art and what to see. We’re here to support a vibrant and diverse arts community and our aim is to provide independent, considered editorial coverage alongside a comprehensive picture of what’s happening in the visual arts across Australia.

A Note From the Editor November/December 2025

Art Guide Australia

Issue 158 Contributors

Adelaide/Kaurna Country

Canberra/Ngambri Country

Melbourne/Naarm

Wollongong/Dharawal Country

Launceston/Stoney Creek Country

Adelaide/Kaurna Country

Sydney/Gadigal Country

Canberra/Ngambri Country

Fremantle/Walyalup

Sydney/Gadigal Country

Sense of Self • HOSSEI’s installations, sculptures, costumes and performances brim with colour and spectacle. Yet beneath the riot lies a quiet ethos of care and togetherness.

Olafur Eliasson

WEATHERING THE STORM • In a post-referendum nation where hope and healing can feel out of reach, the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial grounds audiences in Country, community and storytelling.

FAULT LINES • What do borders really protect—or confine? Turkish artist Hale Tenger’s first museum survey at the Art Gallery of Western Australia probes the fragile lines between power, violence and freedom.

20 QUESTIONS WITH Agus Wijaya • Multidisciplinary Indonesian artist of Chinese background Agus Wijaya is used to straddling multiple worlds—through his identity but also through his work. Exploring the tensions that exist within influences, cultures and beliefs, Wijaya’s practice draws from sacred places, everyday things, and his childhood in Cianjur, a small town in West Java, mediated by living in Australia. Ahead of his solo show at Sydney’s Stanley Street Gallery, we asked Wijaya 20 questions about his first art discoveries, what ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ mean to his craft and what we can expect from his upcoming exhibition Red Milk.

Written on the Body • To mark the presentation of Nan Goldin’s The ballad of sexual dependency at the Bank Art Museum Moree, Jonno Revanche reflects on the power of the landmark photographic series—and the way the work’s visceral portrayal of subjects that have survived the narratives our culture has imposed on them—has endured.

What Lies Beneath • For artist Joel Sherwood Spring, working in video offers an entrée, with accessible technologies and immediacy, to his ongoing fields of enquiry about identity and capital.

In Hand • In his latest series of works, Melbourne artist Caleb Shea creates a visual narrative through a sequence of sculptures.

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

Take Two • Thomas Demand’s ambitious architectural intervention is simultaneously the 38th Kaldor Public Art Project (and Demand’s second), and a showcase of some of the many works John Kaldor donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Victoria Exhibitions

New South Wales Exhibitions

Queensland Exhibitions

Australian Capital Territory Exhibitions

Tasmania Exhibitions

South Australia Exhibitions

Western Australia Exhibitions

Northern Territory Exhibitions

VICTORIA

MELBOURNE CBD

FITZROY/COLLINGWOOD

GREATER MELBOURNE

NORTHERN MELBOURNE AND SOUTHERN MELBOURNE

SYDNEY

SYDNEY CITY

DARLINGHURST / REDFERN/WATERLOO & PADDINGTON

GREATER SYDNEY & NEW SOUTH WALES

GREATER BRISBANE &...