Exhibitions

Monash University Museum of Art presents a dynamic program of exhibitions focusing on contemporary Australian and international art since the 1960s. Exhibitions range from newly commissioned projects to surveys of significant artists, thematic group exhibitions, research-based projects and explorations of the Monash University Collection.

Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners

Richard Bell
Richard Bell, An uppity school girl 2008

5 February - 13 April 2013

The first in-depth presentation in Melbourne of the work of Brisbane-based Indigenous artist and activist Richard Bell, this exhibition includes significant early works, iconoclastic ‘Bell’s Theorem’ paintings, videos and his collaborative mural with Emory Douglas. Bell has also realised a major new installation as the setting for a series of public programs. Read more...

Emily Floyd: This Place Will Always Be Open

Emily Floyd
Students In Dissent (SID), Melbourne
poster, 1969

4 October 2012 - May 2013

As the inaugural annual sculpture commission in the Ian Potter Sculpture Court, Emily Floyd: This Place Will Always Be Open explores the role and legacy of the university campus – and museum – as a site of political potential.

Drawing its title and conceptual framework from the experimental student struggles at Monash University during the 1960s and ’70s, and incorporating a series of activities, events, debates, workshops and publications, Floyd’s work serves as a space for social encounter – reinvoking a utopian spirit that is open, inclusive, free, provisional and generative.  Read more...