Visual Art

A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia showcases the pioneering work of Bauhaus power couple Anni and Josef Albers.

As the feminist trickster of Australian art, Julie Rrap is still pushing boundaries in her work after four decades.

This year’s Archibald Prize was won by Laura Jones with a mix of awkwardness and composure. After more than 100 years, the country’s most popular art prize is like a parasocial family album.

The biggest retrospective of Judy Watson’s 40 years of practice, mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri at QAGOMA, is a visceral experience of bringing truth to the surface.

James Elazzi first saw Frida Kahlo’s painting Sin Esperanza (Without Hope) when he was in Year 7 – and he was transfixed.

Geelong Gallery’s thoughtfully curated exhibition of prints by Margaret Preston and Cressida Campbell challenges the inferior status of domestic art – especially if it’s by women.

In A World Undone at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nicholas Mangan explores the complicated histories of the materials he uses to show how the world is being destroyed.

Nina Sanadze’s powerful sculptures – now showing in a major survey at NGV Australia – grapple with the brutal histories and emotional contradictions of public monuments.

Maria Madeira, the first artist to represent Timor-Leste at the Venice Biennale, draws on a heritage of abundance to investigate the darkest histories.

Angela Brennan’s abstract paintings are vibrant explorations of form that hover between emergence and imminent collapse.