APSIG newsletter no. 61: July 2006

5th Asia-Pacific triennial of contemporary art

The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) will be the opening exhibition when the Queensland Art Gallery's second site, the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) opens to the public on Saturday, 2 December 2006. The Queensland Art Gallery will reopen at the same time after four months refurbishment

Situated at Kurilpa Point on the Brisbane River, GoMA will be the largest modern and contemporary art gallery in Australia. It will be 30 percent larger than the existing building just 200 metres away, which opened as the first stage of the Queensland Cultural Centre at South Bank in 2002.

GoMA will display the Gallery's collections of modern and contemporary Australian, Indigenous Australian, Asian, Pacific and international art while the pre-1970 collections will remain on display in the Queensland Art Gallery.

On display in both sites, APT5 will feature more than 300 works by 37 artists, and two multi-artist projects, from Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It will include a program of performance-based art and, for the first time, a cinema program, presented by the Australian Cinémathèque. The popular Kids' APT will return with a series of commissioned artist projects for children and a major children's festival.

Have a look!
Judy Gunning
Queensland Art Gallery