Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

ACMI is Australia’s national museum of film, TV, video games, digital culture and art – at the heart of Melbourne in Federation Square. Its museum is home to Australia’s premier moving image collection, spanning screen culture history and available to discover at its Australian Mediatheque. Visitors can explore its free, interactive Screen Worlds exhibition and an ever-changing program of world class exhibitions, including many Australian exclusives.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Federation Square, Flinders Street Melbourne VIC 3000

03 8663 2200

www.acmi.net.au

Mon–Sun 10am – 6pm

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Exhibitions

The Story of the Moving Image

Permanent Exhibition

11 Feb

News

Polka dot summer: The NGV announces Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition

The National Gallery of Victoria has unveiled their summer blockbuster exhibition for 2024–2025. Yayoi Kusama’s signature polka dots and pumpkins, along with world-premiere work, will appear in Australia’s largest retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist.

Art Guide Australia

Preview

Annika Harding paints through the fog

Annika Harding’s latest work at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, focuses on the Atherton Tablelands, exploring the tension between natural beauty, relentless meteorological forces, and the built environment that supports local agricultural communities.

Anita King

Preview

Parrtjima lights up Alice Springs

Parrtjima—the Northern Territory’s annual festival of lights at the Alice Springs Desert Park—is entering its ninth year, and this time the immersive festival’s focus is interconnectedness.

Sally Gearon

Feature

The apocalypse as imagination and resilience: Must-sees at the 24th Biennale of Sydney

This year’s Biennale of Sydney centres the “profound changes of the 21st century” from migration to diaspora to climate change—and how communities show perpetual resilience. From delicate kites to images of nuclear war, here’s our round up of what you can’t miss.

Art Guide Editors

Feature

Must-sees at this year’s Melbourne Art Fair

With over 60 booths presenting, this year’s Melbourne Art Fair doesn’t centre glitz or glam, but glimpses into sci-fi, realism, vibrant colour and Indigenous connections to land. Our editors have rounded up their top picks.

Art Guide Editors

Interview

Talking with the 24th Biennale of Sydney artistic directors Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero

“It’s a call for the celebration of the multiplicity of perspectives, and the gathering of different viewpoints.” Ahead of the Biennale’s opening this weekend, we talk with long-time collaborators Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero about how this year’s Biennale is one of celebration, not fatalism.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

Exhibitions