MAGMA

MAGMA is a Melbourne based contemporary art program. It is a gallery and dynamic platform for the promotion and exhibition of the visual arts in Australia. Situated in an iconic architectural setting, originally designed by renowned architect Tom Kovac, the Collingwood space is respected for producing impactful exhibition presentations and offers a cross cultural, multi disciplinary presentation of art.

Established in 2016, MAGMA exhibits and represents leading artists throughout the Asia Pacific region. MAGMA is respected for working with a deep commitment to artists, to support new works, foster careers and build opportunities outside the gallery setting. In addition to a dedicated exhibition program, the gallery participates in art fairs, commissioning, commercial projects, site specific art presentations as well as public art projects.

MAGMA

5 Bedford St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia

magmagalleries.com

Wed to Fri 10am–4pm,
Sat and Sun 11am–4pm.
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MAGMA

The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change?

Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.

Alexandra Crosby

Helen Mueller tells stories of the forest

Helen Mueller has been printmaking for 25 years, but moving to Hobart four years ago shifted her focus to the local natural environment. Now her delicate prints, made with materials foraged from the forest floor, are showing at Handmark Gallery.

Sally Gearon

Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When finally makes sense of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Tank. It is worth the plane flight.

In The Rites of When, Angelica Mesiti considers the rituals that may mark the seasons in our burning planet. The Tank has been waiting for art like this.

Joanna Mendelssohn