The Japan Foundation Gallery

The Japan Foundation Gallery brings a wide variety of exhibitions and public programs that explore Japan’s diverse identity to Australian audiences throughout the year.

The Gallery showcases artworks by Japanese artists and artists of other backgrounds, with exhibitions and accompanying event programs ranging from traditional to contemporary Japanese art and artisanal work, including printmaking, dyeing, photography, painting, ceramics, installations and more.

The Japan Foundation Gallery

Level 4, Central at Central Park, 28 Broadway Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia

02 8239 0055

sydney.jpf.go.jp/gallery

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Exhibitions

Crafting Life: Stories from the Japanese Studio

Yukiko Tsuchiya, Hikoju Makie,Ōtsuchi Sashiko

11 Apr - 27 Sep

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Barbara Kruger: THINK OF ME THINKING OF YOU

For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.

Louise Martin-Chew

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The Hadley’s Art Prize Winner is announced

New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.

Art Guide Australia

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Listening with Discomfort and Possibility

For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.

Josephine Mead

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Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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From the archive: art and the environment

In the last 25 years, there have been few themes as omnipresent as the environment, especially when we look at Australian art. Join us as we revisit pieces from our archive that track artists’ ongoing fascination with the natural world and its changing landscape.

Art Guide Australia

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The 2025 NATSIAA winners are announced

Gaypalani Waṉambi has just won the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards of its kind.

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