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

jpf.org.au

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Exhibitions

Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema

Nobuhiro Shimura

13 Sep - 1 Mar

Feature

Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Jennifer Yang

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

News

Melbourne Art Fair announces 2025 line up

Melbourne Art Fair has announced its 2025 line up, with 60 galleries and Indigenous art centres slated to feature alongside some major international commissions and public programs.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

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

In Pictures

Icons from Italy

Heide Museum of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster exhibition is unveiling the breadth and beauty of Italian modernism through design. With over 170 objects spanning sixty years, Molto Bello explores the cultural impact of this period of creativity and invention.

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