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.
The 2025 iteration of the now-annual fair is under new leadership, with Melissa Loughnan at the helm as fair director. “Melbourne Art Fair continues to hold an essential role in growing the Australian art market, representing the most comprehensive and considered overview of the region’s thriving contemporary art scene for 36 years,” Loughnan says. “The now-annual fair remains an exceptional showcase of Australia and its neighbouring regions’ most significant galleries and, since 2022, Indigenous-owned art centres, as a progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas.”
There will be two international commissions at the fair. The first, from Singaporean multi-disciplinary artist Dawn Ng, is a moving image work exploring the tenor and trajectory of time via a hypnotic cascade of falling colour. The second is a large-scale installation from Auckland-based artist Yona Lee that calls into question what it means to make sculpture composed of found objects in the networked digital age.
Another key element of the 2025 fair is the introduction of the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair, which will debut its showcase exhibition ahead of a full-scale launch in 2027. The fair will feature the work of 20 unrepresented Victorian First Peoples artists, along with Kaiela Arts, Baluk Arts, Perridak Arts and The Torch. Vicki Couzens, chair of the Creative Victoria First Peoples Directions Circle said, “The 2025 Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair showcase is going to celebrate First Peoples artists and designers from across the state – and it’s the first time we’ve had a showcase survey of artworks in the one space. We’re excited to see this important initiative make its debut at Melbourne Art Fair, and for it to grow in years to come.”
More information can be found here, and the full 2025 program with exhibiting artists will be announced in January 2025.
Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
20—23 February 2025
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