Exhibitions


  • Under My Skin

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    June 7th, 2014 to July 5th, 2014

    Under my skin represents a selection of work drawing on four photographic series by Polixeni Papapetrou, one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists who has been exhibiting her photography since 1986 to an ever-growing audience and critical acclaim. The selection focuses on Papapetrou’s ‘masked’ series, i.e., those series in which the human ‘actor’ or actors in her photographs literally wear a mask.… Continued


  • SQUARE AU CARRÉ

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    May 22nd, 2014 to June 28th, 2014

    SQUARE AU CARRÉ’ ,  Galerie Le Carré d’Art, Centre Culturel Pôle Sud, Chartres de Bretagne, France

    Presented by Square magazine.


  • The Ghillies

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    April 8th, 2014 to June 15th, 2014

    Polixeni Papapetrou’s The Ghillies is presented in a solo exhitbion at Benalla Art gallery. Papapetrou engages part reality, part fantasy moving through the landscape, using the rich terrain as a backdrop for her narratives about the transitional space of childhood. Papapetrou’s art practice has involved an intimate collaboration with her children and their friends for over a decade. As they have grown and transformed, so too have the roles they perform and spaces they inhabit.… Continued


  • Collection Conversations: Childhood

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    April 1st, 2014 to March 30th, 2015

    Collection Conversations brings together artworks from the Museum’s encyclopedic permanent collection, allowing for an exploration of themes across times and geographies. Viewers are invited to investigate aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural juxtapositions among artworks that might not otherwise be exhibited together.

    This second in the series examines western representations of children and childhood objects from the Eighteenth Century until the present. The media presented here is diverse, from Winslow Homer’s popular illustrations of children and their activities from Harper’s Weekly to Polixeni Papapetrou’s contemporary restaging of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian photographs of costumed children.… Continued


  • Melbourne Now

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    November 21st, 2013 to March 23rd, 2014

    Combining the work of visual artists, sculptors, photographers, architects, publishers as well as industrial, fashion and jewellery designers, Melbourne Now, the National Gallery of Victoria’s major summer exhibition for 2013-14 aims to provide a snapshot of Melbourne’s renowned contemporary art scene.


  • Between Worlds

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    November 8th, 2013 to May 30th, 2014

    Between Worlds exhibited at Galerie Pavlova, Berlin