30 Sep Melbourne Art Fair Shares New Initiatives for 2025 Edition
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Under new director Melissa Loughnan, the fair will present commissions by Dawn Ng and Yona Lee, and introduce the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair.
Exhibition view of Yona Lee at Fine Arts, Sydney, February—March, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts, Sydney.
Melbourne Art Fair has announced highlights of its 18th edition, which will take place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 20 to 23 February 2025.
Sixty galleries will participate in the fair, which will occur annually under new Fair Director Melissa Loughnan.
Lougnan said the 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.’
The 2025 fair will feature new commissions by Singaporean artist Dawn Ng and Auckland-based artist Yona Lee.
In a statement, the fair said Ng will exhibit a moving image work ‘exploring the tenor and trajectory of time via a hypnotic cascade of falling colour’ in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).
With the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, Lee will present ‘a large-scale installation, calling into question what it means to make sculpture comprised of found objects in the networked digital age’.
These commissioned works will be donated to the partnering institutions following the fair.
The next Melbourne Art Fair will also showcase the Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair, which will launch as an independent event alongside the Melbourne Art Fair in 2027. The showcase at next year’s fair will feature 20 unrepresented artists and works by artists with Kaiela Arts, Baluk Arts, Perridak Arts, and The Torch.
Janina Harding, Senior Project Manager, Victorian First Peoples Art and Design Fair said, ‘We are working closely with First Peoples artists and organisations whose artwork and culture are unique to the South East, and we’re so excited to share and profile their incredible talent with Melbourne Art Fair collectors, buyers, and the sector more broadly.’
In addition to these initiatives, the fair will feature sections devoted to moving-image art, large-scale installations, experimental works, and conversations. —[O]
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