2008
Scene 1
DAMP
15 March 2008 - 22 June 2008
Scene 1 is an installation by artist collective DAMP, on display in the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery at Heide Museum of Modern Art from 15 March – 22 June 2008.DAMP is a changing group of Melbourne artists which was established in 1995. The collective has earned a reputation for their thought-provoking and often irreverent performances, actions and exhibitions that explore the potential of working collaboratively.
A single mind
Rick Amor
22 March 2008 - 13 July 2008
Rick Amor is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. A single mind presents for the first time a complete survey of his paintings and works on paper from the 1960s to today.
Amor has exhibited professionally for over thirty years and this exhibition celebrates his artistic vision, offering a fulsome assessment of his painted oeuvre.
Hinterlands
Albert Tucker's landscapes 1960-1975
28 June 2008 - 22 February 2009
Hinterlands examines Albert Tucker's new vision of his homeland, with particular emphasis on works depicting the bush around his property in rural Hurstbridge on Melbourne’s fringes; the distinctive Gippsland landscape off the coast of south-east Victoria; and the spectacular Barmah Forest in the north of the state.Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion
Di Stasio Ideas Competition
28 June 2008 - 3 August 2008
A long-running campaign to showcase Australian architecture and encourage the replacement of the aging Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has been reactivated with Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition.Order and dissent
works from the Heide Collection
1 July 2008 - 1 March 2009
Order and dissent investigates the dialogue and debate generated by the originality, diversity and non-conformity of a selection of works from the Heide Collection.The world in painting
26 July 2008 - 9 November 2008
The world in painting reveals the subjects and approaches that make painting vital for twelve artists from Australia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.Butterflown of love
Fernando Palma Rodríguez
7 August 2008 - 26 October 2008
Created for the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, Butterflown of love is international artist-in-residence Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s offering to the landscape.COVERS
Fiona Abicare
1 November 2008 - 22 February 2009
In COVERS, Abicare turns her attention to the architecture of the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, transforming it into an opulent interior that is reminiscent of a 1940s Hollywood stage-set. Influenced by modernist art, design and architecture, and period fashions of the 1930s and 1940s, this project also responds to the history and identity of Heide.The art of existence
Les Kossatz
22 November 2008 - 9 March 2009
The art of existence is the first exhibition to review Les Kossatz’s contribution to Australian art in a career that spans the 1960s to today. Kossatz’s consistent experimental approach to media and techniques is evident in works that reveal a lifelong fascination with the human temperament and the nature of existence, and a concern for the landscape.
