Current Exhibitions

Sunday's Kitchen


Earthenware, Heide I kitchenmantlepiece
Reeds' Personal Effects Collection
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Food & Living at Heide

16 March 2010 - 17 October 2010

Through previously unpublished photographs, archival material, artwork and original recipes, this exhibition explores life behind-the-scenes at Heide from 1935 to 1981 when it  was a celebrated haven for progressive modernist artists and the personal Eden of  art benefactors John and Sunday Reed.

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Up Close

Larry Clark
New York City―42nd St.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra<br>Purchased 1980
Image courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
© Larry Clark

Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang

31 July 2010 - 31 October 2010

Up Close traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems (1949–1980), and situates her work alongside  that of other photo-based artists from the 1970s and 1980s: Larry Clark and Nan Goldin from New York, and William Yang from Sydney.

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Shifting Continuities

Christoph Dahlhausen
Study for intervention
© Christoph Dahlhausen

Christoph Dahlhausen and David Thomas

31 July 2010 - 31 October 2010

This project by Christoph Dahlhausen (Germany) and David Thomas (Australia), their second collaboration, takes the form of a series of minimalist and subtle interventions in the transitory spaces and often overlooked zones at Heide.

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Affinities

Pat Brassington
Forget Your Perfect Offering
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

The Heide Collection

17 April 2010 - 12 September 2010

This exhibition launches  Heide II — originally Heide founders John and Sunday Reed’s modernist home — as the new dedicated gallery space for the Heide Collection. See significant works by artists associated with Heide’s history, including Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester, Albert Tucker, Mirka Mora and Charles Blackman, together with more recent acquisitions.

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Dylan Martorell

Dylan Martorell
Snared Ruan

Musique Povera

31 July 2010 - 14 November 2010

Martorell presents a number of his hand-made musical instruments built from found materials such as discarded tins, plant matter, wood, rocks and metal, and displays a series of drawings on plywood that also function as musical compositions.

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Pan in Armour

Albert Tucker
Untitled (Bushranger with shield)
Private Collection, Melbourne
© Barbara Tucker

Albert Tucker's Bushrangers

17 April 2010 - 12 September 2010

The theme of bushranging sparked Albert Tucker’s imagination in the 1950s after nearly a decade away from Australia, and Pan in Armour examines his distinctive paintings of both historical and fictional characters.

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Affinities

Pat Brassington
Forget Your Perfect Offering
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
The Heide Collection
17 April-12 September 2010