What's On 1 - Melbourne

ACCA The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art gallery. ACCA is a Kunsthalle. It is the only major public art gallery in Australia focused on commissioning rather than collecting.
http://www.accaonline.org.au/

Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm
Weekends & Public Holidays 11am - 6pm
Monday by appointment

111 Sturt Street
Southbank
Victoria 3006

Current exhibition of works by artist David Noonan, and Swedish artist Johanna Billing and Rosslynd Piggott. till 27th Sept.

from 9th Oct "The Dwelling"
9 October 2009– 29 November 2009

International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange. Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.

Sound Files
http://www.accaonline.org.au/SoundFiles
Hear from artists and curators about the exhibitions and the art at ACCA.
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NGV
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/

NGV International
180 St Kilda Rd
10am–5pm Closed Tuesdays
All exhibitions
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvinternational/

Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire
is open daily 10am–5pm and until 9pm every Wednesday and on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October. Don’t miss 24-hour Dalí on Saturday 3 October when Dalí will be open all night!

Building a Collection:
Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings
21 August 2009 – 31 January 2010
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/buildingacollection/index.html

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NGV - Ian Potter Centre
Federation Square

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/clemenger2009/
17 September – 7 February 2010

The 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award is the final exhibition in the series of triennials established by Joan and Peter Clemenger through a generous gift to the NGV in 1991. Spanning nearly twenty years, the Award has focused the public’s attention on the achievements of a diverse range of distinguished Australian artists.

Long Distance Vision:
Three Australian Photographers
28 August – 21 February 2010

This exhibition will consider the work of three contemporary Australian photographers Christine Godden, Max Pam and Matthew Sleeth, who have photographed not only aspects of the everyday at home but venture forth in the world with the delighted, but not uncritical, eyes of the traveller.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/longdistancevision/