3
Aug
–
30
Aug
Steen Foege
Danish Painter Steen Foege’s explores landscapes beyond reality, creating familiar yet imagined places that invite viewers to reconnect with their own memories, emotions, and dreams.
Steen Foege’s work is inspired by those moments when nature seems larger than ourselves, when light breaks through the clouds, when the sky opens up, or when a certain atmosphere suddenly touches something deep within us.
18
Jul
–
21
Aug
WINTER GROUP SHOW
Winter Group Show, featuring a curated selection of works from artists:
Jessica Eun Kyoung Choi
Mauro Llanas
Llael McDonald
Jessica Olpp
Jesse Thompson
Indiana Williams
Past:
Queer Nights at Nightingale: Visual Art Exhibition
5 June – 26 June, 2026
HOLD STILL: A STUDY OF SOULS
7 April – 30 May, 2026
Artists Include: Tashi Columbro, Olaf Hajek, Alexey Kondakov, Mauro Llanas, Daria Petrilli, Sally Ryan, and Ben Ryan
Portraiture remains a primary site of inquiry among these contemporary artists. To study the face is not just to capture a likeness, but to consider how we see one another, how we recognise each other, and how we come to understand who someone is.
The present moment gives this inquiry renewed urgency. In the wake of what has been widely described as a global epidemic of loneliness, marked by reduced social contact, rising psychological distress, and a decline in perceived connection and wellbeing, the face returns as a critical site of presence and relation.
Yet our relationship to the face is undergoing a strange transformation, passing through the uncanny valley of AI, deepfakes, virtual reality, digital filters, and the latest in cosmetic procedures. No longer a stable or entirely trustworthy marker of identity, it can be altered, reproduced, and reimagined. Technology has never been so life-like, nor so deeply embedded in our lives, and what we see is not always real.
At the same time, identity itself is shifting. Gender and appearance are increasingly fluid, performative, and androgynous, while social and political frameworks still reduce identity to surface-level traits such as race or physiognomy. This exhibition invites a more expansive view, one that understands identity as layered, complex, and in flux.
Perhaps a show about portraiture and the human face today is also asking: why face the present at all, when it so often feels hostile, brutal, and irrational? Is it even possible? Or is it something we can only do through the many faces that reflect it?
To study the face today is not only to look at others, but to reconsider the frameworks through which recognition becomes possible and to ask what it means to see, and to be seen.
Olaf Hajek, Fragile Bloom
3 February – 9 March., 2026
We are delighted to announce Fragile Bloom, an exhibition by celebrated artist Olaf Hajek. As one of Germany’s most renowned illustrators, Hajek has developed a highly distinctive and frequently awarded visual language.
Fragile Bloom marks Hajek’s first solo exhibition in Australia.
Fragile Bloom brings together works from different periods, forming a multi-layered visual landscape in which human figures, nature and memory intertwine. Faces dissolve into floral structures, bodies move in rhythm with organic patterns, and identities appear fluid rather than fixed.
The paintings explore moments of connection — between human and environment, strength and vulnerability, presence and disappearance. Dance and movement become metaphors for transformation, while ornamental details and natural forms suggest both protection and permeability. Figures seem to emerge from blossoms, clouds or night skies, only to fade again, suspended between becoming and dissolving.
Bloom, as a state rather than a fixed form, runs quietly through the exhibition: a moment of opening that holds both vitality and fragility. Fragile Bloom speaks of hope without certainty, of resilience without hardness — an invitation to encounter tenderness as a form of strength, and vulnerability as a space of deep connection.
– Olaf Hajek
Alexey kondakov, Reciprocity
6 January – 2 February, 2026
Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov unveils a series of works that reimagine how the past and present coexist within the modern world. Known for blending figures from classical painting with scenes of everyday city life, Kondakov creates compositions where art history meets the pulse of contemporary culture. His images suggest that beauty and meaning can be found as easily in a morning commute as in a Renaissance chapel.
In this latest collection, Kondakov continues his exploration of myth, memory, and urban experience. By setting timeless characters amid concrete streets and neon light, he highlights the shared humanity that links us across centuries. The resulting works are both grounded and ethereal — familiar yet dreamlike — revealing quiet stories of grace, longing, and connection that transcend time itself.
Embodiment of Summer
5 November – January 5, 2026
Embodiment of Summer brings together diverse voices of emerging and established artists. Across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the artists celebrate summer’s essence — its joy, freedom, and creative vitality.
This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the season’s sensory richness and emotional resonance: the bloom of gardens and streetscapes in light, the gatherings that spill into long, sun-warmed evenings, and the beauty found in moments of rest and renewal. Together, they form a vibrant portrait of connection to place, to memory, and to the shared experience of living within the warmth and wonder of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer.