8 9 ARTLINES 3 | 2025 NEWS Local, regional and international news about QAGOMA, the Collection and its artists This summer, Icelandic–Danish artist Olafur Eliasson will invite you on an expansive, multi-sensory journey to the edges of perception in the Gallery’s major exhibition, ‘Presence’. The Brisbane exclusive will draw on Eliasson’s three-decade career as one of the world’s most influential living artists, providing opportunities for visitors to pick their way through a rocky, primordial landscape, navigate an optical puzzle, and envision the future form of the city, among other experiences. Spanning GOMA’s ground floor, the exhibition will include important early works as well as expansive site-specific installations, many on display for the first time in Australia. One early career highlight, Beauty 1993, which suspends a rainbow in a veil of mist, has recently been acquired through the Gallery for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust Collection. ‘Presence’ will include From top Tromarama’s stop-motion Wattt?! (still, detail) 2010 / Purchased 2011. QAG Foundation / © Tromarama; a view of Vipoo Srivilasa’s Garden of Love 2021 interactive during APT10 Kids, GOMA, April 2025 / Courtesy: The artist / Photograph: Katie Bennett; and Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore’s kith and kin 2024 in the Australia Pavilion, Venice Biennale, August 2024 / Photograph: Andrea Rossetti / Courtesy: The artist and The Commercial / © Archie Moore UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS A suite of intriguing exhibitions opens at GOMA this quarter. ‘Archie Moore: kith and kin’ presents the Queensland artist’s Golden Lion-winning Venice Biennale project in Australia for the first time, accompanied by ‘Inscribing a Life’, a complementary exhibition that also explores how the act of mark-making can register existence, histories and time. From October, ‘Contraptions’ considers how artists use machines for play, experimentation and the hands-on exploration of ideas, eschewing digital production for the mechanical qualities of contraptions and the analogue nature of often handmade forms. Whimsy and absurdity abound in this exhibition, which is accompanied by a film program in the Australian Cinémathèque. In the Children’s Art Centre, artist Vipoo Srivilasa implores the visitor to ‘Express Yourself’ in a project reprising his 2021 Asia Pacific Triennial Kids dancing interactive Garden of Love along with new activities that explore the spectrum of human emotion. ‘Archie Moore: kith and kin’ and ‘Inscribing a Life’ are at GOMA from 27 September 2025 to 18 October 2026. ‘Contraptions’ is at GOMA from 4 October 2025 to 22 February 2026, with accompanying screenings in the Australian Cinémathèque. ‘Vipoo Srivilasa: Express Yourself’ is in the Children’s Art Centre at GOMA from 11 October 2025 to 13 September 2026. Above Olafur Eliasson / Pluriverse assembly 2021 / Installation view: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2024 / © 2021 Olafur Eliasson / Courtesy: The artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles / Photograph: Zak Kelley NEWS two much-loved existing Collection works: the rocky landscape and trickling stream of the immersive installation Riverbed 2014; and The cubic structural evolution project 2004 — an all-white Lego cityscape, perpetually built and rebuilt by visitors throughout the exhibition. ‘Olafur Eliasson: Presence’ opens at GOMA on 6 December. A major publication will accompany the exhibition, available from the QAGOMA Store. OLAFUR ELIASSON: PRESENCE
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