Asia Pacific Triennial

BrisAsia Festival 2025 presents Asia Pacific Triennial. Immerse yourself in the most compelling new artwork being produced across Asia, the Pacific and Australia. The Asia Pacific Triennial promises bold, groundbreaking contemporary works from over 70 emerging and established artists, collectives, and filmmakers spanning 30+ countries. Best of all, it's free, making it the must-do experience this summer. Spend time with family and friends, broadening your horizons as you explore the future of art and the world we inhabit together. Bursting with colour and life, the Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA is a vibrant mix of creativity and cross-cultural insight. Discover dynamic installations, painting, sculpture, photography, video – Art that feels like summer, at QAGOMA. Open daily from 10am.  Image Credit: Kawita Vatanyankur / Pat Pataranutaporn / The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell (from the ‘Cyber Labour’ series) 2024 / Commissioned for ‘The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial’ / © Kawita Vatanyankur / Courtesy: The artist and Nova Contemporary

Asia Pacific Triennial Kids

The Queensland Art Gallery │ Gallery of Modern Art (QAOGMA) Children’s Art Centre presents a collection of seven artist projects for Asia Pacific Triennial Kids. Children can explore their creativity through making and multimedia interactives and reflect on the experiences of others through drawing and video works by artists from India, Aotearoa New Zealand, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia / Palestine, Cambodia and Timor-Leste. Image caption: Unity Within Multiplicity 2024, an interactive activity space by Dana Awartani, a part of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2024 / Photograph by C Callistemon © QAGOMA

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries will feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Bringing compelling new art to Brisbane, the Triennial is a gateway to the rapidly evolving artistic expression of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Alongside artists and makers whose work has not been previously seen in Australia are a raft of new co-curated projects investigating artforms and cultural contexts rarely encountered outside their home localities. For the first time this Triennial includes creators from Saudi Arabia, Timor-Leste and Uzbekistan, while First Nations, minority and diaspora cultures hold a central place, as do the collective, performative and community-driven modes of artmaking that thrive in the region. Through nuanced approaches to storytelling, materials and technique the exhibition explores themes that resonate across these cultural landscapes, such as how we care for the natural and urban environments, protect and revive cultural heritage, and how histories of migration and labour shape experience today. As always, the Triennial is conceived and shaped from the ground up by expert hands. Artists, curators, interlocutors, cultural allies and partners have meaningfully woven the region’s creative stories into an exhibition that will inspire, uplift and move you. For more information, visit the QAGOMA website. Image caption: Kawita Vatanyankur, Thailand b.1987 / Pat Pataranutaporn, United States b.1995 / The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell (from the ‘Cyber Labour’ series) 2024 / Performative hologram projections with AI / Commissioned for ‘The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial’ / © Kawita Vatanyankur / Courtesy: The artist and Nova Contemporary

If the Seeds Chose Where to Grow' by Rithika Merchant - Howard Smith Wharves art projection

From 30 November 2024 to 5 May 2025, we invite you to explore Council’s latest Outdoor Gallery exhibition, Asia Pacific Triennial Kids: Outdoors presented in collaboration with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)’s Children’s Art Centre. Asia Pacific Triennial Kids: Outdoors features eye-catching displays made especially for children and families by artists included in QAGOMA’s 11th Asia Pacific Triennial exhibition (Asia Pacific Triennial Kids). Rithika Merchant (India b.1986) creates bold paintings and collages using a combination of watercolour and cut paper elements, drawing on 17th-century botanical prints and folk art. Merchant is interested in the idea of ‘terraformation’, or ‘earth-shaping’–the process of making a planet, moon or other celestial body fit for human life. This artwork displayed in the Outdoor Gallery features imagery from Merchant’s Asia Pacific Triennial Kids project, If the Seeds Chose Where to Grow (2024), which imagines a new world inhabited by unusual hybrid ‘beings’ and plant forms. Learn more about the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial exhibition, including Asia Pacific Triennial Kids. Brisbane City Council's Outdoor Gallery transforms Brisbane's laneways, city streets and car parks into imaginative, curious, and engaging spaces. Comprising of light boxes, banners, vitrines, and evening projections, the Outdoor Gallery displays art outside in city streets, instead of inside on gallery walls. 2023 marked 10 years of the Outdoor Gallery program. Share your experience of the Outdoor Gallery exhibitions and public programs on social media using #BNEPublicArt. Image credit: If the Seeds Chose Where to Grow (2024) by Rithika Merchant, projected onto the Howard Smith Wharves Cliffs.

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