Beneath the glossy surface of progress lurks a simmering undercurrent of violence. Cities tear themselves apart to make way for towering skyscrapers and gleaming high-rises. However, in this bright new world, one question arises: where have all the people gone?

Titled Ten Thousand Suns and curated by co-artistic directors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney seeks to convey a ‘solar joy’ of cultural multiplicities – the constellation of factors that contribute to our different identities.

The 24th Biennale of Sydney is headed to White Bay Power Station! The Biennale of Sydney is delighted to be the inaugural world-class experience at this iconic site with free admission for all, and are thrilled to contribute to the evolving cityscape with Ten Thousand Suns. READ OUR REVIEW HERE.

The 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, proposes celebration as both a method and a source of joy, inspired by legacies of collective resistance and coming together to thrive in the face of injustice.

Jelena Telecki is a Sydney-based artist known for paintings and sculptures that address human relationships – including of power and dominance – and uniquely merge the real and the imagined. Often portraying partly concealed figures and fragmentary, dreamlike moments, her works are rich in intrigue, with flashes of levity and humour.

Videogame joysticks, a fossilised radio, VHS tapes spun into haunting life-size figures ... this exhibition reanimates supposedly defunct media.

‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his five-minute video installation Ngaya (I am), a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW.

Cast in cast out is inspired by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding’s experiences and childhood memories of growing up in ‘The Block’, an Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.

Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) is delighted to announce A World Undone, a major exhibition by Australian artist Nicholas Mangan, opening from 5 April to 30 June 2024.

Join the Art Gallery of NSW this May for an inspiring month of art-making, workshops, performances and talks as they celebrate collaboration and creativity.

The Pyrmont Festival is a festival celebrating food, wine and art, which includes the 2-Day food and wine event. The festival is a community-run event which fosters a strong connection with the country and the city.

Twinkling stars, ocean waves and marvellous creatures will transform the MCA's façade during Vivid Sydney 2024 in a nightly light projection by MCA Collection artist Guan Wei.

Vivid Sydney is back in 2024 with great installations for families and kids! Checkout top 23 events we have hand picked for you!

Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity. Composed of drawings, sketchbooks, artist-made books, paintings, ceramics, sculptural forms and site-specific wall murals, it creates a complete artistic creation or gesamtkunstwerk (a German word meaning ‘total work of art’).

Ants, by Polyglot Theatre, brings children together to explore the landscape around them.

Experience the ultimate cheesy feast with our mouth-watering selection of cheesy foods. From hot dogs and crepes to cob loaf fondue, our participating restaurants have created special cheesy dishes just for the festival.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love... and at Vivid Sydney 2024 all you need to do is look to the sky to find it.

Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia.

In July, from Thursday 11 July to Sunday 14 July 2024, the much-loved Bastille Festival returns to Circular Quay in Sydney!

Spanning more than five decades of Lesley Dumbrell's practice, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings and works on paper as well as recent forays into sculpture that demonstrate Dumbrell's unique abstract language, which probes the nuances of colour, rhythm and visual perception.

In 2024, almost 50 years since his work was presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Lee Ufan returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.

Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction.

Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.

Angelica Mesiti is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building.

Sculpture by the Sea will return to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition in 2024.

Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist whose films and photographs uncover alternative histories, including of people, rituals and objects connected to the Indonesian island of Bali. Developed through extensive research and community collaboration, her works carry a potent emotive charge in their sensitive yet affecting retellings.