Our Picks from the NGV Triennial

The event runs 3 December 2023–7 April 2024.

Megacities will be the focal point of one project featured in the 2023 NGV Triennial in Naarm Melbourne. Ten street photographers have been invited to document global urban centres where the population exceeds ten million inhabitants, addressing the conditions of extreme density and mobility of people and goods that characterise life in these modern environments, kaleidoscopes of culture and sensation.

A triennial is a kind of mega-exhibition. Like the megacity, pluralism is its main cachet, and the NGV’s efforts will bring together work from more than 100 artists across more than seventy-five projects and four months. Three thematic pillars, Magic, Matter and Memory, form organising currents for its many threads as the participating artists reflect on the world today and its future states. From the packed line-up, the Art News team is looking forward to seeing work by installation artist Hugh Hayden and the haute couture fashion house Maison Schiaparelli.

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