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Stanton Cornish-Ward and Trent Crawford, Synchresis (Part I), 2026, installation view, Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, photograph: Jessica Maurer.

At Primavera 2026, artists do not exhibit the archive – they remake it

At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia annual showcase of leading Australian artists under 35, eight artists turn loss into the labour of making.
Alexandra Peters, The Infinite Image (detail), Defenestration (Autoantibodies), acrylic and water-based ink with screen-print medium and paste on leatherette and Leg Over Leg V, commercial carpet, 2025, installation view, Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh

At Primavera 2025, young Australian artists consider making art in the age of commodities

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition of artists under 35 asks what it means for artists to create in a post-industrial age of reproduction.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, installation view, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, © the artist, photograph: Zan Wimberley

The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour

The work of Hiroshi Sugimoto is now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art. His photographs reveal his reverence for technique.
Julie Rrap, Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (detail), 1982, installation view. Julie Rrap: Past Continuous, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024, black and white archival prints, colour cibachrome prints, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 1994. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.

‘Not just as we are, but as we have been and as we will be’: the time‑warping brilliance of Australian artist Julie Rrap

In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music, Paradiso by Thomas Adès, 35mm colour anamorphic film, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, © the artist.

How the poetically‑charged art of Tacita Dean gives its audience a moment for stillness and time

Tactia Dean works across film, photography, drawing, printmaking, immersive installations, and she is now on display at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

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