to remember
20 FEB—18 APRHonoring the fluid nature of time, what it means to remember highlights how artists stretch and compress perception, forging connections between body, memory, and environment.
The curation of exhibitions, performance, and events positions art as both mirror and archive—acknowledging culture as dynamic and ephemeral, yet made tangible through acts of making and storytelling.
- গল্পের সেতু Story Bridge
- I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore
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Opening celebrations
- A People’s Guide to (North) Geelong
- Memory Counts
- Crossings in Colour
- Ganavya Album Tour
- Exhibition Floor Talks
- Pecha Kucha Night
11 OCT—11 DEC ‘25Salon celebrates the people of Djilang, throwing open the Courthouse doors to host a series of radical gatherings focused on artistic exchange.
At its origin, the Salon was a curated space for conversation and contestation, often hosted by influential women. Platform Arts’ Salon continues the salonnieres lineage through a full program including exhibition, public programs, and performance. Curated as a porous framework rather than a single event, Salon invites artists, audiences, and communities to share in the democratic power of dialogue and encounter.
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Roam Geelong / Opening celebrations
- After Walter Hopps
- Gathering Place
- Gallery installation workshop
- Studio Convos
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Speed Friending in the Apocalypse
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People’s Guide to (North) Geelong
- Popula Dabba: A Storytelling Workshop
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After Walter Hopps De-install Party
02 AUG—26 SEP ‘25 Who are we beyond our online personas and the curated selves we present to the world? Un/scripted is a curation of arts experiences exploring contemporary identity and the mediated self—how we perform, edit, confess, and connect in digital spaces. In an age where authenticity is performed, the line between the genuine and the constructed becomes increasingly blurred.
- Villain Edit
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Opening celebrations
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Death Warmed Up
- Costuming & Character Workshop
- Unscripting the Body
- Speed Friending in the Apocalypse
10 MAY—11 JUL ‘25 What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?
Ocular explores the complexities of visual culture, interrogating how images shape our understanding of the world and our roles within it. The act of seeing and being seen is inherently tied to power dynamics, with certain groups historically controlling both the lens and the subject in focus.
The program’s exhibition, Refusal / Futurity, presents contemporary women's self-portraiture and how lens-based media is used as a tool and mechanism to subvert the colonial, western and patriarchal gaze. Curated by Jody Haines, Refusal / Futurity is accompanied by a public program of workshops, artist talks, and a special edition podcast episode with Out of the Frame, with Pia Johnson.
Featuring artists: Eddie Abd, Hayley Millar Baker, Amy Carkeek, Pia Johnson, Clare Rae, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Jody Haines (C)
- Refusal / Futurity
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Opening celebrations
- Out of The Frame Podcast
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Self-portrait workshop
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Field Trip: Deep Listening and Making
- Texture of Absence
- Gyroscopic Dance & Sound Workshop
20 FEB—17 APR ‘25 Sympoiesis, meaning "making-with" or "making together," describes human and non-human existence as inherently collaborative, contextual, and emergent, where nothing exists in isolation and everything is perpetually in a state of interdependent becoming. Sympoiesis speaks to a growing area of exploration and curiosity, particularly regarding sustainable and empathetic art practices. Spanning traditional and expanded art practices, the artists in this exhibition are working in relational ways alongside natural processes, materials, and concepts, to give shape to a future where collaboration and care are central to making.
Featuring works by Lucy Allinson (C), Fiona Davey, Dean De Landre, Kim Drew, Benjamin Hoffmann, Michaela McHugh, Regina Middleton, Rachel Morley, Jessi Rebel, and Phoebe Thompson.
- Sympoiesis Group Show
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The Cloud Maker
- Slip
- Thinking with Golden Ecklonia
- Field Trip: Geelong Botanical Gardens
- Field Trip: Barwon Heads
- Field Trip: Breamlea
- Buzzing World of Bees + Honey workshop
19 OCT—30 NOV ‘24 Platform Arts presents two correlative exhibitions, each a renewed exploration into the manufacturing history of Geelong. In Assembled Lines, sculptural interventionist Robbie Rowlands defines the point at which an object’s functionality is challenged and its history comes into focus, redefining abandoned Ford factory equipment.
Kaitlyn Church’s Fordtown is a documentary project exploring the impact of Ford’s demise on the Geelong community through the stories of individual workers.
12 AUG—20 SEP ‘24 An open-call exhibition inviting artists from Geelong, Surf Coast, Bellarine, and surrounds to exhibit on a first-come, first-served basis. The overall aim is to fill the gallery from floor to ceiling, wall to wall, in a salon hang that emerges cumulatively and expansively.
This biennial exhibition is inspired by Walter Hopps' 36 Hours project, which was held at MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art), Washington, USA in 1978.
Platform Arts
On Wadawurrung Country
60 Little Malop St
Djilang/Geelong VIC 3220
P: (03) 5224 2815
M: 0467 094 597
E: hello@platformarts.org.au
Office hours: Tuesday to Friday / 9.30AM—4.30PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday / 10.00AM—4.00PM
Platform Arts’ accessibility includes a ramp to our Gheringhap St entrance, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, baby-change facilities, and elevator. Accessible carparks are located on the Little Malop St side of our building. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us.
Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, focuses on the development of artistic practice and ideas, leading to the presentation of these ideas as contemporary arts experiences. We curate a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes and provocations we believe are urgent for our times. Learn more
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