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Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 January
2025

René Magritte

Magritte

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

Infinite

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 14 September – Sunday 12 January

Group Show

Big Rain Falling

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 5 October – Sunday 9 February

Leyla Stevens

PAHIT MANIS, Night Forest

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 2 November – Sunday 16 February

Angelica Mesiti

The Rites of When

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 21 September – Sunday 11 May

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Birds in Far Pavilions

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show

Making Worlds

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Sunday 15 June

Lee Ufan

Quiet Resonance

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 31 August – Monday 1 September

Group Show

Grand Courts

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

20th-century galleries

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Asian Lantern

Elemental

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

Yiribana Gallery

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

Coomaditchie: The Art of Place

Museum of Sydney
Saturday 30 March – Sunday 2 February

Group Show

A Generous Gift: The John and Phyllis Murphy Collection

Caroline Simpson Library
Tuesday 29 October – Friday 28 February

Group Show

Beauty Rich and Rare

Museum of Sydney
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 30 March

Mehwish Iqbal

Submergence

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 2 November – Saturday 1 March

Group Show

Tender

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Saturday 25 January

Catherine Nelson

Riverbound

Michael Reid Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Thursday 9 January

Kate Newby

Hours in wind, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Thursday 29 August – Thursday 4 September

Julie Mehretu

A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 29 November – Sunday 27 April

Julie Rrap

Past Continuous

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 28 June – Sunday 23 February

Isaac Julien

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 27 September – Sunday 16 February

Group Show

Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 30 August – Monday 27 January

Hayv Kahraman

Bodies of Water

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Sunday 1 December – Sunday 16 March

Group Show

MCA Collection: Artists in Focus

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Saturday 23 November – Monday 27 January

Group Show

Works on Paper

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Friday 6 December – Saturday 25 January

Kaylene Whiskey

Indulkana Soup

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Friday 6 December – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

IMMORTAL

Saint Cloche
Wednesday 11 December – Saturday 25 January

James Erskine

Archer, Mali and Me

Liverpool Street Gallery
Thursday 12 December – Tuesday 21 January

Group Show

Borrowed Landscapes

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 19 October – Sunday 2 February

Group Show

This Is How We Love

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 19 October – Sunday 2 February

Jennifer Blau

In Profile

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 2 February

Group Show

Summer Group Exhibition

Olsen Gallery
Monday 9 December – Saturday 1 February

Tamara Henderson

Slug in the Mug

Artspace
Friday 25 October – Sunday 5 January

Shireen Taweel

Cosmographic

Artspace
Friday 25 October – Sunday 5 January

Yang Xifa

The Divine World

Vermilion Art
Thursday 28 November – Saturday 18 January

Danish Quapoor

redux

Firstdraft
Friday 6 December – Saturday 18 January

Nicole Clift and Nicholas Hanisch

maelstrom

Firstdraft
Friday 6 December – Saturday 18 January

Tia Madden

Some Sort of Notation

Firstdraft
Friday 6 December – Saturday 18 January

Lee Ufan

Quiet Resonance

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 31 August – Monday 1 September

Within spaces designed by the artist, this exhibition by Lee Ufan distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of recent paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Lee’s sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, has a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual self in relation to the work. Lee is also a writer whose philosophical approach to art embraces Zen Buddhism and Confucianism, alongside the ideas of classical and modern European philosophers.

Lee values the power of emptiness to generate both harmony and tension between objects and people. For him, the space around objects is as significant as the objects themselves. His conceptual and minimalist approach has been influential in art, design and philosophy, with artists Anish Kapoor and Park Seo-Bo as well as architect Tadao Ando among the prominent figures inspired by his art.

Born in Korea in 1936, Lee lives between Japan and France. He studied painting in Seoul before relocating to Tokyo to study philosophy. In the 1960s he was a founder of Japan’s Mono-ha (School of Things) movement, which emphasised relationships between natural and industrial materials, and between objects and their viewers. He was also associated with the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement that emerged in Korea in the 1950s as part of a search for a universal aesthetic that was separate from tradition and without nationalist associations.

It's been almost 50 years since Lee’s work was presented at the Art Gallery in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney. His first Sydney solo exhibition follows recent exhibitions of his work at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, National Art Center in Tokyo, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Gwangju Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Location

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000

Date

Saturday 31 August – Monday 1 September

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 January
2025

René Magritte

Magritte

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

Infinite

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 14 September – Sunday 12 January

Group Show

Big Rain Falling

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 5 October – Sunday 9 February

Leyla Stevens

PAHIT MANIS, Night Forest

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 2 November – Sunday 16 February

Angelica Mesiti

The Rites of When

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 21 September – Sunday 11 May

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Birds in Far Pavilions

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Group Show

Making Worlds

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Sunday 15 June

Lee Ufan

Quiet Resonance

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 31 August – Monday 1 September

Group Show

Grand Courts

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

20th-century galleries

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Asian Lantern

Elemental

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

Yiribana Gallery

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

Coomaditchie: The Art of Place

Museum of Sydney
Saturday 30 March – Sunday 2 February

Group Show

A Generous Gift: The John and Phyllis Murphy Collection

Caroline Simpson Library
Tuesday 29 October – Friday 28 February

Group Show

Beauty Rich and Rare

Museum of Sydney
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 30 March

Mehwish Iqbal

Submergence

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 2 November – Saturday 1 March

Group Show

Tender

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Saturday 25 January

Catherine Nelson

Riverbound

Michael Reid Gallery
Thursday 5 December – Thursday 9 January

Kate Newby

Hours in wind, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Thursday 29 August – Thursday 4 September

Julie Mehretu

A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 29 November – Sunday 27 April

Julie Rrap

Past Continuous

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 28 June – Sunday 23 February

Isaac Julien

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 27 September – Sunday 16 February

Group Show

Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 30 August – Monday 27 January

Hayv Kahraman

Bodies of Water

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Sunday 1 December – Sunday 16 March

Group Show

MCA Collection: Artists in Focus

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Saturday 23 November – Monday 27 January

Group Show

Works on Paper

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Friday 6 December – Saturday 25 January

Kaylene Whiskey

Indulkana Soup

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Friday 6 December – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

IMMORTAL

Saint Cloche
Wednesday 11 December – Saturday 25 January

James Erskine

Archer, Mali and Me

Liverpool Street Gallery
Thursday 12 December – Tuesday 21 January

Group Show

Borrowed Landscapes

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 19 October – Sunday 2 February

Group Show

This Is How We Love

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 19 October – Sunday 2 February

Jennifer Blau

In Profile

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 2 February

Group Show

Summer Group Exhibition

Olsen Gallery
Monday 9 December – Saturday 1 February

Tamara Henderson

Slug in the Mug

Artspace
Friday 25 October – Sunday 5 January

Shireen Taweel

Cosmographic

Artspace
Friday 25 October – Sunday 5 January

Yang Xifa

The Divine World

Vermilion Art
Thursday 28 November – Saturday 18 January

Danish Quapoor

redux

Firstdraft
Friday 6 December – Saturday 18 January

Nicole Clift and Nicholas Hanisch

maelstrom

Firstdraft
Friday 6 December – Saturday 18 January

Tia Madden

Some Sort of Notation

Firstdraft
Friday 6 December – Saturday 18 January

Lee Ufan

Quiet Resonance

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 31 August – Monday 1 September

Within spaces designed by the artist, this exhibition by Lee Ufan distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of recent paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Lee’s sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, has a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual self in relation to the work. Lee is also a writer whose philosophical approach to art embraces Zen Buddhism and Confucianism, alongside the ideas of classical and modern European philosophers.

Lee values the power of emptiness to generate both harmony and tension between objects and people. For him, the space around objects is as significant as the objects themselves. His conceptual and minimalist approach has been influential in art, design and philosophy, with artists Anish Kapoor and Park Seo-Bo as well as architect Tadao Ando among the prominent figures inspired by his art.

Born in Korea in 1936, Lee lives between Japan and France. He studied painting in Seoul before relocating to Tokyo to study philosophy. In the 1960s he was a founder of Japan’s Mono-ha (School of Things) movement, which emphasised relationships between natural and industrial materials, and between objects and their viewers. He was also associated with the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement that emerged in Korea in the 1950s as part of a search for a universal aesthetic that was separate from tradition and without nationalist associations.

It's been almost 50 years since Lee’s work was presented at the Art Gallery in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney. His first Sydney solo exhibition follows recent exhibitions of his work at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, National Art Center in Tokyo, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Gwangju Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Location

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000

Date

Saturday 31 August – Monday 1 September

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/lee-ufan/

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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