RMIT Gallery’s past exhibitions are being made available as virtual tours. Watch the virtual tours now by clicking on the “view virtual tour” link for each exhibition.
Navigation Instructions
To navigate the virtual tours, start as you would in the ‘real’, actual RMIT Gallery – in the foyer. The exhibition tour allows you to navigate as in ‘real life’, by realistically accessing each exhibition as you would if you were in the actual gallery space.
From the virtual gallery foyer, navigate through the gallery spaces by clicking on the yellow icon.
2017
water + wisdom Australia India
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water+wisdom Australia India creatively explores practices of customary water management across two continents.
Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art
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Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art investigates how artists ‘make sense’ of our world, inviting us to explore our understanding of the present.
Fast fashion: the dark side of fashion
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Dates: 21 July – 09 September 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Fast Fashion: the dark side of fashion takes a critical look behind the scenes of the fashion industry with an exhibition that undresses the social, economic and environmental impacts of cheap fashion.
Slow Fast Studio: (response to Fast Fashion)
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Dates: 21 July – 09 September 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
As part of Fast Fashion: the dark side of fashion, the Slow Fashion Lab by the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles explores new fashion practices and experiences to bring about positive change.
mmmm…
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Dates: 21 July – 09 September 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
This retrospective exhibition presents a survey of the Madrid-based mmmm…collective’s playful and thought-provoking projects from 2000-2016, exploring the common ground among their seemingly disparate ventures. The exhibition included the intriguing human rabbit street art action in the Melbourne CBD.
Ocean Imaginaries
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Dates: 5 May -01 July 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Ocean Imaginaries focuses on some of the contradictions and conflicted feelings raised
by how the ocean is imagined in an age of environmental risk.
Number of the Machine
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Dates: 19 May -10 June 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
In Number of the Machine, audiences are invited to watch this kinetic sculpture as two
human bodies become components, disassembling and laboriously transporting a timber
dwelling from one synthetic island to the other.
Photography 130 Behind the Lens: 130 years of Photography at RMIT
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Dates: 10 March 2017-13 April 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Photography 130 offers an expanded view of the role and contribution of RMIT University to the photographic imaging of Melbourne and Australia, presenting a fresh perspective through the lens of the University’s photographic history, legacy and culture.
Morbis Artis: Diseases of the Arts – see virtual tour
Dates: 17 November 2016-18 February 2017
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Morbis Artis explores the radical conjunction between the biomolecular and the artistic, and the thin doorway between life and death housed within discourses of disease.
2016
ELISION: 30 YEARS – view Virtual Tour
Dates: 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 22 OCTOBER 2016
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
ELISION: 30 Years celebrates the practice of a Melbourne group that has led the international dissemination of Australian contemporary classical music work and ideas over the past 30 years.
Radical Actions – View Virtual Tour
Dates: 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 22 OCTOBER 2016
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Radical Actions presents work by five high-profile Irish artists who identify with the politics of social agitation, revolution and rebellion.
Bijoy Jain Studio Mumbai: Making MPavilion 2016
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Dates: 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 22 OCTOBER 2016
Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
An insight into the practice of celebrated Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, the designer of the 2016 MPavilion.
Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video Art – View Virtual Tour
Quiddity – View Virtual Tour
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Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Quiddity explores the ways in which our approach to artworks can change outside the context of a traditional gallery setting.
Out of The Matrix – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
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Out of the Matrix presents artworks from a diverse group of practitioners who employ the various histories and methods of print production to create for our time.
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Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Streets of Papunyacelebrates the renaissance of painting that has occurred in one of the best-known locations of art production in Central Australia, since the establishment of the Papunya Tjupi Arts Centre in 2007.
Richard Bell: Imagining Victory – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
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Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Imagining Victory – Leading Australian artist Richard Bell’s trilogy of video projects digs beneath the veneer of cultural integration to expose how racism can be deeply embedded and passed on to future generations.
Elizabeth Gower: he loves me, he loves me not – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
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Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
He loves me, he loves me not – Women in all cultures are encouraged to seek validation at an early age, by conforming to prescribed behaviours, sanctioned body image, fashion, career and lifestyle choices.
Quiet Voices – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
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Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Quiet Voices – These two works of art by Mithu Sen and Pushpa Rawat poetically address issues women face with obligation, patriarchy and the inter-generational dynamic.
2015
Geniale Dilletanten: Subculture in Germany in the 1980s – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
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Location: RMIT Gallery, City campus
Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilletantes), the deliberately misspelled title of the concert held in Berlin’s Tempodrom in 1981, has become a synonym for a brief era of artistic upheaval in Germany.
Performing Mobilities – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
Performing Mobilities – Expositions and mobile performances that explore and reimagine movement, place and event with local relevance and global resonance.
Against The Grain – RMIT Gallery pop up collection exhibition – VIEW VIRTUAL TOUR
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Location: Swanston Library, City campus
As part of the 700s Arts Festival, Against the Grain will enable students to enjoy being surrounded by works from both modern and contemporary Australian and international artists.
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