Melbourne Art Fair 2025
Mark your calendar for the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair, Australasia’s premier annual forum for contemporary art and ideas. Returning to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from February 20 to 23, this year’s fair features an impressive line-up of 70 leading galleries and Indigenous art centres from across the region.
Spread across 9000 square metres, the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair will showcase works by more than 100 new and established artists. Alongside gallery presentations, the fair will showcase a program of large-scale installations, international video art, hands-on workshops and thought-provoking conversations with some of the art world’s most exciting voices.
It launches with the highly anticipated Vernissage on Thursday 20 February from 5pm to 9pm. A must for art enthusiasts and collectors alike, the Vernissage offers the first chance to explore and purchase works from leading galleries. Tickets to the opening are in high demand, so secure yours early.
Exhibiting galleries this year include Roslyn Oxley9, Mars Gallery, Arts Project Australia, BA Projects, Daine Singer, Sullivan& Strumpf, Tolarno Galleries, Lon Gallery and Australian Tapestry Workshop as well as newcomers Animal House Fine Arts, C. Gallery, Jennings Kerr and Redbase Art Gallery. Participating Indigenous art centres include the 10-strong APY Art Centre Collective, the Northern Territory’s Papunya Tjupi Arts, and the Wik & Kugu Arts Centre from Cape York Peninsula.
This year the fair will exhibit two major commissions: the first being a video work by acclaimed Singaporean-artist Dawn Ng, commissioned in partnership with QAGOMA and supported by The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne. The other is the fair’s first international institutional commission: a monumental installation by Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, in collaboration with Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre and supported by Artwork Transport.
Also on the program are three large-scale installations by Jahnne Pasco-White, Kim Ah Sam and Paul Yore, alongside a curated video program showcasing works by international artists such as Sara Cwynar, Oliver Laric, Tong Wenmin and Ceal Floyer, as well as Australian talents Destiny Deacon and Erin Hefferson. Visitors can also enjoy daily talks with leading artists, gallerists, curators and collectors, plus a series of accessible workshops ranging from digital drawing to watercolour painting, hosted by Arts Projects Australia.
Tickets are available now. Pick up a one- or four-day pass for general admission, or a VIP Art Pass, which gives you access to each day of the fair, the VIP Program plus the Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Preview and opening night Vernissage.
This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with Melbourne Art Foundation.