La Trobe Art Institute exhibitions
Current and upcoming
Bundoora Campus: Present Tense
Visual Cultures students respond to contemporary photographs from the La Trobe University Collection
Bendigo Campus: Jenna Lee
Jenna Lee invites viewers to reconsider the archive — not as a fixed repository of colonial knowledge, but as a living site for reimagining history, sovereignty, and cultural continuity.
View St: Elyas Alavi & Fazil Mousavi
Elyas Alavi will collaborate for the first time with Quetta-based senior artist Fazil Mousavi, bringing their painting practices and work with language into dialogue across oceans
Bendigo Campus: Emily Floyd
Key works from the series Anti-totalitarian vectors are installed in the Heyward Library
View St: Healing: Art & Institutional Care
Contemporary and historic artworks contextualise the practices, processes and ethical considerations that underpin the University’s Larundel Collection
View St: Le Ceol
Song and poetry act as a primary place of sonic and musical texture from which language resists silencing
Past
View St: Renee Cosgrave and Merryn Lloyd
Playfully exploring how long-term collaborative practice breaks distinctions between making, work, chance, performance and mothering
View St: Parched
A research-led exhibition that draws together artworks from across Australia, with an eye to the south east, to explore representations of drought
View St: Jeremy Eaton and Nicholas Smith
Dressings brings the language of screens, concealment, exposure and the stage to our street-front façade
Bundoora Campus: Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور
A collaborative exhibition between the Islamic Museum of Australia, La Trobe University and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
View St: I wanna be your anti-mirror
An exhibition that reveals new languages, sensations and attitudes in works by 7 early career artists
View St: Roberta Joy Rich
How does one negotiate repatriation or access to cultural materials that lie oceans away from their motherland?
View St: I think future, I think past
In this exhibition colonial and capitalist ruins become both condition and material for revisionist histories and imagined alternative futures
View St: Storytelling Liberation
A new video installation by Australian artist Alex Martinis Roe in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andre Ortega and Diana Betanzos
Shepparton Campus: Treahna Hamm & Lin (Burrinja) Onus
An exhibition of prints by two artists pivotal to the revival and communication of Yorta Yorta cultural practices
View St: Unbecoming
Unbecoming examines the ‘queer gothic’, characterising it through dark, horror-tinged imagery and themes; states of collapse and decomposition; and a focus on isolation and the individual
Golden Dragon Museum: Changing Times
An offsite exhibition at the Golden Dragon Museum featuring posters from La Trobe's Stuart E Fraser poster collection