The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an

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located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in the

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precinct of

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, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. GOMA, which opened on 2 December 2006, is the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in Australia, and houses Australia's first purpose-built cinematheque. The gallery is situated on Kurilpa Point next to the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) building and the

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, and faces the

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and the CBD. The Gallery of Modern Art has a total floor area over and the largest exhibition gallery is . The building was designed by Sydney architecture firm Architectus.

Design

In July 2002, Sydney-based company

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was commissioned by the Queensland Beattie Government following an Architect Selection Competition, to design the Queensland Art Gallery's second site, the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). A main theme of Architectus's design was a pavilion in the landscape, one which assumes its position as both hub and anchor for this important civic precinct. Critical to this is the building's response to the site, its natural topography, existing patterns of urban generation, and the river. Architectus was awarded the 2007

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National Award for Public Architecture for the design of GOMA.

Exhibitions

Entrance to GoMA - 21st Century - Art in the First Decade

Past and current exhibitions at GOMA include: *Water (07 December 2019 – 26 April 2020) *I, Object (3 August 2019 - 29 August 2021) *Work, Work, Work (3 August 2019 - 19 July 2020) *Perceptions of Time (25 May 2019 - 28 June 2020) *Geometries (25 May 2019 - 2 February 2020) *

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( 29 June - 13 October 2019) *

Margaret Olley Margaret Hannah Olley (24 June 192326 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than ninety solo exhibitions. Early life Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of Jo ...

: A Generous Life ( 15 June - 13 October 2019) *

Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works focus on "unexpected consequences", conv ...

: Curious Affection (24 March - 5 August 2018) *

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: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow (4 November 2017 - 11 February 2018) *

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: The Life of Images (14 October 2017 - 4 February 2018) * Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe (27 May - 3 September 2017) * Cindy Sherman (28 May - 3 October 2016) *

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: Between Two Worlds (14 March - 8 June 2015) *Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (1 November 2014 – 15 February 2015) *

Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang (; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey. Biography Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher ...

: Falling Back to Earth (23 November 2013 – 11 May 2014) *

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: Drawing Life (3 December 2011 – 4 March 2012) *

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: The Man, The Image & The World (28 August - 27 November 2011) *

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: The Poetry of Dreams (11 June - 2 October 2011) *21st Century: Art in the First Decade (18 December 2010 – 26 April 2011) * Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future (7 August – 14 November 2010) * Ron Mueck (8 May – 1 August 2010) *The China Project (28 March – 28 June 2009) *

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& his collection (9 June - 14 September 2008) *

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(8 December 2007 – 13 April 2008)

Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) hosts the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art jointly with the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), since opening in 2006. *The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) (4 December 2021 - 25 April 2022) *The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) (24 November 2018 - 28 April 2019) *The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) (21 November 2015 - 10 April 2016) *The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) (8 December 2012 – 14 April 2013) *The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6) (5 December 2009 – 5 April 2010) *The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) (2 December 2006 – 27 May 2007) *The 4th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT4) (12 September 2002 - 27 January 2003) *The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) (9 September 1999 - 26 January 2000) *The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT2) (27 September 1996 - 19 January 1997) *The 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT1) (17 September -5 December 1993)

Notable works

*''Im Wald (In the Forest)'', 1990, by

Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the ...

*''A book from the sky'', 1987–91, by Xu Bing *''The cubic structural evolution project'', 2004, by Olafur Eliasson *''Best Foot Forward,'' 2011, by

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*''Untitled'', 2006–07, by Anish Kapoor *''Void (#13)'', 1991–92, by Anish Kapoor *''Two trees on Mary Street ... Amen!'', 1975, by Willem de Kooning *''Soul under the moon'', 2002, by

*''Infinity nets'', 2000, by

*''The obliteration room'', 2002–present, by

*''Global groove'', 1973, by Nam June Paik *''TV cello'', 2000, by Nam June Paik *''Untitled 2007/2008'', by Cindy Sherman *''Night Life'', 2018, by James Turrell *''With Winds'', 1990, by

Lee Ufan Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환, Hanja: 李禹煥, born 1936 in Haman County, in South Kyongsang province in Korea) is a Korean minimalist painter and sculptor artist and academic, honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to the ...

*''Dropping a Han dynasty urn'', 1995, by Ai Weiwei

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