Gallery of Modern Art

About

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an art museum located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. Opened on 2 December 2006, the GOMA is Australia's largest gallery of modern and contemporary art. It also houses the Australian Cinémathèque, the only facility of its kind in an Australian art museum. The gallery is situated on Kurilpa Point next to the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) building and the State Library of Queensland, and faces the Brisbane River and the CBD. The GOMA has a total floor area over 25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft) and the largest exhibition gallery is 1,100 square metres (12,000 sq ft). The building was designed by Sydney architecture firm Architectus.

In July 2002, Sydney-based company Architectus 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 RAIA National Award for Public Architecture for the design of GOMA. The final construction cost was around 107 million dollars.

Past and current exhibitions at GOMA include:

- Fairy Tales (2 December 2023 – 28 April 2024)

- Water (7 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)

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

- Patricia Piccinini : Curious Affection (24 March - 5 August 2018)

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

- Gerhard Richter : 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)

- David Lynch : Between Two Worlds (14 March - 8 June 2015)

- Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (1 November 2014 – 15 February 2015)

- Cai Guo-Qiang : Falling Back to Earth (23 November 2013 – 11 May 2014)

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

- Henri Cartier-Bresson : The Man, The Image & The World (28 August - 27 November 2011)