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Public Programs

As part of Gertrude’s commitment to fostering both the production and presentation of contemporary art we facilitate a range of programs that help support, expand and critically engage with our exhibition and studio programs.

Upcoming

Installation view of DAMP, Punchline, presented at 200 Gertrude Street, Naarm Melbourne, 1999. Image courtesy of the Gertrude archive.

Punchline: live recording

Public Program
Saturday 26 July 2025, 4:00am
Gertrude Contemporary

On Saturday 26 July at 2pm, you are invited to the first live recording session for the Art Holds a High Place in my Life album-as-audiobook. This two-hour event will bring past and present DAMP members together for a guided conversation, grounded in image description exercises, catalyzing memories of Punchline (1999).

Arini Byng, How to Just Be, 2025, performance documentation, How we breathe, Gertrude Glasshouse, 2025. Performers: Jacob Coppedge, Peta Duncan, and Amaara Raheem. Photo: Machiko Abe. Courtesy of the artist.

How to Just Be
Arini Byng with Jacob Coppedge, Peta Duncan and Amaara Raheem

Performance
Saturday 12 July 2025, 5:00am
Gertrude Glasshouse

Join us at Glasshouse on the final day of the exhibition for a second performance of How to Just Be.

Past Programs

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Past Programs

Ardi Gunawan, Luckily There’s No Inside, 2025, two-hour performance, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, documentation by Machiko Abe, image courtesy and © the artist

Ardi Gunawan
Luckily There's No Inside

Jun 20, 2025
Gertrude Contemporary

Clinton Naina, Heritage Colours, 2000/2025, installation view, 1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, soil, drop sheet, painted timber fence, laser prints, plastic chair, heater, clothes horse, milk crate, paint, projection, image courtesy the artist and Gallerysmith, Naarm Melbourne © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro.

Artist & Curator Floor Talk
1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025
Curated by Helen Hughes and Spiros Panigirakis

Jun 7, 2025
Gertrude Contemporary

Chunxiao Qu, too fun to run, LED neon with transparent acrylic frames, 45 x 45 cm, courtesy of the artist and FUTURES, Naarm Melbourne, installation view, Gertrude Glasshouse, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, photography: Christian Capurro

In Conversation: Chunxiao Qu and Mark Feary

May 31, 2025
Gertrude Glasshouse

Chunxiao Qu, 'Stand-Up For Art, A Tribute to Failure, Language and Other Inconveniences', 2025, performance documentation, I am a Contemporary English Language Mother, Gertrude Glasshouse, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, courtesy of the artist and FUTURES, Naarm Melbourne © the artist. Photography: Machiko Abe.

Chunxiao Qu
Opening Event and Performance

Stand-Up For Art, A Tribute to Failure, Language and Other Inconveniences, 2025

Apr 24, 2025
Gertrude Glasshouse

Installation view, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, image courtesy and © the artists, photograph: Christian Capurro

In Conversation: Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon with Sandra Bridie, Jon Campbell, Rose Lang and Rosslynd Piggott

Mar 23, 2025
Gertrude Contemporary

Alex Pittendrigh, Field research, Chenaud, 2024. Photo by Alex Pittendrigh

In Conversation: Alex Pittendrigh, Michelle Ussher and Mark Feary

Feb 1, 2025
Gertrude Glasshouse

Rebecca Jensen, i just get so mud sometimes (performance residue), Rebecca Jensen with performers Anika De Ruyter and Texas Nixon-Kain, Gertrude Studios 2024, Gertrude Contemporary, 2024. Courtesy and copyright the artist. Photo: Christian Capurro

i just get so mud sometimes: Rebecca Jensen with Anika De Ruyter

Dec 14, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary

$Arthur Nyakuengama, Indoors, leather and steel armchair, shoulder-length latex gloves, latex polish, curtains. 2021. Courtesy and copyright the artist.$

Curator Walk Through
The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World

Nov 30, 2024
Gertrude Glasshouse

Arini Byng, (Indistinct Chatter) 1-4, archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Baryta paper, installation view, Gertrude Studios 2023, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2023, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro.

Opening Event & Performance: Gertrude Studios 2024

Nov 1, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary

Same Page Art Book Fair
Presented by Gertrude and Perimeter

Oct 19, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary

Harriet K Morgan: Prisoner.

Harriet K Morgan: Prisoner

Aug 3, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary

Cosey Fanni Tutti, Incognito (detail), 1979–2021, C-type print. Courtesy of the artist and cabinet, London.

Octopus 24: Ricochet
Curated by Patrice Sharkey

Jun 15, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary

Dane Mitchell. Image: Adam Luxton

Cancelled – In Conversation: Dane Mitchell and Mark Feary

Jun 1, 2024
Gertrude Glasshouse

Installation view, Gian Manik, You own the school, embrace your responsibility for its legacy, presented at Gertrude Glasshouse, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery, Naarm Melbourne. Photo: Christian Capurro

In Conversation: Gian Manik and Amelia Winata

May 11, 2024
Gertrude Glasshouse

Installation view of Stupid As, curated by Alex Gawronski, featuring work by The Estate of Quinto Sesto, presented at Gertrude Contemporary 2024. Photo: Christian Capurro

In Conversation: Mark Feary and Alex Gawronski

Apr 20, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary

Audiences attend Gertrude Open Day 2023. Photo: Machiko Abe

Gertrude Open Day 2024

Apr 20, 2024
Gertrude Contemporary