Exhibition | ZAHALKAWORLD - An Artist's Archive

30 November 2024 - 2 March 2025

Anne Zahalka is one of Australia’s most highly regarded photo-media artists who has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas for over 40 years. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension through a humorous as well as a critical lens. ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive is a major survey exhibition that brings together bodies of work that span Zahalka’s practice and treasures from her archive that inform and inspire her. The exhibition encompasses material that is both personal and professional, intellectual and physical. Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the artist’s working life and creative process to explore her illusionary worlds. There are eight key bodies of work that form the basis of the exhibition, including Bondi: Playground of the Pacific, The Landscape Re-presented, Resemblance and Resemblance II, Wild Life and Wild Life Australia, Open House and Hotel Suite.

This exhibition is also accompanied by an award-winning publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and an education kit.

A Museum of Australian Photography travelling exhibition.

Image: Anne Zahalka, The Bathers 1989, from the series Bondi: playground of the Pacific, chromogenic print, 95 x 112cm. Museum of Australian Photography, City of Monash Collection, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Bowness Family 2010. MAPh 2010.022. Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Australian Photography.