When it comes to art in Brisbane, there’s always something to set your gaze on. Art exhibitions regularly pop up around the city, as do otherworldly installations that make us think and feel.
We’ve rounded up some of the best art exhibitions and installations in Brisbane and beyond for you to add to your cultural calendar.
Titanic. The Human Story
After wowing audiences around the globe with its earlier versions, “Titanic. The Human Story” has been leaving Aussies open-mouthed since July. Delve into the true story of the Titanic through a collection of personal belongings, archival photographs, and authentic artifacts thoughtfully curated for the exhibition. All aboard! Get your tickets here. This is your last chance to set sail, as the exhibition will only last until April!
Where: Level Q, Uptown, 91 Queen St, Brisbane CBD
When: until April 2025
Price: $39 – $49 per person
The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
The art world’s most anticipated exhibition series is back in QAGOMA for its eleventh chapter.
Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries showcasing the rapidly evolving artistic expression of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Some countries will be represented for the first time, while First Nations, minority and diaspora cultures hold a central place in the exhibition, as ever. It’s free entry, and there’s even a kid’s collection at the Children’s Art Centre, made up of seven artist projects, so even younger art lovers can enjoy it!
Where: QAG & GOMA, South Brisbane
When: Until April 27, 2025
Price: Free!
Magic + Memory: make me a home
Playing house is a rite of passage and thanks to Anna Carey’s Magic + Memory: make me a home, kids can now do so in actual miniature models of houses and the rooms inside them. The oversized models, created for play and daydreams, will have young ones’ imaginations flying, and will make for memorable moments of fun and creativity.
Where: HOTA, Gold Coast
When: Until April 27, 2025
Price: $4
Secrets: Objects of Intrigue
We all have secrets, and Queensland Museum has lifted the veil on some of its own in the new Secrets: Objects of Intrigue exhibition. You will be able to explore the role of secrets and secretive objects within society, get your hands on mysterious artifacts and even anonymously share your own secrets!
Where: Queensland Museum Kurilpa, South Brisbane
When: Until June 1, 2025
Price: Free!
New Light: Photography Now + Then | Viewfinders
Amateur Brisbane photographer Alfred Elliott’s extraordinary collection of over 400 images — some of which were only discovered in 2014 — served as inspiration for seven contemporary Brisbane photographers who have debuted their own images responding to different parts of the Elliott Collection.
In addition, members of Brisbane’s photography community were invited to contribute as well in Viewfinders. More than 65 photographs were selected from the submissions received, and this reflects the variety of perspectives through which each individual experiences the city, in the spirit of Alfred Elliott’s use of subject, composition and light.
Where: Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane CBD
When: Until July 13, 2025
Price: Free
These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature
UQ Art Museum’s new exhibition, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, thinks with the molecular, the geological and the biological, and their entanglements with social relations.
It brings together Australian and international artists across forms such as choreography, sculptural installation, filmmaking, field research, tarot reading, photography, painting, and virtual simulation to explores ecology from the increasingly urgent premise that human exceptionalism has led to environmental catastrophe. Most interestingly, the exhibition proposes a more ethical, symbiotic, and reciprocal approach to cross-species relations and ways of being in the world.
Where: UQ Art Museum
When: Until July 14, 2025
Price: Free!
Discovering Ancient Egypt
Embark on a journey through history and step into the fascinating world of pharaohs, pyramids, and ancient wonders through the more than 250 artifacts on display at the Discovering Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Queensland Museum. Explore stunning 3D projections of the Temple of Taffeh, excerpts from rare Book of the Dead scrolls, and admire precious jewellery and artwork left behind by one of humankind’s most culturally rich civilizations. Buy your tickets here.
Where: Queensland Museum Kurilpa, South Brisbane
When: Until August 2025
Price: $15 – $29.90
Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, London
HOTA will play host to the global debut of ‘Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, London’, an exhibition showcasing the remarkable collaboration between two distinguished British institutions.
Come face-to-face with over 100 rare manuscripts and first editions, and 70 iconic portraits, displayed together for the first time. Celebrate the written word wit this fascinating literary exhibition, which will explore the enduring legacy of some of the world’s most influential writers across the ages including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, William Blake, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, and contemporary luminaries like Sir Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith.
Where: HOTA, Gold Coast
When: From April 12 to August 3, 2025
Price: $19
Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography
This photography exhibition explores how artists have used their cameras as a lens through which to interpret the Australian suburbs. The display brings together works that pause to reflect on everyday settings, places, and people, imbuing them with aesthetic, historical, and emotional significance, and offers a window to a past that is, in many cases, not too different from our present.
Where: QAG, South Brisbane
When: until August 17, 2025
Price: Free!
National Gallery of Australia: Enjoy this Trip – The Art of Music Posters
The Summer of Love was a time when the music was funky, the art was kaleidoscopic and experimental. Enjoy this Trip presents a nostalgic exploration of the times through art, graphic design, music, colour and typography thanks to the National Gallery’s archive of international music posters spanning the 1960s to 1980s.
Where: HOTA, Gold Coast
When: From June 7 to August 17, 2025
Price: $4
Birds of Passage: Ian Fairweather and Paul Jacoulet
With migratory birds as a symbol for artists Ian Fairweather and Paul Jacoulet’s respective journeys across Asia and the Pacific in the first half of the twentieth century, this colourful display illustrates the influence of travel and cross-cultural experience on each of their works.
Thanks to Fairweather’s intimate knowledge of Chinese art and Jacoulet’s expertise in Japanese woodblock printmaking, both the artists and their pieces have acted as a bridge between cultures, a migratory path that you can follow towards a deeper appreciation of artistic expression.
Where: QAG, South Brisbane
When: until January 26, 2026
Price: Free
Precious
Precious brings together a fascinating array of breathtaking curiosity, with three thousand remarkable items from more than 20 public and private collections.
With everything from textiles to tin-toys, this exhibition is a joyful celebration of the art of assemblage, and will immerse you in the world of keepsakes and the everyday stories tied to each and every one of them.
Where: Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane CBD
When: From April 2 until autumn 2026
Price: Free
un/tethered
This moving exhibition brings together the personal stories of six Papua New Guinean women living in Queensland, exploring their experiences of identity, community, and cultural connection in the diaspora.
Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Papua New Guinea’s independence, Un/tethered invites visitors to reflect on cultural survival, sovereignty, and the ways communities remain tethered to their roots even when far from home through personal objects and narratives.
Where: Queensland Museum Kurilpa
When: From June 27 to April 19, 2026
Price: Free
Wonderstruck
Presented across six chapters, Wonderstruck will include more than 100 works by international and Australian artists including Ah Xian, Nick Cave, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Gordon Hookey, Madeleine Kelly, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Craig Koomeeta, Yayoi Kusama, Rosemary Laing, Ron Mueck, Patricia Piccinini, Brian Robinson, Sandra Selig, Gemma Smith, Yuken Teruya, Judy Watson, Louise Weaver, Jemima Wyman and more.
Where: QAGOMA
When: From June 28 to October 6
Price: Free
Croc! Lost Giants to Living Legends
Queensland Museum Kurilpa is snapping at the chance to honour the majestic crocodile and will do so later this year with their awe-inspiring Croc! Lost Giants to Living Legends exhibition, which will make its world premiere in none other than Brisbane.
Dive deep into the savage beauty and ancient power of one of the most extraordinary creatures on the planet and go on a journey through time, taking in everything from prehistoric super crocs to the powerful living legends we share our waterways with today.
Where: Queensland Museum Kurilpa
When: TBA
Price: TBA