The NGV Gala, a highlight of Australia’s cultural calendar celebrating art, music, fashion and food, returns on Saturday 14 December 2024 at NGV International.
The 2024 version of the spectacular late-night event offers guests first-access to the NGV’s world-exclusive exhibition, Yayoi Kusama. Curated by the NGV especially for Australian audiences, the never-before-seen blockbuster exhibition charts the artist’s eight-decade practice through close to 200 works, including the global unveiling of her most recent immersive infinity mirror room.
Born in Japan in 1929, Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important and recognised artists working today. She is renowned globally for her singular and idiosyncratic use of pattern, colour and symbols to create immersive, thought-provoking and intensely personal works of art that transcend language and borders. She has made indelible contributions to key art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including minimalism, pop art and feminist art. .
As the opening event of the Yayoi Kusama exhibition, the NGV Gala also offers guests an opportunity to experience NGV International as-never-before with visually stunning installations, experiential zones, performance spaces, fine drinks and a specially designed food menu. Guests will be able to indulge in cocktails by Four Pillars Gin throughout the evening including a Yuzu Highball inspired by Yayoi Kusama.
The event will include a headline performance, which in previous years has included showstopping sets from Troye Sivan, Baker Boy, G Flip, Sneaky Sound System and Salt-N-Pepa. In previous years, the star-studded guest list has included Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Elizabeth Olsen, Winnie Harlow, Poppy Delevingne, Liam Hemsworth and Shalom Harlow.
On 29 August, NGV Gala pre-sale tickets will be available to NGV subscribers. For early access to tickets, sign up to the NGV eNews here: ngv.melbourne/gala-subscribe. General sale tickets will be available from 4 September via the NGV website.
