DANI MARTI’s video work Butterflyman will be featured in 50 Artists: 50 Years, a landmark exhibition celebrating five decades of artistic legacy at the University of Wollongong, running from 4 August til 10 December 2025.
The exhibition highlights the diversity and significance of the UOW Art Collection as part of the university’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
On Butterflyman, the artist writes:
“Filmed during my OZCO residency in NYC. I met and filmed Mark in 2010. I saw him again when I got back to NYC in 2012 — he didn’t look too good, and he had lost a lot of weight due to his addiction to meth while living with HIV. We organised a filming session. Three weeks later, I ran into him in the street, and he had developed skin lesions on his face. I asked him to do a second filming session.”
Marti chose to film his friend performing one of his more joyful passions: flagging — a routine commonly performed in gay clubs, inspired by Japanese fan dancing.
Marti’s work explores the intimacy and complexity of surface — how, as seen in Butterflyman, a person’s story can be literally written on their skin.
More information can be found here.
DANI MARTI features in Beyond Textiles exhibition at the RACV City Club
BEYOND TEXTILES
Dani Marti is featured in a new exhibition that celebrates textiles as material, subject and process. Marti's work in Beyond Textiles at the RACV City Club Gallery blurs the boundaries between sculpture and textiles.
Marti's work is included alongside Tia Ansell, Tim Gresham, Rubaba Haider, and Casey Jeffery.
Please note, access to the exhibition is by appointment only – please email art@racv.com.au to arrange a viewing.
BCN'97, 2023
polyester, polypropylene, leather, aluminium
185 x 125 x 7 cm
DANI MARTI to feature in Radical Textiles exhibition at AGSA
Dani Marti, ‘Troughman (the yellow peril)’, 2006, polypropylene, nylon and wood frame on castor wheels, 180 x 180 x 180 cm.
RADICAL TEXTILES
Dani Marti will be showing ’Troughman (yellow peril)' (2005) at Art Gallery of South Australia for the much anticipated Radical Textiles exhibition, opening this Saturday.
From William Morris to Sonia Delaunay, Radical Textiles celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.
RADICAL TEXTILES
📅 23 November 2024 – 30 March 2025
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia
New publication featuring MARTI, ZAHALKA, LAURENCE, YOUNG
Celebrating the launch of Mordant Collection Highlights, a publication devoted to the collection of Simon and Catriona Mordant.
"We never set out to build a collection. What has driven us is a passion to be surrounded by creative people, whether in the visual or performing arts. We have only purchased a work when it evoked a reaction in us ... We have never bought a work for a particular wall or because someone told us the artist was important. We have loved this journey together."—Simon and Catriona Mordant
Featured in the highlights are these pieces by Dani Marti, Anne Zahalka, Janet Laurence and John Young.
DANI MARTI featured in Duty of Care exhibition at IMA Brisbane
Dani Marti's powerful work 'Notes for Bob' (2013) is featured in in the upcoming exhibition Duty of Care. Split across the Institute of Modern Art and the Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane, this exhibition has been curated by Stephanie Berlangieri, Angela Goddard, and Robert Leonard.
"In curatorial practice—and in culture more broadly—‘care’ has become a buzzword, and is being used to reset policy and practice. However, too often, the complexity and troublesomeness of care are smoothed over by liberal good intentions."
DUTY OF CARE
📅 29 June–22 September 2024
📍Institute of Modern Art + Griffith University Art Museum
DANI MARTI is a finalist in Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award
Dani Marti was a finalist this year, with the rhythmic work 'Between - 'Llunyanies Fosquejades' at the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award.
This nationally acclaimed, acquisitive biennial prize celebrates the diversity and strength of textile art across Australia.
DANI MARTI in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection'
DANI MARTI's moving video work 'Butterflyman' is currently in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection' at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.
The exhibition represents the strength of The University of Wollongong's collection, with a showcase of over 100 works by leading Australian artists. The exhibition continues until 18 June.
DANI MARTI 'Orifices' Features in 'Inside/Out' at The Night Galleries
DANI MARTI'S 'Orifices' features in the exhibition 'Inside/Out' at the Night Galleries in Kuwumi Place, Newcastle, to celebrate Sydney WorldPride.
Newcastle Art Gallery has partnered with curator Jasmine Fletcher (@flowersandrice), founder of local community organisation Queer and Now, to develop 'Inside/Out', an exhibition that brings together works by local artists with those from the Gallery's collection.
'Inside/Out' speaks to the dichotomy of invisible and visible queer experience. The exhibition celebrates the central role of art in rendering visible the full spectrum of queer experience.
The exhibition opens tonight, 5-8pm.
Dani Marti, 'Orifices', 2000-2005.
DANI MARTI features in the exhibition 'Life, Still' at Maitland Regional Art Gallery
FROM THE MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY COLLECTION
For many artists, capturing a point in time is a compelling endeavour.
This exhibition brings together works of art from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection that land us in the beauty, stillness and rapture of the present moment.
DANI MARTI, Dust ( between White and Grey), 2020.
Press for DANI MARTI 's exhibition 'Oh Canola!'
Fabulous press for DANI MARTI’S latest exhibition ‘Oh Canola!’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, which was mentioned in the Newcastle Herald.
The main gallery space at Maitland Regional Art Gallery has one big, long wall and Dani Marti has created one work to fill it. It's all yellow, and stretches more than 11 metres. Made of several panels, installed by Marti to flow seamlessly, the wall sculpture titled Oh Canola! is made of almost 10,000 circular reflectors, the kind used along roads, but customised in yellow.
– JO BEVAN
EXHIBITION CLOSING – MAY 29th
DANI MARTI's exhibition 'Oh Canola!' opens at MAITLAND REGIONAL GALLERY
Dani Marti, installation image of Oh Canola! at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
DANI MARTI's exhibition 'Oh Canola!’ is now open for visitors at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Get close and personal with the gorgeous textures and enthralling forms in this major showcase of Marti's lush works.
5 March – 29 May 2022
JANET LAURENCE & DANI MARTI INCLUDED IN 'TERRA AUSTRALIS REVISITED'
Dani Marti, Installation View, ‘Terra Australis Revisited’, Galerie Ernst Hilger , Vienna, 2021.
JANET LAURENCE and DANI MARTI are included in the group exhibition ‘Terra Australis Revisited’, at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna.
The legend of Terra Australis dates back to Roman times being the unknown land of the South. Now for the second time to Austria comes a group show of diverse Australian artists curated by collector and philanthropist Simon Mordant AO.
The exhibition was supported by the Australian Embassy Vienna and continues until 18 December 2021.