ANNE ZAHALKA in conversation at The National Art School

IN CONVERSATION TODAY

This afternoon (Saturday, 17 August 2024, 2PM), join Anouska Phizacklea, Director of the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) in conversation with acclaimed Australian artist Anne Zahalka at the National Art School, Sydney.

Zahalka will discuss the her career spanning four decades, the survey exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive and key themes explored within her practice.

IN CONVERSATION: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive
📅 17 August 2024, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Bookings essential via the National Art School website
📍National Art School, Sydney

ANNE ZAHALKA part of the La Gacilly Photo Festival in regional France

Anne Zahalka joins photographers Bobbi Lockyer, Matthew Abbott, Adam Ferguson, Narelle Autio, Trent Park and Tamara Dean in the La Gacilly Photo Festival opening 1 June 2024.

Festival photo of La Gacilly is a festival in an authentic village in France, with big pictures in open air, with free entrance for the visitors during summer from june to september. Every year, 320 000 people come to visit the exhibits, and we are very honored to have exhibited some prestigious photographers like Josef Koudelka, Seydou Keïta, Nick Brandt, Claudia Andujar, Steeve Mc Curry, Raymond Depardon, Sebastiao Salgado, Brent Stirton, Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Sarah Moon, Mario Giacomelli, Edouard Boubat, Michael Kenna, Paolo Pellegrin, Pascal Maitre, Gohar Dashti, Pentti Sammallahti. Their editorial goal concerns the link between Human and Earth. This year (in 2024) we make a focus on the Australian photography with artists who document our planet, and make story about biodiversity, the beauty of nature, the senses, the human being in their social environment.

ANNE ZAHALKA - Future Past Present Tense

ANNE ZAHALKA | NEW EXHIBITION

FUTURE PAST PRESENT TENSE
1 March – 6 April 2024
📍Opening: Friday, 1 March, 5.30PM, ARC ONE Gallery
All welcome

This exhibition is presented as part of PHOTO 2024.

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Artificial truths are Anne Zahalka’s preoccupation. Drawn to the constructed aspect of dioramas, Zahalka has spent many years working with the airless logic of museum displays.

In her new exhibition FUTURE PAST PRESENT TENSE, Zahalka inserts the original diorama-makers—scientists, assistants, and illustrators—into the scenes themselves. This meta-narrative gives the dioramas a recursive effect, akin to ‘embalming the embalmer’, like a waxwork of Madame Tussauds.

With a career spanning 40 years, Anne Zahalka is a landmark artist in Australian contemporary art. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension, interrogating them with humour and a critical perspective. Appreciated by audiences and curators alike, her work starts conversations.

ANNE ZAHALKA wins William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

Last night Sydney-based artist Anne Zahalka was named winner of the 2023 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize for her work Kunstkammer (2023).

Rhana Devenport (ONZM, Director, Art Gallery of South Australia) and Michael Cook (Brisbane-based contemporary photographic artist of Bidjara heritage) joined MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea to select the winner and three Honourable Mentions from a shortlist of 66 exceptional works.

The judges comments:

'Anne Zahalka’s archival project is a mammoth undertaking documenting a lifetime of practice, both monumental and intimate, this work is rare and important.' — Rhana Devenport

'I was looking for works that created an emotional response and was amazed with the depth in the entire field. Winner Anne Zahalka’s work stood out given the huge scale she has produced that travels beyond the two dimensions.' — Michael Cook

'Anne’s Zahalka’s ‘Kunstkammer’ is a tour-de-force reflecting a practice that she has sustained for more than 40 years. This work challenges assumptions about photography and how immersive and experiential it can be on a grand scale. It invites you into the artist’s process and innerworkings in a way few artists have ever achieved.' — Anouska Phizacklea

Visit MAPh to view this work, alongside the other incredible finalists.

'ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist's archive' opens at MAPh

Coming to Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) this June: ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive.

Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the ANNE ZAHALKA's working life and her creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned. Accompanying the exhibition will be a major publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.

ARC ONE Gallery hosts MAPh's Artist Photography Auction

This week ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka.

Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.

MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.

ANNE ZAHALKA Upcoming Solo Exhibition: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive

Coming to Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) this June: ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive.

Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the ANNE ZAHALKA's working life and her creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned. Accompanying the exhibition will be a major publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.

10 June - 10 September 2023

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ANNE ZAHALKA on display at the Wollongong Art Gallery

ANNE ZAHALKA, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, archival pigment ink on rag paper, edition of 3, 115 x 190 cm.

ANNE ZAHALKA's absorbing image is on display on Dharawal Land, at the Wollongong Art Gallery, in the new exhibition 'REFLECTION: Works from the Collection'.

In this work "Zahalka crouches in the foreground of the Illawarra undergrowth as both observer, stranger and witness to the landscape populated by introduced species, including a group of tourists. A haze of smoke can also be seen towards the tops of the trees, referencing the ongoing bushfire smoke that covered the rainforest at the time of the making of the work." This wonderful description is courtesy of Boroondara’s Town Hall Gallery exhibition catalogue, 'You are here' from 2020.

REFLECTION is open 1 April to 20 August 2023.

ANNE ZAHALKA Features in 'Recreation: Art, Sport and Leisure' at Project8 Gallery

See this dazzling ANNE ZAHALKA work on display in the exhibition RECREATION: ART, SPORT AND LEISURE opening tonight from 6PM at Project8 Gallery.

'Santa’s Kingdom Christmas Tunnel, Fox Studios, Sydney' (2003/04) depicts adults wandering mesmerised through a tunnel decorated with Christmas baubles and fairy lights. Transported to a world of make-believe, they obediently file through on their journey to Santa’s Kingdom. Thsi work was the pinnacle of Zahalka's ‘Leisureland’ series.

See you at @project8gallery Friday 24 February, Level 2, 417 Collins Street Melbourne.

ANNE ZAHALKA's 'Radical Reimaginings' the Subject of Curatorial Talk at Art Gallery of Ballarat

Zahalka at ‘Beating About The Bush’.

CURATOR'S TALK

ANNE ZAHALKA’S RADICAL REIMAGININGS

Anne Zahalka's work is the subject of an upcoming curator’s talk at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, for their fantastic exhibition, ‘Beating About The Bush’, with
curator KELLY GELLATLY.

Visitors will note that Zahalka’s work is central to this display, with many of her most significant photographs included. Join Gellatly at 2 pm, 4 February 2023. Details on the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s website.

Bookings essential

ANNE ZAHALKA features in Art Guide Australia preview

Featuring in The Art Gallery of Ballarat’s current exhibition ‘Beating About The Bush’ Anne Zahalka is spotlighted in the November/December issue of Art Guide Australia.

“A major inspiration for the show was Zahalka’s 1985 exhibition The Landscape Revisited. As Tegart explains, ‘Zahalka chose to recast characters within the landscape to offer a more inclusive and compassionate portrayal of the people—migrants, First Nations, women, people of non-Christian faiths—missing from Australian Impressionist narratives . . . Her work is as much a comment on society and the art world as it is about the painters themselves.’ Such comments abound in Beating about the Bush.”

View the article in-print on page 54 or online
The exhibition continues until February 19, 2023

Anne Zahalka, The Immigrants, 1983, Collage on found images.

PAT BRASSINGTON and ANNE ZAHALKA feature in the current exhibition 'The Cost of Living' at The Art Gallery of Western Australia

PAT BRASSINGTON, Untitled #13, from Cambridge Road, 2007, Pigment Print, Edition of 8 + 2 A/P, 45.5 x 32.5 cm.

“What is the price of living in the ways we do? What do we value, and who decides? How do we make livings and meanings that get in the way of flourishing? And who gets to define what flourishing means?

The Cost of Living floats these questions through art works on various themes such as: the lure and limits of aspirational romance, social and emotional dislocation, toxic living environments, police violence, the ravages of war and the impact of social media.”

Robert Cook - AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian Art

Exhibition continues until January 29, 2023.

ANNE ZAHALKA & JANET LAURENCE feature in the upcoming exhibition 'Beating About The Bush' at The Ballarat Art Gallery

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 2017, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100 x 134 cm.

This exhibition brings Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings together with female photographers who have re-examined the Australian Impressionists and brought a new lens to the Australian landscape.  

Themes such as gender, hardship of life in the bush, immigration, urban growth, environmental concerns and the presence of Indigenous peoples are explored through the work of some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists.

OPENING NOVEMBER 5

ANNE ZAHALKA features in HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022

ANNE ZAHALKA features in HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures annual exhibition with her work 'May Their Memory Be a Blessing' (2022)

"May their memory be a blessing is a traditional Jewish expression said for the dead, to comfort the bereaved and to honour the memory of those they mourn. I have used this honorific as the title of the work to speak of Jewish families lost in the Holocaust." - Anne Zahalka

Available to view for free at The Rookwood Cemetery until October 9.