Annual Review 2018

SUMMER 2017–18 GERHARD RICHTER THE LIFE OF IMAGES 14 OCTOBER 2017 – 4 FEBRUARY 2018 | GOMA YAYOI KUSAMA LIFE IS THE HEART OF A RAINBOW 4 NOVEMBER 2017 – 11 FEBRUARY 2018 | GOMA Summer Up Late included performances from Sydney’s Lupa J (pictured) and US musician Laurel Halo, alongside the artwork of Richter and Kusama / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon The monthly Kusama Sundays program, including Art Therapy Lounge sessions, were held during ‘Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow’ / Photograph: Joe Ruckli Gerhard Richter’s Atlas overview 1962–ongoing was an excerpt of 400 panels from the artist’s painstaking and sustained archival project / Photograph: Joe Ruckli In adjacent exhibitions, the Gallery’s program for summer 2017–18 celebrated two of the world’s most prolific and respected artists. A focused survey of the vast career of senior Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama explored her engagement with the body and conception of space, including in her globally popular immersive infinity rooms. Co-curated with the National Gallery Singapore, ‘Life is the Heart of a Rainbow’ went on to be shown at Museum MACAN, Indonesia. Exclusive to Brisbane, ‘The Life of Images’ was the first major survey in Australia for Gerhard Richter . It chronicled the renowned German artist’s inimitable vicissitude across abstract, portrait and landscape paintings, and the lifelong rigour of his archival Atlas project.