The NGV Gala, a highlight of Australia’s cultural calendar celebrating the world’s best contemporary art, design and fashion returns on Saturday 2 December 2023. The spectacular Gala event will offer guests exclusive first access to NGV’s ambitious blockbuster exhibition, NGV Triennial 2023, featuring some of the world’s leading artists and designers including British trailblazer Tracey Emin (UK), Paris-based Maison Schiaparelli (France), art icon YOKO ONO (Japan), irreverent British artist David Shrigley (UK) and critically acclaimed artist Sheila Hicks (USA).
The NGV Gala offers guests an opportunity to experience the NGV as-never-before with visually stunning installations, experiential zones, performance spaces, fine wine and a specially designed food menu. The event will include a headline performance, which in previous years has included showstopping sets from Troye Sivan, Baker Boy featuring G Flip, Salt-N-Pepa and Kimbra and a star-studded guest list including Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Winnie Harlow, Poppy Delevingne and Shalom Harlow.
‘The NGV Gala is a late-night celebration of Melbourne’s world-renowned art, design, fashion, music and food scenes – and is truly the synthesis of everything that makes Melbourne the cultural capital of Australia, said Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV and co-chair of the NGV Gala. “This year, the event coincides with the NGVTriennial, offering an exclusive first-look at boundary-pushing, world-premiere works by global art and design superstars, the NGV Gala in 2023 will be a bold celebration of human creativity.’
The inaugural NGV Gala in 2017, held to coincide with the Australian-exclusive exhibition The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture, built upon the NGV’s rich legacy as a destination for art, design and fashion. In 2022, the sold-out NGV Gala celebrated the opening of the summer blockbuster exhibition Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse and offered guests first access to this Australian-exclusive presentation in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
On Thursday 31 August, NGV Gala pre-sale tickets will be available to NGV subscribers. For first access to tickets, sign up to the NGV eNews here: ngv.melbourne/gala-subscribe.
General sale tickets will be available from Friday 1 September via the NGV website.
The NGV Gala will take place at NGV International on Saturday 2 December 2023.