All the Big Exhibitions, Installations and Art Festivals Around Brisbane That'll Dazzle Your 2023 Diary

Fill your year with Warhol pop art, glowing gardens, Monet's water lilies and street art everywhere.

All the Big Exhibitions, Installations and Art Festivals Around Brisbane That'll Dazzle Your 2023 Diary

Paris has the Louvre. London boasts the Tate Modern. New York is home to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. They're all stunning cities, and spectacular art galleries and museums within them — but peering at walls and halls filled with gorgeous, eye-opening and important creative sights is just as easy right here in Brisbane.

Across 2023, the River City is set to be teeming with art — the Gold Coast, too. Whether you want to fill your year with Warhol pop art, glowing gardens, Monet's water lilies or street art everywhere, there's an exhibition, installation or festival either on its way or already on display. Here's what you need to pop in your diary ASAP.

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Arts & Entertainment
Australian Geographic: Our Country

Focusing on Australia's natural wonders, this immersive exploration features unseen footage from 25 different cinematographers — including a frequent David Attenborough collaborator.

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Arts & Entertainment
Dinosaurs of Patagonia

A massive dinosaur exhibition featuring the largest-known land animal ever is roaring into Queensland Museum.

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Arts & Entertainment
Play Moves

Museum of Brisbane's latest free exhibition is filled with art you can interact with.

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Arts & Entertainment
'Air' at GOMA

Expect an exhibition that works to peel back the layers of the invisible, ethereal element that life cannot exist without.

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Arts & Entertainment
Pop Masters: Art From the Mugrabi Collection, New York

The Gold Coast's Home of the Arts is bringing pop art royalty (with a side of New York cool) to the Sunshine State.

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Arts & Entertainment
We Are Electric

This free exhibition explores energy through art, pondering extraction, extinction and the world's post-carbon futures.

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Arts & Entertainment
Curiocity Brisbane 2023

With each experience at the 2023 festival, you’ll be called to consider where art ends and science begins.

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Arts & Entertainment
Imaginaria

A multi-sensory playground with light-filled mazes and inflatable bubbles is taking over South Bank.

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Arts & Entertainment
Making Place: 100 Views of Brisbane

With artwork dating back two centuries, this city-focused exhibition surveys pieces that've captured Brisbane and its changes.

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Arts & Entertainment
Play/ground

Thirty-seven artworks have taken over the CBD's light boxes, banners and outdoor display cases — and some are being projected at Howard Smith Wharves, too.

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Arts & Entertainment
Lost in Palm Springs

The Gold Coast's HOTA, Home of the Arts is paying tribute to a different sunny city, taking inspiration from the Californian spot's art, architecture and design.

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Arts & Entertainment
Meet the Artists

Don't just check out pieces by Vernon Ah Kee, Judith Wright, Sandra Selig, Eugene Carchesio and more — watch interviews with them, too.

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Arts & Entertainment
Brisbane Street Art Festival 2023

Get ready to look up — a huge citywide street art festival is taking over the city.

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Arts & Entertainment
The Art of Banksy: Without Limits

This huge Banksy exhibition will fill Queens Plaza with more than 150 artworks, including photos, sculptures, simulations and an infinity room.

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Arts & Entertainment
Botanica: Contemporary Art Outside 2023

Brisbane's glowing after-dark festival lights up the City Botanic Gardens with dazzling art, performances, food trucks and an outdoor bar.

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Design & Style
Brisbane Art Design 2023

Brisbane's art and design festival Is returning for three weekends filled with 150-plus events and exhibitions.

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Arts & Entertainment
Monet in Paris

This stunning new multi-sensory exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet and his contemporaries is making its world premiere in Brisbane.

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Arts & Entertainment
Fairy Tales

A blockbuster fairy tales exhibition is taking over GOMA for five enchanted months.

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Arts & Entertainment
Surface Miami Street Art Festival 2023

Stunning street art pieces will take over the Gold Coast's footpaths, laneways and walls at this returning fest.

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Arts & Entertainment
Swell Sculpture Festival 2023

Currumbin Beach's annual outdoor sculpture fest will turn 21 in 2023.

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Travel & Leisure
Luminous Lantern Parade 2023

South Bank is lighting up to celebrate multiculturalism.

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