Don’t Kurt Cobain

Overview

What would you bring to a Kurt Cobain-themed exhibition? Maybe you come from a live art background, and think an installation performance piece could go down nicely — one that explores the intersection between this joke Simon Amstell makes about Courtney Love on Buzzcocks and grunge culture's DIY ethos, as embodied in this chiptune cover of Teen Spirit?

Thankfully, none of those things will be happening in Don’t Kurt Cobain, an exhibition co-curated by Rosemary Forde and Lisa Fadford that brings together a bunch of Kurt-related artwork into one simmering Cobain-marie to mark the 20th anniversary of his death. The exhibition at Collingwood gallery Slopes takes its name from a piece by Matthew Griffin (pictured above), who's joined by other individual artists and collectives, including Simon Zoric, Lyndal Walker, Blair Trethowan, Masato Takasaka, Kati Rule, Dan Price, Sue Dodd, Colleen Ahern and Greatest Hits.

Unfortunately, Don't Kurt Cobain will be the final exhibition hosted by Slopes. But never mind, Nirvana is without a doubt the perfect way to say goodbye.