RACHAEL VANCE

Guest Curator

The University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sippy Downs, Australia

May 16 – August 3, 2025

Artists
Arahmaiani (ID), Cian Dayrit (PH), Patricia Perez Eustaquio (PH), Yee I-Lann (MY), Mella Jaarsma (ID), Eko Nugroho (ID), Moe Satt (MM), Jakkai Siributr (TH).

Transfer centred on contemporary visual artists with connections to Southeast Asia who explored textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance, and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcased a proliferation of textile and fibre art practices that reinterpreted cultural heritage through a contemporary lens at the intersection of art and life.

Guest Curator

Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Shepparton, Australia

November 11, 2023 – March 10, 2024

Artists

Del Kathryn Barton, Joseph Beuys, Kwesi Botchway, Sophie Calle, Joe Colombo, Lippo d’Andrea, Johnson Eziefula, Rainer Fetting, Zaachariaha Fielding, Gilbert & George, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jitish Kallat, Alicja Kwade, Tahnee Lonsdale, Heinz Mack, David Noonan, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Ben Quilty, Julian Rosefeldt, Gareth Sansom, Rodel Tapaya, Zandile Tshabalala, Xiyao Wang, Ambera Wellmann, Franz West.

Presenting over 40 artworks from renowned international and Australian artists, The ARNDT Collection: From One World to Another is a major exhibition that celebrates the pursuit of art collecting through a selection of treasures from the extensive private collection of Matthias Arndt and Tiffany Wood. 

Curator

Australian Embassy Berlin, Germany

December 5 2018 - February 15, 2019

A solo presentation of works by internationally acclaimed Australian visual artist Brook Andrew whose interdisciplinary artistic practice draws upon new and historical forms, images and texts that conflate archival sources, cultural markers, ethnographic records, found objects and ephemera from different time periods that conjure alternative timelines. Entitled “Denkmal”, translated from German as meaning “memorial” or “monument”, the exhibition responded directly to the artist’s ambitious Federal Government Australian Research Council grant research project titled “Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial” that investigates the lack of indigenous memorials within Australia that respond to Aboriginal loss and the frontier wars.

Arndt Art Agency at Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom

May 23 – June 4, 2023

Solo exhibition comprising a new suite of major large-scale paintings alongside a curated selection of prints and the artist’s animated film “The Nightingale and the Rose” (2015)—a remarkable adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century classic.

The Artbarn Art Space, Cape Schanck, Australia

November 4, 2023 - February 9, 2024

Solo presentation of sculptural works in Australia by internationally acclaimed Danish, Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein within The Artbarn Art Space, showcasing a selection of pieces from the artist’s key artwork series’ that include Hein’s coloured Mirrored Balloons and appellative neon texts glowing behind two-way mirrors. This survey of works continued outside in the natural environment with a curation of large-scale outdoor sculptures from the artist's Modified Social Benches pieces staged throughout the property in Cape Schanck, Australia.

Arndt Art Agency, Berlin, Germany

06.06. - 29.09.17

The group exhibition “mad love” provided a contemporary image of current Australian art within the context of Germany and Europe.

Artists
Brook Andrew, Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Dale Frank, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Patricia Piccinini, Ben Quilty and Paul Yore.

Realised through the direct support of the Australian Government as part of the cultural initiative Australia now 2017 – a year-long program celebrating Australian arts, culture, science and innovation across Germany.

Curator

Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany

20 Nov - 19 Dec 2020

For this solo presentation in Germany, Yore brought together quilted textiles, a suite of four needlepoint pieces and a spectacular suspended soft sculpture. Across the various fabric surfaces Yore’s cacophony of loaded visuals, emblems and texts embedded within the compositions speak directly to national discourse and and identity with the inclusion of the map of Australia.