Ocula Magazine

  • Must-See Exhibitions During Sydney Contemporary and Beyond

    Expect: theatrical images that complicate Paul Gauguin’s interpretations of the Pacific and its peoples with a contemporary imaging of cultural awareness and inclusive difference.

  • Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp

    Sāmoan-Japanese interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara is immeasurably creative and unassailable in addressing some of the most urgent issues of the times—the environmental crisis…

  • Hetti Perkins Introduces the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial

    In August 2020, Australian writer and curator Hetti Perkins was appointed as the curator of the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony (26 March–31 July 2022).

  • Maree Clarke Connects Country, Culture, and Place

    Maree Clarke’s poetic, personal, and political practice is a type of cultural truth-telling, steeped in memory and Country while deploying photography and new technologies to tell stories of past, present and future.

  • Ishiuchi Miyako: Photography as Psychological Event

    On 8 December 2019, curators Natalie King and Yuri Yamada travelled to the outskirts of Tokyo by train to visit renowned Japanese artist Ishuichi Miyako in her home studio in…

  • Nell: ‘I’m always thinking about how a painting might sound’

    Sydney-based artist Nell has a capacious practice, working deftly across sculpture, painting, sound, assemblage, performance, and public art, producing work that is both accessible yet complex.

  • TarraWarra International 2019: Tracing Tangible Shadows

    This haunting voiceover from Hiwa K’s video, Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue) (2017), follows the artist retracing a journey that he made when he was 25 years old…

  • 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life

    ‘Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.’ Marlene Dumas’ poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours

  • 11th Taipei Biennial: ‘creativity and crises’

    Stealthily installed in the basement of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as part of Post Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem, the 11th Taipei Biennial co-curated by Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda…

  • Patricia Piccinini in Conversation | Ocula

    On the occasion of Patricia Piccinini’s multisensory and epic retrospective, Curious Affection at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA, 24 March–5 August 2018)…

  • Pipilotti Rist in Conversation

    Pipilotti Rist configures sensory and colour-saturated universes that transport the viewer into hyper-visual sequences of moving image, film and objects.

  • Ocula Conversations Series

    Ocula Magazine is pleased to partner with the 21st Biennale of Sydney to release a series of Ocula Conversations with seven artists, one from each of the Biennale locations.

  • Tracey Moffatt in Conversation

    Since graduating from Queensland College of Art in 1982 and following her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, in 1989, Tracey Moffatt…

  • Maria Alyokhina in Conversation

    Formed in 2011, Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot is known for organising unauthorised and provocative guerrilla punk rock performances in unconventional…

  • Entang Wiharso and Sally Smart in Conversation

    On the 30 November 2015, an e-conversation commenced between Entang Wiharso in Yogyakarta; Sally Smart in Yogyakarta and her studio in Melbourne, and Natalie King…

  • Natalie King and Youngmi Park in Conversation

    Now in its 13th edition, the Dong Gang International Photo Festival takes place in the city of Yeongwol, about 3 hours drive east of Seoul.