PHOTO LIVE Special season with MGA and PSC In conversation | Pippa Milne with Dana Lixenberg

Live streamed webinar, join MGA Senior Curator, Pippa Milne in conversation with artist Dana Lixenberg (NL) as they discuss her approach to photography and her award-winning work, Imperial Courts, featured in Not standing still: new approaches in documentary photography.

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About Dana Lixenberg

Dana Lixenberg (born 1964) is a Dutch photographer who lives and works between Amsterdam and New York City. She studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–86) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1987–89).

Lixenberg has received commissions from magazines, such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vibe. Besides her extensive editorial practice, she pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on marginalised communities.

Lixenberg has exhibited widely at institutions such as Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam (2015), Aperture Foundation in New York (2017), The Photographers’ Gallery in London (2017), and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2020). She has produced numerous publications of her projects, receiving the Best Dutch Book Design Award in 2018, 2017, 2008 and 2005. Lixenberg received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2017 for Imperial Courts.

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February

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

April

Sydney: 9 April event 6-9pm. Unfinished is a free event to show/see photo-based work in progress or recently completed personal projects run by photographers for photographers.