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: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

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Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.