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.

Free event. RSVP essential.

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.

Upcoming Events Submit an Event

July

Perth: From 31 May – 28 Sept 2025. Featuring 85 works from three major series – Deep Springs, Overpass, and Cross Country – the exhibition spans twelve years of Contis’s evolving photographic practice.

Sydney: Until 31 Dec 2025. PIX, Australia’s first pictorial news weekly, is brought to life in this exhibition, showcasing its archived images and stories for the very first time.

Sydney: 15 May – 19 October. Showcasing 100 incredible images, this remarkable exhibition offers a window into the astonishing variety of life on our planet – and the critical importance of preserving it.

August

Leica Store Gallery in both Sydney & Melbourne present a unique photographic dialogue between Steve McCurry and Jessie Brinkman Evans. Until late October.

Ballarat: 23 August – 19 October 2025. This year’s theme is Lifeforce, and it ties into an eight-week program of exhibitions, public art, talks, and workshops across more than 100 venues throughout Ballarat.

September

Melbourne: until 9 November. Man Ray and Max Dupain is the first major Australian exhibition to consider these two influential 20th century photographers side by side.

Melbourne: 13 September – 9 November 2025. Featuring selected finalists for the 2025 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.

October

Melbourne: Oct 31 – Nov 6. Chimera is a photographic investigation into the shifting landscape of beauty in the age of artificial intelligence and social media.