Digital placeholder for new NGV Contemporary. Image National Gallery of Victoria.
Coinciding with the launch of the NGV Triennial, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) announced it has received a pledge of $20 million from The Ian Potter Foundation for the development of NGV Contemporary.
The gift is the single largest grant ever made by The Ian Potter Foundation in its 56 years of operation.
Plans for NGV Contemporary were first announced in announced June 2018, with the NGV claiming it would be Australia’s largest contemporary art gallery once completed.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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