Rethinking galleries’ public spaces

Who’s afraid of ACCA? Now they’ve transformed the gallery into a lounge room so you won’t be.

What does it mean to offer space to the public and who gets to participate? The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is forging a path forward in this direction with their latest project Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

A sense of tactility runs through the main exhibition which sees ACCA’s four galleries remove the divide between viewer and artwork to showcase an interconnected ecology of artists, installations, objects, and human interaction.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_