Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Objects

The Burden of Objects is an exhibition of contemporary sculpture, the first iteration of the newly established Melbourne Sculpture Biennale. It will be held in October at the Villa Alba Museum, a heritage mansion in Kew.

Curated by Adam Stone and Laura Couttie (Melbourne Sculpture Biennale founders and directors), the inaugural exhibition, The Burden of Objects, aims to showcase the breadth and diversity of contemporary sculpture in Naarm/Melbourne. 

The exhibition features 19 contemporary artists whose sculptural practices focus on the materiality of sculpture: making objects at scale, or in costly or labour-intensive materials and traditional sculptural processes. These processes include:

• carving
• moulding
• casting
• modelling
• assembling.

This is a unique opportunity to experience a diverse grouping of some of Melbourne's leading and most exciting up-and-coming contemporary sculptural artists, in a stunning heritage house and gardens.