Gertrude acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners and custodians of the land and waters on which we operate. We pay our respects to the Wurundjeri people and their ancestors and Elders – past and present.

Hours of operation

Gertrude Contemporary is open
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am - 5pm

Gertrude Glasshouse is open
Thursday – Saturday, 12 - 5pm

Gertrude Contemporary

Featured exhibitions

Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent), installation view, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, image courtesy and © the artists, photograph: Christian Capurro

Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent)

Gertrude Contemporary

21 June – 10 August 2025

Nathan Beard, Bound (video still), 2025, single-channel HD video, colour, silent, image courtesy the artist and FUTURES, Naarm Melbourne © the artist

Nathan Beard
Cicerone

Gertrude Glasshouse

18 July – 23 August 2025

Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT Present: Contact High: New York

24 – 26 July 2025

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Public Program

Installation view of DAMP, Punchline, presented at 200 Gertrude Street, Naarm Melbourne, 1999. Image courtesy of the Gertrude archive.

Punchline: live recording

Public ProgramSaturday 26 July 2025, 4:00amGertrude Contemporary

Public Program

Danklands [Swamped] for Arcadia Missa, London, 2014. Photo: Claire Kurylowski.

DANKLANDS [SWAMPED]

PerformanceSaturday 9 August 2025, 4:00amGertrude Contemporary

Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent), installation view, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, image courtesy and © the artists, photograph: Christian Capurro

Dear Diego cc: Alexie
Lisa Radford

PerformanceSaturday 9 August 2025, 4:00amGertrude Contemporary

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Support Gertrude

Audiences, artists and curators at the opening event of A Fictional Restrospective: Gertrude's First Decade at Gertrude Contemporary. Photography: Machiko Abe.

Shape our Future

Nadine Christensen, 40 Knots, Variable Edition of 40. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Naarm Melbourne. Photo: Christian Capurro

Gertrude Editions

Limited Series

Gertrude 40 Year Anniversary tote bag. Design: Narelle Brewer.

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Installation view, And This Time the Well Is Alive, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2024, photograph: Christian Capurro

Exhibitions

Ardi Gunawan, luckily there’s no inside, 2025, two-hour performance, performed by Tainá Araujo, Alex Fimeri, Gisele Forsyth, Lana Rosalea, Narii Salmon, Issy Staiger-Creed and Diana Quarshie, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, documentation by Machiko Abe, image courtesy of the artist and ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta © the artist

Public Programs

Studio portrait of Gertrude Studio Artist Yusi Zang, Gertrude Contemporary, 2024. Photography: Machiko Abe.

Gertrude Studios

Installation view of Archie Moore’s exhibition Dwelling (Victorian Issue), presented at Gertrude Contemporary, 2022. Photo: Christian Capurro.

Education

Exhibition catalogue, 1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025, authored by Helen Hughes and Spiros Panigirakis. Design identity: Narelle Brewer.

Publishing

Dancing, Sean Peoples, 2013, Channel G, West Space, Naarm Melbourne, 2013, courtesy and © Sean Peoples

Digital projects