Greatest hits of Asia Pacific Triennial to tour to London’s V&A in 2026

A heat oceanic breath will attain wintry London in early 2026, when the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is ready to host an exhibition of highlights from the 30-year historical past of Brisbane’s Asia Pacific Triennial of Up to date Artwork (APT).

The present, which is but to be named, is being produced by the V&A in partnership with the Queensland Artwork Gallery and Gallery of Trendy Artwork (QAGOMA). The triennial takes over QAGOMA each three years and is Brisbane’s flagship artwork pageant, drawing artists from throughout the area. There can be loads of works for the London and Brisbane curators to select from—QAGOMA has acquired 1,300 items from the triennial since its inception in 1993.

QAGOMA’s director, Chris Saines, was in London this week for the museums’ joint announcement of the present. “For 3 many years the APT has been the cornerstone of our gallery programme, bringing collectively the work of greater than 650 artists and teams from throughout 50 international locations within the Asia Pacific area,” he says in an announcement.

Because of its acquisitions from the triennial, QAGOMA has constructed “a unprecedented, unrivalled assortment of up to date Asian and Pacific artwork that represents the distinctive inventive voices of world-renowned modern artists alongside collaborations with native communities and humanities makers”, Saines provides.

Drawing on these holdings, the V&A exhibition will current “works starting from large-scale sculptural installations to miniature portray to works on bark material and complex physique adornment”, based on the press assertion. It’s anticipated that a few of the featured artists will journey to London for the opening in 2026.

The V&A collaboration is just the second time that works from the triennial have toured internationally, following a 2019 exhibition in Santiago, Chile.

Tristram Hunt, the V&A’s director, says: “The APT presents a very international, cross-cultural providing of up to date apply throughout disciplines and areas, and we look ahead to sharing this with our worldwide audiences in London.”

Over time, the triennial has included artwork starting from the foremost metropolises of Asia to remoted Pacific atolls and distant Indigenous communities in Australia. It has attracted greater than 4 million guests so far. The latest version, APT10, was held at QAGOMA from December 2021 to April 2022.