Australia

The Other Art Fair is a global gathering of creative thinkers, game changers and pleasure seekers sharing emerging talent and unforgettable experiences, and we’re looking for boundary-pushing artists from all over the world.  This is your chance to showcase your work to thousands of art-lovers, collectors and industry professionals over 4 unforgettable days. 

What is the New Futures Prize?

If you are an early-stage artist facing the traditional barriers of the contemporary art world, New Futures is the opportunity for you.  One recipient will be awarded a free exhibition space at each of our global editions of The Other Art Fair, alongside personalized support to help you kick-start your career as an artist.

Science Gallery Melbourne is inviting proposals for projects to be included in our 2024 show ‘Not Natural’. Through installations, performances, events and workshops, this exhibition will explore the friction between cultural perceptions of nature and the implications of creating synthetic forms of life. Advances in synthetic biology have opened a plethora of possibility and a pandoras box of ethical dilemmas. We’ve stepped into a new era, where the tools of genetic engineering and biotechnology allow us to gene-edit, splice and de-extinct almost anything biological. We get to design new life-forms and modify existing ones. But are we redesigning evolution or is evolution re-designing us? And just because we can, should we?