Passage: The Art of Atong Atem
About this event
Passage: The Art of Atong Atem is on at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (Melbourne, Victoria, 3000) on Sun 8 Nov 2026.
Tickets and details are on the organiser’s website, linked on this page. Prices listed by the organiser: Price Free. They’re indicative, so check the final price when you book.
The organiser hasn’t published accessibility details for this event that we hold, so check with them if you need specifics.
From the organiser
NGV presents the first-ever major solo exhibition of South Sudanese, Melbourne-based contemporary artist Atong Atem, who is celebrated for her dynamic and vibrant photographic self-portraits that explore identity, mythmaking and intergenerational storytelling.
Transforming herself through textiles, paint, costume and symbolic objects, Atem uses her own body as a vessel to explore themes of race, gender and colonialism, as well as the beauty and resilience of her Dinka Bor culture and Melbourne's African diaspora. The exhibition showcases how Atem uses photography as a medium for celebration and reclamation, and how her practice interrogates how identity is performed, both in everyday life and before the camera, creating images in which history, memory and imagination intertwine.
The venue’s recorded access
Inclusable’s venue database has an entry for Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at this location. It records wheelchair access, step-free entry, accessible toilet and hearing loop. The venue hasn’t confirmed these details. They describe the venue in general, not this particular event.
Not yet recorded for the venue: accessible parking. We don’t know either way, so it’s worth checking before you go.
Public accessible toilet near Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia records an accessible toilet. The nearest public one outside the venue, for before you go in or when it is closed, is Fed Square - The Atrium, Melbourne, about 80 m away.
Fed Square - The Atrium · about 80 m away in a straight line
Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC (other)
- Changing Places facility
- MLAK key required
Open: 6am-11:30pm
You can access a key by calling security on the intercom at the end of the corridor
Source: the National Public Toilet Map, data as at 1 September 2026. Distances are straight-line, not the walking route, and facilities can change — check before you rely on one. Facility record
Ticket prices
- PriceFree
Indicative prices from the organiser, where provided.
Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Public-source informationVenue details from the Inclusable venue database, where available.
Dates · Daily
- Fri, 30 Oct 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Sat, 31 Oct 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Sun, 1 Nov 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Mon, 2 Nov 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Tue, 3 Nov 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Wed, 4 Nov 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Thu, 5 Nov 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Fri, 6 Nov 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location & contact
- The Ian Potter Centre: NGV AustraliaMelbourne, Victoria, 3000
- Get directions (opens in a new tab)
- 8620 2222
- enquires@ngv.vic.gov.au
Event information courtesy of the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW).
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