The second instalment of NGV Triennial explores some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time including isolation, conservation and speculation for the future, illuminating the concerns that preoccupy the thoughts of the artists, designers and architects of today.
 
World premiere works include a 2.5 metre tall, mirror-polished, stainless steel sculpture of Venus by American artist Jeff Koons; a 100 square metre mega screen presenting a speculative work by Turkish new media artist Refik Anadol employing AI and quantum computing to display over 200 million images of nature; display of vibrant blue works by Yolngu woman Dhambit Mununggurr, the first Yolngu artist working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre to use acrylic blue paint comprising 15 large-scale single sheet bark paintings and nine larrakitj (hollow poles); and British artist and designer Faye Toogood’s salon-style interior installation exploring daylight, candlelight and moonlight within the context of the NGV’s seventeenth and eighteenth century Flemish, Dutch and British collection Galleries featuring newly commissioned furniture, lighting, scenography, sculpture and large-scale tapestries.