LOGAN ART GALLERY
05.09.2026 to 02.09.2028

Beyond frames brings a major body of video art from the National Gallery of Australia to Logan Art Gallery as part of Sharing the National Collection, spanning more than 5 decades of practice and experimentation with the moving image. Rather than a single, fixed medium, video art has continually shifted in response to new technologies and artistic intentions, absorbing elements of performance, installation, cinema, and digital culture. The works in this exhibition trace that evolution, revealing a form that remains restless, critical and expansive, continuing to redefine what art can be.

Presented in Logan over a two-year period, Beyond frames situates the gallery within a broader national and international context while offering sustained access to a significant strand of contemporary practice rarely encountered at this scale outside major institutions. The exhibition brings together works that are at times rigorous, disarming, poetic, and direct, inviting audiences to engage with the moving image not as something fixed or passive, but as a space of ongoing inquiry and encounter.

Start times:

10:30am | Sophie Calle + Gregory Shephard  Double blind
11:46am | Richard Serra + Carlota Schoolman  Television delivers people
11:53am | Bill Viola  Passage into night
12:44pm | William Kentridge  Other faces
12:54pm | Ellen José + Marshall White  In the balance
12:57pm | Tracey Moffat + Gary Hillberg  Revolutions
1:11pm | William Wegman  Selected works reel 6
1:31pm | Bill Viola  Passage into night
2:22pm | Bruce Nauman  Manipulating a fluorescent tube

Test frames is a commissioning initiative developed by Logan Art Gallery and embedded within Beyond frames, introducing new moving image work every 6 months. Each commission is created by a local or regionally connected artist, foregrounding current voices from the area within a wider national and international frame. Presented alongside Beyond frames, Test frames brings a distinct contemporary perspective to the exhibition, extending its scope while reinforcing the moving image as an active, evolving form shaped by the urgencies and conditions of the present.