Meet the artist Anne Zahalka

Join Anne Zahalka in the space of her exhibition Zahalkaworld for an informal conversation. The official exhibition opening will follow at 6pm. 

Artist Bio

Anne Zahalka is a one of Australia’s most recognised photo-media artists, with a career spanning over 40 years. She has held more than 40 solo exhibitions and has been curated into exhibitions across the world, including the Australian Embassy in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. In 2019 Zahalka was commissioned by the Museum of Sydney to produce a series of portraits, restaging historic street photographs. In the same year, she travelled to Prague to undertake a residency at the Béhal Fejér Institute tracing her family’s story of persecution, exile and survival in a moving installation there. A major survey of her work, curated by the Museum of Australian Photography in 2023, was one of their most visited exhibitions to date. Titled Zahalkaworld – an artist’s archive, it included the immersive studio installation, Kunstkammer (2023), for which Zahalka won the 2023 Bowness Photography Prize. This survey show travelled to the National Art School Gallery (Sydney) in 2024, seeing excellent visitation; it continues to tour nationally. In June 2025, Zahalka will travel to Austria and participate alongside Australian and international photographers in the Baden La Gacilly Photo Festival.