The Artist Present Anne Zahalka

This is a special opportunity for small groups of gallery visitors (individual bookings possible) to speak with the artist Anne Zahalka directly and find out more about her work. Anne will join the 15-minute sessions remotely from her studio in Newtown, Sydney, while visitors will be able to connect with her from inside her ZAHALKAWORLD kunstkammer studio at NRG. Come prepared with questions!

 Maximum group size of 5 people per session.

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.