The 2025 programme for Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts (PICA) presents more than 200 contemporary artists working in a series of major new commissions, pillar annual showcases, provocative performances, and a growing international studio programme.
“Our 2025 programme is a celebration of connection – between people, place and culture,” PICA’s Director/CEO Hannah Mathews says. “With Revealed now taking a prominent place at PICA, and our Bunuru programme exploring powerful themes of matrilineal legacy and intergenerational storytelling, we’re thrilled to provide opportunities to amplify voices that shape and challenge how we understand the world. This year is about bold ideas, artistic innovation and fostering deeper engagement with the communities we serve.”
In 2025, for its 18th year, the statewide annual showcase Revealed: New And Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists will envelope Perth’s Cultural Centre. It brings new and emerging artists together to showcase the state’s rich diversity of Aboriginal cultures and their connection to country and culture.
The first season in 2025 is Bunuru – a powerful display of heritage, activism and connection. . . Featuring works exploring sense of place, maternal lineage and intergenerational sharing of knowledge. Oui Move In You is a major solo exhibition from Laure Prouvost (France), inspired by the radical figures who came before her.
Premiering as part of Perth Festival is ‘Biraddali Dancing On The Horizon’, a moving image work from Australian-Filipina transdisciplinary artist Bhenji Ra (NSW) featuring an original score from Tati au Miel, documenting the transfer of ancestral, intergenerational knowledge between Ra and her teacher and collaborator Sitti Airia Sangkula Askalani Obeso.
Celebrated artist Thu Van Tran (FR) explores fire, and rebirth through ceramics, bronze, and locally-sourced earth. Meanwhile, artist and archaeologist Ho Yen Yen (TW) explores shared histories between Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Australia.
In season two, Vernon Ah Kee’s (QLD) new film work ‘GUDIRR GUDIRR’ considers the legacy of Australia’s history for Aboriginal people in the northwest Australia, asking ‘what does it take o decolonise Aboriginal peoples’ minds, unlock doors and face cultural change?’.
There’s also another collaboration with STRUT Dance (WA) for the second iteration of ‘Restore’ a dynamic double bill of new and recent dance works. . . And pvi collective’s ‘Momentum’ sees WA-based mid-career artists come together, to focus on experimentation within their practice.
Season three sees Hatched celebrating its 34th year – PICA’s landmark annual exhibition highlighting the diversity and creativity of some of the country’s most promising new artists. Plus, for the 16th year, PICA presents the Schenberg Art Awards, with a total of $50,000 for emerging artists in the country.
Former architect and international art star, Delhi-based Asim Waqif (IND) joins PICA’s International Exchange Program to expand his practice in contemporary urban-design.
Finally, season four, closing off the year, sees A Deceptively Simple Need, a major new solo exhibition from Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Alana Hunt. The work examines how everyday activities are linked to historical injustices and colonisation. Plus, in his latest video ‘SETTLED’, Wiradjuri artist Joel Sherwood Spring (NSW) critically addresses the increasingly pervasive effects of new technologies on our human experience of the world, and the ongoing capitalist extraction of Aboriginal culture.
Check out the full programme.
PICA’s (Perth) 2025 season begins with Oui Move In You, from 7 February.
