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50 Years/50 Works

A MUMA Collection Index
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To coincide with MUMA’s 50th anniversary in 2025, MUMA is launching a publication featuring 50 significant works from its Collection, each accompanied by responses from 50 key contributors, including figures from MUMA’s history and fresh voices in contemporary art discourse. This handbook-style index will offer diverse... Read More
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To coincide with MUMA’s 50th anniversary in 2025, MUMA is launching a publication featuring 50 significant works from its Collection, each accompanied by responses from 50 key contributors, including figures from MUMA’s history and fresh voices in contemporary art discourse.

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To coincide with MUMA’s 50th anniversary in 2025, MUMA is launching a publication featuring 50 significant works from its Collection, each accompanied by responses from 50 key contributors, including figures from MUMA’s history and fresh voices in contemporary art discourse.

This handbook-style index will offer diverse perspectives, reflecting on the evolution of the Collection and interrogating the writing of art history through personal, poetic, and critical lenses.

With a focus on acquisitions since 2010, the publication will re-examine how themes and movements in Australian art have been categorised. It will also include a comprehensive exhibition history and a full list of artists in the Collection.

50 Years/50 Works promises to be a pivotal resource for understanding the dynamics of Australian art and its place within a broader art historical context.

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  • 50 Years/50 Works
    To coincide with MUMA’s 50th anniversary in 2025, MUMA is launching a publication featuring 50 significant works from its Collection, each accompanied by responses from 50 key contributors, including figures from MUMA’s history and fresh voices in contemporary art discourse. This handbook-style index will offer diverse perspectives, reflecting on the evolution of the Collection and interrogating the writing of art...
    Paperback
    $3999
    Available
    Ships in 4-6 weeks

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780645555899

Publisher: Monash University Museum of Art

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 July 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Monash University Museum of Art

Illustration: Illustrations on approx every fourth page, colour and b&w

Contributors:

  • Edited by Dr Rebecca Coates
  • Edited by Ms Stephanie Berlangieri

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 730g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Rebecca joined MUMA as Director in July 2023. She is a museum director, curator, writer and lecturer with experience across a range of contemporary art institutions, including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne International Arts Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art Oxford. Prior to joining MUMA, she was Artistic Director and CEO of the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM). Her work is grounded in a commitment to artistic leadership, community engagement, and supporting inclusive and responsive cultural programs. Stephanie joined MUMA as Curator – Research in 2024. As a curator, researcher and writer, her interests encompass digital technology, labour and mental health, and their impacts on contemporary selfhood and social relations. She is currently an Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and has previously held curatorial roles at Carriageworks, Sydney; the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; and the Biennale of Sydney. Recent exhibitions include Desire Is a Machine (IMA, Brisbane, 2025); Image Economies (MUMA, 2025); Duty of Care (IMA and Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2024); Salote Tawale: I remember you; and The National 4: Australian Art Now (Carriageworks, 2023). Stephanie has written for Art Monthly Australasia, ArtAsiaPacific, Artist Profile and Art and Australia.

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