Past exhibitions

The third Balnaves Sculpture Project features German artist Wolfgang Laib, best known for his magical work with pollen, bees wax and other materials used in a ritual setting.

Laib is familiar to local audiences from the Biennale of Sydney in 1986 and again from the exhibition Spirit and place at the MCA in 2001.

In this exhibition, visitors experience a glorious pollen work presented as a glowing, fragrant rectangle on the gallery floor, by a 4.5 metre high wax ziggurat, a milkstone, wax houses, rice meals and a flotilla of wax ships that sail above our heads on wooden scaffolds.

Wolfgang Laib was brought to Sydney for this Balnaves Sculpture Project with the assistance of Goethe Institute and ifa Stuttgart.