when: 06 December 2025 - 12 April 2026 | venue: Art Gallery of NSW | cost: Starting from: $18 | address: Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000 | website: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/ron-mueck/ | tickets: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/ron-mueck/
published: 31 Dec 2025, 5 min read
This summer, Ron Mueck: Encounter brings an unparalleled selection of the acclaimed Australian artist's sculptures exclusively to Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Since revitalising figurative sculpture in the late 1990s with his exquisitely crafted realism, Melbourne-born Mueck continues his profound observation of human experience and emotion. His captivating figures, scaled from the monumental to the minute, embody themes such as birth and death, alienation and togetherness, tenderly inviting us to explore our relationship with the world.
At the centre of the exhibition is Havoc, a new immersive work featuring a group of larger-than-life fighting dogs, created especially for this moment. Oversized, yet charged with a quiet, unsettling intensity, Havoc invites viewers into a space that is at once intimate and ominous.
This exhibition encourages audiences to connect with Mueck's sculptures through encounters that feel viscerally physical. Drawing the artist's past sculptures into dialogue with the new, the show reflects on the sensitivity and significance of Mueck's work within our tense contemporary times.
A Sydney-exclusive, Ron Mueck: Encounter marks the artist's most significant solo exhibition in Australia in over a decade, and his first in Sydney since 2003.
Secure your tickets now for the must-see exhibition of the summer.
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This summer, Ron Mueck: Encounter brings an unparalleled selection of the acclaimed Australian artist's sculptures exclusively to Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Since revitalising figurative sculpture in the late 1990s with his exquisitely crafted realism, Melbourne-born Mueck continues his profound observation of human experience and emotion. His captivating figures, scaled from the monumental to the minute, embody themes such as birth and death, alienation and togetherness, tenderly inviting us to explore our relationship with the world.
At the centre of the exhibition is Havoc, a new immersive work featuring a group of larger-than-life fighting dogs, created especially for this moment. Oversized, yet charged with a quiet, unsettling intensity, Havoc invites viewers into a space that is at once intimate and ominous.
This exhibition encourages audiences to connect with Mueck's sculptures through encounters that feel viscerally physical. Drawing the artist's past sculptures into dialogue with the new, the show reflects on the sensitivity and significance of Mueck's work within our tense contemporary times.
A Sydney-exclusive, Ron Mueck: Encounter marks the artist's most significant solo exhibition in Australia in over a decade, and his first in Sydney since 2003.
Secure your tickets now for the must-see exhibition of the summer.
Go see Ron Mueck: Encounter 2025.
Ron Mueck: Encounter 2025 is on 06 December 2025 - 12 April 2026. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Sydney. Call 1800 679 278 for details. Visit their website at https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/ron-mueck/.
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