Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau at Art Gallery of NSW

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Sat 15 Jun 2024 - Sun 22 Sep 2024

The Art Gallery of NSW is home to a vast collection of art and is one of Australia’s leading art museums. It attracts over one million visitors a year, overlooks Sydney Harbour and is a fifteen-minute walk from the city centre. Each year it hosts a range of exhibitions, such as the Archibald and many others, in addition to a range of events and programs, and Art After Hours.

This year, from the 15th of June until the 22nd of September, the Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of art nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939).

Alphonse Mucha is known as one of art’s greatest stylistic innovators who created some of the most beloved and instantly recognisable works in modern European art. Alphonse’s seductive and sinuous compositions developed a new language which defined the spirit of art nouveau in 19th-century Paris.

The exhibition that is currently on at the Art Gallery of NSW, Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau has been created in close cooperation with the Mucha Foundation in Prague, and has been drawn from the Mucha Family Collection. It brings together Mucha’s illustrations, jewellery, interior decoration, photographs and much more as the exhibition reveals the life and creations of an artist and designer who still has a powerful influence on us today.

Alphonse Mucha was once said to be the ‘greatest decorative artist in the world’, rocketing to fame when he created posters for actor and superstar Sarah Bernhardt, and then became globally recognised through advertising and product design. This marked Mucha’s first steps to the democratisation of art.

Mucha was seeking an ‘art for the people’, and strived to elevate the human spirit as an artist, activist, mystic and philosopher, and he had strong political and spiritual philosophies that guided his lifelong commitment to Slavic people and liberating what is today’s Czech Republic, his homeland.

So come to this exhibition to encounter an immersive digital experience of Mucha’s late, great painting style called the Slav epic and go on a journey that helps to uncover the artist behind the famous images in an exhibition proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.


2-for-1 ticket offer
For Wednesdays, 5–10pm
Booked school groups
$8 student

15 June – 22 September 2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Naala Badu, our north building
Lower level 2

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