ANNE ZAHALKA ‘ZAHALKAWORLD – An Artist’s Archive’ at the National Art School

July 31, 2026

Anne Zahalka’s major survey exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD – An Artist’s Archive will be hosted at the National Art School from 16.08. – 19.10.24. First presented at the Museum of Australian Photograph (MAPh) last year, the show will bring together key bodies of work from across her 40-year-long photographic practice alongside collected ephemera from her studio and archive, including the ‘Kunstkammer’: a life-size recreation of Zahalka’s house-studio within the gallery space for which she won the Bowness Prize in 2023. Imaginative, immersive and playful, the installation invites audiences into the artist’s working life and creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned.

Anne Zahalka studied at the National Art School (then East Sydney Technical College), completing an Art Certificate in 1978. She has held over 40 solo exhibitions and her work has been curated into over 140 group exhibitions across the world, including at the GEM/Fotomuseum, Den Haag; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Sala Canal de Isabel II, Madrid. Zahalka’s work is held by all major museums in Australia. The exhibition is accompanied by an award-winning publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.

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Image caption: Anne Zahalka, ‘The Artist (self portrait)’ from the series Resemblance II, 1988, silver dye bleach print, 50 x 50 cm