RMIT Culture

RMIT Culture

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RMIT Culture connects the University’s cultural spaces and collections with the community, fostering creative engagement and supporting learning and research through programs, exhibitions, events and opportunities.

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The Mourning After

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 24 Jul 2025 - 20 Sep 2025

The Mourning After invites people to explore grief in all its multiple forms — as something felt, shared, and expressed through different rituals and creative practices. 

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Sensory Clay

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Presenting new works in the expanded practice of ceramics, Sensory Clay explores the connections between emotion, touch and material to consider our relationships with each other and the world.

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Unnatured by Xinshuo Zhuo

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Using visual metaphors and layered symbolism, Unnatured explores ideas of emotional conflict and alienation.

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Alina, Olena, Lana and Jana by Tanya Cubric

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Exploring how social contexts shape the psychological narratives we build about our lives, Alina, Olena, Lana and Jana harnesses fantasy and play as tools of resistance to challenge oppressive societal stereotypes.

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Vở ô ly by Phương Nguyên Lê

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Seeking to interrogate inherited understandings of masculinity, Vở ô ly considers the exchange between war circumstances and family, remembering and forgetting.

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Interstellar (2014): Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 11 Sep 2025

2025 is the International Year of Quantum, as it is 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics.

Exhibitions

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The Mourning After

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 24 Jul 2025 - 20 Sep 2025

The Mourning After invites people to explore grief in all its multiple forms — as something felt, shared, and expressed through different rituals and creative practices. 

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Sensory Clay

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Presenting new works in the expanded practice of ceramics, Sensory Clay explores the connections between emotion, touch and material to consider our relationships with each other and the world.

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Unnatured by Xinshuo Zhuo

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Using visual metaphors and layered symbolism, Unnatured explores ideas of emotional conflict and alienation.

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Alina, Olena, Lana and Jana by Tanya Cubric

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Exploring how social contexts shape the psychological narratives we build about our lives, Alina, Olena, Lana and Jana harnesses fantasy and play as tools of resistance to challenge oppressive societal stereotypes.

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Vở ô ly by Phương Nguyên Lê

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 26 Aug 2025 - 19 Sep 2025

Seeking to interrogate inherited understandings of masculinity, Vở ô ly considers the exchange between war circumstances and family, remembering and forgetting.

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BAINZ JEWLZ

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 19 Sep 2025 - 22 Nov 2025

BAINZ JEWLZ is a major retrospective exhibition survey of the eminent career of Australian artist-jeweller Robert Baines.

Talks

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Messy and Meaningful: Shaping an Inclusive Future of Design

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 07 Oct 2025

RMIT University is overjoyed to partner with Design Fringe, as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025, joining a bold new conversation about the future of Design Fringe.

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Money: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 08 Oct 2025
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Rockstar global economist David McWilliams unpacks the power, promise and peril of money – and our complex relationship with it – in this revealing, thought-provoking session.

Screenings

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The Best Films You've Never Seen: In the Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar Wai

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Sep 2025

Join us for a 4K restoration, 25th Anniversary screening of Wong Kar Wai's 'In the Mood for Love'.

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Multicultural Film Festival x RMIT Screening

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Sep 2025

RMIT is proud to partner with the Victorian Multicultural Commission for the 2025 Multicultural Film Festival – an annual celebration of diversity, storytelling and community.

Performances

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Melbourne Fringe Opening Night Gala

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 30 Sep 2025

RMIT University is overjoyed to partner with Melbourne Fringe again this year across a number of events. First up is Fringe's Opening Night Gala!

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Galleries

Discover our gallery spaces, exhibitions and public programs.

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Collections

Explore our cultural collections, including art, design and screen research.

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Opportunities

Learn about our opportunities, from grants to residencies and more.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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