Gallery Map

AGWA Rooftop
Rooftop:
10am-5pm daily except Tue

AGWA Rooftop is a 500-person venue offering unparalleled 360° views of the Perth CBD skyline.

Rooftop Bar:
Closed for the season

The AGWA Rooftop Bar will reopen Spring / Summer 2026.

Christopher Pease
Targets

This 34-metre long, five-metre tall printed metal and light-based artwork wraps around the Rooftop’s exterior walls, reflecting on place, belonging, and the centrality of the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) to both.

Sculpture Walk
AGWA Rooftop hosts an open-air sculpture park featuring works from the State Art Collection, including Gerhard Marcks’ The Caller and Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure, among others.

Sculptures
S1 Barbara Hepworth
S2 Jean Arp
S3 Henry Moore
S4 Gerhard Marcks
S5 Henri Laurens
S6 Oliffe Richmond
S7 Émile Bourdelle

Pippin Drysdale: Infinite Terrain
Gallery 05 | Until 6 Apr

A major retrospective on internationally acclaimed ceramicist Pippin Drysdale. Surveying forty years of practice, Infinite Terrain features works from the State Art Collection as well as significant loans, showcasing Drysdale’s adventurous spirit, collaborative processes and unique interpretations of the world through porcelain.

The West Australian Pulse 2026
COMING SOON
Gallery 05 | Opens 16 May

WA’s talented young artists are celebrated in this yearly showcase, gauging the pulse of young people who will influence, empower and shape the world we live in. The West Australian Pulse 2026 celebrates 34 years and features 63 works by 2025 Year 12 Visual Arts graduates from 43 schools across WA.

Attachment Styles: Modes of Belonging in Modern and Contemporary Art
Gallery 06 | NOW ON

Why do we crave closeness while keeping one foot out the door? Why do we love, withdraw, cling to or sabotage our connections with others? Attachment Styles brings together works from the 19th to 21st century to explore these questions, showing how artists have long grappled with the emotional complexity of human relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit.

Theo Koning: Object Syntax
Gallery 08 | Until 19 Jul

Presenting works from the State Art Collection by Theo Koning (1950–2022), a leading Western Australian figure in installation and process-driven art. At its centre is The hot chook shop, a pivotal work from 1974, also featured are works from the late 1970s to mid-1980s, reflecting Koning’s rich legacy and his attentive exploration of the nuance and intimacy of objecthood.

Bruce Asbestos: Cranky Pants
Gallery 09 | Opens 28 Mar

Cranky Pants , in collaboration with UK artist Bruce Asbestos, is an interactive exhibition celebrating rebellious emotion and disobedient design. Set within a vivid pop art world of larger than life characters, families and participants of all ages are invited to design hyper-couture costumes and accessories for the catwalk.

Trần Lương: Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain
Gallery 01 | Opens 28 Mar

Spanning painting, performance and socially engaged practice, Tầm Tã –Soaked in the Long Rain explores the life of an artist who, over the last thirty years, has shaped the development of critical contemporary art in Vietnam. This exhibition is curated by Biljana Ciric and co-organised by The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Jameel and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre.

I AM
Gallery 02 | NOW ON

Drawn from the State Art Collection, I AM celebrates the diversity of
Aboriginal art and culture. The exhibition centres on personal and shared stories that elevate Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives on the world and our place in it. Themes span ancestral creation stories, artists’ connections to Country, and lived experience. I AM reflects the dynamism of Aboriginal art—from deeply rooted traditions to bold contemporary expression.

Paola Pivi – I don’t like it, I love it
Foyer Mural, Concourse, Gallery 03, 04 & 10 | Until 26 Apr

This expansive and vibrant exhibition marks one of globally celebrated artist Paola Pivi’s biggest and most ambitious projects. Featuring major commissions created especially for AGWA’s unique architectural spaces, as well as other new works and key selected works from across Pivi’s career, these works offer a once-in-a-lifetime experience that reimagines the possibilities of art in public space.