The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition Paola Pivi – I don’t like it, I love it by globally celebrated artist Paola Pivi. This expansive and vibrant exhibition marks one of the artist’s biggest and most ambitious projects in her almost 30-year career. The installation at AGWA features 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.
Italian-born Paola Pivi (b.1971) is one of the world’s most recognisable and loved contemporary artists. Her practice playfully blurs the line between reality and fantasy, often incorporating animals and objects in surreal scenarios—multicoloured feathered polar bears in dynamic poses, zebras in arctic landscapes, or airplanes impossibly tipping and spinning in public plazas. Her works are joyful, disarming, and immediately accessible, yet also deeply thoughtful as they explore themes ranging from consumerism, sustainability, displacement, to the human condition.
