Projects
As a leading artistic director of museums and contemporary art spaces, Max has developed an expansive portfolio of dynamic and engaging programs over the past three decades. As a curator, he has initiated and led a wide range of notable exhibitions and public projects, with selected keynote projects including:
Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2024
Laure Prouvost: Oui Move In You
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2024
Mithu Sen: mOTHERTONGUE
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2023
Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022
Tom Nicholson: Chimney in store (Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty)
Batman Park, Melbourne, 2022–
Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022
Who’s Afraid of Public Space?
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2021–22
Jeremy Deller: Father & Son
St Saviour’s Church of Exiles, 2021
Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2021; and touring to Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2021
Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020–21
ACCA Open: Digital Commissions
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020
On Vulnerability and Doubt
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019