Kaldor Public Art Project

UPCOMING……..

Key works from the Kaldor Collection feature in an exhibition space created by Thomas Demand

Kaldor Public Art ProjectThomas Demand

30 August 2025 – 11 January 2026

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Naala Badu, our north building

Lower level 1

Free

For the 38th Kaldor Public Art Project, John Kaldor has invited German artist Thomas Demand to create an extraordinary exhibition space in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Naala Badu building, specifically designed to display the John Kaldor Family Collection in a whole new light.

Demand, who is well known for his photographs, has become deeply interested in architecture and exhibition design. For this project, he turns his attention to the artworks in the Kaldor Collection and to the Art Gallery’s SANAA-designed building. Demand is familiar with SANAA’s practice, having made a series of research visits to their Tokyo studio. This project has been closely informed by his research.

Demand has developed a remarkable spatial design and exhibition layout which transforms Naala Badu’s expansive contemporary collection gallery into a labyrinth of floating, coloured planes and pavilions, offering a surprising new experience of the gallery space and the art it contains.

The project features renowned artists from the Kaldor Collection of over 200 works, including Francis Alÿs, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert and George, Andreas Gursky, Sol LeWitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Ugo Rondinone and Saskia Olde Wolbers.

John Kaldor and Thomas Demand first collaborated in 2012 for the 25th Kaldor Public Art Project, presented at the Commercial Travellers’ Association in Sydney’s Martin Place.

More on John’s art projects: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/watch-listen-read/watch/125/

More on John Kaldor: https://kaldorartprojects.org.au/john-kaldor/

John William Kaldor AO (born 1936 in Budapest[1]) is an Australian art collector, philanthropist, and the founder of Kaldor Public Art Projects.

Kaldor was born in Budapest to textile manufacturers Andrew and Vera Kaldor. After a short time in Paris as a refugee, Kaldor moved to Australia in 1949 with his parents and younger brother Andrew.