Melbourne Art Fair 2025 to feature 60 galleries, plus Dawn Ng and Yona Lee commissions

Newcomers and initiatives revealed for Melbourne Art Fair 2025 show expanded reach and a focus on strengthening relationships.
Galleries participating in Melbourne Art Fair 2025. Michael Cook (Jan Murphy Gallery), ‘Fake (Broken Down)’, 2023. A photographic work that appears to capture a scene where a car has broken down on the side of the road and two First Nations figures are standing beside a pale-skinned little girl with their luggage.

Melbourne Art Fair, now running annually, has announced its 2025 gallery list featuring 60 Australasia galleries and First Nations art centres, alongside two international commissions. This is the first fair under the helm of new Fair Director Melissa Loughnan, who comes from a background in art consultancy and returned to Australia to take up the role in August this year.

Matching the refreshed annual model is a wave of young newcomers (galleries established after 2017) to the 2025 fair, including Animal House Fine Arts, C. Gallery, Jennings Kerr and Redbase.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_