First look: what’s on at Melbourne Design Week 2025

ArtsHub picks some program highlights at this year’s Melbourne Design Week, 15-25 May – 100 Lights, Beyond the Grave and more.

19 Mar 2025 15:27

Celina Lei

Melbourne Design Week 2025 lighting designs, featuring a photo of four design objects with lighting tubes that appear like furniture.

Visual Arts

Pieces by Isabel Avendano-Hazbun to be showcased in ‘100 Lights’ exhibition for Melbourne Design Week 2025. Photo: Matthew McQuiggan.

Melbourne Design Week 2025 returns from 15-25 May with over 350 events, exhibitions, talks and installations.

With such a wide breadth of offerings, ArtsHub has selected inclusions that caught our attention at this year’s event.

Over 100 artists, designers and makers will take over North Melbourne’s Meat Market Stables to present unique lighting designs, ranging from lamps, pendants, sconces and more.

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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_