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WINNER: Biennale of Sydney takes top spot at the first Time Out Sydney Arts & Culture Awards 2024

Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns took the 2024 Critics' Choice Award for Best Art Exhibition

Alannah Le Cross
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Alannah Le Cross
Arts and Culture Editor, Time Out Sydney
Artist Andrew Thomas Huang at White Bay Power Station - Biennale of Sydney 2024
Photograph: Biennale of Sydney/Daniel Boud | Artist Andrew Thomas Huang at White Bay Power Station
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The Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns has taken home the Critics' Choice Best Art Exhibition Award 2024 in Time Out Sydney’s inaugural Arts & Culture Awards

The Biennale of Sydney pulled out all stops for its 50th anniversary edition in 2024. It took over six different locations around the city with stunning and provocative art by artists from all over the world, and while we wouldn't want to play favourites, the stand-out venue was absolutely White Bay Power Station. After being closed to the public for more than 100 years, the heritage-listed industrial site in Rozelle was relaunched as a hub for arts, culture and community with the Biennale. Exploring the space itself is just as exciting as the art – but the curators didn't hold back either.

Biennale of Sydney 2024
Photograph: Winnie Stubbs | Time Out Sydney

A huge painting by artist Dylan Mooney overlooked the scene. With a high-impact art style awash in saturated colours, Mooney has drawn on his experiences as a Queer Indigenous man to pay tribute to Aboriginal dancer and activist Malcolm Cole in the iconic Captain Cook drag costume he wore in the 1988 Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, the year of Australia’s Bicentenary (look out for more references to this cultural moment throughout the Biennale – including in images from the legendary photographer William Yang).

Other highlights included the head of a giant blue deity, people dressed as human-sized foxes making mischief in domestic debris, and many more weird and wonderful sights. 

To view all the nominees for Best Art Exhibition in the 2024 Time Out Sydney Arts & Culture Awards, head over here.

To find out more about the Biennale of Sydney 2024, click here.

RECOMMENDED: Check out the best art on in Sydney now over here.

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