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Free events in Brisbane in December 2026

27 events from Tuesday, December 1 to Thursday, December 31, 2026. Busiest venues: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Museum of Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art.

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Visual arts
until Jan 26

Small Figures

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Apr 30

Precious

Museum of Brisbane · Brisbane City
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until May 23

Great and Small: Kindred Creatures in Indigenous Australian Art

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose

Museum of Brisbane · Brisbane City
- Visual arts
Free
Cinema
until Dec 9

Curator's Pick 2026

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free
Cinema
until Dec 5

The Long Haul 2026

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 16

Sorcerers from Bohemia: Picasso's Saltimbanques

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 16

Towards a Collapsing World: German Expressionism

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Cinema
until Apr 18

Beyond Henson: Puppetry and World Cinema

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free
Cinema
until Apr 18

Screened to be Believed: The Jim Henson Company

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free
Cinema
until Apr 18

Where the Wild Things Are Made: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free
Visual arts
until Mar 7

Justene Williams: Once We Were Mudskippers

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
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Visual arts
until Dec 20

Kate Cooper: Infection Drivers and Untitled (After Somatic Aliasing)

Kate Cooper

Institute of Modern Art · Fortitude Valley
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 20

Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth

Mitch Cairns

Institute of Modern Art · Fortitude Valley
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Mar 14

In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice

Museum of Brisbane · Brisbane City
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Sep 19

Smokescreen: A Thickness of the Air

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 5

Nothing to Write Home About

Munimba-ja Blak Creatives Collective

Outer Space · Fortitude Valley
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jul 25

Barbara Heath: Hidden Jewels

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 2

Sally Anderson: Houses and Horses for Dad

Sally Anderson

Edwina Corlette Gallery · New Farm
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jun 27

An Eloquent Inheritance

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until May 16

Art Box for Kids: Tyza Hart

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Aug 29

Feeling the Universe

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Cinema
until Dec 20

Japanese Film Festival 2026: Between Sound and Silence: The Cinematic Resonance of Tōru Takemitsu

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 24

Summer Exhibition

Philip Bacon Galleries · Fortitude Valley
- Visual arts
Free

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

Cinema
6 PM

Sound, Music, Silence: Tōru Takemitsu’s distinctive approach to film music and his works with the Japanese new wave

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Cinema
Free

Saturday, December 5, 2026

Visual arts
until Sep 19

Global Grooves: Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Asian Art

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Sep 19

Tracey Moffatt: Journeys – Gift of Dr Paul Eliadis AM

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) · South Bank
- Visual arts
Free

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