The doors of Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) are set to reopen on August 7 as preparations for the world exclusive exhibition The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire rev up.

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said thousands of visitors had returned to experience the permanent collection and exhibitions including Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me the Way to Go Home since QAG reopened on 23 June.

“Now, in line with the Queensland Government’s Roadmap to Recovery and our COVID-19 safety plan in place, we look forward to welcoming visitors back to our second site the Gallery of Modern Art as we prepare for our must-see summer exhibition, The Motorcycle. From 28 November to 26 April, 2021, The Motorcycle will feature more than 100 motorcycles from the 1870s to the present day, right across GOMA’s entire ground floor.

“It will run the full design gamut from the earliest 19th century steam-powered motorcycle, the circa 1870 Perreaux Vélocipède à vapeur on loan from Paris, right through to new electric bikes heralding the future, such as the Savic C-Series Alpha, a 2020 release from Australian automotive designer Dennis Savic. The exhibition will appeal not only to bike and motor sport enthusiasts but to anyone with an interest in social history, popular culture, design and technology,” Saines said.

The Motorcycle offers multiple interactive experiences for visitors of all ages and it includes a green screen motorcycle riding experience, a motorcycle design studio where you can build and customise your own virtual bike and a mobile companion site to help you navigate 150 years of motorcycle design history and learn the stories behind each of the bikes on display.

Curated by distinguished US-based design curator and physicist Professor Charles M. Falco and writer and filmmaker Ultan Guilfoyle in collaboration with QAGOMA, the exhibition explores pioneering motorcycles and classic commuters, off-road bikes and speed machines, as well as custom creations and motorcycle designs of the future.

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