RISING, Melbourne’s premier winter arts festival is back. From Wednesday 4 June to Sunday 15 June, the city will ignite for 12 unmissable days of new music, art, and performance. Today, the festival unveils a major new creative commission in Swingers : The Art of Mini Golf – a mind-bending, playable art exhibition that will transform the Flinders Street Station Ballroom and labyrinthine upper level into a surreal, holey new world. With nine imaginative mini-golf holes dreamt up by some of the world’s most dynamic female-identifying artists, this is no ordinary game, it’s an artistic adventure waiting to be played.
Opening on the first day of RISING and running for an extended season until Sunday 31 August, the smashing lineup of artists is set to transform mini-golf into a joyful, and unexpected hands-on art experience. Acclaimed filmmaker, writer, and artist Miranda July (USA), following the release of the brilliantly offbeat. All Fours, will take a swing, going ‘all fores’ on the course. KayleneWhiskey (AU) tees up a vibrant fusion of pop culture and Anangu traditions while Tokyo’s Saeborg (JAP) unleashes a world of latex creatures with cartoonish menace. The artist roster doesn’t stop there, Nabilah Nordin (AU), now based in Los Angeles, returns home to Melbourne, reimagining her signature playful and experimental sculptures with a putting twist. Delaine LeBas (UK) brings politically charged sculptures and intricate embroidery and Natasha Tontey (ID) weaves speculative storytelling through mythology, technology, and alternative histories.
For more details and tickets, please visit https://2025.rising.melbourne/