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Badra Aji

BADRA AJI

Get the boy a dog and call it a day Heide Museum of Modern Art 14 March–16 August 2026 Melbourne
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Guest curated by Shell Odgers, Badra Aji’s semi-narrative Get the boy a dog and call it a day seeks to locate a missing half-sister to disprove a hereditary love curse, while exploring intergenerational trauma, heteronormativity and the escalating tide of conservatism and queerphobia in Indonesia. Merging personal photographs, artefacts, and a spoken poetic narrative, this journey is realised in a series of drawings on paper alongside a video-based installation.

About the Artist

Badra Aji is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist who uses drawing and video to examine his experience of migrating to Australia from Indonesia as a teenager. Seeking poetic resonances around the concept of displacement, Aji positions viewers as outsiders by divorcing his imagery from language, resulting in deeply symbolic works that index the artist’s process.

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Heide Museum of Modern Art, commonly known as Heide, is a public art museum in Bulleen, on the banks of the Birrarung/Yarra River around nine kilometres north-east of central Melbourne, Australia. Established as a museum in 1981, Heide occupies the former home and property of arts patrons John and Sunday Reed, who bought the then-dairy farm in 1934 and transformed it into a hub for Australian modernism. Set within 16 acres of heritage-listed gardens and sculpture park, the museum now presents modern and contemporary art across three main buildings and is recognised as one of Australia’s most important cultural sites. Heide’s intertwined histories of art, architecture, landscape, and progressive social experiment give it a distinctive place within Melbourne’s cultural ecology.

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7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen
Melbourne
Australia
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Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm
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Melbourne 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen
Heide Museum of Modern Art contemporary art institution in Melbourne Australia
Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, Melbourne, Australia
+61 3 9850 1500
http://www.heide.com.au

Opening hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm
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