Another of Melbourne’s stalwart artist-run spaces, Kings has been around since 2003. Over the past 15 years, the gallery has continued to support local and national artists working with contemporary art and experimental practice. It’s run by a collective of artists, writers and curators.
They host solo and group exhibitions, performances, curated programs, film screenings and talks. Most of the art is experimental in nature, focussing on contemporary ideas in both the local and global frame. Their exhibitions are often fun, but they don’t shy away from more serious subjects. They also run an emerging writer’s program in which local emerging arts (and other) writers publish texts on the exhibitions, and a FLASHnight program, which sees one-off events and actions take place in the gallery.