Play brilliant new games for free when the Best of the Independent Games Festival returns to ACMI. Dubbed the ‘Sundance of the game world’, the annual festival encourages innovation in game development and recognises the best work of indie designers from all around the world. ACMI presents 14 international award-winners that expand our expectation of what a video game can be, from the instant classic Minecraft, to the mind-bending challenges of Australia’s own Antichamber.

The international experience of leading Australian artist Jenny Watson will be the focus of a major survey exhibition titled Jenny Watson: Here, There and Everywhere. The exhibition, the first career survey of Watson’s art since the 1980s, will feature more than 60 works that relate to her extensive international career. Here, There and Everywhere includes previously unseen works made overseas, artworks exclusively exhibited internationally, and a new work based on the artist’s recent international travels (her first major video work).

Focusing on the modernity movement in German art between 1910 and 1937, The Mad Square follows the pursuits of artists struggling to live in a modern world affected by war and political instability. The exhibition brings together a collection of over 200 works experimenting with the avant-garde movements that flourished in this era, including Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity.

MONA presents the Wim Delvoye retrospective, showcasing the controversial creations of this contemporary artist. From his Louis Vuitton tattooed skinned pigs to X-ray images of copulating couples, Delvoye’s work, for better or worse, does not go unnoticed. Through Delvoye’s no-holds- barred attitude, the business of being human, our biological urges and man vs. machine will all be interrogated and contested in MONA’s latest installation.

Having fled his native Albania due to civil war in 1997, Adrian Paci’s work explores the experience of exile, displacement and immigration. His latest exhibition is no exception, adhering to these themes in the production of a 35mm film installation called Per Speculum. The film follows the allegorical adventures of children living in idyllic environments, and how this reality comes under threat and begins to crumble.

The Monash Museum of Art will host the Australian premier of Hany Armanious’ exhibition The Golden Thread. The exhibition was unveiled last year at the 54th Venice Biennale to much acclaim and features cast sculptural figures that reveal the energy and absurdity embedded within inanimate objects. The exhibition will also coincide with the launch of an artist’s book for MUMA.