Experimenta is Australia’s leading organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting and touring contemporary art driven by ideas and shaped by technology.

Over the years, we have created opportunity, experiences and community. We are glad to have you as part of the Experimenta experience, and family. You can see just some of the impact we make through our artistic programming here.

Together, we face forwards, and like many arts organisations, rely on donations and the giving generosity of our community, to support us each year to deliver on our mission.

What this means: Currently, we are seeking support for our ongoing artistic program, alongside a number of new initiatives:

• Support our national tour Experimenta Emergence, which features 17 artists, 5 new Australian commissions, and traverses the nation, with a focus on regional touring, from 2025 until 2027
• Enable Radical Access, through the development of specific frameworks and practical measures to make experimental, technology driven art accessible to broad audiences. By this, we mean both expanding audiences generally, but importantly, not leaving anyone behind and ensuring that how we deliver our programs makes it accessible for many levels of ability and encourages participation from all members of our community, as artists and audiences.

Micro Donations are in! Our new micro donations also recognise tough times, and are for you to choose any amount that best suits you, right now. Simply start a donation, and enter your preferred amount.

Experience Experimenta through Experimenta Sub Rosa

Our Sub Rosa is a club for Experimenta lovers. Donations of $1000 or over gain access to our newest way to experience the ideas, connection and community of Experimenta organisers and artists. Get invitations to join us for a more intimate and acccessible ways to have a conversation borne from art and ideas. It will be fun, and it will be just for you (and a friend).

There is also no upper limit. You can contact us to discuss your interest in what we do and how you can help us achieve great things together. 

Yes, we need you!

Like many arts organisations, Experimenta does rely on donations and the giving generosity of our community, to support us each year to deliver on our mission, alongside a range of grants and earned income. That means we need you, we hope, just like you need us. We are now being more explicit about this reality. Our organised fundraising campaigns give us a chance to tell you more about what we hope to achieve in the future, and how you can help make this happen. We have also established our Donor programs to create more ways to support and engage with us, outside our general arts programming outcomes. We also love to hear from our supporters about what is meaningful for you.

Experimenta is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

IMAGE CREDIT: A Galaxy of Suns by Michaela Gleave. Photo by Lucy Parakhina. This work was produced by Experimenta and Bureau of Works, and premiered at Dark Mofo 2016.