The History of HOME
HOME is Greater Dandenong City Council’s flagship exhibition program, historically showcasing artists with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.
Originally running from 2016 to 2020, it started as an art prize in 2016, evolving into a group show curated through an Expression of Interest process in subsequent years. The program highlights the creativity of artists, now exploring wider themes such as migration, connection to place and belonging.
In 2024, the program was revitalised under the curation of Dr. Miriam La Rosa delivering a transformative, site-responsive project. On the same year, the City of Greater Dandenong won the Victorian Multicultural Award for Excellence in Art for HOME's contribution to artistic quality in cross-cultural storytelling.
For the first time in the history of the program, in 2025 the exhibition will be presented across multiple locations in Dandenong's cultural precinct, from art, theatre and heritage venues to the market and, significantly, the public space – telling a shared history for the city through a multiplicity of perspectives.
HOME 25 – Invisible Cities invites audiences to explore how the concept of 'home' shapes identity, belonging, and dislocation.
HOME 2024 featured artist Olana Janfa.
HOME 2020 featured artists seeking asylum and those with a refugee background.
